INFORMATIVE
DEMONSTRATION ON THE CALLING OF
“25S SURROUND THE PARLIAMENT”
19:00H,
25-09-2012, DAM SQUARE, AMSTERDAM
CONTEXT
The
collective “Plataforma En Pie” (Stand Up Platform) made a calling
through social media to force a new constitutive process in Spain,
under the slogan “ On the 25th of September Occupy the Parliament”.
The lack of clarity and transparency both in the objectives of the
call and in the identity of the platform caused suspicion among 15M
assemblies thus loosing their support. Nevertheless, this process
shows the operability of the hundred of active assemblies in Spain.
Moreover, it demonstrates their capacity to react and adopt a
political position in relation to popular actions questioning the
economic and social system. Thanks to this intense debate different
15M assemblies, some DRY (Real Democracy Now) nodes, social collectives and individuals,
have integrated a state coordinator with a completely open horizontal
working policy, based on the assembly system in order to generate
consensus. This state coordinator has turned the action into “Rodea
el Congreso” (Surround the Parliament), with a clear NON VIOLENT
MANDATE. The access and exit of the parliamentarians will not be
obstructed at any moment. The normal activity inside the Parliament
will not be disturbed. Everything indicates that the 25S will be
difficultly stopped. Also, part of the people inside15M seems to
have assumed the challenge of turning this action into theirs,
reformulating and opening it.
After
this analysis of the context, background and 25S coordinator
objectives among others, we have agreed to demonstrate in Amsterdam
with the aim of giving the following approaches an international
relevance:
“The
25th
of September the Spanish Parliament building will be surrounded as a
symbol to rescue it from the kidnapping which has turned this
institution into a useless organ. A
kidnapping of the popular sovereignty by the Troika and by The
Markets, executed under the blessing and collaboration of most of the
political parties.
Parties which have betrayed their electoral programs, their voters
and the people in general, breaking their vows and contributing to
people's gradual pauperization.
A
government chosen by the people that once it reaches the power
operates on the opposite that the candidates promised, has no
legitimacy. Winning an election does not give the government the
right to make do as it wills, betraying the voters who elected it.
The people, under these conditions, have the right to require the
government to quit. The people have the right to have a government
which governs according to the popular choices. This is the essence
of democracy and popular sovereignty.
The
Parliament will be surrounded by the 25S to tell those who unjustly
govern us: we
will disobey their unfair and illegitimate impositions to pay their
debt.
We will defend our collective rights: our houses, public education,
public health system, employment, democratic participation and our
decent life. We will initiate the process to stop the responsibles
for this crisis. The arsonists who have caused our crisis will be
judged instead of rewarded.
The
demonstration on September 25th
around the Parliament takes place in order to recover our
responsibility of our own future, rejecting impositions. We want to
tell
the ones who have kidnapped Democracy that it is their time to leave.
We will require the resignation of this government, as a first step.
Set it free. Let's start anew our constitutive process: an open
process with direct participation where we all determine together
political institutions, participation tools, juridical and political
mechanisms that we need to guarantee the efficiency of our collective
decisions. A continuous constitutive process which collective
definition starts, but does not end, on 25S”
From
the Amsterdam and Zuid-Holland 15M assemblies we support, as we have
been doing until now and as we will keep on doing in the future,
every non-violent action, emerged into an open, horizontal and
assembly process, which help the people to defend themselves from
the attacks by an elite which impose us an unfair system and forces
us to pay the consequences of a crisis that this elite generated and
is still stimulating. This crisis is not just Spanish or European,
but a globally systemic. So it can only be solved through an
international collective action. For these reasons, we want to
inform, in the country we are living now, The Netherlands, about the
action “25S surround the Parliament” which will take place in
Spain. Showing in this way the continuous questioning of the system
and that there are alternatives. We will denounce any violent
repression by the Spanish State. Always according to the non-violent
and open spirit of the 25S Coordinator, and based on the following
premisses:
-This
is a non-violent action.
-It
has been opened to everybody's participation.
-The
work developed during this year has been decisive and still is. This
action must not compromise it, but reinforce it.
-The
25S action does not delegitimize at all the day by day and week by
week work of the neighborhood assemblies. On the contrary, in the
remote case an action success with the real starting of a
constitutive process, this should lay on them.
MORE
INFORMATION (in Spanish):
-25S
coordinator full manifesto:
https://coordinadora25s.wordpress.com/manifiesto/
-List
of the assemblies, organizations and collectives which support or
take part into 25S:
CONTACT:
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