Movimiento 15-M

Movimiento 15-M, also known as movement of the indignados, is a grassroots movement formed after the demonstrations of May 15th 2011 which created a series of pacific protests in Spain in order to promote a participative democracy, against the two-party system and its control from banks and multinational corporations, as well as a real division of powers and other measures with the intention of improving the democratic system.

These protests, along with the Arab Spring and the Greek protests, inspired the Occupy Movement.^{[citation needed]}

Slogans seen in camps and demonstrations

• «Democracia real ¡YA! No somos mercancía en manos de políticos y banqueros»
  • Real democracy NOW! We are not a commodity lying in the hands of politicians and bankers.
    • Main motto of the demonstration of May 15th. ^{[citation needed]}

• «YES, WE CAMP».
  • in English
    • A tongue-in-cheek reference to Barack Obama's campaign slogan. ^{[citation needed]}

• «Violencia es cobrar 600 euros».
  • Violence is earning €600

• «Ya tenemos Sol, ahora: ¡la luna!»
  • We already have Sol, now: the moon!

(Puerta del Sol, meaning Gate of the Sun is the square occupied by the protesters in Madrid). ^{[citation needed]}

• «No es una crisis, ¡es el sistema!»
  • It's not a crisis, it's the system!
    • Main banner on the demonstration on July 24th ^{[citation needed]}

• «No es una crisis... es que ya no te quiero»
  • • It's not a crisis... I don't love you anymore
    • Main banner on the demonstration on July 24th ^{[citation needed]}

• «Si viene la policía, sacad las uvas y disimulad»
  • If the police comes, take your grapes and pretend it's New Year's Eve.
    • (In Madrid, it is a custom to eat twelve grapes on New Year's Eve in Puerta del Sol) ^{[citation needed]}

• «Follar cada cuatro años no es vida sexual, votar cada cuatro años no es vida electoral»
• Fucking once every four years is not a sex life, voting once every four years is not an electoral life. ^{[citation needed]}

• «Que nuestras conversaciones ahoguen las sirenas»
  • Our conversations will drown the sirens ^{[citation needed]}

• «Pienso luego estorbo»
  • I think, therefore I disturb ^{[citation needed]}

• «La primavera ha llegado a Sol»
  • Spring has come to Sol
  • Is a reference to a department store's slogan Spring has come to el Corte Inglés

• «No somos anti-sistema, el sistema es anti-nosotros»
  • We are not anti-system, the system is anti-us ^{[citation needed]}

• «Si no nos dejáis soñar, no os dejaremos dormir»
  • If you don't let us dream, we won't let you sleep ^{[citation needed]}

• «Me sobra mes a final de sueldo»
  • I have month enough after my salary ^{[citation needed]}

• «¿Dónde está la izquierda? Al fondo, a la derecha».
  • Where's the left? At the bottom, on the right ^{[citation needed]}

• «Se alquila esclavo económico»
  • Economic slave for rent ^{[citation needed]}

• «Error 404: Democracia not found»
  • Error 404: Democracy not found ^{[citation needed]}

• «Error de sistema. Reinicie, por favor»
  • System error. Please reboot ^{[citation needed]}

• «Esto no es una cuestión de izquierda contra derechas, es de los de abajo contra los de arriba»
  • It's not a question of left against right, it's the one's at the bottom against the ones on top ^{[citation needed]}

• «Vivimos en un país donde licenciados están en paro, el presidente de nuestro gobierno no sabe inglés…y la oposición tampoco»
  • We live in a country where graduates are unemployed, the Prime Minister doesn't speak English… and the opposition either ^{[citation needed]}
• «Mis sueños no caben en tus urnas» ^{[citation needed]}

• «Políticos: somos vuestros jefes y os estamos haciendo un ERE»
  • Polititians: we're your bosses and this is a layoff plan
    • As translated in The Mask and the Flag: Populism, Citizenism and Global Protest by Paolo Gerbaudo, Oxford University Press, 2017

• «Nos mean y dicen que llueve!»
  • They piss on us and they say it's raining! ^{[citation needed]}

• «No falta el dinero. Sobran ladrones»
  • There's no money missing. There's plenty of robbers ^{[citation needed]}

• «¿Qué tal os va por España»?- Pues no nos podemos quejar. O sea, que bien ¿no?- no, que no nos podemos quejar.»
  • How's it going in Spain? - Well, we can't complain. So good, right? - No, we can't complain! ^{[citation needed]}

• «No es una crisis, es una estafa»
  • It's not a crisis, it's a con. ^{[citation needed]}

• «Nobody expected the #SPANISHREVOLUTION»
  • A reference to Monty Python's, Nobody expected the Spanish inquisition. ^{[citation needed]}

• «No apagues la televisión… Podrías pensar»
  • Don't turn the TV off... You could start thinking. ^{[citation needed]}

• «Tu futuro es ahora»
  • Your future is NOW ^{[citation needed]}

• «¿Qué les vas a decir a tus hijos cuando te pregunten dónde estabas? ¿Viendo la tele?»
  • What are you going to tell your children when they ask you where you were? Watching TV? ^{[citation needed]}

• «Manos arriba, esto es un contrato»
  • Hands up, this is a contract! ^{[citation needed]}

• «Ni cara A, ni cara B, queremos cambiar de disco»
  • Nor side A, nor side B, we just want to change the record ^{[citation needed]}

• «Rebeldes sin casa»
  • Rebels without a home ^{[citation needed]}

• «Democracia, me gustas porque estás como ausente»
  • Democracy, I like you as if you were absent
    • Reference to Pablo Neruda's poem I like you calm, as if you were absent ^{[citation needed]}

• «Nosotros buscamos razones, ellos victorias»
  • We are looking for reasons, they are looking for victories ^{[citation needed]}

• «Cuando los de abajo se mueven, los de arriba se tambalean»
  • When the ones at the bottom move, the ones on top tremble ^{[citation needed]}

• «Nos habéis quitado demasiado, ahora lo queremos TODO y lo queremos YA»
  • You have taken too much away from us, we want EVERYTHING and we want it NOW ^{[citation needed]}

• «No nos vamos, nos mudamos a tu conciencia»
  • We're not leaving, we're moving to your conscience
    • Motto of the clearup of the camp in Sol ^{[citation needed]}

• «Sabemos el camino de vuelta al Sol»
  • We know the way back to the Sun
    • Motto of the clearup of the camp in Sol (Sun as Puerta del Sol) ^{[citation needed]}

• «Islandia es el camino»
  • Iceland is our path
  • Banner hung on the Home Office building.

• «Abajo el régimen»
  • Down with the regime
    • Graffitti on the Congress of Deputies' wall

Public chants

• «Que no, que no, que no nos representan».
  • No, no, they don't represent us. ^{[citation needed]}

• «Lo llaman democracia y no lo es».
  • They call it democracy, but it isn't so ^{[citation needed]}

• «El problema es el sistema, la solución: LA REVOLUCIÓN"
  • The problem is the system, the solution: REVOLUTION ^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Egyptian revolution
• Occupy Wall Street

Sources

• Protest camp Granada