TRUE DEMOCRACY NOW! #SpanishRevolution in Ireland
A demonstration to express solidarity with the Spanish protests will take place in Cork (along with Dublin and Galway) on Saturday, 21st May.
The demonstration will take place this Saturday at the National Monument in Grand Parade - Cork city from 12ish onwards.
The protest has been called by members of Ireland’s Spanish community and by local Irish people who support the ongoing protests in Spain.
Growing numbers of Spaniards have been taking to the streets over the last three weeks demanding a real choice in the forthcoming elections. Frustrated by a steadily rising unemployment rate, economic stagnation and a two-party sytem that offers little political choice, old and young Spaniards have been protesting in central plazas and thoroughfares the length and breadth of Spain.
Taking the Arab revolts as their inspiration the peaceful demonstrations have a distinctive grassroots feel and have been organised via social networking and word-of-mouth.
Protestors have now focused their energies on a series of massive-protests, which will take place in cities throughout Spain on Saturday. The authorities have banned these peaceful assemblies however the demonstrators are determined to press ahead with their plans.
An international call for solidarity and support has been made through social networking sites, blogs and twitter, and already protests have been organised in more than 120 international cities around the world, including Galway, Cork and Dublin.
Anyone wishing to support the peaceful pro-democracy protests in Spain are welcome to assemble at the time and place designed in each city on Saturday 21st May and are free to bring flags, banners, placards etc.
Notes:
• Up to date information on the Spanish Protests can be accessed on twitter at #SpanishRevolution
• The protests are centralized through the movement ‘Democracia Real Ya!" (for a true democracy now!) and here is their website: http://www.democraciarealya.es/
• The main aim is to create a real democracy that rises above the stagnant two-party system (dominating the Spanish parliament for the last 30 years: the social-democratic PSOE and the conservative PP) and the narrow interests of big business and finance.
• Facebook event pages have been set up for the Dublin, Cork and Galway demonstrations.
You can follow the movement on twitter:
#spanishrevolution #democraciareal #nolesvotes #yeswecamp
You can follow the movement on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/democraciarealya
http://www.facebook.com/SpanishRevolution
http://www.facebook.com/pages/European-Revolution/103396813083042
For all of the above, I am outraged.
I think I can change it. I think I can help.
I know that together we can. I think I can help.
I know that together we can.
A TRUE DEMOCRACY NOW for everyone!
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Manifesto in English:
"Democracy Real, Ya!" (True Democracy, Now!) Manifesto
We are ordinary people. We are like you: people, who get up every morning to study, work or find a job, people who have family and friends. People, who work hard every day to provide a better future for those around us.
Some of us consider ourselves progressive, others conservative. Some of us are believers, some not. Some of us have clearly defined ideologies, others are apolitical, but we are all concerned and angry about the political, economic, and social outlook which we see around us: corruption among politicians, businessmen, bankers, leaving us helpless, without a voice.
This situation has become normal, a daily suffering, without hope. But if we join forces, we can change it. It’s time to change things, time to build a better society together. Therefore, we strongly argue that:
• The priorities of any advanced society must be equality, progress, solidarity, freedom of culture, sustainability and development, welfare and people’s happiness.
• These are inalienable truths that we should abide by in our society: the right to housing, employment, culture, health, education, political participation, free personal development, and consumer rights for a healthy and happy life.
• The current status of our government and economic system does not take care of these rights, and in many ways is an obstacle to human progress.
• Democracy belongs to the people (demos = people, krátos = government) which means that government is made of every one of us. However, in Spain most of the political class does not even listen to us. Politicians should be bringing our voice to the institutions, facilitating the political participation of citizens through direct channels that provide the greatest benefit to the wider society, not to get rich and prosper at our expense, attending only to the dictatorship of major economic powers and holding them in power through a two-party system headed by the immovable acronym PP (conservatives, built out of old fascist party) & PSOE (the Spanish socialists).
• Lust for power and its accumulation in only a few; create inequality, tension and injustice, which leads to violence, which we reject. The obsolete and unnatural economic model fuels the social machinery in a growing spiral that consumes itself by enriching a few and sends into poverty the rest. Until the collapse.
• The will and purpose of the current system is the accumulation of money, not regarding efficiency and the welfare of society. Wasting resources, destroying the planet, creating unemployment and unhappy consumers.
• Citizens are the gears of a machine designed to enrich a minority which does not regard our needs. We are anonymous, but without us none of this would exist, because we move the world.
• If as a society we learn to not trust our future to an abstract economy, which never returns benefits for the most, we can eliminate the abuse that we are all suffering.
• We need an ethical revolution. Instead of placing money above human beings, we shall put it back to our service. We are people, not products. I am not a product of what I buy, why I buy and who I buy from.
A demonstration to express solidarity with the Spanish protests will take place in Cork (along with Dublin and Galway) on Saturday, 21st May.
The demonstration will take place this Saturday at the National Monument in Grand Parade - Cork city from 12ish onwards.
The protest has been called by members of Ireland’s Spanish community and by local Irish people who support the ongoing protests in Spain.
Growing numbers of Spaniards have been taking to the streets over the last three weeks demanding a real choice in the forthcoming elections. Frustrated by a steadily rising unemployment rate, economic stagnation and a two-party sytem that offers little political choice, old and young Spaniards have been protesting in central plazas and thoroughfares the length and breadth of Spain.
Taking the Arab revolts as their inspiration the peaceful demonstrations have a distinctive grassroots feel and have been organised via social networking and word-of-mouth.
Protestors have now focused their energies on a series of massive-protests, which will take place in cities throughout Spain on Saturday. The authorities have banned these peaceful assemblies however the demonstrators are determined to press ahead with their plans.
An international call for solidarity and support has been made through social networking sites, blogs and twitter, and already protests have been organised in more than 120 international cities around the world, including Galway, Cork and Dublin.
Anyone wishing to support the peaceful pro-democracy protests in Spain are welcome to assemble at the time and place designed in each city on Saturday 21st May and are free to bring flags, banners, placards etc.
Notes:
• Up to date information on the Spanish Protests can be accessed on twitter at #SpanishRevolution
• The protests are centralized through the movement ‘Democracia Real Ya!" (for a true democracy now!) and here is their website: http://www.democraciarealya.es/
• The main aim is to create a real democracy that rises above the stagnant two-party system (dominating the Spanish parliament for the last 30 years: the social-democratic PSOE and the conservative PP) and the narrow interests of big business and finance.
• Facebook event pages have been set up for the Dublin, Cork and Galway demonstrations.
You can follow the movement on twitter:
#spanishrevolution #democraciareal #nolesvotes #yeswecamp
You can follow the movement on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/democraciarealya
http://www.facebook.com/SpanishRevolution
http://www.facebook.com/pages/European-Revolution/103396813083042
For all of the above, I am outraged.
I think I can change it. I think I can help.
I know that together we can. I think I can help.
I know that together we can.
A TRUE DEMOCRACY NOW for everyone!
------------------------------------------------------------
Manifesto in English:
"Democracy Real, Ya!" (True Democracy, Now!) Manifesto
We are ordinary people. We are like you: people, who get up every morning to study, work or find a job, people who have family and friends. People, who work hard every day to provide a better future for those around us.
Some of us consider ourselves progressive, others conservative. Some of us are believers, some not. Some of us have clearly defined ideologies, others are apolitical, but we are all concerned and angry about the political, economic, and social outlook which we see around us: corruption among politicians, businessmen, bankers, leaving us helpless, without a voice.
This situation has become normal, a daily suffering, without hope. But if we join forces, we can change it. It’s time to change things, time to build a better society together. Therefore, we strongly argue that:
• The priorities of any advanced society must be equality, progress, solidarity, freedom of culture, sustainability and development, welfare and people’s happiness.
• These are inalienable truths that we should abide by in our society: the right to housing, employment, culture, health, education, political participation, free personal development, and consumer rights for a healthy and happy life.
• The current status of our government and economic system does not take care of these rights, and in many ways is an obstacle to human progress.
• Democracy belongs to the people (demos = people, krátos = government) which means that government is made of every one of us. However, in Spain most of the political class does not even listen to us. Politicians should be bringing our voice to the institutions, facilitating the political participation of citizens through direct channels that provide the greatest benefit to the wider society, not to get rich and prosper at our expense, attending only to the dictatorship of major economic powers and holding them in power through a two-party system headed by the immovable acronym PP (conservatives, built out of old fascist party) & PSOE (the Spanish socialists).
• Lust for power and its accumulation in only a few; create inequality, tension and injustice, which leads to violence, which we reject. The obsolete and unnatural economic model fuels the social machinery in a growing spiral that consumes itself by enriching a few and sends into poverty the rest. Until the collapse.
• The will and purpose of the current system is the accumulation of money, not regarding efficiency and the welfare of society. Wasting resources, destroying the planet, creating unemployment and unhappy consumers.
• Citizens are the gears of a machine designed to enrich a minority which does not regard our needs. We are anonymous, but without us none of this would exist, because we move the world.
• If as a society we learn to not trust our future to an abstract economy, which never returns benefits for the most, we can eliminate the abuse that we are all suffering.
• We need an ethical revolution. Instead of placing money above human beings, we shall put it back to our service. We are people, not products. I am not a product of what I buy, why I buy and who I buy from.
