"Estamos nos manifestando contra uma classe política que não nos representa nem quer nos representar"
Pablo López, estudante, 21 anos. [*]
Pablo López, estudante, 21 anos. [*]
A Espanha está em semana de eleições municipais. Mas quem tomou o protagonismo da cena política no país não foi nenhum candidato a cargo eletivo. É o povo quem está entrando em cena.
Inspirada nos movimentos que sacudiram o Norte da África, recentemente, a juventude começou a se concentrar em praças de várias cidades do país, com destaque para a capital Madrid, desde o último domingo (15). Já foram quatro dias consecutivos de protestos e eles têm recebido o apoio de desempregados, trabalhadores precarizados, e da população em geral, que se somam aos jovens.
A cada final de tarde a concentração de pessoas se expande e atos e assembléias são realizadas. Os protestos têm alvos claros: a farsante democracia representativa burguesa, os políticos, os partidos da ordem, os banqueiros, os planos de ajustes neoliberais que precarizam ainda mais a vida do povo e o sistema sócio-econômico.
Os manifestantes dizem claramente que desejam um outro modelo sócio-econômico que privilegie as pessoas e não os lucros e uma democracia de verdade, real.
Democracia Real Ya, ou Movimento 15 de Maio, é o nome do movimento que tem organizado os protestos. Abaixo segue o manifesto do mesmo e alguns vídeos:
Manifesto (English)
We are ordinary people. We are like you: people, who get up every morning to study, work or find a job, people who have family and friends. People, who work hard every day to provide a better future for those around us.
Some of us consider ourselves progressive, others conservative. Some of us are believers, some not. Some of us have clearly defined ideologies, others are apolitical, but we are all concerned and angry about the political, economic, and social outlook which we see around us: corruption among politicians, businessmen, bankers, leaving us helpless, without a voice.
This situation has become normal, a daily suffering, without hope. But if we join forces, we can change it. It’s time to change things, time to build a better society together. Therefore, we strongly argue that:
- The priorities of any advanced society must be equality, progress, solidarity, freedom of culture, sustainability and development, welfare and people’s happiness.
- These are inalienable truths that we should abide by in our society: the right to housing, employment, culture, health, education, political participation, free personal development, and consumer rights for a healthy and happy life.
- The current status of our government and economic system does not take care of these rights, and in many ways is an obstacle to human progress.
- Democracy belongs to the people (demos = people, krátos = government) which means that government is made of every one of us. However, in Spain most of the political class does not even listen to us. Politicians should be bringing our voice to the institutions, facilitating the political participation of citizens through direct channels that provide the greatest benefit to the wider society, not to get rich and prosper at our expense, attending only to the dictatorship of major economic powers and holding them in power through a bipartidism headed by the immovable acronym PP & PSOE.
- Lust for power and its accumulation in only a few; create inequality, tension and injustice, which leads to violence, which we reject. The obsolete and unnatural economic model fuels the social machinery in a growing spiral that consumes itself by enriching a few and sends into poverty the rest. Until the collapse.
- The will and purpose of the current system is the accumulation of money, not regarding efficiency and the welfare of society. Wasting resources, destroying the planet, creating unemployment and unhappy consumers.
- Citizens are the gears of a machine designed to enrich a minority which does not regard our needs. We are anonymous, but without us none of this would exist, because we move the world.
- If as a society we learn to not trust our future to an abstract economy, which never returns benefits for the most, we can eliminate the abuse that we are all suffering.
- We need an ethical revolution. Instead of placing money above human beings, we shall put it back to our service. We are people, not products. I am not a product of what I buy, why I buy and who I buy from.
For all of the above, I am outraged.
I think I can change it.
I think I can help.
I know that together we can.I think I can help.
I know that together we can.
Extraído de:
http://democraciarealya.es/?page_id=814
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dc1ZIoDi4w&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ldCL0imJZM&feature=related
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[*] Milhares vão às ruas na Espanha para protestar contra desemprego (19/05/2011):
http://oglobo.globo.com/economia/mat/2011/05/19/milhares-vao-as-ruas-na-espanha-para-protestar-contra-desemprego-924495892.asp
Outros links sobre o assunto:
Revoltas jovens começam a contagiar Europa (19/05/2011):
http://www.outraspalavras.net/2011/05/19/revoltas-jovens-agora-no-centro-do-mundo/
Manifestantes tomam conta da campanha eleitoral espanhola
http://www.dn.pt/inicio/globo/interior.aspx?content_id=1856023&seccao=Europa
15M: Política sin políticos ¡Todo el poder para las Asambleas!
http://madrid.indymedia.org/node/17355
Manifestación Democracia Real Ya
http://madrid.indymedia.org/node/17201
Jueves día 19 de Mayo. ASAMBLEA A LAS 12:00 horas
http://madrid.indymedia.org/node/17274
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