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Spain: The Rebel Grandparents of the 15M

The majority of them far exceed the age of 60, they're retired, they're "iaios" (grandparents in Catalan) and they're veterans of activism. Lali Sandiumenge interviews some members of the “Iaioflautas”, a collective that emerged in Barcelona last October in the camp out at Plaza Catalunya.

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Global Voices Most Read Posts in 2011

Global Voices is no longer as lonely a media voice when it comes to reporting tweets and blog posts. Still, where mainstream media interest wanes, we're the ones who continue documenting local citizen media. Discover our top 20 list of most read posts for 2011.

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Spain: Fighting for the Right to a Home

The housing bubble, the financial crisis, and high unemployment rates have left thousands of families without homes in Spain and the victims of foreclosures have names and stories to tell.

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Spain: The October 15 Protests and Mass Media Coverage 22 October 2011
Whose Language? The Royal Spanish Academy and Copyright 16 October 2011
Spain: Police “Welcome” 15M Protesters in Paris 27 September 2011
Spain: Intense Political and Social Debate on the Constitutional Reform 10 September 2011
Spain: Racism and Intolerance Advance Relentlessly 29 August 2011

Latest stories about Spain

31 January 2012

Spanish-Speaking Twittersphere Fumes Over Announcement

Written by Juan Arellano · Translated by L. Finch · Freedom of Speech, Technology & Internet

Twitter's announcement that it will restrict certain user content according to the laws of individual countries immediately caused a negative reaction in the Spanish-speaking Twittersphere. Twitter users widely employed the hashtags #CensuramestaTwitter and #TwitterCensored to display their anger with the social networking site.

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15 January 2012

Video Highlights: Activism, Freedom of Speech, Identity and Culture

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Breaking News, Freedom of Speech

A selection of Global Voices' recent and interesting stories including video from Middle East and North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, Western, Eastern and Central Europe, East Asia and Latin America, selected by Juliana Rincón Parra.

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7 January 2012

Eurozone Crisis: 2011 Citizen Media Responses

Written by Paola D'Orazio · Elections, Governance

The year 2011 will be remembered for the European debt crisis and its impact on the global economy, but also for its hard consequences on everyday lives. We sum up Global Voices coverage and citizen media responses to the Eurozone crisis in the past year.

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2 January 2012

Spain: The #15M Celebrate Christmas With Outrage

Written by Chris Moya · Translated by Marianna Breytman · Protest, Politics

Under the slogan "We've lost our innocence because we no longer believe the lies, nor will we stay silent before this joke of losing our basic rights," Spain celebrated the #IndignantProcession in some of the country's main cities.

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24 November 2011

Spain: Controversies in the General Elections

Written by Chris Moya · Translated by Elizabeth Rivera · Politics, Citizen Media

The PP (Popular Party) of Spain won the recent general elections with an ample majority. Chris Moya tell us about some of the controversies at the voting centers.

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19 November 2011

Spain: Creative Counter-Campaign Spreads on the Net

Written by Lali Sandiumenge · Translated by Marianna Breytman · Politics, Citizen Media

Spain's general elections campaign this Sunday has an entirely different online version. The digital counter-campaign, propelled by the 15-M movement, is hyperactive and rapidly spreading through social networks.

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Updates about Spain

7 February 2012

English

Take the Square publishes a letter from Khaled Khalifa from Syria: “I would like to inform you that my people is being subjected to a genocide.”

• Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

23 January 2012

English

Chronicles of a European Winter is a radio documentary series project focused on the actual effects of austerity measures amongst the populations of different European countries. It will be shot and edited between December 2011 and May 2012 in Greece, Ireland and Spain, and episodes will be licensed under Creative Commons.

• Asteris Masouras

18 January 2012

Updates

Power was cut off [ca] for 800 pupils in a secondary school in Alicante due to outstanding payments. The Valencian Community is currently mired in financial difficulties after years of extravagant spending. MPs Esther López Barceló [ca] from the United and Alternative Left and Mireia Mollà [ca] from the Coalicío Compromis, provided reactions to the news.

• Norbert Bousigue

19 December 2011

8 November 2011

English

Although the community has been evacuated from the La Restinga in El Hierro Island of the Canary Islands due to increased earthquakes due to volcanic activity, scientists and journalists are staying posted to record the underwater volcano eruptions as can be seen on this video by local Guilletheplayer.

• Juliana Rincón Parra

4 November 2011

Updates

Pepe Nieto from SODEPAU, a Catalan international aid organization, published a post entitled: “From the Arab Spring to the Islamic Autumn“ [cat]. Nieco forecasts that political Islam will be the great benefactor of the recent events unfolding in the Arab world, after the elections in Tunisia and the statements from the new Libyan leaders. He adds that media should not be surprised by the turn of event given that similar outcomes took place in Algeria, Palestine and Turkey, where repressions never succeeded in stifling Islamic movements.

• Norbert Bousigue

23 September 2011

Spanish

The website 100 medidas (100 measures) [es] is a crowdsourcing project that is collecting citizen's recommendations on how to improve the government. People will vote for the best 100 measures, which will be sent to the government elected on the November 20, 2011 general elections.

• Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

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