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It is a U.K. legal instrument, which, unlike the conventional injunction that simply prevents you from writing about person X, forbids you from writing about the fact that you are forbidden from writing about person X. The super injunction, an innovation made possible by European Human Rights Law, allows person X to apply to a judge to restrain reporting of his private life in advance. Person X's dirty deeds aren't just cloaked; they're invisibility-cloaked, Harry Potter-style. The result of all this—apart from enriching quite a few lawyers—is to cause this nation to be gripped by what can only be described as super-injunction fever. Like astrophysicists discovering that 95% of the universe consists of dark matter and dark energy, gossip writers and readers of celebrity magazines have become obsessed by the idea that a similar proportion of top-level celebrity gossip is now invisible, undetectable by conventional instruments. Because they are granted piecemeal, no central authority even knows how many of these super injunctions exist. One newspaper's lawyer has compiled, for private reference, a two-page list of all the ones she knows about—but refuses to let colleagues see it for fear of breaching one. The long-established class hierarchy of the U.K. is breaking down as a result. It's nothing to do with inheritance any more. Lower class, these days, means not knowing about super injunctions; lower middle class means knowing about them but not knowing who's taken them out; upper middle class means knowing whose secrets you're not allowed to know; upper class means knowing what those secrets are and posting smug winks to others in the know on Twitter. It's chaos. Liberal prigs who believe we have no right to pry into the sex lives of footballers are now to be found demanding just such a right. Everyone else simply wants to know the gossip— and wonders why certain celebrity news stories (intended as self-congratulatory winks to the already-in-the-know) make no sense. You might as well rename Hello! magazine "Hello?," and put a series of people with bags on their heads on the front cover. An acquaintance of mine who runs a gossip website was informed of one of these super injunctions. She got a lawyer's letter warning that—under threat of the gravest legal penalties—she was not to write about man A's affair with woman B and their resulting "love-child" C. She was mystified. Ignored it. A few days later, she wrote an item teasing some footballer or other and received a furious phone call from the lawyers. Hadn't she read the injunction? Purple-faced with indignation, these lawyers were. How dare she! She protested, not only reasonably but truthfully, that since they hadn't included a cover letter identifying A, B and C, she had no idea who they were talking about. They retreated, muttering. Of course, there's no surer and more expensive way of making your private or professional shame the talk of the Internet than injuncting the mainstream media. If I were a client who had been advised to take one of these things out, I'd be looking to sack my advisers, at the very least. Because hard as the rest of us are laughing at you, they are laughing harder. From pranesh at cis-india.org Fri May 13 22:20:16 2011 From: pranesh at cis-india.org (Pranesh Prakash) Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 22:20:16 +0530 Subject: [Commons-Law] What's so super about super-injunctions? (Wall Street Journal) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4DCD6148.2050608@cis-india.org> The real question is: are you forbidden from writing about the fact that you are forbidden from writing about the fact that you are forbidden from writing about X? If so, *then* we have something to worry about. Cheers, Pranesh On Friday 13 May 2011 08:56 PM, Patrice Riemens wrote: > It may sound frivolous, with implications only in the sphere of the glossy > glam scene, but it has a deeper and darker relevance than this author > appears to be able to grasp. > Cheers, p+3D! > > > Original to: > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703992704576306701610626230.html > > By SAM LEITH in London > (Dated 13-15 May, 2011) > > Forget the Royal Wedding, the publication of the Sunday Times Rich List > and the killing of Osama bin Laden. What's really exercising the national > conversation is the epidemic of "super injunctions." > > The super injunction, for those lucky folk who haven't yet come across > one, is a thing of dark beauty. It is a U.K. legal instrument, which, > unlike the conventional injunction that simply prevents you from writing > about person X, forbids you from writing about the fact that you are > forbidden from writing about person X. > > The super injunction, an innovation made possible by European Human Rights > Law, allows person X to apply to a judge to restrain reporting of his > private life in advance. Person X's dirty deeds aren't just cloaked; > they're invisibility-cloaked, Harry Potter-style. > > The result of all this—apart from enriching quite a few lawyers—is to > cause this nation to be gripped by what can only be described as > super-injunction fever. Like astrophysicists discovering that 95% of the > universe consists of dark matter and dark energy, gossip writers and > readers of celebrity magazines have become obsessed by the idea that a > similar proportion of top-level celebrity gossip is now invisible, > undetectable by conventional instruments. > > Because they are granted piecemeal, no central authority even knows how > many of these super injunctions exist. One newspaper's lawyer has > compiled, for private reference, a two-page list of all the ones she knows > about—but refuses to let colleagues see it for fear of breaching one. > > The long-established class hierarchy of the U.K. is breaking down as a > result. > > It's nothing to do with inheritance any more. Lower class, these days, > means not knowing about super injunctions; lower middle class means > knowing about them but not knowing who's taken them out; upper middle > class means knowing whose secrets you're not allowed to know; upper class > means knowing what those secrets are and posting smug winks to others in > the know on Twitter. > > It's chaos. > > Liberal prigs who believe we have no right to pry into the sex lives of > footballers are now to be found demanding just such a right. Everyone else > simply wants to know the gossip— and wonders why certain celebrity news > stories (intended as self-congratulatory winks to the already-in-the-know) > make no sense. > > You might as well rename Hello! magazine "Hello?," and put a series of > people with bags on their heads on the front cover. > > An acquaintance of mine who runs a gossip website was informed of one of > these super injunctions. She got a lawyer's letter warning that—under > threat of the gravest legal penalties—she was not to write about man A's > affair with woman B and their resulting "love-child" C. She was mystified. > Ignored it. A few days later, she wrote an item teasing some footballer or > other and received a furious phone call from the lawyers. Hadn't she read > the injunction? > > Purple-faced with indignation, these lawyers were. How dare she! She > protested, not only reasonably but truthfully, that since they hadn't > included a cover letter identifying A, B and C, she had no idea who they > were talking about. They retreated, muttering. > > Of course, there's no surer and more expensive way of making your private > or professional shame the talk of the Internet than injuncting the > mainstream media. > > If I were a client who had been advised to take one of these things out, > I'd be looking to sack my advisers, at the very least. 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From jeebesh at sarai.net Mon May 23 23:20:02 2011 From: jeebesh at sarai.net (Jeebesh) Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 23:20:02 +0530 Subject: [Commons-Law] Notes from madrid Message-ID: dear all, here is an extensive set of writings from madrid. the surge is very deep. jeebesh ------------- May 20, 2011 Notes from Madrid A friend sent this note and the texts below it. its an amazing moment in madrid. i don’t have my head about me to write anything right now, so i’ve quickly translated a few short texts coming out of these days in order to share a little bit of the atmosphere, some of the debates. i’m afraid they’re not very descriptive for those who are not here in the midst of all this and might need some background, but they’ll do for now, to get some sense… pass them along. this is very exciting. who knows where it will all go, but it is certainly amazing, a sense of something culminating and something beginning. the whole country is freaking out. the press in english is either ignoring this or saying silly irrelevant things. Notes from #acampadasol (1) Amador Fernández Savater A friend told me that the Greek historian Herodotus summarized his method in the following way: “I write down everything I don’t understand.” That is to say, Herodotus took note of what remained to be thought about, he wrote it down so it wouldn’t get lost. In these “notes from the camp” I have proposed to do the same, take note of what I don’t understand: the details, the scenes, the situations at acampadasol which ask questions of me. But also of the things which amaze me about what is happening and that I feel resonate in this new thinking+sensitivity about the political which some friends and I have been exploring since March 11th, 2004. I can only link myself with what is happening through this fragmentary writing, the notes jotted down in the notebook I always carry. “The key is in Sol” A friend says to me, “Now its not a matter of taking the streets, it’s a matter of creating the square.” She says this as if she’s pointing out a decisive difference. We have to understand it. What do we have in common, those of us who are in the square? Not a specific demand, more like the sharing of a problem. The problem is representation. We didn’t want the Sinde Law [against downloading of copyrighted material] and the politicians imposed it. We don’t want that those who have the least pay for the crisis, but this is what is happening. People should rule, representation should be representative. That is why “The call it democracy but its not” and “they don’t represent us” and are the two hit slogans here. Beyond that, an abyss. I wander around Sol and see three posters in a row: “Self-management”, “Reform the electoral laws”, “We don’t want corrupt politicians, we want efficient managers”. Another friend: “Its like everyone is in love, look what smiles” From the first day I was very impressed with the seriousness which runs throughout the camp, the extremely high degree of maturity and organization. There is abundant food and coffee (much of this donated by neighbors of Madrid). Cleaning is done with care and we are continually reminded that “this is not a party.” On Thursday there were a couple of play areas for children with cardboard floors and lots of kids playing and painting. In the groups and the commissions which are meeting all over the place there are astonishing levels of listening, as if it were clear to all that it is less important what each one brings with him or her than what we can create together. “Here a person can live!” says someone near me. The collective effort to take care of the space builds during a few days a little habitable world with room for all of us. It is what I read about Tahrir a few months ago. “Don’t vote, Twitter” It seems that in the plaza in the center of Sol, where the working- groups operate, money is not accepted. Any collaboration or donation is welcome, but not money. Is this an effort to ward off any possibility of corruption? It might be, the movement knows very well that its stregth depends on radically distancing itself from anything related shamed politics. “The democracy we want is already the organization of the square itself” Blessed be those who decided not to budge from Sol after the demonstration. I thought it was planned by those who called for the demonstration, but I’ve learned that that was not so. I think a lot about this gesture. It is one of those incredible gestures that make things happen against all predictions. I received a text message with the news at one o’clock in the morning and didn’t pay any attention. “It won’t work,” I thought. I should have a look at this cynicism. Because it is ingenuity which changes things. “I like it when you vote, you’re like, absent” Debate with an activist friend. He says the language being used irritates him. He finds it very poor: “democracy,” “citizenship,” etc. I argue with him: ever since “no to the war” it has been this kind of “flat” statements which open up spaces in which we all fit, in which things really move. Its true that I think “you’re not going to have a house in your whole fucking life” is a stronger slogan that “we are not commodities in the hands of politicians and bankers.” But today it seems clear that words are powerful not so much for what they say as for who says them and from where. “Without housing there’s no living” All the time I have this intense interior sensation: I have already lived some part of this. In the “no to the war”, on March 13th, in “V de Vivienda”… There are many, many resonances: all were movements which didn’t find their strength in an ideology or a program but rather a first person involvement which doesn’t make sense in the left/ right dichotomy, which rather try to escape from it in order to interpelate everyone, anyone. The base their strength precisely in the creation of a “we” which is open and inclusive, which doesn’t announce another world possible but which activate in order that this one world which does exist and which we share doesn’t come undone… It seems clear to me that May 15th has to do with V de Vivienda, March 13th, the “no to the war” but… how? What does it pick up from those, what new things does it propose we think about? What does all this mean for the future? A boy, under 20, in the square at 3am with a poster stuck to his chest: “respect” Stereotypes are a strategy for governing. The put a label on those who protest (“anti-system”, for example) and that way separates them from the rest, as if they had nothing in common. The movement is very intelligent about this: “we are not anti-system, the system is anti- us.” Fantastic. Everything which is divisive remains outside the square: from big organizations to violence. A friend summarizes the situation like this: “Democracy 2.0 has killed the Culture of the Transition.” A discussion in a facebook chat: - i still have the sense, kind of old fashioned, that twitter is not what happens but a way of telling about what happens - and to organize it, no? - or, in other words, tw is only interesting in composition with something else - i agree - but sol+twitter is interesting - the plus of the potency of bodies * and an open situation ———————- IT’S NOT JUST INDIGNATION. Inventing new ways of doing politics. Montserrat Galcerán It’s true that we’re indignant. But not just that. If it were just indignation that brought us together in the streets and squares of our cities, the movement would have less force. Once the moment of excitement had passed we would have gone home. That is not what is happening. After the demonstrations, groups – some larger, some smaller – have camped in the squares and after being evicted, have returned again and again. This shows a will to be heard which goes far beyond mere indignation, a will which is opening up new means of doing politics on the basis of the idea that “politics” is not only nor principally a profession – the “business” of the so-called political class – but rather that politics is the only way we have to resolve problems collectively. The capture of politics by those professionals who have turned it into their exclusive terrain, reducing it to a matter of representation and exercising it against the interests of a large part of the population, takes out of our hands those tools without which we are doomed to savage competition amongst ourselves, war between the poor. The increasing intensity of the crisis has made this model of politics blow up. It has shown clearly that the current politicians use the legitimacy which the voting box grants them in order to make citizens ever more impotent against the demands and requirements of a global capitalist class which the politicians either do not know how to or do not want to tame. No one said things were easy. What we are saying is that we need the tools of politics, of a new kind of politics, in order to find solutions to the current situation. The partial movements that have emerged recently give us hints in this direction. All of them, from platforms like “Victims of Mortgages”, “Real Democracy Now”, “Youth with no Future”, to the offices of social rights, the social centers, and the assemblies of the unemployed as well as many others have shown a tremendous capacity to oppose the measures imposed by the public administration, to construct partial alternatives and to attempt to disrupt the privatization measures and impoverishment which are underway. So here we have a social Left which does not coincide with the political “Left.” The latter has been absorbed by economic elites to such an extent that it is difficult to distinguish between the recommendations of the big business groups and the decisions of the politicians. The narrow filter of party democracy impedes meaningful participation. This is why it is now time to get our imagination rolling and seek new forms of articulation which reinvent the political community, putting our collective intelligence to the test. The internet networks are at work; they give shape to the new virtual political space. But we need more: popular citizen assemblies, open encounters, public discussions, institutions which supervise and control the political parties… it is our future, this is our moment. ——————— Seven key words on the Madrid-Sol experience, 15M Guillermo Kaejane “I don’t want a new iPad, I want a new life” (graffiti painted during 15 May mobilization) 1- Time. Time accelerates. The senses are agitated. Fear paralyzes the senses, vertigo makes them acute. The permanent camp in Sol is pure vertigo. Hours pass rapidly between one gathering and the next, but then time slows down. The nights are loooong. Time contracts and expands, moved by a sea of people (principally but not only young people). It feels like we’ve been here for years, and it hasn’t been more than three days. A revolt is real when it modifies space-time. The space-time created in the last days has one single obsession: continuity. Paradoxically, this is only possible to maintain through intermittancy. Through a physical entering-and-leaving of Sol. Keep the experience alive even though you are not present. For this reason (and so many others) the camp at Sol cannot be understood without the social networks. The continuity of the experience is achieved by deterritorializing it. I am in Sol even though I am at home. I am in Sol because I keep talking about it, because I can’t concentrate on my work, because I can’t get it out of my head. And when I can, I go there. I go running there, and again join in the “social connector”, so others can go rest. The classic conceptualization of social revolts is a scenario in which continuity is linked to accumulation of force. If we continue longer, there will be more of us. If we hold out, the tyrants will fall. This mystification has something to do with a simplification of what happened in Egypt and other Arab countries. Experiences which we heard about towards the end of their processes, not at their beginnings, not through the years of visibility and invisibility, failed experiments, dead ends and turning back. What is happening these days is not the end, it is not the decisive moment, it is just the start. 2. Communication. Communication is a form of political organization. People become the media. Social networks are not the means so much as the expressive and organizational terrain. Common sense is woven in the form of flux and of memes. From the logic of shared trust on facebook to the logic of live recounting via twitter. A slogan circulates, multiplying. With no official versions, rumours blaze. The traditional media bump up against a dadaist cacaphony which is impossible to interpret. They grab hold of what they can, and from there project their own ideas. The self-narration of the process is not, for the moment, going through viral streaming but rather then need to tell about it, to narrate what we are living, the “I was there!” becomes more intense. The media’s obsession with broadcasting demonstrations “from inside” as if from the perspective of a participant, betrays their anxiety about their own loss of centrality. Experts and analysts show how incapable they are to think with their own heads, and speak (both on the left and the right) in one voice. The sensation for the spectator who is living the experience is like that of those fans of Lost who watched television commentators try to make sense of the series’ ending: a mixture of stupor, shame and giggles. 3. The powers. In these moments there is an enormous expressive capacity in which anyone who is gathered in a group feels that they are the representation of everything. The sensation of empowerment is so great that one comes to believe that what each one of us is doing is representing all the others. It is a reasonable logic, and difficult to get rid of, but it is important to deactivate it. The power of this movement comes from its unrepresentability. They don’t represent us, as the slogan goes… because they can’t. As in any dispersed network, there is a multitude of different centers of which none is “the center” but rather each is a repeater, receiving and sending out proposals and meanings. Creativity is of the essence. The hegemony of who is at the helm in any given moment (The ‘Real Democracy Now’ platform? The assemblies in the square? The commissions within the assemblies? Twitter? Me and my friends?) is changing all the time. The assemblies are not a space in which one meaning is being defined but rather a collective catharsis. An enormous desire to talk and talk and talk. Memorized language (“The people united will never be divided”) mixes with new forms of expression (“Error 404- system failure”, “Downloading democracy”, “Its not a crisis it’s a rip-off”. ) On an institutional level craziness reigns. In 72 hours we have seen absolutely the entire political class go from “this is not happening” to “this is not important” to “this is dangerous” and in the last few hours, “we are you!”. Again, grotesque. The impossibility of framing the mobilization in the clear “left-right” terms which have been the foundation of social consensus since the Transition [to democracy after Franco] begins to reveal a new logic of conflict: “above and below.” Unable to control what is happening, the mechanism of control over the movement is a simple question, a constant question: “So, what do you propose?” 4. Proposals. The demand for proposals is a mechanism of control. A way of filling the vacuum of the unrepresentable. A mechanism not exclusive to the media or the political class, as some of the expressions of the movement itself participate in it. Having a response means you can pigeonhole the rebels, say “Ah, they are utopic” or “Oh, they are populists” or “Oy, they are leftists” or “Ay, what they want is impossible” or “Ha, how naïve” or “Nah, they’re not radicals” or “Hm, they say a few reasonable things…” Nonetheless, there is silence. Or something very much like silence, which is a cacaphony of apparently contradictory signs. As much as it may cause us anguish, perhaps a good point of departure might be to say: “Unlike you who pretend to know everything, we don’t know yet”. Those who want to get somewhere specific are in a hurry. This is not the case. In the square, the discussion itself is more important than its conclusion. The responsibility is to defend and extend this. Continue discussing. Continue talking. Trust the same common sense which has brought thousands of people into the street for days. So far, its not going badly. 5. Real Democracy Now. This logo, this slogan which is present throughout the mobilization and forms one of its constituitive parts and which therefore the media and the political class have decided to pretty much ignore. But it is fairly easy: “democracy”, but not any old democracy, a real one. The real is that which is opposed to the simulated. This means that the logo (or one of the logos) under which this movement is being built says that the thing which institutional power calls “democracy” is a lie. And it demands the construction of something different that breaks with the simulacrum. But it doesn’t pose this problem in distant, utopic terms. We want it now. “Now” means urgency, “now” means nerviness, “now” means we have to be able to touch it, that it has to be in every part of our lives, that it is not just words but construction. That it doesn’t exist and therefore has to be made. 6. And… tomorrow? It is very difficult to think about tomorrow when you are wrapped up in the events of today. It is even more difficult because the rhetoric of the political class has always held forth on ‘tomorrow’. In this movement, tomorrow is unthinkable for the moment. There is only now. For institutional power, the elections on Sunday the 22nd of May are a moment to recuperate legitimacy. A moment to restitute governability. A moment to put their feet down and redraw the map of the possible. The elections has functioned for the moment as a diffuse element, perhaps unifying at a symbolic level. But in the camp, in the meetings, etc. the words we most hear are “connect”, “extend”, “construct”. The 23rd of May will begin to resolve this question, as one graffiti said. “I don’t want a new iPad, I want a new life” PS: Number 7. Joy, joy, joy ————————– It’s the democracy, stupid. May 15th, from indignation to hope Emmanuel Rodríguez and Tomás Herreros About May 15th we might say that it marks an important point of inflection: from the networks to the street, from the conversations at home and in the street to mobilization, but above all, from indignation to hope. Dozens of thousands of people, brought together through the web, ordinary citizens, have taken the streets in a vivid demand, loaded with hope: a demand for real democracy, not a democracy at the service of big interests, but of people. An unremitting critique of the political class which, since the beginning of the crisis, has governed with its back to the people, following the dictates of the euphemistically named “markets”. In the coming weeks and months we will see how this demand takes form, and how the slogan “real democracy now” extends. Everything indicates that its power will crescendo. The best proof of this is how city squares are being taken over and camp-outs are commencing in different cities. The social networks boil over with support for the movement, and the response in the streets and squares makes this stronger yet. So far, and without making any predictions, we can pose a few questions. First of all, the May 15th movement is accurate in its criticisms. Politics as we know it, as it is applied by the political parties (that is, making the weakest parts of society pay for the crisis), has brought a growing part of the society to the point of indignation. In the last few years we have watched with astonishment the multimillion euro bail-outs of the big banks at the same time as social cut-backs, aggressions against basic rights, and covered-up privatizations which have rapidly diminished the already scrawny Spanish welfare State. No one can doubt that this policy is a danger to our present and our immediate future. Specifically, the indignation becomes explicit when it comes up against the cowardice of the politicians, incapable to reign in the governance of finance: What happened to those promises of the ‘humanization of capitalism’ after the subprime crisis? What happened to shutting down the tax havens? What became of controlling the finance system? And what about taxing income from speculation? And what about ceasing to fiscally subsidize those who already have the most? Second, the May 15th movement is much more than a call to attention for the so-called left. It may be (in fact it is probable) that May 22nd, the day of local and some regional elections, the left gets a thrashing. In that case, it might be a prelude to what will occur in the general elections [next year]. What we can be sure of right now is that the institutional left (the political parties and big unions) is object of a generalized political disaffection thanks to its total incapacity to present new proposals in the context of the crisis. And there is where we find the double explanation of its electoral defeat. On the one hand, its policies have not been capable of escaping from a completely tendentious reading of the crisis itself, a reading which accepts – even today! – that the problem is a lack of resources. Let us say it loud and clear: there is no problem of scarcity, the problem is rooted in the extreme inequality of distribution of wealth, accented every day by financial discipline. Where are the infinite profits from the real estate bubble? And from pharaonic public works like the airports of Castellón and Lleida, to name just a few? Who profits from the gigantic problem of debt which plagues so many families and people? On the other hand, the left doesn’t know how to set aside its own protagonism and work with the emerging movements which demand democracy and liberty: Who doesn’t remember what Zapatero said when he presented the proposal for the cession of payments? Who served as his counterweight in this: the millions of mortgaged citizens or the big banking interests? And what can we say about the indecent Sinde Law [on intellectual property]? Whose side was he on, the side of those who give shape to the web or those who want to make it into a business, as if culture were just one more commodity? As long as the left is not capable of stepping aside at the service of citizen movements, as long as it is incapable of escaping from the script written for it by the financial and economic elites, proposing a Plan B to get out of the crisis, it will be stuck in the opposition indefinitely. There is not time for an extension: they must simply change or die as legimate social actors with the principles they claim to represent. Third, the May 15th movement shows how the citizenry, far from being passive as so many analysts think, has shown its ability to self- organize and self-educate in a period of abandonment by the institutions and a serious crisis of political representation. The new generations have shown that they can create a network, creating new ways of “being together” without recurring to ideological clichés, armed with a wise pragmatism, fleeing preconceived political categories and the great bureaucratic apparati. We are witnessing the construction of “majority minorities” demanding democracy against the war of “all against all”, the idiot atomization proposed by neoliberalism; that demands social rights against the logic of privatization and adjustment imposed by the economic powers. And here it is likely that preestablished schemes don’t serve (or serve very little), the impossible return to the past together with the State and full-occupation, as preached by most of the left, from the most radical to the most lukewarm. Reinventing democracy requires at the very least new forms of distribution of wealth, citizenship for all irrespective of their place of origin (that is, in accord with our global times), the unstinting defense of the common (of environmental resources but also knowledge, education, internet, health) and other forms of self-governance of the multitude which might overcome the corruption of the present ones. Fourth and last, it is obligatory to recall that the May 15th movement links itself to a current of demands which are taking place in various parts of Europe, based on a rejection of the so-called austerity plans. One demand, one mobilization that begins to corner the desert of the real, the dream of that mute and amorphous Europe to which the political and economic elites aspire. We’re talking about the UKUnCuts campaign against the policies of Cameron, the mobilization of the Geraçao a Rasca in Portugal or what has occurred in Iceland after the refusal of the citizenry to pay the financial bail-outs. And at the same time and perhaps most of all, it is inspired by the so-called “Arab Spring”, which through the democratic revolts in Egypt and Tunis managed to bring down their corrupt leaders. We don’t know, obviously, what will be the final outcome of the spirit of May 15th. But what we can say, with total certainty, is that there are now at least two plans against the crisis: social cut-backs or the invention of a real democracy. Of the former we know the results: they have not only returned us to economic “normality” but they have also led us to “all against all” and “each man for himself.” Of the second, which promises a politics of absolute democracy, constituent democracy, we can only say that it has just begun, and that it marks our path. We’ll take that one. Tens of thousands protest throughout Spain, defying government ban By Alejandro López 21 May 2011 Tens of thousands protestors continue to occupy Madrid’s Puerta del Sol and have gathered in the main squares of another 162 towns and cities across Spain in protest over unemployment, government austerity measures and a political system that serves only the banks and big business. The demonstration in Barcelona Calling for “Real Democracy Now”, the protests are also known as the M-15 movement, the day they were first called by social network and internet groups, drawing a massive response from younger workers, students, the unemployed and broad sectors of Spanish working people. The protests continued into their sixth day Friday in defiance of the Madrid Electoral Board, which banned demonstrations in the capital ahead of Sunday’s municipal and regional elections. On Thursday night, Spain’s central election commission passed a resolution prohibiting rallies throughout the country for Saturday, which is designated as a pre-election “day of reflection”, and for Sunday, when the vote takes place for municipal and regional governments. The resolution was passed by five votes in favour, four against and one abstention. It explicitly prohibits any demonstrations for Saturday, declaring that “our legislation prohibits any act of propaganda or electoral campaigning on the day of reflection.” As for Election Day itself, the board ruled that the law bans “forming groups susceptible to obstructing, in any way, access to the polls, as well as the presence in the vicinity of the polls of those likely to interfere with or coerce the free exercise of the right to vote.” Other local electoral committees have followed suit, banning demonstrations and camps set up in Seville and Granada. Demonstrators in Puerta del Sol, where a small tent city has been erected surrounded by tens of thousands of protesters, greeted the news of the new ban with jeers and whistles, chanting “No nos moverán”, or “We shall not be moved.” The legality of the ban on demonstrations is far from clear. The highest court in Spain, the Constitutional Court, endorses the right to hold demonstrations on the day of reflection, provided that the influence on the electorate is “remote”. The resolution was taken after the High Court of Justice of Andalucía banned a demonstration celebrating International Women’s Day, one day before the elections in 2010. It also declared that the “mere possibility” of infringing on the right to vote was not enough to suppress the right to meet and protest. Those participating in the largely spontaneous May 15 Movement have made it clear from the outset that they are hostile to all of Spain’s major political parties and that they are not making “propaganda” or “obstructing the right to vote”, as the electoral boards claim. Spanish law also demands that any protest be announced with ten days notice so that they may be officially authorized, but the protestors insist they have not called any demonstration, but are merely exercising their right of assembly guaranteed under Article 21 of the Spanish Constitution. There is considerable nervousness within ruling circles that a too- heavy hand will only serve to inflame opposition to the government and the austerity measures it is imposing. The narrow vote of the Madrid Electoral Board itself reflects divisions within the ruling elite over how to react to the demonstrations. The five votes in favour came from the professors of Law elected by the right wing Partido Popular (Popular Party—PP), which currently controls the Madrid regional government, while those opposed and the abstention came from those elected by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers Party PSOE. The President of the Electoral Board had declared on Wednesday that the demonstrations were illegal, but his decision was not binding. Five hundred riot police were deployed on the side streets of the main square of Madrid, but limited themselves to demanding identity cards of all those going into the square and warning them that it was illegal. Minister of Internal Affairs Pérez Rubalcaba of the ruling Socialist Workers Party declared, “The police are here to resolve problems, not to create them”. President José Zapatero declared, “The Minister of Justice is studying the resolution by the Electoral Board. We are going to see its effects and see what happens this Saturday. The government and the Minister of Internal Affairs are going to act well, with intelligence. This is what we want, to guarantee the rights and to respect the day of reflection.” Fearful that a violent dispersal of the peaceful protest would have a backlash and make the movement stronger, like the demonstrations in Tahrir Square in Egypt, Rubalcaba and Zapatero have not yet publicly ordered the police to intervene. Despite this, there are reports of police acting brutally towards protesters. Miguel, an unemployed architect from Barcelona, told Britain’s Channel 4 News that plain-clothes policemen were attacking those camped out in the city’s Plaza de Catalunya. “They are wearing normal clothes, often dressed like many of the protesters, with protest slogans on their t-shirts, and break the tents up, waking people up and dragging them out of the square. “Some of the people have said they were hit with batons when they refused to move.” Real Democracy Now, the protest organisers, have said that in Madrid, State Security Forces acted “excessively.” In a statement, the group said, “We condemn the brutal police repression and show our solidarity with those injured and the unreasonably detained for acts of peaceful resistance without any provocation, for which we demand the immediate release without charge.” In an attempt to appease the protestors Zapatero gave an interview in which he insisted that the austerity measures implemented by his government were necessary to prevent a Greek-style bailout that would entail even more savage cutbacks. He likewise defended the bailout of the banks. “We have funded the banks, but we are charging them interests and fees. We have earned 3,300 million euros from the banks. The citizens’ money, public money, has not gone to the banks.” In reality, Zapatero has imposed one of the most brutal austerity programmes in all of Europe, introducing a 15 billion euro package of spending cuts, including a 5 to 15 percent cuts on civil servants’ salaries, raised the retirement age from 65 to 67, and introducing a new labour law reform that eliminates whatever remained of workers’ protection. The cuts in healthcare and education by the regional governments come on top of this. In some cases such as Catalonia, the cuts represent 10 percent of last years’ budget. Meanwhile, the official unemployment rate is over 20 percent, while for workers under the age of 25, it is 45 percent. The PSOE has tried to gain influence over the latest demonstrations, without success. Tomás Gomez, a candidate of the PSOE in Madrid’s regional government elections, contacted one of the organizers to find out how he would be received in the main square. When organizers presented the proposed visit over a microphone, demonstrators booed it down. The Popular Party, supported by the right wing-media, is calling for the immediate dispersal of all the “illegal” demonstrations. PP General Secretary Maria Dolores de Cospedal insisted, “The Spanish people have the right to ensure that the reflection day is guaranteed”. The president of the regional government in Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, went further, claiming that the PSOE is behind the demonstrations. She insinuated that there was a parallel with the spontaneous movement that erupted against the PP government after the bombings in Madrid in March 2004. “Both were against the right wing,” she said. Thousands more poured into the square after the resolution was passed, with demonstrators chanting, “The voice of the people is not illegal”, “We will not pay for this crisis”, “This will not finish with the elections” and “Where is the left? Essentially on the right.” There have been solidarity rallies held throughout Europe and around the world in support of the Spanish protesters, with some of the largest taking place in Paris, France, Rome and other Italian cities and in the Plaza del Mayo of Buenos Aires, Argentina. From patrice at xs4all.nl Tue May 24 12:53:09 2011 From: patrice at xs4all.nl (Patrice Riemens) Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 09:23:09 +0200 Subject: [Commons-Law] [Fwd: Fwd: Re: Spanish protests in English] Message-ID: <6725b11106f1832c40617e27ad982c8c.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> Following on Jeebeh's, with usual apps for X-posting Cheers from F 34800 p+3D! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "martin hardie" Date: 23/05/2011 5:52 PM Subject: Re: Spanish protests in English To: "maria ptqk" Maria i just translated this Martin Mindful of the attack is being prepared. Concrete ideas for specific targets: "For a real democracy now. We have prepared the first nonviolent action and mass struggle together. Help us spread it, participate in it wherever you are! Banks and speculators have been the main cause of the crisis so that they will be targeted first attack our nonviolent. The 30th of May we will express our outrage against abuse practiced by the banks against citizens not only independently but also against states. Today we launched a peaceful and subtle, yet forceful and appealing enough to clearly show the anger we feel, and our strength and commitment to reach the final. Today we launched the first attack non-violent show the world our imagination, determination and commitment to achieve the goal of seeing accomplished our ultimate vindication: to install a real democracy. We appeal to all those who agree with our demands, to participate in a massive withdrawal of capital from the banks the 30th of May. If you are, we suggest you move out in one bank the amount of 155 euros in your account. The operation may be carried out throughout the day, preferably going to branches or using automated teller machines (with multiples of 10 -> 150). The reason for choosing that particular number, it is because we had to pick a significant and symbolic figure with enough force to demonstrate to banks that these movements are motivated from the same indignation that made us mobilize on 15 May. Regarding the May 30, it is because we believe it is a reasonable time so that the message can be disseminated properly and reach the greatest number of people to help us be as effective in our non-violent attack against the voracity of the banks, against the established economic system, against tax havens, against speculation and the general interest, solidarity, in short people. Also, on that date 15 days have elapsed since the start of mobilization, and another good symbolic moment to remember that our movement has only just begun. The 30th of May, will hear all the voices screaming in unison that another world is possible. The 30th of May the people's voice heard more strongly than political parties. The 30th of May, you can count on the outrage of the people, the active demand for real democracy, which takes into account people over the economic, financial, speculative ... people over the markets. The next day May 30 will give a further step towards a better world. We count on you, report the post. Involved. We continue to see every day in the seats. " On 23 May 2011 03:41, maria ptqk wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I summed-up some digital resources about Spanish protests in English, > since most of the ... <...> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime at kein.org From patrice at xs4all.nl Tue May 24 12:59:02 2011 From: patrice at xs4all.nl (Patrice Riemens) Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 09:29:02 +0200 Subject: [Commons-Law] [Fwd: Call out to camp! < From Barcelona Square] Message-ID: <1d3df70cd0bce868f3dfbf988d0c1de4.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> And more...from Barco! ;-) ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Call out to camp! < From Barcelona Square From: "Fuster, Mayo" Date: Mon, May 23, 2011 11:16 To: "nettime-l at kein.org" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD) Dear friends of the world, See below a short declaration of principles of Barcelona Camp translated into several languages (English, Spanish, French, Neerland??s, Portugu??s, Greek, German, ?????????, Italian, and Catalan). Here a message from the International Commission to help to spread protest worldwide and coordinate internationally (sorry only in English): We want to share with as much people as possible, these unforgettable moments that we are living in #spanishrevolution and want to make this protest even more global. With this mail we want to animate others to sum more camps outside Barcelona organized by you. We propose not to focus the manifestations in reclamations in front of the Spanish embassies in your countries, the Spanish press practically does not cover those actions. Our proposal is that you make your own fight, to take the central places from your cities following the model of organization of the Arab revolutions (and Spaniards), connecting with the groups and local organizations of fight and to begin to encamp, to work in commissions and to write up your own documents (manifest, calls, proposals, minutes of meetings, etc). To do this public, spread it, use the networks to expand your message and to self-manage. What it is happening in the different Spanish cities is not accidental nor specific of our society, we fought to recover the dignity, the freedom and social justice, the direct democracy, to participate in the course of our lives. We are a network, we are spontaneous, independent, we did not need leaders for that reason we want that in each place you take the place, you think by your self and with others, the alternatives to that mercantilist and cruel world to which our governments are taking to the planet and all of us. For us the borders do not exist, the network is ours and the street also! Another world is possible now! More concretely we propose to you that you camp in your cities and countries the next days of THURSDAY AND FRIDAY 26 AND 27 OF MAY in order of taking advantage of the international days of mobilization of the anti-G8 against the world-wide oligarchy, we invited you to take the street and to establish fields in sufficiently big places to receive a consequent infrastructure that allow you to work and to mobilize in the best conditions. These two days and their night must be basic to encamped an indefinite camp and that you add encamped yours to the world-wide map of: http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ We use the social networks to coordinate and to maintain to us informed. We encourage you to create an international commission to communicate with us, to share materials and strategies of organization in the Web n-1.cc to look for the group https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ and open a space with the name of the country that you represent. In that link you will find a camping guide. In the chat (http://ur1.ca/48ogs) you can contact with us and others encamped simultaneously or to contact us by e-mail comisiointernacional at gmail.com. Our content commissions is working on a document which systematize the very elaborated agreements on content of the super big assembly. The document is available on web http://acampadabcn.wordpress.com Takes the street! Real Democracy Now! Hugs, International Networks of the International Commission of the Barcelona Camp Barcelona Information: #acampadabcn http://acampadabcn.wordpress.com e-mail general: acampadabcn at yahoo.es Internacional commission - Barcelona Camp: https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/103405/akbcn_int/ e-mail international commission: comisiointernacional at gmail.com Internacional coordination: http://takethesquare.net/ Map: http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ e-lists: https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/cominterm https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ Chat irc.freenode.net # takethesquare http://ur1.ca/48ogs DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES (English, Spanish, French, Neerland??s, Portugu??s, Greek, German, ?????????, Italian, and Catalan) English DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES #acampadabcn We have come here voluntarily and by free will. After the 15th of May demonstrations we have decided to remain united and grow in numbers on our fight for dignity. We do not represent any political party and they do not represent us. We are united on our rage, our discomfort, our precarious life which is derived by inequality but, above all, what keeps us together is our will for change. We are here because we want a new society that puts our life on top any political or economic interest. We feel crushed by the capitalist economy, we feel excluded from the present political system which does not represent us. We are striking for a radical change in society. And, above all, we aim at keeping society as the sole driver of this transformation. They thought we were asleep. They thought they could carry on cutting our rights without finding any resistance. But they were wrong: we are fighting ??? peacefully, but with determination ??? for the life we deserve. We have learned from Cairo, Iceland and Madrid. Now it???s time to extend the fight and spread the word. Barcelona Information: #acampadabcn http://acampadabcn.wordpress.com e-mail general: acampadabcn at yahoo.es International commission - Barcelona Camp: https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/103405/akbcn_int/ e-mail international commission: comisiointernacional at gmail.com International coordination: http://takethesquare.net/ Map: http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ e-lists: https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/cominterm https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ Chat irc.freenode.net # takethesquare http://ur1.ca/48ogs SPANISH: Declaraci??n de principios: ??Qui??nes somos? Somos personas que hemos venido libre y voluntariamente, que despu??s de la manifestaci??n decidimos reunirnos para seguir reivindicando la dignidad y la conciencia pol??tica y social. No representamos a ning??n partido ni asociaci??n. Nos une una vocaci??n de cambio. Estamos aqu?? por dignidad y por solidaridad con los que no pueden estar aqu??. ??Por qu?? estamos aqu??? Estamos aqu?? porque queremos una sociedad nueva que d?? prioridad a la vida por encima de los intereses econ??micos y pol??ticos. Abogamos por un cambio en la sociedad y en la conciencia social. Demostrar que la sociedad no se ha dormido y que seguiremos luchando por lo que nos merecemos mediante la v??a pac??fica. Apoyamos a los compa??er at s que detuvieron tras la manifestaci??n, y pedimos su puesta en libertad sin cargos. Lo queremos todo, lo queremos ahora, si est??s de acuerdo con nosotros: ????NETE! Barcelona Information: #acampadabcn http://acampadabcn.wordpress.com e-mail general: acampadabcn at yahoo.es International commission - Barcelona Camp: https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/103405/akbcn_int/ e-mail international commission: comisiointernacional at gmail.com International coordination: http://takethesquare.net/ Map: http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ e-lists: https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/cominterm https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ Chat irc.freenode.net # takethesquare http://ur1.ca/48ogs FRENCH: DECLARATION DE PRINCIPES #acampadabcn Qui sommes nous au campement de Barcelone? Nous sommes des personnes venues librement et de forme volontaire : apr??s la manifestation du 15 mai, nous avons d??cid?? de rester ensemble et d?????tre toujours plus nombreux dans la combat pour la dignit??. Nous ne repr??sentons aucun parti politique ni aucune association, et ne sommes repr??sent??s par personne. Nous partageons la m??me inqui??tude des vies pr??caires, des in??galit??s, mais ce qui nous unis avant tout, c???est une volont?? de changement. Nous sommes r??unis parce que nous voulons une soci??t?? nouvelle qui donne priorit?? ?? la vie par-dessus les int??r??ts ??conomiques et politiques. Nous avons le sentiment d?????tre pi??tin??s par l?????conomie capitaliste, et d?????tre exclus du syst??me politique actuel qui ne nous repr??sente pas, Nous faisons le pari pour une transformation profonde de la soci??t??, et avant tout, que la soci??t?? elle-m??me soit protagoniste de ce changement. Ils nous croyaient endormis, qu???ils pouvaient continuer ?? r??duire nos droits sans manifester d???opposition. Ils se trompaient : nous nous sommes engag??s, pacifiquement mais avec d??termination, pour une vie que nous m??ritons tous. Nous avons appris du Caire, d???Islande, de Madrid.. Il est l???heure d?????tendre le combat et prendre la parole. Barcelona Information: #acampadabcn http://acampadabcn.wordpress.com e-mail general: acampadabcn at yahoo.es International commission - Barcelona Camp: https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/103405/akbcn_int/ e-mail international commission: comisiointernacional at gmail.com International coordination: http://takethesquare.net/ Map: http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ e-lists: https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/cominterm https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ Chat irc.freenode.net # takethesquare http://ur1.ca/48ogs Neerland??s Principeverklaring - Barcelonakampement Wie zijn de deelnemers aan het Barcelonakampement? We zijn uit vrije wil en op eigen initiatief naar hier gekomen. Na de manifestatie van 15 mei hebben we beslist om samen te blijven en in steeds grotere aantallen te vechten voor onze waardigheid. We vertegenwoordigen geen enkele partij of vereniging. En niemand vertegenwoordigt ons. We voelen ons verbonden door een gevoel van onbehagen over precaire levensomstandigheden, over de ongelijkheid, maar vooral door een sterke drang naar verandering. We zijn hier omdat we een nieuwe maatschappij willen die voorrang geeft aan het leven, los van economische en politieke belangen. We voelen ons vertrappeld door de kapitalistische economie en uitgesloten door het huidige politiek systeem, dat ons helemaal niet vertegenwoordigt. We pleiten voor een diepgaande omwenteling van onze maatschappij. En we pleiten er vooral voor dat het de maatschappij zelf de hoofdrol speelt in deze omwenteling. Ze dachten dat we ingedommeld waren. Dat ze onze rechten konden blijven inperken zonder enig weerwerk. Ze hadden het fout: we zijn aan het strijden en zullen de strijd verderzetten ??? vreedzaam maar doortastend ??? voor een leven dat we alllemaal waard zijn. We hebben geleerd van El Cairo, Reykjavik en Madrid. Nu is het moment gekomen om de strijd uit te breiden en het woord te nemen. ??? Barcelona Information: #acampadabcn http://acampadabcn.wordpress.com e-mail general: acampadabcn at yahoo.es International commission - Barcelona Camp: https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/103405/akbcn_int/ e-mail international commission: comisiointernacional at gmail.com International coordination: http://takethesquare.net/ Map: http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ e-lists: https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/cominterm https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ Chat irc.freenode.net # takethesquare http://ur1.ca/48ogs Portugu??s: Declara????o de Principios, acampadabcn Quem estamos acampando em Barcelona? Somos pessoas que vinhemos livremente e de forma volunt??ria, que depois da manifasta????o do dia 15 de maio, decidimos seguir juntos e sermos cada vez mais pessoas na luta pela dignidade. N??o representamos nenhum partido nem associa????o, e tamb??m nigu??m nos representa. Nos unimos pelo mal estar das vidas prec??rias que levam as pessoas por causa das desigualdades mundiais, mas, principalmente nos unimos pela id??ia de mudan??a. Estamos aqu?? porque queremos uma nova sociedade que d?? prioridade ?? vida, mais que a interesses econ??micos e pol??ticos. Nos sentimos pisados pela economia capitalista e exclu??dos do sistema pol??tico atual, que n??o nos representa. Apostamos em uma transforma????o profunda da sociedade. E principalmente, apostamos em que a sociedade seja a protagonista desta mudan??a. Acreditavam que estavamos dormindo. Que podiam seguir reduzindo nossos direitos sem que nos opus??ssemos. Estavam errados: estamos lutando pacificamente mas com determina????o pela vida que todos merecemos. Aprendemos de Cairo, Islandia e de Madrid. Agora precisamos extender esta luta e tomar a palavra. Barcelona Information:#acampadabcn http://acampadabcn.wordpress.com e-mail general: acampadabcn at yahoo.es International commission - Barcelona Camp: https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/103405/akbcn_int/ e-mail international commission: comisiointernacional at gmail.com International coordination: http://takethesquare.net/ Map: http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ e-lists: https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/cominterm https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ Chat irc.freenode.net # takethesquare http://ur1.ca/48ogs GREEK ?????????????????? ?????????????? ??????????. ?????????? ?????????????? ???????? ????acampada????? ?????? ????????????????????; ?????????????? ???????????????? ?????? ???????????? ?????????? ???????????????? ?????? ????????????????????, ???????? ???????? ?????? ?????? ?????????????????? ?????? 15 ?????? ?????? ?????????????????????? ???? ?????????????????????? ????????, ?????? ???? ?????????????? ???????? ???????? ???????????????????????? ???????? ?????????? ?????? ??????????????????????. ?????? ???????????????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????? ?????????? ?? ???????????????? ???????? ???????????? ?????????????? ?????? ?????? ????????????????????????????. ?????? ???????????? ?? ???????????????????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ???????????????? ?????? ?????? ????????????????????, ???????? ???????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ???????????? ?? ???????????? ?????? ????????????. ?????????????????????? ?????? ?????????? ?????????????? ?????? ?????????????????? ???????????????? ?????? ?????????? ?????????????????????????? ?????? ?????? ???????? ?????? ???????????????????? ?????? ???????????????? ????????????????????????. ???????????????????????? ?????????????????????????? ?????? ?????? ?????????????????????????? ???????????????????? ????????????????, ?????? ???????????????????????? ???????????????????? ?????? ???? ???????????????? ???????????????? ?????????????? ???????? ?????? ?????? ????????????????????????????. ?????????????????????????????? ???? ?????? ???????????????? ?????? ?????????????????? ???? ??????????, ???????? ?????? ?????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????? ???? ?????????????????? ?? ???????? ?? ???????????????? ?? ???????????????? ?????????? ?????????? ?????? ??????????????. ?????????????? ?????? ?????????????? ??????????????????????????, ?????? ?????????????? ???? ???????????????????? ?????? ?????????????????? ?????? ?????????????????????? ?????? ?????????? ???? ????????????????????????????. ???????????? ??????????: ???????????????????????? ???????????????? ???????? ???? ???????????????????????????????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ???????????????? ???????? ??????. ???????????? ?????? ???? ??????????, ?????? ???????????????? ?????? ??????????????. ???????? ?????????? ?? ?????? ???? ???????????????????????? ?????? ???? ?????????????????????? ?????? ??????????. ???????????????????????? #acampadabcn Barcelona Information: #acampadabcn http://acampadabcn.wordpress.com e-mail general: acampadabcn at yahoo.es Internacional commission - Barcelona Camp: https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/103405/akbcn_int/ e-mail international commission: comisiointernacional at gmail.com Internacional coordination: http://takethesquare.net/ Map: http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ e-lists: https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/cominterm https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ Chat irc.freenode.net # takethesquare http://ur1.ca/48ogs GERMAN Prinzipienerkl??rung Diese ist eine freiwillige Vereinigung. Nach den Demonstrationen am 15. Mai haben wir entschieden, dass wir zusammen bleiben werden, und dass wir im Kampf um unsere W??rde an Anzahl wachsen werden. Wir repr??sentieren keine politische Partei, und sie repr??sentieren uns auch nicht. Wir sind in unserer Wut, unserem Unbehagen, unserem prek??rem Leben einig, welches aus der Ungleichheit erw??chst. Was un saber vor allem vereint, ist unserer Wille der Ver??nderung. Wir sind hier, weil wir eine neue Gesellschaft wollen, welche unser Leben vor jeglichen politischen und wirtschaftlichen Interessen stellt. Wir f??hlen uns von der kapitalstischen Wirtschaft unterdr??ckt, vom jetzigen politischen System ausgeschlossen, welches uns nicht repr??sentiert. Wir pl??dieren f??r einen radikalen Wechsel in der Gesellschaft. Vor allem m??chten wir, dass diese Transformation einzig und alleine von der Gesellschaft getrieben wird. Sie dachten, wir w??ren eingeschlafen. Sie dachten, sie k??nnten unsere Rechte weiterhin einschr??nken, ohne dass wir Widerstand leisten w??rden. Aber das war ein Fehler: wir k??mpfen ??? friedlich, aber bestimmt ??? f??r das Leben, das wir verdienen. Wir haben von Kairo, Eisland und Madrid gelernt. Es ist nun an der Zeit, dass wir den Kampf und das Wort verbreiten! Barcelona Information: #acampadabcn http://acampadabcn.wordpress.com e-mail general: acampadabcn at yahoo.es Internacional commission - Barcelona Camp: https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/103405/akbcn_int/ e-mail international commission: comisiointernacional at gmail.com Internacional coordination: http://takethesquare.net/ Map: http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ e-lists: https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/cominterm https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ Chat irc.freenode.net # takethesquare http://ur1.ca/48ogs ???????????? ????????????????????? (Acampada de Barcelona) ????????? ???????????????????????????5???15??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????? Barcelona Information: #acampadabcn http://acampadabcn.wordpress.com e-mail general: acampadabcn at yahoo.es International commission - Barcelona Camp: https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/103405/akbcn_int/ e-mail international commission: comisiointernacional at gmail.com International coordination: http://takethesquare.net/ Map: http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ e-lists: https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/cominterm https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ Chat irc.freenode.net # takethesquare http://ur1.ca/48ogs ITALIAN Siamo venuti qui liberamente e volontariamente. Dopole manifestazioni del 15 Maggio abbiamo deciso di restare uniti e crescere nella nostra lotta per la dignit??. Non rappresentiamo nessun partito politico e loro non rappresentano noi. Siamo uniti nella nostra rabbia, nel nostro sconforto, nella nostra vita precaria che deriva dalla diseguaglianza ma, soprattutto, ci?? che ci unisce ?? la nostra volont?? di cambiamento. Siamo qui perch?? vogliamo una societ?? nuova che mette le nostre vite al di sopra di ogni interesse politico. Ci sentiamo schiacciati dall???economia capitalista, ci sentiamo esclusi dal sistema politico presente che non ci rappresenta. Stiamo manifestando per un cambio radicale nella societ??. E , soprattutto, puntiamo a mantenere la societ?? come il motore unico di questa trasformazione. Pensavano che fossimo addormentati. Pensavano di poter continuare a ritagliare i nostri diritti senza trovare nessuna resistenza. Ma si sbagliavano: stiamo lottando ??? pacificamente, ma con determinazione ??? per la vita che ci meritiamo. Ora ?? il momento di estendere la lotta e spargere la voce. Barcelona Information: #acampadabcn http://acampadabcn.wordpress.com e-mail general: acampadabcn at yahoo.es Internacional commission - Barcelona Camp: https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/103405/akbcn_int/ e-mail international commission: comisiointernacional at gmail.com Internacional coordination: http://takethesquare.net/ Map: http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ e-lists: https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/cominterm https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ Chat irc.freenode.net # takethesquare http://ur1.ca/48ogs CATALAN Declaraci?? de principis: Qui som? Som persones que hem vingut lliure i volunt??riament, que despr??s de la manifestaci?? decidim reunir-nos per a seguir reivindicant la dignitat i la consci??ncia pol??tica i social. No representem a cap partit ni associaci??. Ens uneix una vocaci?? de canvi. Estem ac?? per dignitat i per solidaritat amb els quals no poden estar ac??. Per qu?? estem ac??? Estem ac?? perqu?? volem una societat nova que done prioritat a la vida per sobre dels interessos econ??mics i pol??tics. Advoquem per un canvi en la societat i en la consci??ncia social. Demostrar que la societat no s'ha dormit i que seguirem lluitant pel que ens mereixem mitjan??ant la via pac??fica. Donem suport als compa??er at s que van detenir despr??s de la manifestaci??, i demanem la seua posada en llibertat sense c??rrecs. Ho volem tot, ho volem ara, si est??s d'acord amb nosaltres: UNEIX-TE! Barcelona Information: #acampadabcn http://acampadabcn.wordpress.com e-mail general: acampadabcn at yahoo.es International commission - Barcelona Camp: https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/103405/akbcn_int/ e-mail international commission: comisiointernacional at gmail.com International coordination: http://takethesquare.net/ Map: http://www.thetechnoant.info/campmap/ e-lists: https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/cominterm https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ Chat irc.freenode.net # takethesquare http://ur1.ca/48ogs ??????`??.(*??.??(`??.?? ??.????)??.??*).????`???? ????????*???????? Mayo Fuster Morell ??.??.??*??`???? ??????`??.(??.????(??.??* *??.??)`??.??).????`???? Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info Ph.D European University Institute Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Visiting scholar. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. 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