12m-15m / Global May: Citizen Debt Audit Platform “We don’t owe! We won’t pay!” Spain, Barcelona

Today, May 12th is planned as a day of global struggle, with coordinated mass demonstrations across the globe up to May 15th. It is another step forward in the struggle of citizens against the brutal offensive of neoliberalism.

It is nearly a year since “Indignados” May 15^th, and in this time we have built together strategies, actions and different campaigns, amongst them…

Citizen Debt Audit Platform “We don’t owe! We won’t pay!”

Citizens, 15M/Indignados assemblies and various social networks and organizations around the country are building the Citizen Debt Audit Platform to demonstrate the illegitimacy of debt, identify those responsible of the crisis and demand not to pay an illegitimate debt.

In the Spanish state, as in other countries in the European periphery, we are witnessing a Debt Crisis used to justify austerity policies which are destroying social and labour rights won with the effort and struggle of past generations. With impunity, basic public services such as education, health and social services are being reduced and privatized. People are helplessly watching how retirement age is delayed, living conditions made precarious, pensions freeze and labour rights disappear.

12M: Solidarity with the movement in Spain! Solidarity with 12M everywhere! (Eng, Cast)

The alliance coordinating Blockupy expresses solidarity with 12M everywhere, and especially with the movement in Spain as the political situation grows more difficult. Please read below! (espanol abajo)

In solidarity, international working group for Blockupy Frankfurt.

http://17to19m.blogsport.eu/2012/05/12/12m-solidarity-with-the-movement-in-spain-solidarity-with-12m-everywhere/

Europe is in motion. After countless May 1 demonstrations around Europe, the people of France and Greece brought insecurity to the political and economic elite in elections on May 6. Now, for the anniversary of the historical demonstration and subsequent camps at the Plaza del Sol in Madrid last year, people across the entire globe are taking to the streets again. Part of a truly #globalmay of demonstrations and actions, #12M is making visible the emergence of a #globalrevolution.

The growing strength of this movement is being sensed by the political and economic elite. They are starting to work harder to slow us down – especially where the movement is strongest. In Spain, the Schengen Agreement was lifted for the days surrounding 12M. Many unionists have been sitting in jail for weeks there. The Plaza del Sol has now been closed off for days, and the political situation in Spain is worsening.

We manifest our solidarity with the people of the Spanish movement. We express our solidarity with our friends fighting for a better world in all places!

Our solidarity is our strength! Against criminalization of our movement! Against precarity, social cuts, escalations of racism and sexism and European crisis politics!

[EN-ES] MAY 12TH GlobalMay Statement

You are free to borrow/copy partially and completely, make any modifications and share, spread, promote, amend ad hoc.

There is also a thread at the discussion area if we want to do debate there: http://www.globalmay.org/component/easydiscuss/a-collection-of-common-global-demands-from-where-to-start-building-from-the-may12-manifesto.html?Itemid=146

[ENG]

MAY 12TH GlobalMay Statement

We are living in a world controlled by forces that are no longer capable to give freedom and dignity to the world´s population (if they were ever capable to do so). A world where it is told to us that there are no alternatives to the loss of rights, achieved with very hard and long struggles by previous generations.

We find ourselves in a world in which success is opposed to essential values of humanity, such as solidarity and mutual support. Moreover, anything that does not promote competitiveness, selfishness and greed is seen as dysfunctional. This immoral ideology is reinforced by the monopoly of the mainstream media, the instruments that create the necessary consensus around this unfair and unsustainable system.

But we have not remained silent. Our consciousness has awaken, and have joined to a wave of collective consciousness which is spreading light in every corner of the world. From Tunisia to Tahrir Square, from Madrid to Reijkiavik, from New York to Brussels, people have risen up in the Arab Spring, in the dignity of Iceland, in the wrath of 15M or the Occupation of Wall Street. Together we have denounced the current situation of the world. Our effort has served to state that enough is enough, and it has begun to push changes forward worldwide.

Invitamos a representar el movimiento en su multiplicidad, y no los actores en su individualidad, outoflinephotocollective

En la Web de la generalitat de Cataluña los mossos d’esquadra han abierto una pagina llamada “Col•laboració ciutadana contra la
violència urbana”, donde están las fotos de 68 personas que, según ellos, han cometidos “actos delictivos o vandálicos” y se invitan los ciudadanos al reconocimiento.

Delación pura. Intimidación pura. Parece de estar en el far west, falta solamente establecer el precio por cabeza y la inscripción
“wanted” bajo de las fotos.

Drop Egypt’s Debt letter to IMF around Spring meetings requesting transparency!

 

ARM IN ARM – letter to the Occupy Movement(s) and institutionalised political organisations

At the end of March Italian organisation ESC, the Occupy Geneva collective from Switzerland and Polish organisation Political Critique which me and Artur are members of met in Rome to develop the ide of interactions and collaborations between the Occupy Movement(s) and the institutionalised political organisations in the common strugles. After the meeting we agreed on composing the common document in the form of the short letter which I am happy to present you as the point of departure for the next possible interactions.

Our friends from Italy and Switzerland will attend the opening days of the Biennale so we have an occasion to discuss the possibilities of including ESC and OG in our actions in Berlin. I believe something good can come out of it.

NATO GAME OVER: non-violent intervention teams from ten European countries shut down NATO

Today, about 500 peace activists from more than ten European countries will take part in an action to shut down NATO headquarters in Evere, Brussels in a nonviolent intervention. When peace is at stake, nonviolent intervention is necessary. NATO is a select club of countries that globally wages war, deploys nuclear weapons and is prepared to use them in a first strike. This military alliance is a danger for world peace. On May 20th and 21st, the heads of government of NATO member states will gather in Chicago. Today’s nonviolent intervention sends them a clear message: NATO creates more problems than it solves.

#Blockupy por el cambio Global! Acción transnacional en Frankfurt #16_19M

Llamada a Acción Transnacional en Frankfurt, del 16 al 19 de Mayo –  Solidaridad Internacional en nuestra lucha común

16 de Mayo – Llegada y acciones en la reunión de la directiva del BCE

17 de Mayo – OCUPACION del distrito financiero, asambleas, programa cultural

18 de Mayo – BLOQUEO del BCE y bancos principales

19 de Mayo – MASIVA manifestación internacional

Denver supports London!

New Beginnings:

With every eviction comes new conviction. In the face of civil injustice you must remember who you are and why you fight.

Do not let those that oppress write the fiction of your lives. Redefine and refine yourselves for new mornings and glorious nights. You are the prodigal daughters and sons of a new revolution in Europe and the World ! 

This is an opportunity to prove to the World that you stand for more than the power that try to push you down !

Let the feelings of true community bring you together so you may hold out against future suppression.

Comunicado de estudiantes de NY en solidaridad con estudiantes de Valencia/NY students statement of solidarity with students of Valencia

[ENG/ESP]

NYSR STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH STUDENTS OF SPAIN

We stand in active solidarity with the students and people of Valencia, Spain. and condemn the arrests and beating of peaceful protesters taking a stand against cuts to education.

The issues the students in Valencia address are ones that speak to the global nature of our struggle. All over the world we see local governments fail to fund universities, schools, and the other basic needs of the people.As people begin to protest and resist injustices, police attempt to repress the emergence of true democracy led by the people.

Students of the City University of New York, University of California-Davis, and many other campuses have been arrested, beaten, and pepper sprayed during protests done in an increasingly securitized university. However, overt repression represents the failure of subtle forms of social control. As tacit consent and docility are replaced by protest and resistance, the only way to maintain the social order is through the baton and riot shield.What it shows is that we are breaking through and making real gains in our struggle.

Students in Valencia, your resilience, as witnessed by the wave of protests in recent days, gives us resolve to continue, the strength to struggle further, and the courage to dream bigger. Our struggle is one. Solidarity in the streets!

[ESP]

NYSR MANIFIESTO DE SOLIDARIDAD CON LOS ESTUDIANTES DE ESPAÑA

“Nos alzamos en activa solidaridad con los estudiantes y ciudadanos de Valencia, España, y condenamos los arrestos y los golpes a los manifestantes pacíficos que se alzan contra los recortes en educación.

Los problemas que los estudiantes de Valencia señalan son los que hablan de la naturaleza global de nuestra lucha. Alrededor del mundo vemos a los gobiernos locales fallar en financiar universidades, escuelas, y otras necesidades básicas. Conforme la gente empieza a sufrir injusticias y a protestar, la policía intenta reprimir la aparición de una verdadera democracia dirigida por el pueblo.

Los estudiantes de la ciudad de Nueva York, la Universidad de California-Davis, y muchos otros campus han sido detenidos, golpeados y rociados con gas pimienta durante las protestas dentro de una universidad que cada vez tiene mas seguridad. Sin embargo, la abierta represión representa el fracaso de las formas sutiles de control social. Como el consentimiento tácito y la docilidad se sustituyen por la protesta y la resistencia, la única manera de mantener el orden social es a través de la porra y el escudo antidisturbios. Lo que esto demuestra es que estamos haciendo mella y obteniendo ganancias reales en nuestra lucha.

Estudiantes y ciudadanos de Valencia, vuestra capacidad de resistencia, como lo demuestra la ola de protestas en los últimos días, nos da la voluntad de continuar, la fuerza para luchar por más tiempo, y el coraje de soñar en grande. Nuestra lucha es una. Solidaridad en las calles.”

Fuente: http://nystudentsrising.org/nysr-statement-of-solidarity-with-students-of-spain/

Traducción: http://www.acampadavalencia.net/adhesiones/