[OccupyComms] #23F, Spaniards say Basta

[Saskia Kent]

More from #23F, disturbing images. Solidarity with our Spanish brothers and sisters.

http://roarmag.org/2013/02/23f-madrid-spain-austerity-protest/








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 From: "marknbarrett at googlemail.com" <marknbarrett at googlemail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, 24 February 2013, 23:44
Subject: [Occupy London] Fw: [Squares] Spain #F23 reflection: Opening Salvo (by Oscar)
 
FYI 

Source with more pictures: http://spanishrevolution11.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/opening-salvo/

Opening SalvoIn #globalrevolution on 24 February 2013 at 10:37 
 
23F Demonstration in Valencia. Photo via @acampadavlc
Dear people, 
The start of the revolutionary season has become a success. Yesterday, February 23, people all over Spain massively demonstrated against the ‘coup d’état of the markets’.
The date was symbolic. The demos came exactly 32 years after the latest attempt of coup d’état. Some of you may remember the pythonesque images of army officers storming into parliament without knowing what to do next.
Yesterday, all the different waves have united. Students, teachers, miners, doctors, nurses, firefighters, the 15M movement, the platforms against mortgage foreclosures, etc. etc.
In Madrid there were over a 100.000 people, in Barcelona over 40.000. In every other big city
in Spain there have been demonstrations, as well as abroad. Solidarity actions were organised in Brussels, London, Paris and Amsterdam.
This time, I haven’t witnessed it in person. But it has been all the more impressive to see the images of the crowds coming in via livestream.
At the Spanish parliament, after the demo, there were speeches by representatives of all the waves, and a concert of the Solfonica orchestra. All the while, in the crowd, someone walked around with a cardboard guillotine…
After the demo there were reports of police firing rubber bullets and charging protesters near Atocha railway station. Over thirty people were arrested.
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