Poder a la gente!! ...... Getting Greek in Madrid

[marmar]

from Democracy Now!:


Pt. I

Pt. II

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AMY GOODMAN: Joining us from Madrid is Democracy Now! correspondent and independent journalist Maria Carrion, who has been at the protest all day yesterday.

Maria, welcome to Democracy Now!

MARIA CARRION: Thank you, Amy. Good to be with you.

AMY GOODMAN: Tell us what’s happening.

MARIA CARRION: Well, as you, as your viewers and listeners have been able to see, it’s a very serious situation here in Spain. This is just the latest of many, many protests that we have been having here in Spain, in the last year, especially, and there will be many more coming. People have lost faith in government. People have lost faith in the main institutions. And we are facing 27 billion euros in social spending cuts. Every week, the government unveils a series of new measures that affect primarily education and health and salaries and the welfare of Spanish people. And as we saw at the top of the hour, Greece is really an example of what’s coming our way, and that’s why I think people are so enraged and so worried, because they see that none of the measures imposed on Greece on in Portugal or in Ireland are having any sort of effect on the economy, on people’s welfare, on employment. And so, I think people are saying we do not want to head in that same direction.

NERMEEN SHAIKH: Maria Carrion, you’ve spoken also about some of the effects on people already with the austerity measures in place, quite apart from what might happen tomorrow. Can you talk in particular about housing and food? ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/26/thousands_surround_spanish_parliament_in_bid

[tama]

1. I'm not a fan

of Aleka Papariga and KKE. Not a fan at all. Traitors.

[socialist_n_TN]

2. It's time for the people of Europe.......

and ESPECIALLY southern Europe to form a United Socialist States of Europe and expropriate the bankers assets. I thought it was telling that it was the BANK getting the exact amount that services were being cut.