The New Dark Age

22 May 2011 — williambowles.info

22 May 2011

• BBC: Spanish polls open amid protests
  Spain is voting in regional elections overshadowed by mass protest rallies in cities across the country.”
• Elections in Spain underway after massive protests
  His government has been squeezed by Spain’s 21% unemployment rate, the highest in Western Europe, and a financial crisis that prompted unpopular austerity measures. That’s what helped start a wave of protests May 15, when Spaniards using social media …
• Voting begins in Spain, Socialists eye setbacks
  MADRID (AP) — The ruling Socialist Party braced itself for stinging losses as voting began amid protests in regional and municipal elections throughout Spain on Sunday. The elections are a key test of how much the party’s support has crumbled due to …
  How corruption, cuts and despair drove Spain’s protesters on to the streets
  Young protesters in Madrid and beyond have many different demands, but they are united in opposition to the government. The opinions and analysis offered on Forexlive are for educational purposes only and clients and prospects are advised to carefully …
  Spain Protests Rock Nation, Tens Of Thousands Fill The Cities Over …
  Spain has struggled to emerge from a recession, and the collapse of the construction sector and a slump in consumer spending have hit the young particularly hard — 45 percent of 18- to 25-year-olds are unemployed. …
  Massive Protests Spread Through Spain – Global – The Atlantic Wire
  A ban against protests did nothing to stop nearly 30000 young protesters across Spain in the largest protests to rock the country since the 2008 recession, the New York Times reports. The movement, called “los indignados” (the …
  Florida Bankers Head to Spain « Repeating Islands
  Members of the Florida International Bankers Association (FIBA) head to Madrid, Spain on May 23, 2011, to meet with European and Latin America banking counterparts as well as regulators from both Spain and the United States at the …

21 May 2011

• Socialist Resistance: Spanish state: indignation in revolt
  Finally the spirit of revolt has come back to the Spanish state, after to years of weak resistance against the crisis and the decision of the two main unions, CCOO and UGT, to sign a social deal last january which stoped the dynamics of mobilisation they had begun with the general strike of 29 september – meaning that was in the end simply a one day deviation from their usual partnership unionism.
• BBC VIDEO: Thousands defy Spain rally ban
  Tens of thousands of Spanish protesters have defied a government ban and camped out overnight in a square in the capital, Madrid.”

20 May 2011

• Greanville Post: Protestors occupy city squares in Spain after mass demonstrations Sunday
  One thing is certain: the disease (capitalism) is global, and so are the symptoms. It’s no accident that in nation after nation, from the Middle East through Europe, Asia, and Latin America to the world’s imperial heartland, America, we see the same issues, the same protagonists, and (for the time being) the same inconclusive results.—Eds”
• Morning Star: Zapatero unsure on capital demos
  Spain’s national electoral commission has declared tomorrow’s protest rallies illegal but the prime minister avoided saying today whether he will order police to break them up.”
• Socialist Resistance: Demonstrations break out across Spain – exclusive video
• Dissident Voice: Spain’s Tahrir Square
  Spain’s people’s movement has finally awoken, la Puerta del Sol in Madrid is now the country’s Tahrir Square, and the ‘Arab Spring’ has been joined by what is now bracing to become a long ‘European Summer’.”

19 May 2011

• Mathaba: Popular Uprisings Start in Europe: Spain Yet to Form People’s Conferences
• MRZine: junge Welt, “Mass Protest in Spain: No Vote for Traditional Parties!”
  Tens of thousands of people, especially youth, demonstrated again on Tuesday evening in the Spanish capital of Madrid, against the political and economic system of the country, which they called corrupt.”
• Growing Unemployment, Rising Poverty: Spain’s People’s Movement
• BBC: Egypt-style rally grows in Spain
  A protest rally turns an iconic Madrid square into a campsite, echoing the pro-democracy rallies that transformed Egypt.