Monday 1 October 2012

RISING UP IN SPAIN

 

As Spain announces more austerity, the country has erupted in violence. This report, which dives into the heart of the violent protests, reveals a shockingly deep divide between government and people.

"The government is trying to scare the people," one protester says, following the government's dubbing of a protest outside the congress as a possible coup d'etat. 

It ramped up the already tense mood among a people that blame the right wing government for Spain's economic problems. As protesters refuse to leave and sit down in non-violent protest, the police break off into small groups and chase them down.

"The police started to charge indiscriminately toward anyone. We are returning to fascist repression."

Rubber bullets and bricks fly back and forth in street exchanges of a shocking intensity.

"We are not animals! We are people!” one woman pleads with the police. But the police don't wait long before storming down the streets, shooting rubber bullets at close range into fleeing crowds. The streets may be clear for now, but as the crisis in Spain deepens with no end in sight, popular resistance towards the government and its austerity project is only intensifying.

 

The Greek flag being waved near the end of the video was to me, yet another reminder of the situation in Greece and what has been going on there as that country has been reduced to incredible poverty at the behest of the foul IMF. Despite their brave resistance against that filthy arm of the bankers, the IMF and its theft of their nation’s wealth ~ and their lives ~ these things and the results of them upon the populace are what the people of Spain rise against.

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