This weekend is the 1-year anniversary of the 15M protestors, so they’re holding a 3-day event to mimic the events that happened last year. They started with a “Day of Global Mobilization” yesterday, and will have a “Day of Action” on the 15th. In Barcelona, they started occupying the city center, Plaça Cataluyna, yesterday evening.

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Here’s what the group is currently demanding (you can see them in Spanish in the next image):

  • Not a single euro more to rescue the banks.
  • Public, high-quality education and health care.
  • No to job insecurity and the labor reforms.
  • Guaranteed access to decent housing.
  • Universal basic income.

I wasn’t here last year for the protests, but this definitely looks smaller and tamer than the protests I saw last summer or even six months ago. At the bottom, there’s a gallery of a few photos I hurriedly took last night.

Here are some links to more info about the movement:

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And a few other posts I’ve written about the movement:

We’ll see what happens over the rest of the weekend with the protests. It’ll be interesting to see whether they get as crazy as the March protests did.

Besos!

-Jess