The “Spanish Revolution” explained
I’ve been posting about this since yesterday (here, here and here a photo roundup of the movement spreading to other European cities).
Here is a comprehensive explanation at The Huffington Post by Martin Varsavsky (he is a native Spanish speaker, quite well known in Latin American media).
And here is the Tumblr tag “Spanish Revolution” which contains a good number of videos and first hand accounts (both in Spanish and English).
Now, let me be clear on this: this is not yet a revolution. This is a nascent social movement. They (the protesters) have chosen the name “Spanish Revolution” (in English) so that they could get international media attention. There have been instances of police repression already (at the Tumblr tag I linked above there are videos) and according to Spanish newspaper El Pais (in an article from earlier today), the protesters are refusing to leave Madrid’s Puerta del Sol for the time being.
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