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

[David Arcos]

Damn it, I didn't see you! I was in the "Communication" zone.

About the visibility... note that there were 3 laptops in that table, all of
3 with pirata.cat's stickers. The media were taking pics of us.
Kenneth appeared in yesterday's newspaper "El País", look at the pirate
sticker at the left: http://twitpic.com/4yu7mx

Cheers!


On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Josef Ohlsson Collentine <
josef at collentine.com> wrote:

>
> 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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