Tag Archives: Spanish Revolution

Unrepresentable stories: Films of resistance

As long as the lions do not have their own historians, the stories of hunting will continue to glorify the hunter. African proverb Spain’s public prosecutor has recently asked for cumulative legal punishment of up to 74 years and 3 … Continue reading

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A Madrid May: A rebellion´s music

The general assemby of 15M Madrid in Sol, celebrating the 3 years of the movement, was opened and closed by performances of the orchestra and choir La Solfónica, born in the wake of the of the first protests in the … Continue reading

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A Madrid May: 15M – A school without walls

The assembly in Puerta del Sol marking the 3rd anniversary of the 15M movement begins with presentations on the current economic crisis, that falls to the responsibility of the Economics and Justice groups of Sol, a heritage of the original … Continue reading

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An anniversary of lives in movement: Spain’s 15M

The upcoming 15th of May marks a commemoration, not of anniversary of a past reality, but of a present, in movement.  Spain’s 15M, over three years, has multiplied, proliferated, metamorphosised; to become not larger in numbers, but in deeper in … Continue reading

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Pieces of Madrid

The protest, dissidence and creativity of those who rebel in spain against State-Capital continues to weave together forms of life at the margins of/in opposition to domination.  At the heart of all that 15M and parallel movements in the country … Continue reading

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A Madrid October: 15M is dead. Long live 15M!

It would be difficult to think of 15M in the form of a movement.  If that is, as a movement which has an origin, a goal, some objectives and a trajectory … Nevertheless, an event is but a timid call … Continue reading

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The spreading of okupations: Chronicles from 15m´s spain

To okupy, to appropriate, to re-appropriate that which was claimed by theft; a theft paid for with public monies.  Today, in spain, okupation has become the central strategy of anti-capitalist politics, a politics that is not only opposed to State-Capital, … Continue reading

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15M: “Excelente. Revulsivo. Importante”

From the project 15M.cc and Stéphane M. Grueso, a new documentary about spain's 15M (with english subtitles) …

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The chimera of revolution: Travels through 15M’s spain

Chimaera … breathed awful fire, Three-headed, frightening, huge, swift-footed, strong, One head a bright-eyed lion’s, one a goats, The third a snake’s, a mighty dragon-head. Hesiod, Theogony Monsters have always defined the limits of community … Donna Haraway, A Manifesto … Continue reading

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Year 02: 15M’s spain

For the so many whom 15M has brought forth, for the enormous passion and creativity that this movement has engendered, for the extraordinary generosity and love that so many show as they build together, for its beauty and its freedom, … Continue reading

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