Seven Readers! ..
Something is happening in the world, something really interesting. A revolutionary kind of wick begins to spread over the entire planet. Where to start? That seems irrelevant and even misleading. Some say that little Iceland was the first example. There on a Saturday morning in 2008 Hördur Torfarson stood in front of the Icelandic parliament, was carrying a guitar and a microphone. It was a difficult time for the tiny nation Arctic: its main bank had gone bankrupt and the Icelandic financial system was almost a disaster. Torfarson took his guitar, started singing and asked the people who passed their views about what was happening in those days. The next Saturday he did the same gathering a couple of dozen more people and so on, until Saturday Icelandic led to the dissolution of the Icelandic parliament in 2009. The Icelandic bankers pursued their disaster began and even 25 citizens elected to draft a new constitution. Everything they did from below, from the public.
That in a country of just 320000 inhabitants say it all started.
Then came Wikileaks exposing the tricks that occur in high diplomatic freedom of the network proved its worth. Of ahí – impulsadas por las redes sociales – vinieron las protestas en el mundo árabe. Dictaduras y monarquías del medio oriente temblaron por la presión de las multitudes que salieron a las calles a pedir, a exigir un cambio en sus sociedades.
Hoy es España.
A unos días de las elecciones del domingo 22 los ciudadanos españoles han salido a las calles a pedir, a exigir, un cambio en el sistema político de su país. En las manifestaciones españolas no caben los partidos políticos, tampoco los sindicatos. Es la ciudadanía, y lo más importante la ciudadanía jóven you are asking their politicians, their leaders a shift in economic issues in society.
English movement's manifesto - called Democracy Now describes them perfectly:
"We are ordinary people. We like you: people who get up every morning to study, work or to find work, people who have family and friends. People who work hard every day to live and give a better future for those around us.
Some of us consider it more progressive, others more conservative. Some believers, some not. Some have well-defined ideology, apolitical other ... But we believe we are all concerned and outraged by the political, economic and social development we see around us. Through the corruption of politicians, businessmen, bankers ... In the helplessness of ordinary people. "
Citizens on foot who want to change things from below.
Someone told me recently that this type of movement is doomed to failure because it needs support from any sector of the elites in power. Maybe. But Iceland, Egypt and Spain are perhaps beginning to show that the system may tremble when the people organize, that these elites may be exceeded and that change can come from below. Perhaps due to technological tools with which we now have, with the ability of organization that can occur from the use thereof - particularly from social networks - the time has come for citizens. It is perhaps time for change the time to show that another world is possible.
So things Thursday ... Health
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