SOME REASONS FOR INDIGNATION
• 5 million unemployed.
• Lack of real participatory democracy. 1 citizen does not equal one
vote. Bipartidism.
• Politicians’ privileges and corruption.
• Banks being rescued with our money. Law supporting bancs that
take homes away, but not the debt of those citizens who cannot pay
their mortgages.
• Workers feeling unprotected.
• Plutocracy.
• Powerlessness in a democratic system against popular classes
interests.
AND, SUDDENLY, CITIZENS WOKE UP...
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‘If you don’t let us dream, we won’t let you sleep’
MANIFESTO
WHO ARE WE?
• We are individuals who have come together freely and voluntarily.
Each of us has decided, after the concentrations on Sunday, May
15, that we are determined to continue fighting for dignity and
political and social awareness.
• We do not represent any political party or association.
We are joined by the singular cause of change.
WHY ARE WE HERE?
• We are here because we desire a new society that puts lives above
political and economic interests. We demand a change in society
and an increase in social awareness. We are here to make it known
that the people have not fallen asleep, and we will continue
fighting…peacefully.
KEY FACTS
• May 15th: Demonstration organised by Democracia Real Ya
(Real Democray Now).
• Permanent camps all over the country (citizens’ initiative).
• Permanent assemblies and information points. Citizens take
the streets. No symbols.
• May 22nd: local and regional elections. Camps and
assemblies continue during reflexion day.
• June 19th: National demonstration. Key date for continuity.
• June 20th: big march from all over the country towards
Madrid. Stop in different cities. Gathering on 23th July in
Madrid.
• Work is going on specific actions and regular popular
assemblies at local and district level.
‘All our dreams don’t fit in your ballot boxes’
‘They call it democracy and it is not that’
DECALOGUE
• Principles of justice, freedom, equality and pluralism are
respected.
• Economic privileges enjoyed by public officers are
diminished, and impossibility of being reelected to those
who have been found guilty by justice.
• Reform of the election law, whereby proportional
representation should be guaranteed, whereby the
effective inclusion of minority parties shall put an end to
a dictatorship of two parties.
• To insist and improve the mechanisms (such as holding
a referendum) allowing people to exert direct
democracy in decisions involving important socioeconomic concerns.
• To hold, on a compulsory basis, state, regional and local
budgets to popular consultation.
• Strict separation of public powers, in order to guarantee
the total independence of the judiciary.
• To ensure that services such as the management of
energy resources, communication networks, food
supplies, transport and banking system (all of which
satisfy needs of vital importance for the well-being of
people) are granted de status of ´goods of public
usefulness´. In accordance, private monopolies and
oligarquies shall be precluded.
• To grant the right to a worthy and stable employment.
No force labor adjustment plans shall be apllied
whenever a firm earns State benefits.
• To enforce a progressive tax regulation, and to impose
a tax on immense fortunes, as well as on finance
transactions.
• To call for a CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY.
FORBIDDEN MISTAKES FOR THE SPANISH REVOLUTION
• Postdictatorship system not ready to undertake democratic reforms
that could endanger oligocracy. It will only step back if popular
pressure persists over time.
• The system is waiting for the revolution to make mistakes,
enhancing violence, misinforming, infiltrating in camps and
assemblies.
• Strategy: NON-VIOLENCE, ASSEMBLYISM (direct democracy,
horizontalims) and NON-PARTISANSHIP.
• Unity is strength.
• Fundamental rights of others are not to be restricted.
• Catch attention of public opinion, arouse their interest. Get them to
identify themselves with the movement.
• Contrarrest missinformation and governmental and private control
of mass media: webs, alternative press…
• Not becoming a political party.
Many citizens gathered on a common
cause. False democracy where
minority parties are condemned
not to succeed.
• Main task: TO CONSOLIDATE THE MOVEMENT AND
WIDESPREAD IT, TO RAISE MORE AWARENESS AND HAVING
MORE CITIZENS INTO ACTION.
• The regime is nervous. They start to propose lukewarm reforms:
open political parties lists, earlier national elections…
THE FUTURE OF THIS MOVEMENT
INITIATED ON MAY 15 2011
DEPENDS MOSTLY ON ALL OF US,
ON THE INDIGNATED, ON PEOPLE.
’The street is ours. We won’t pay for their crisis.’
LINKS
• http://tomalaplaza.net/ (Spanish)
• http://15mayrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/declar
ation-of-principles-of-acampdabcn-spanishrevolution/
(English)
• http://tomalaplazamorvedre.blogspot.com/ (Spanish)
• http://www.democraciarealya.es/ (Spanish)
• Key words: 15M, toma la calle, Democracia Real Ya.