The Indignants
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Publicado: 23 de julio de 2011
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Real Democracy Now was set up by Fabio Gándara, a 26-year-old law graduate, along with two friends: Eric Pérez, and anotherwho prefers to remain anonymous.
By early December, they had found another 10 or so like-minded individuals with the same ideas. They took their inspiration from protests in Iceland that resulted inprison sentences for some of those responsible for the country’s bankruptcy as well as new legislation to prevent a future crisis. . Then the wave of protests that swept through the Arab world showedthem how loosely formed group were able to organize protests through social media. So Gándara and his colleagues set up a Facebook account and a blog.
In January, they widened their base byjoining up with other groups that had sprung up in the wake of the financial crisis. They set up a new group on Facebook, called the Platform to Coordinate Groups for Citizen Mobilization. Moreorganizations, platforms, and civic associations signed up. The list grew and grew.
There are two main guilty parties here: the politicians and the people who run the global economy. The politicians, who aresupposedly our representatives, take their orders from the markets, and deregulate the economy to allow them to speculate,” says Gándara. This is how the movement’s slogan, which has resonated with somany, came about: Real Democracy Now: We are not goods in the hands of politicians and bankers.”
By mid-March, the first face-to-face meetings were being set up. “That was a very inspirationaltime. It was strange to suddenly meet all these people in person. But it was also how this became something real, tangible,” says Gándara.
On the May 2 public holiday, a meeting attended by some 300representatives was held in Madrid’s Retiro park. An agenda was drawn up, and everybody was allowed to speak. “It was like Speakers’ Corner,” says Merche Negro, who heads the movement’s audiovisual...
Real Democracy Now was set up by Fabio Gándara, a 26-year-old law graduate, along with two friends: Eric Pérez, and anotherwho prefers to remain anonymous.
By early December, they had found another 10 or so like-minded individuals with the same ideas. They took their inspiration from protests in Iceland that resulted inprison sentences for some of those responsible for the country’s bankruptcy as well as new legislation to prevent a future crisis. . Then the wave of protests that swept through the Arab world showedthem how loosely formed group were able to organize protests through social media. So Gándara and his colleagues set up a Facebook account and a blog.
In January, they widened their base byjoining up with other groups that had sprung up in the wake of the financial crisis. They set up a new group on Facebook, called the Platform to Coordinate Groups for Citizen Mobilization. Moreorganizations, platforms, and civic associations signed up. The list grew and grew.
There are two main guilty parties here: the politicians and the people who run the global economy. The politicians, who aresupposedly our representatives, take their orders from the markets, and deregulate the economy to allow them to speculate,” says Gándara. This is how the movement’s slogan, which has resonated with somany, came about: Real Democracy Now: We are not goods in the hands of politicians and bankers.”
By mid-March, the first face-to-face meetings were being set up. “That was a very inspirationaltime. It was strange to suddenly meet all these people in person. But it was also how this became something real, tangible,” says Gándara.
On the May 2 public holiday, a meeting attended by some 300representatives was held in Madrid’s Retiro park. An agenda was drawn up, and everybody was allowed to speak. “It was like Speakers’ Corner,” says Merche Negro, who heads the movement’s audiovisual...
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