viernes, 21 de octubre de 2011
lunes, 25 de julio de 2011
domingo, 17 de julio de 2011
the shock doctrine
Ficha técnica:
Título original: The Shock Doctrine
Nacionalidad: R.U
Género: Política / Sociedad
Director: Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross
Productora: Revolution Films, Renegade Pictures
Intervenciones: Kieran O’Brien, Naomi Klein, Donald O. Hebb, Janine Huard, Milton Friedman, Edward M. Korry, Joseph Blair, Elisa Tokar, Harlan Ulman, Paul Bremer.
Año: 2009
Calificación moral: Todos los públicos
Argumento:
Basada en el libro de Naomi Klein, La doctrina del shock trata del auge del llamado ‘capitalismo del desastre’. Éste insta a los gobiernos a aprovechar periodos de crisis económicas, guerras, desastres naturales, ataques terroristas y epidemias, para saquear los intereses públicos y llevar a cabo todo tipo de reformas a favor del libre mercado. Medidas tan despiadadas que sólo han podido imponerse mediante el miedo, la fuerza y la represión.
La película rastrea los orígenes de este capitalismo salvaje en las teorías radicales el Premio Nobel de Economía Milton Friedman y su posterior implementación en todo el mundo, desde las dictaduras en Chile o Argentina de los años 70, a la Gran Bretaña de Margaret Thatcher, la Rusia de Yeltsin, o las no tan lejanas invasiones neoconservadoras en Afganistán e Irak.
Ante una época de crisis mundial como la que vivimos, hoy más que nunca clama la necesidad de una alternativa al neoliberalismo aplicado en todo el mundo durante los últimos 60 años. Tal como dijo Donald Rumsfeld: “Milton Friedman encarna una verdad: que las ideas tienen consecuencias”. Y dada la influencia que tuvieron estas teorías y siendo evidentes sus terribles consecuencias, la interpretación que esta película hace de los acontecimientos históricos ocurridos, bien merece ser difundida..
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sábado, 2 de julio de 2011
be happy
A final fairwell for all of you and wishing you a good summer
Another version of it in English
jueves, 26 de mayo de 2011
Spain salad growers
Interesting video and newspaper article about slave immigrants in Spain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/07/spain-salad-growers-slaves-charities?intcmp=239
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/07/spain-salad-growers-slaves-charities?intcmp=239
viernes, 20 de mayo de 2011
Spanish proteteters head for standoff with police in Madrid square
Spanish protesters head for standoff with police in Madrid square
Thousands of anti-government protesters in Madrid and other cities refuse to leave as interior minister warns of intervention
o Giles Tremlett in Madrid
• guardian.co.uk, Friday 20 May 2011 18.36 BST
Anti-government demonstrators camped in Madrid's Puerta del Sol square defy an order to leave and may face a police standoff. Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images
Thousands of protesters who are camped out in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square and in dozens more Spanish cities have pledged to defy an order to pack up their tent cities and leave.
As the country's electoral authorities ordered them to move by midnight on Friday, claiming they would disturb Sunday's municipal and regional elections, organisers called a special silent protest for first thing on Saturday morning.
A tense standoff between police and protesters looked inevitable as interior minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba warned that authorities would uphold the law.
"Police know exactly what they have to do," he said, without specifying. "Their actions will depend on what happens."
"We are expecting some kind of attempt to get rid of us," warned organisers in southern Seville, where several hundred people were also camped out in a city square.
But protesters claimed their "silent" demonstration in Madrid on Saturday would not break rules preventing campaigning on the day before an election.
More than 10,000 people had gathered in the small hours of Friday morning in support of the campers who first appeared in the Puerta del Sol square on Sunday.
Up to a thousand more spent the night in tents or sleeping out on mattresses, sofas, armchairs and other furniture wheeled out into a very well-run camp. Volunteers had organised themselves into clean-up crews, catering groups, a legal department, a press office and a first aid centre under a tarpaulin-covered part of the square. Many brought tents and sleeping bags. Four portable toilets had apparently been donated by a sympathetic building company.
Organisers asked people not to donate more food as everything from sandwiches to fruit was passed around by volunteers. "This is a demonstration, not a party," read some signs as cans of beer were passed around.
The strong organisation contrasted with confusion about the protesters' aims. Protesters' committees held open assemblies to debate proposals covering issues from electoral reform to animal rights. A general assembly saw almost a thousand people sitting out in the sun for hours on Thursday afternoon, many decked with homemade paper hats, to listen to the reports on the previous day's debates.
The biggest cheers came for proposals to tackle corruption, reduce political perks and reform an electoral system that favours a two-party system in the national parliament. "This isn't about left or right. It isn't even a political movement," said protester Juan Martin, a 22-year-old carpenter. "It is about a better society."
"And if we can do this here, then we need it even more urgently in Italy," said Italian journalism student Sara D'Eustacchio, who joined the Madrid camp.
She said Facebook and Twitter were being used to export the so-called "Spanish Revolution" movement to the rest of Europe, with a dozen similar protests being planned in Italy. Protesters had gathered outside the Spanish embassy in London on Thursday.
It was not clear when the peaceful protests would end, with Madrid organisers insisting that the camp-out – advertised with "Yes, we camp!" signs, echoing Barack Obama's campaign slogan – would continue on Saturday.
"We will continue with the exercise of collective reflection between all those attending the spontaneous meetings to have emerged in recent days," they said.
Authorities in Barcelona said they would not act against demonstrators there, as long as they remained peaceful.
The movement places the socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, which is already predicted to suffer serious defeat at Sunday's elections, in a difficult situation.
"We have to listen and be sensitive, because there are reasons why they are expressing their unhappiness and their criticism," Zapatero said on Thursday.
At the square, political parties and trades unions were clearly not welcome.
"Politicians can come here if they want, but we might not listen to them," said a protest spokesman named Jero. "There is no date for this to end."
Thousands of anti-government protesters in Madrid and other cities refuse to leave as interior minister warns of intervention
o Giles Tremlett in Madrid
• guardian.co.uk, Friday 20 May 2011 18.36 BST
Anti-government demonstrators camped in Madrid's Puerta del Sol square defy an order to leave and may face a police standoff. Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images
Thousands of protesters who are camped out in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square and in dozens more Spanish cities have pledged to defy an order to pack up their tent cities and leave.
As the country's electoral authorities ordered them to move by midnight on Friday, claiming they would disturb Sunday's municipal and regional elections, organisers called a special silent protest for first thing on Saturday morning.
A tense standoff between police and protesters looked inevitable as interior minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba warned that authorities would uphold the law.
"Police know exactly what they have to do," he said, without specifying. "Their actions will depend on what happens."
"We are expecting some kind of attempt to get rid of us," warned organisers in southern Seville, where several hundred people were also camped out in a city square.
But protesters claimed their "silent" demonstration in Madrid on Saturday would not break rules preventing campaigning on the day before an election.
More than 10,000 people had gathered in the small hours of Friday morning in support of the campers who first appeared in the Puerta del Sol square on Sunday.
Up to a thousand more spent the night in tents or sleeping out on mattresses, sofas, armchairs and other furniture wheeled out into a very well-run camp. Volunteers had organised themselves into clean-up crews, catering groups, a legal department, a press office and a first aid centre under a tarpaulin-covered part of the square. Many brought tents and sleeping bags. Four portable toilets had apparently been donated by a sympathetic building company.
Organisers asked people not to donate more food as everything from sandwiches to fruit was passed around by volunteers. "This is a demonstration, not a party," read some signs as cans of beer were passed around.
The strong organisation contrasted with confusion about the protesters' aims. Protesters' committees held open assemblies to debate proposals covering issues from electoral reform to animal rights. A general assembly saw almost a thousand people sitting out in the sun for hours on Thursday afternoon, many decked with homemade paper hats, to listen to the reports on the previous day's debates.
The biggest cheers came for proposals to tackle corruption, reduce political perks and reform an electoral system that favours a two-party system in the national parliament. "This isn't about left or right. It isn't even a political movement," said protester Juan Martin, a 22-year-old carpenter. "It is about a better society."
"And if we can do this here, then we need it even more urgently in Italy," said Italian journalism student Sara D'Eustacchio, who joined the Madrid camp.
She said Facebook and Twitter were being used to export the so-called "Spanish Revolution" movement to the rest of Europe, with a dozen similar protests being planned in Italy. Protesters had gathered outside the Spanish embassy in London on Thursday.
It was not clear when the peaceful protests would end, with Madrid organisers insisting that the camp-out – advertised with "Yes, we camp!" signs, echoing Barack Obama's campaign slogan – would continue on Saturday.
"We will continue with the exercise of collective reflection between all those attending the spontaneous meetings to have emerged in recent days," they said.
Authorities in Barcelona said they would not act against demonstrators there, as long as they remained peaceful.
The movement places the socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, which is already predicted to suffer serious defeat at Sunday's elections, in a difficult situation.
"We have to listen and be sensitive, because there are reasons why they are expressing their unhappiness and their criticism," Zapatero said on Thursday.
At the square, political parties and trades unions were clearly not welcome.
"Politicians can come here if they want, but we might not listen to them," said a protest spokesman named Jero. "There is no date for this to end."
jueves, 19 de mayo de 2011
more news about indignados
Thousands of protesters who say they are ignored by Spain’s political class gathered in a central square in Madrid on Wednesday night to demand reforms, despite an effort by electoral officials to impose a ban on demonstrations as Spain prepares to vote in local elections this weekend.
As El País reports, the protesters defied a ruling by Madrid’s electoral board, which had refused to grant permission for a fourth straight day of protests in the Spanish capital’s Puerta del Sol, so close to election day.
The Spanish newspaper explains that the protesters are “fed up with high unemployment and a faltering economy,” and feel unrepresented by the major political parties.
Following the board’s ruling, riot police officers deployed around the square, but allowed protesters to enter after checking their national identity cards, according to a series of updates posted on the English-language section of the El País Web site.
A new Spanish youth group, Democracia Real Ya, or True Democracy Now, inspired by the pro-democracy movements in the Arab world, used social networks to help organize the demonstrations, which began on Sunday.
As El País explained, the organizers are a diverse lot, yet “so well organized that they put together a security team of 200 people to prevent any trouble during the Madrid demonstration; they also had enough vision to use all the tricks in the book to keep the protest among Twitter’s most popular conversation topics in the world for the entire day,” using the tag #15m, to claim the date of May 15 for the start of their #SpanishRevolution.
Susana Vera/Reuters
Protesters in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol on Tuesday.The group, whose manifesto has been translated into English, on Wednesday called for demonstrators to occupy Madrid’s Puerta del Sol and other main squares in cities across Spain until Sunday’s elections.
Despite efforts by Madrid’s police force to clear the square at night, hundreds of protesters were still camped in the square on Wednesday, CNN reported.
According to officials in Madrid, about 20,000 people attended the first protest in Puerta del Sol, on Sunday, as thousands more rallied in more than 50 other Spanish cities, including Barcelona, Valencia and Zaragoza.
Puerta del Sol was packed again on Tuesday, as seen in this video posted on YouTube by Juan Luis Sánchez, a journalist and blogger.
(There is more video of the square on Tuesday on the El País YouTube channel.)
Mr. Sánchez, who is covering the protests for the Spanish news site Periodismo Humano, uploaded a series of photographs of the crowds at Wednesday’s demonstration in the square to Yfrog, including this one, of a sign boasting of “the power of nonviolence.”
Juan Luis Sánchez, via Yfrog
A protester in Madrid’s Puerto del Sol square on Wednesday night.Thanks to Mauro Accurso, a technology journalist and blogger in Buenos Aires, who suggested this topic to me on Twitter.
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