This witty analysis of Spain's problems in 2011 would be worth another run now. Literally not enough bread for so many sausages, it is much funnier when you know that chorizo is also slang for thieves. Now that the ongoing cuts (including pay cuts to teachers of up to 25%) and the continuing scandals of corruption throughout government and the royal family kind of provide an insight into the conditions that gave birth to the indignados, who came up with the slogan, and hence the occupy movement.
There's a lot of thinking that seems to go into interesting dimensions of commentary and resistance here in Spain.
This weekend we enjoyed a trip to the country and visit to Tarragona in unseasonably freezing conditions, returning to Barcelona to hear there's been a protest against the cuts today of 80,000 people. Mayday across Spain on Wednesday could be pretty interesting.
One of outcomes here in Catalunya is a strong and visible independence movement. Hence the slogan on the Mayday poster photographed in the streets of Tarragona, below: "we produce, we decide" .. Enriched by the exhortation to overcome capitalism.
Speaking of Catalan commentary, Sister Teresa Forcades, a Spanish Benedictine nun ordinarily from Barcelona, was on Catalan TV tonight arguing that capitalism is unethical.
That's where religious perspective has a force, in allowing you to talk about right and wrong. Always a nice component.
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