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<h2>Opening Salvo</h2>
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on <strong>24 February 2013</strong> at <strong>10:37</strong></small>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">23F Demonstration in Valencia. Photo
via @acampadavlc</p>
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Dear people,
<p>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’.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Yesterday, all the different waves have united. Students,
teachers, miners, doctors, nurses, firefighters, the 15M movement,
the platforms against mortgage foreclosures, etc. etc.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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…</p>
<p>After the demo there were reports of police firing rubber
bullets and charging protesters near Atocha railway station. Over
thirty people were arrested.</p>
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