[pp.int.general] Social r-evolution in Spain - #spanishrevolution

[Josef Ohlsson Collentine]

second night for me camping in Barcelona for the protests. As David said
most of the issues are very related to pirate politics. The people
organizing the protests don't want to have politicians only representing
their parties there, so PP members are there individually and not as part of
PP.  I believe the challenge for Partido Espana and piratas de catalunya
will be to get enough exposure about their party so people know who they are
and that they want similar things as the protests. If the connection could
be done in a good way this would mean many votes in the elections.

Protests are growing and spreading quick. First night in Bcn there were
46campers, second night ~100?. Last night I heard figures of 250 campers and
4000 people earlier during the night. Madrid  Rumors about them lasting
until end of May and major newspapers are drawing parallels with Tahrir
square in Egypt. Madrid has a much bigger support and despite the ban of the
protests there today there has been several thousand people demonstrating
there

Camps are spreading internationally as well. A list of the camps:
http://www.ikimap.com/map/2CYF

/josef


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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 01:35:12 +0200
> From: David Arcos <david.arcos at gmail.com>
> To: Erik L?nroth <erik.lonroth at gmail.com>
> Cc: Pirates de Catalunya <partit at pirata.cat>,   Pirate Parties
>        International -- General Talk
>        <pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
> Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] [Contacte] Social r-evolution in Spain -
>        #spanishrevolution
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> Hi,
>
> just got home from Pla?a Catalunya (the main square in Barcelona), lots of
> people there.
> You can find some pics in my twitter: @DZPM <https://twitter.com/DZPM>.
>
> Our principles are Transparency, Direct Democracy, and the classical pirate
> "core issues".
> The demonstrators are asking for transparency and direct/participative
> democracy, too. (even in cities we haven't talked about it!)
> And we are the only party at the moment that is *using* internal "direct
> democracy", and *aplying* internal transparency. Not promises, but *facts*.
>
> This Sunday we have elections, I don't know what can happen.
>
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Erik L?nroth <erik.lonroth at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > You have my sympathies. Tell us more!
> >
> > How does this all fit together with the "pirate principles" etc. I
> > want to hear how you are involved and more!
> >
> > I can help you out by mention you in the interview with The Bradley
> > Manning Network I'm doing the 25:th. But I need to understand it
> > first....
> >
> > /Erik
> >
> > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:09 PM, David Arcos <david.arcos at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Ahoy, pirates!
> > > as you may know, we are having the #spanishrevolution over here.
> > > Last Sunday, tens of thousands were protesting in ~60 cities:
> > >
> >
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/tens-of-thousands-march-in-spain-to-protest-against-austerity-measures-banks-politicians/2011/05/15/AF13OH4G_story.html
> > > Later, hundreds of people camped over the main squares of each city,
> they
> > > are still there.
> > > The Spanish media are ignoring/censoring most of the facts, on purpose.
> > > That's because this Sunday 22 of May we have local elections. We, the
> > > Catalan pirate party (Pirates de Catalunya) are running for those
> > elections.
> > > We just published a brief about the current status of Barcelona?s camp
> > from
> > > our spokesman Kenneth Peiruza:
> > > http://pirata.cat/bloc/?p=1736
> > > https://twitter.com/#!/partit_pirata/status/70561759357968384
> > > There is not very much content in English about the #spanishrevolution.
> > > Could you give us a hand promoting our post?
> > > We would really appreciate if you could menction it on your blogs (feel
> > free
> > > to copy it together), share it with your local pirates, move it on PPI,
> > etc.
> > > Retweet it, facebook it, copy it to your blogs, slashdot/digg/reddit
> it,
> > > whatever!
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > --
> > > Pirates de Catalunya
> > > http://pirata.cat
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