From Athens to Paris, tens of thousands of Europeans heed the online call for a #europeanrevolution.
An online call for a European Revolution was heeded en masse today as over 100 cities throughout the continent witnessed tens (if not hundreds) of thousands ‘indignants‘ mobilizing to demand real democracy now.
Thousands gathered in Madrid for a peaceful assembly on the 15th straight day of protests and occupations there, belying the false idea of skeptics that the Spanish protest movement would fizzle out in due course.
Madrid: thousands gathered for a general assembly on the Puerta del Sol for the 15th straight day of protests in Spain.
At the same time, the people of Greece took to the street for the fifth consecutive day, eclipsing previous protests with “tens of thousands” of people in Syntagma square alone (see live stream).
Athens: tens of thousands of people protest in front of Parliament for the fifth straight day of protests in Greece..
The protests also spread to Paris, where over 5,000 protesters took the Bastille earlier, putting up a Madrid-style tent camp before being forcefully removed by riot police. Authorities in France are understandably getting anxious.
Paris: up to 5,000 people occupied the Bastille today before being forcefully removed by police.
Also in London hundreds of people assembled on Trafalgar Square to show solidarity with the Spanish.
Same in Berlin:
And Lisbon:
And Prague:
Throughout Europe, people are outraged at a lack of economic opportunity, social justice and political representation. An already bleak outlook for many in Europe — especially those in the South — has been worsened recently by austerity measures that have only further aggravated the recession and unemployment rates.
Information on today’s Europe-wide protests is still vague and sketchy but I’ll keep updating this article with news, pictures and videos as more information comes in. Please suggest your own stories and share your own links!
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Hello, could you please post the sources of the photos? Thanks in advance!
Keep up the good work.
Thans for the works! Keep it coming! We need as many alternative information sources as possible!
So beautiful!
Please, everybody in the WHOLE world, wake up now!! It is happening everywhere!!! Can’t you see it? We are all brothers and sisters. The World is becoming a better place to live
http://www.enladiana.com/blog-de-enladiana/index.php/spots/las-mejores-ideas-del-brainstorming-spanishrevolution/
Saludos,
Sara
As this type of protest was happening all over the Arab world, the media could not get enough coverage ! Strange that this is now being ignored by mainstream media in the UK now it is closer to home !!!!! I hope this spreads quickly and we Europeans can reform our politics to true democracy by the people for the people.
So this is what happens when liberal governments give students a free university education in cultural Marxism and a paid Summer holiday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geg_6Xoy04s&feature=player_embedded
Perhaps some day, democracy shall even return to the US of A…?
…keep dreaming…lol
I am 61 years “old” and I am more than deeply enjoyed with what’s spreading all over the world.I really hope this can be the beginning of a new and better world for all those young(and not only the young) people who are involved.In fact-whole mankind is involved, wheather if they realise it or not… I really hope all this will succeed because I’ve seen enough misery,violence, disinformation,cynism, hypocrisy and manipulation, and I have the strong conviction that mankind can no longer go on like this without severe and irreversible damage.
Thank you very much for these wise and inspiring words Joris! For all of us (and now I’m speaking as a 26-year old recent graduate) it is heart-warming to see that this struggle crosses all countries, all culture and all generations. Hopefully if we join together we can make a better world for all of us. Warmest regards and thank you for visiting our website!
And not one word of thanks to the Arabs who inspired this!!
Dammit, this could happen only if Congress itself is democratic (lower case d).
Graham, you sure are right! I myself work in a TV station and editorial management ingeniously decided to not mention it. Ofcourse you need pictures to show news on TV, so that begs the Q who Reuters, AFP, etc. are managed by!
Haha, the Arab revolutionaries DID inspire this! Don’t worry, I’ve covered the Arab Spring extensively on this blog, and the first thing I referred to when I started covering the Spanish protests was the heroism of the protesters in North Africa and the Middle East! Thanks for your comment!
New facebook event for Europe’s meeting: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=201949046515530
Sometimes it’s hard to believe this economic mess kept going for as long as it did. It should have popped last time but a round of unprecedented stimulus forced a last gasp of air into the bubble. All they did was kick the can down the road and now the collapse will be even worse. Protestors on http://www.AustralianPropertyForum.com have been predicting this outcome for some time, and now the scale of this coming collapse will surprise the majority of commentators, in the same way the GFC surprised most economists. Of course, there will be revisionists who will claim they predicted it all along but the truth is the majority of economists are blind optimists who couldn’t see a coming train before it plows into them!
The Foundation
Australian Economic Collapse Forum
http://australianpropertyforum.com/topic/8745669
lets join the peacefull revolution : vienna austria http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=207658732606793
thanx for attending
Hey!
Absolutely great site! Thanks a lot for all this info and for the work you guys are putting into this and for helping to spread the Revolution news among anglo readers!
Enjoy the song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLP-HnQjBpc
Cheers!
Ana
hi everyone. so we organise Real Democracy here in Russia, but we call it Direct participation, cause the word Democracy is completely senseless for russian people. so yesterday it were about 90 people on the citysquare, and today there are about 30 people. we discuss the principles of selforganisation, roots of solidarity ets. we are going to stay here every day, but we dont have much of support so its very difficult to continue. peolpe are very passive. you can see more in here directspb.org
What an amazing resource you have here! As an american living in new zealand for the year and watching events unfold, I am only hopeful that this fire catches on in America. We have an amazing president in washington but the system is corrupt by corporate influence on law makers. The blessing granted by the supreme court to the corporations, allowing them to spend as much as they want on the candidates of their choice is a symbol of capitalism induced corruption and really the destruction of democracy at the hands of the wealthy. In America, power is money and money is power and money and power determine influence/ manipulation of those less well off. Europe is realizing this. Wake up America and stop Corporatocracy!
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