Protests on the economic situation are global
There is no way this web site will be able to keep up with the global protests, so here are stories from Inter Press Service carried by this web site:
Crisis Drives Nicaragua to an Economic and Social Precipice
Monday, September 17, 2018
MANAGUA, Sep 17 (IPS) – Five months after the outbreak of mass protests in Nicaragua, in addition to the more than 300 deaths, the crisis has had visible consequences in terms of increased poverty and migration, as well as the international isolation of the government and a wave of repression that continues unabated.
International Community Ramps Up Action on Venezuela Crisis
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 10 (IPS) – One year into the most recent series of protests and a humanitarian crisis with no end in sight, international groups have called for action to help protect Venezuelans. A complex political and economic crisis in Venezuela has left millions without access to basic services and resources, prompting UN agencies and human rights groups like Human Rights Watch to speak up and urge action.
Venezuela’s Government Is Following a “Policy to Repress,” the UN Says
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30 (IPS) – After sending a team to investigate the human rights conditions in Venezuela amid growing political and economic crisis, the UN Human Rights Office has reported that the crushing of anti-government protests point to the “the existence of a policy to repress political dissent and instil fear in the population to curb demonstrations.”
UN Work Stoppage in Geneva Halts Human Rights Meeting
Monday, June 19, 2017
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 19 (IPS) – As UN staffers in Geneva threaten a strike, protesting a proposed salary cut of over 7.5 percent, a token two-hour “work stoppage” last week forced the Human Rights Council to suspend its meeting.
Brex’it, So Be’it; And Then What?
Sunday, June 26, 2016
ALICANTE, Spain, Jun 26 (IPS) – The vote turned out like the two referenda held in Norway in 1972 and 1994. And much for the same reason: Protestant break with Rome–Catholic, imperial–Henry VIII made himself head of the Anglican Church in 1534.
Recession and Repression Fuel Anger
Friday, February 21, 2014
KIEV, Feb 21 (IPS) – As Ukraine’s capital experiences the worst violence in its post-Soviet history, some protestors are warning that the festering discontent with the regime which led to the current crisis is unlikely to disappear overnight even if a solution to the current impasse is found.
Europe’s Leaders Visit Athens to Celebrate Their Failure
Wednesday, January 08, 2014
ATHENS, Jan 08 (IPS) – The start of Greece’s six-month presidency of the EU was marked by a ceremony Wednesday in the Greek capital attended by the EU commissioners. But protests were banned and there was no talk about the raging controversy over the bloc’s handling of the Greek debt crisis and the renewed concerns about the vitality of the Eurozone.
Robin Hood Activists Take Aim at Wall Street
Saturday, September 21, 2013
NEW YORK, Sep 21 (IPS) – Five years after the 2008 world financial crisis and two years after the Occupy movement it triggered, U.S. critics of the financial sector are coalescing around the idea of a Robin Hood Tax on financial transactions.
Nationwide Protests Rage against Colombia’s Economic Policies
Friday, August 30, 2013
BOGOTA, Aug 30 (IPS) – A strike declared nearly two weeks ago in Colombia by farmers and joined later by truck drivers, health workers, miners and students spread to include protests in the cities before mushrooming into a general strike Thursday, demanding changes in the government’s economic policies.
Protests in Portugal Going Grey
Friday, August 16, 2013
LISBON, Aug 16 (IPS) – The elderly have taken to the streets in Portugal to protest drastic public sector pension cuts announced this week by the government of conservative Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho.
Pray Again to St. Precarious
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
MILAN, Jul 10 (IPS) – It didn’t take the financial crisis for hundreds of thousands of workers across Europe to protest the new plague of the labour market – precarity. But the financial crisis has only made it worse.
Cancelling Fare Hike Fails to Quell Brazil Protests
Thursday, June 20, 2013
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 20 (IPS) – Children of a generation that fought for basic rights like having enough to eat, learning to read and being treated in safer hospitals, the over 300,000 students protesting on the streets of Brazil want more from a democratic and economic system that no longer represents them and is beginning to show its limitations.
Portugal’s Carnation Revolution under the Shadow of the Troika
Thursday, April 25, 2013
LISBON, Apr 25 (IPS) – The anniversary of the peaceful Carnation Revolution that overthrew Portugal’s 1926-1974 dictatorship has gone from being a popular celebration to a day of mass protests against the draconian austerity policies of the government of Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho.
U.S.: Occupy Affiliate Aims at Abolishing Consumer Debt
Sunday, April 14, 2013
ATLANTA, Georgia, Apr 14 (IPS) – Strike Debt, an affiliate of the Occupy movement, has devised a legal and what some consider ingenious way to abolish millions of dollars in consumer debt.
Switzerland Sets Example for Income Equality
Monday, March 11, 2013
ROME, Mar 11 (IPS) – For those who think that Occupy Wall Street, the Indignados in Spain, the World Social Forum and the numerous manifestations of protest worldwide are expressions without concrete outcomes, the result of the Swiss referendum on Mar. 3 on capping the salaries and bonuses of banks executives should make them think twice.
Protests in Portugal Get Creative
Friday, March 01, 2013
LISBON, Mar 01 (IPS) – Indignation in Portugal over rampant joblessness and cuts in wages, pensions and unemployment benefits, together with a growing tax burden, has given rise to innovative forms of protest capable of drawing large crowds.
Winter of Discontent Progresses to Bulgaria
Sunday, February 24, 2013
WARSAW, Feb 24 (IPS) – Bulgarian prime minister Boiko Borisov of the ruling centre-right Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (GERB), announced his resignation Wednesday, following two weeks of sustained protests across the country which were sparked by rising electricity and heating costs.
Q&A: “Neoliberalism Negates Human Rights”
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
LISBON, Feb 19 (IPS) – Thousands of people marched through the streets of cities across Portugal “against exploitation and impoverishment” caused by the government’s austerity cuts, in a protest organised by the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP), the country’s largest trade union.
Davos Puts Protests Behind
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
DAVOS, Feb 05 (IPS) – Barbed wire and safety fences are dismantled, the police and army are withdrawn and freedom of movement is restored. The 43rd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) ended last month with negligible protests against the ‘global leaders’.
Salvaging Waste Food for the Hungry in Spain
Friday, December 21, 2012
MÁLAGA, Spain, Dic 21 (IPS) – A recurring question in crisis-stricken Spain is how to ensure that surplus agricultural products reach those most in need. One response is citizen initiatives to protest the waste of food and to advocate efficient management along the full length of the food chain.
Faces of the Crisis in a Protesting Europe*
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
MÁLAGA, Spain, Nov 13 (IPS) – Out-of-work engineers, family businesses that are falling apart, people working in precarious conditions in an ailing labour market – it’s a description of Spain, but it could just as easily be Portugal, Greece or Italy…
Creditors’ Stalemate Brings Greece to Knife Edge
Friday, November 09, 2012
ATHENS, Nov 09 (IPS) – Ignoring the thousands of protestors gathered outside the Greek parliament on Wednesday, the government voted in public spending cuts amounting to 17 billion dollars in an economy already on its knees from a lacerated budget.
Defying Foreclosures in Spain
Thursday, October 25, 2012
MÁLAGA, Spain, Oct 25 (IPS) – Shouting slogans against bank foreclosures, dozens of protesters in this southern Spanish city gathered Wednesday to prevent the eviction of a Moroccan family who couldn’t afford to meet their mortgage payments.
Spain at Risk of Chronic Protests
Monday, September 24, 2012
MÁLAGA, Spain, Sep 24 (IPS) – Over the past year and a half, Spain has been caught up in constant street protests against measures taken to combat the severe economic crisis. But some say the movement has failed to come together around concrete proposals.
Occupy Celebrates Birthday, Forges Ahead
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO, U.S., Sep 18 (IPS) – Led by a spirited brass band and waving placards decrying corporate greed, hundreds of occupiers took to San Francisco streets Monday to celebrate Occupy Wall Street’s first birthday, culminating in a ceremony where they symbolically ripped apart loan documents.
Occupy Marks Anniversary Amid Grim Economic Climate
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
NEW YORK, Sep 18 (IPS) – Amid a heavy police presence, thousands of anti-capitalist activists in marked the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement against the U.S. political and economic system, which they say favours billionaires at the expense of the middle and working class.
Food Activists See Portents of New and Deeper Hunger Crisis
Thursday, August 16, 2012
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 16 (IPS) – Food rights activists from around the world will descend on the coastal U.S. state of Florida next week to protest homelessness and hunger facing millions of people in the United States and across the globe.
Teachers’ Strike Does Not Mean Political Liberation for Swaziland
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
MBABANE, Jul 31 (IPS) – Swazis should not see the ongoing nationwide one-month teachers’ strike as a movement capable of overthrowing the political regime here, despite the fact that civil servants and nurses have joined the action, according to political analyst Dr. Sikelela Dlamini.
Austerity Package Sparks Protests in Spain
Friday, July 20, 2012
MADRID, Jul 20 (IPS) – “This is war. Parliament has got to go! They’re trying to make civil servants take the blame for a situation that was caused by the banking sector and which the government has allowed to happen.”
‘Israeli Bouazizi’ Raises Questions
Sunday, July 15, 2012
TEL AVIV, Jul 15 (IPS) – During a march Saturday marking one year since social protests engulfed Israel, a man silently set himself on fire, leaving behind him a painful “I accuse!” letter that exposes widespread disillusionment in the face of the immense expectation for change, and the abyss between the people and the State.
FINANCE: Protestors Demand Robin Hood Tax on Financial Transactions
Friday, May 18, 2012
Hundreds of nurses and protestors from other professions gathered on Friday in Chicago to call on world leaders to adopt a Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street transactions as a way to raise hundreds of billions of dollars every year to help heal the U.S. and world economies.
Spain’s ‘Indignados’ Take to the Streets Again
Friday, May 11, 2012
A filthy vacant lot is now sprouting strawberries, tomatoes and carrots. This small community garden in the centre of the southern Spanish city of Málaga was created by the ‘Indignados’ protest movement, which is celebrating its first anniversary Saturday by taking to the streets across the country.
U.S.: Marches and Militancy at Occupy Oakland’s May Day
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
It was May Day and Oakland was bathed in sunshine. Union workers staged militant actions; immigrants and allies marched for justice with brass bands and drummers; spontaneous street parties erupted.
U.S.: Occupiers Confront Wells Fargo Shareholders
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
More than 1,000 people took the Occupy Wall Street Movement message straight to the one percent Tuesday, most of them rallying outside the Wells Fargo stockholders meeting in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district – and some 30 of them ‘mic-checking’ inside the meeting.
U.S. Occupy Activists Hit With Stay-Away Orders
Friday, March 23, 2012
A dozen or so people in the Wednesday night crowd of around 150 at the amphitheatre in the public plaza at Oakland City Hall covered their faces with masks or bandanas.
Banking ‘Leprechauns’ Steal Irish Taxpayer Money
Friday, March 16, 2012
On the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, activists dressed up as leprechauns appeared in front of the Embassy of Ireland to protest Irish taxpayer money being used to pay debts of the Anglo-Irish Bank and the Irish Nationwide Building Society (Anglo/INBS).
Spain’s Jobless Unite for Solutions and Survival
Friday, March 16, 2012
Unemployed people’s movements and associations in Spain are proposing alternatives to official job seeking channels, in the midst of an economic crisis that so far has left more than five million people out of work.
Facing Painful Cuts and Tuition Hikes, U.S. Students ‘Occupy Education’
Friday, March 02, 2012
Shawn Deez, a freshman in peace and conflict studies, says she thinks she knows why some classes are scheduled at the University of California, Berkeley, and some are not. It’s corporate influence that makes the difference, she said.
SPAIN: Demonstrators Protest Bank Bailouts and Spending Cuts
Friday, February 24, 2012
Demonstrators in nearly two dozen cities in Spain raised their voices Friday to protest against the use of public funds to bail out banks while the budgets for basic services like education and health are being slashed.
EUROPE-DEVELOPMENT: The ‘Indignados’ Still Have Wind in Their Sails
Monday, February 06, 2012
Months of protest across the European Union, sparked by ‘indignant’ youth demanding an end to the brand of free market capitalism that has blighted the continent with an unemployment epidemic, finally bore fruit on Jan. 30 when Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, proposed an ambitious jobs scheme.
Political and Economic Turmoil Threaten Women’s Progress
Thursday, February 02, 2012
As UN Women celebrated its first birthday, its executive director Michelle Bachelet stressed that political upheveal and shrinking budgets are no excuse to push back the hard-won gains made by the women’s movement globally.
Occupy DC Protesters Stay Put Amid Eviction Threats
Monday, January 30, 2012
Two days after some 400 people were arrested during a protest organised by Occupy Oakland on the U.S. west coast, members of Occupy DC say they have no plans to leave despite the threat of police action.
U.S.: A Credit Union to Bail Out People, Not Big Banks
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Occupy activists from Wall Street to San Francisco’s financial district have dramatised their anger with big financial institutions by blocking JP Morgan Chase Bank doorways, dancing atop Wells Fargo counters, pitching a tent in a Bank of America lobby, hanging banners across Citibank windows, and accompanying the actions with the now-familiar chant ‘Banks got bailed out, we got sold out.’
GREECE: Austerity Plan Breaches Last Line of Defence of Greek Workers
Friday, January 20, 2012
As the Eurozone falls deeper into its sovereign debt crisis, the labour movement in Greece is being cudgelled to its knees by an austerity programme that has so far failed to bring any positive change for the crumbling Mediterranean country.
U.S.: A Movement Evolves to Occupy the Future
Monday, January 09, 2012
With its encampments mostly destroyed, the nascent Occupy Movement in thousands of communities across the U.S. and dozens more around the world has not faded away.
NIGERIA: Police Crack Down on Fuel Protests
Thursday, January 05, 2012
Police fired tear gas and beat protesters to force them out of a square they had occupied in an overnight sit-in in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano as part of demonstrations over soaring fuel prices, an organiser said.
MEXICO: Youth on the Front Lines of Protest Movement
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
‘We need to be the ones to provide the answers to the questions of our times, because we are the main victims of the voracious policies of capitalism,’ says Alexis Jiménez, a 23-year-old ethnologist who has spent the last two months camping out in front of the Mexico City Stock Exchange.
ECONOMY: Argentina Shows World How to Beat the Crisis
Monday, December 19, 2011
What is happening in the European Union and the United States today happened a decade ago in Argentina, when it was a hotbed of protest and the streets of major cities were seething with people telling their leaders they had had enough. And then a new story began to be written.
U.S.: Protestors Occupy Ports in Oakland and Beyond
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Occupy movements in Oakland, California; Portland, Oregon; and Longview, Washington claimed victory Monday when they prevented workers from loading or unloading ships at the three ports.
Forging Bond Will Be Test for Co-ops and Occupy Movement
Monday, December 12, 2011
Canadian cooperatives may grow as the global Occupy movement raises the profile of their business model through boosting interest in credit unions over traditional banks, but uncertainty remains about the degree to which the two camps will join forces from here on.
U.S.: Homeless Play Key Role in Occupy Movement
Monday, December 12, 2011
Homeless people make up a significant proportion of participants in the Occupy Movement in cities across the United States, from Los Angeles to Atlanta, where at times they comprise an estimated third of the occupiers.
U.S.: Occupy Targets Foreclosures
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Five months ago, Gayla Newsome was at work when she got the call. A sheriff had come to her home of 15 years and put her two pajama-clad daughters out on the curb of her West Oakland street. Newsome knew the bank was about to foreclose, but thought she still had time to fight it.
OP-ED: Occupy Foreign Affairs
Monday, December 05, 2011
It’s not the topic of George Packer’s latest essay that’s particularly surprising. Inequality, he writes, is undermining democracy. Progressives have been hammering home this message for years if not decades.
Occupy Oakland Rallies Amid Anger over Pepper-Spraying of Students
Monday, November 21, 2011
Twice evicted from its encampment just outside city hall, Occupy Oakland sprung back to life Saturday, erecting a new three-dozen-tent camp and defying multiple city warnings that lodging in public spaces would not be tolerated.
U.S.: Occupy Movement Pushes Back in Coordinated Day of Action
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Tens of thousands of people in hundreds of cities across the country flooded streets, public squares and university campuses in the largest nationwide action since the first group of occupiers set up its encampment in New York City exactly two months ago Thursday.
U.S.: Occupy Cal Students Revive Camp After Police Clubbing
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Occupy Cal students were clubbed by baton-wielding university police Nov. 9 – with beatings captured on video – when they linked arms and refused to disband the tent camp they had erected on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
CHINA: Only Business Occupies Shanghai
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
As China’s financial centre and a pinnacle of domestic wealth, Shanghai could have been in the forefront of a home-grown movement against income disparity of the like sweeping New York’s Wall Street and London’s City.
U.S.: Occupy Wall Street Activists Vow to Fight On
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
After two months of holding New York City’s Zuccotti Park despite repeated threats of eviction, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activists were forcibly removed from the site by hundreds of police in riot gear early Tuesday morning.
U.S.: Divide Emerges over Bounds of Occupy Protests
Sunday, November 13, 2011
On Nov. 2, the day of Occupy Oakland’s General Strike, the streets were filled with chants and music and the sounds of people speaking in the many tongues of Oakland residents.
U.S.: Divide Emerges over Bounds of Occupy Protests
Sunday, November 13, 2011
On Nov. 2, the day of Occupy Oakland’s General Strike, the streets were filled with chants and music and the sounds of people speaking in the many tongues of Oakland residents.
U.S.: Occupy Activists, Union Leaders Find Common Cause
Monday, November 07, 2011
When Mary Clinton, 25, joined other activists to help organise the Occupy Wall Street movement on Sep. 17, she never imagined the gamble would turn into a ‘populous left movement of the 21st century’.
BRAZIL: ‘Occupy’ Movement Rolls to Rio
Thursday, November 03, 2011
Inspired by the movement for real democracy and people’s power that has spread to hundreds of cities around the world, young Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro have created their own version of ‘Occupy Wall Street’, dubbed ‘Occupy Rio’.
U.S.: Occupy Oakland Shuts Downtown, Port Areas
Thursday, November 03, 2011
The early morning sun bounced off of the 150 or so multicoloured tents that crowded into the re-populated Oscar Grant Plaza Wednesday, just one week and one day after police raided the Occupy Oakland camp and evicted its occupants using tear gas, batons and possibly rubber bullets.
U.S.: Who is the 99 Percent? — Part 2
Monday, October 31, 2011
While the Occupy movements sweeping the U.S. have become almost synonymous with democracy, consensus-based processes, human microphones and other symbols of unity, many populations in the country have felt isolated by the language and tactics of the movement.
JAPAN: Wall Street Protest Finds Strong Echoes
Monday, October 31, 2011
Inspired by the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in the United States, thousands of Japanese youth and workers, dissatisfied with growing unemployment and harsh working conditions in the world’s third largest economy, have taken to the streets to demand stable jobs and government reforms.
U.S.: Who is the 99 Percent? – Part 1
Friday, October 28, 2011
Barely a month after the first group of protesters set up its encampment in Zucotti Park in New York City, the phrase ‘We are the 99 percent’ has already become legendary.
U.S.: New Inequality Data Likely to Boost ‘Occupy’ Movement
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
A major study on income equality by a non-partisan government agency is likely to boost the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement, whose standing with the general public appears on the rise, according to a new poll.
Not Just a Protest, But a Little Utopia
Monday, October 24, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has withstood political pressure, bad weather, police violence, and over a thousand arrests, and is continuing to grow in New York City a month in.
Occupy Movement Heats Up U.S. South
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
As the Occupy Movement spreads like wildfire across the United States and around the world, protests in the U.S. South are facing unique challenges.
Occupy Wall Street Protests March on Midtown, and the World
Monday, October 17, 2011
Activists from the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City flooded Times Square on Saturday as part of a global day of action, with protesters packing the sidewalks and some streets as far as the eye could see in every direction, centered on the plaza where the famous ball drops on New Year’s Eve.
SPAIN: ‘Rich Must Share Cost of Crisis’
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
As global working-class outrage against corporate capitalism explodes in organised protests around the world, scores of citizens in Spain are demanding an end to tax breaks for the wealthy.
U.S.: Backlash Swells Against New ‘Gilded Age’
Monday, October 10, 2011
The encampment of disenchanted young protesters in New York City’s financial district has exposed growing anger around the United States over rising inequality and a stubborn jobs crisis.
U.S.: ‘Leaderless’ Protest Movement Continues to Snowball
Thursday, October 06, 2011
‘First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you — then you win,’ a middle-aged man yells into the microphone from a makeshift stage erected at the far end of Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC.
SPAIN: ‘Indignant’ Protests Heat Up Election Campaign
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
‘Ex dockyard worker, now a beggar’ reads the sign displayed by a man in a spotless shirt who is panhandling near a square in this southern Spanish city where dozens of demonstrators are chanting: ‘The bank always wins and I’m against this!’ and ‘What’s going on? We have no homes!’
Occupy Wall Street: ‘It Is a Revolution’
Friday, September 30, 2011
Since Sep. 17, hundreds of demonstrators in the Occupy Wall Street movement have transformed the quiet Zucotti Park in lower Manhattan from a place where Wall Street traders once relaxed during lunch breaks into a demonstration camp.
Emerging Markets Hit Economic Stage Like a Tonne of BRICS
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Headlines this week have been saturated with protests against unaffordable food, unfair taxes and unsustainable austerity measures, with one distinct difference setting these stories apart from countless others in recent history.
MALAWI: Markets Torched Ahead of Cancelled Protests
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Soot and ash filled the air the day after a fire gutted Malawi’s Blantyre Market. Men and women merchants wore solemn expressions as they shovelled piles of debris from the site on Tuesday.
Fixing the Economy, Not Lives
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The economic crisis has led Romanian authorities to take some of the toughest austerity measures in Central and Eastern Europe. While no big opposition movement emerged as a result, a special kind of protest has taken place: some have committed suicide to get their messages across.
OP-ED: Protest Movements Teach Economics to Bankers
Monday, August 08, 2011
The European Central Bank (ECB) is run by people who are not very good at economics. They continue to adhere to a fundamentally wrongheaded view of the economy and the central bank’s role within it.
SPAIN: ‘Indignant’ Demonstrators Marching to Brussels to Protest Effects of Crisis
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Protesters from several European Union cities have begun to follow the example of hundreds of demonstrators from Spain who are marching from Madrid to Brussels, the bloc’s de facto capital, in a growing protest against the effects of the economic crisis and the fiscal adjustment policies adopted to combat it.
Syria’s Once Profoundly Secular Society Shaken Up
Friday, July 01, 2011
Since pro-democracy protests began last March, Syria’s once profoundly secular society has been shaken up, with deep divides splitting up communities along sectarian lines.
GREECE: Public Outrage over Austerity Plan
Thursday, June 30, 2011
The mass protests in Greece swelled by the hour as parliament voted this Thursday to implement the social and economic adjustment plan approved Wednesday, including measures for privatisation, tax hikes, spending cuts and mass lay-offs in the state sector.
SYRIA: Ongoing Unrest Threatening Economy
Thursday, June 30, 2011
As protests persist in Syria, the economy is becoming an increasing concern for many, who wonder if it will eventually falter in light of the recent unrest.
SPAIN: Protest Movement Spreads to Neighbourhoods, Small Towns
Thursday, June 09, 2011
The May 15 Movement (15-M) which sprang up as huge rallies in public squares in Spain’s largest cities to protest against the political, economic and social system, is multiplying as assemblies in local neighbourhoods in provincial capitals and other municipalities.