Justice Now!: Spain's Indignados to Retake the Streets

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Published on Friday, May 11, 2012 by Common Dreams
Justice Now!: Spain's Indignados to Retake the Streets

- Common Dreams staff


Spain's "indignados" will be hitting the streets this weekend in the tens of thousands to mark their one-year anniversary with renewed calls for economic justice.

Poster from madrilonia.org. “We need to take back all the wealth and redistribute it fairly,” Aitor, a member of Real Democracy Now (Democracia Real Ya), which started the 15-M movement, told El País.

Jon Aguirre, a 27-year-old architect, told Agence France-Presse, "When families can no longer help, we will see what happens: what happened in Greece is not far off."

In the face of the government cracking down on protest, Spaniards will be met with thousands of riot police this weekend who will arrest anyone attempting to make encampments. In addition, the government has already limited the amount of time protests will be allowed in Madrid. .............(more)

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