[P2P-F] Eviction of #acampadabcn

[Michel Bauwens]

wow, from the heat of the battlefield ...

Michel

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 6:32 PM, chris at cataspanglish.com <
chris at cataspanglish.com> wrote:

> ok, the police have retreated from the Plaça firing rubber bullets in the
> air & it is occupied again, now without infrastructure
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> sent from my mobile device
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> On 27/05/2011, at 12:53, Amaia Arcos <amaia.arcos at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> Sure, no worries, I'm in. What email address do I send stuff to so that I
> don't end up spamming people unnecessarily?
>
> I agree with Michel, to me this looks like something big could come out of
> it. I'd never dreamt of what is happening when I started "being a pain"
> about the need to go out on May 15th in Spain. I was only hoping for a
> decent turnout that day. Italy happily obliging within a couple of days and
> then Greece and then this #europeanrevolution being organised for Sunday is
> a massive surprise. I thought Europe was dead, there might be hope o.O
>
> On 27 May 2011 09:24, Michel Bauwens < <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Dear Chris,
>>
>> in a short intro to a piece on spain, I wrote the following endorsement,
>> so I think we should follow this very closely and support this evolving
>> global movement to the best of our abilities,
>>
>> I hope you can be our point man, perhaps with Amaia as pointwoman, in
>> Spain, I think her storyify format would be great for regular updates ...
>>
>> I also copying vasilis and George in Greece, in the hope they can
>> contribute stories about how this develops in Greece,
>>
>> Michel
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>> **
>>
>> When people agree on what they don't want, i.e. a market dictatorship in
>> the hands of a financial predatory class, but are open-minded about the
>> future, what should they ask for?
>>
>> The answer is very simply: true democracy, as this leaves all options open
>> to create 'other worlds'.
>>
>> This is why the relative indeterminacy of the Spanish movement is not a
>> bug, but a feature. It signals civil society forces have found a format for
>> their protests, and a unifying platform, and this is why what happened in
>> Spain is really Ground Zero for the start of a process towards deep
>> transformation of our civilisation and political economy. It's early days,
>> just green shoots, and the new generations have to be politically schooled
>> as they face obstacles and repression, but, the tipping point has been
>> reached, and something new has blossomed in the world.
>>
>> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Chris Pinchen <<chris at cataspanglish.com>
>> chris at cataspanglish.com> wrote:
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>>> Right now police are violenty evicting the camp in Plaça Catalunya using
>>> the excuse that they need to clean the square for a football celebration
>>> tomorrow. People arriving are occupying the surrounding streets and are
>>> being clubbed by riot police who do not have id badges visible. the campers
>>> are calling for more camps this evening
>>>
>>>
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