Title: Nottingham Solidarity with Spanish Revolution
Author: Nottingham Indymedia
Image: www.boingboing.net/2011/05/17/300559476...
Location: nottingham market_square spain
Tags: acampadanottingham spain austerity cuts solidarity spanishrevolution

Beginning on May 15th, a wave of protests has swept across Spain, with demonstrations in around 60 cities. The rallies have continued despite being officially banned under Spain’s electoral law. There have also been solidarity protests across the world, with several in the UK, including in Nottingham where small protests were held in the Market Square on Saturday 21st. Supporters also maintained a small presence at this year’s Green Festival.

On the newswire: Nottingham Supports the Spanish revolution! | Brighton | Bristol | Edinburgh | London: 1, 2

The protesters have distributed a 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:

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.

Links

Democracia Real YA Nottingham
www.facebook.com/democraciarealya.notti...
Facebook group for the local protests

#acampadanottingham
twitter.com/#!/search/%23acampadanottingham
Hashtag being used to discuss local protests on Twitter (mostly in Spanish)

Democracia Real YA
democraciarealya.es
Spanish site coordinating protests

Spanish 15 May Revolution
15mayrevolution.wordpress.com
Website on Spanish protests in English

#campmap for #worldrevolution
www.thetechnoant.info/campmap
Google map of protests around the world

2011 Spanish Protests
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Spanish_prot...
Wikipedia page on Spanish protests