Today is general strike in some regions of Spain (Euskadi, Nafarroa, Galiza, Balearic islands, and Catalunya) organized by some syndicalist organizations. In the case of Catalonia: CGT Catalunya, CNT Catalunya, COS and Solidaridad Obrera. I have to say: they are not the majority in workers union organizations in Catalunya.
The announcement of this strike has been silenced by the mass media. Yes, I say that because in the "main" tv news and the paper press, I saw almost anything about this strike. As an example, in the Catalonian tv, in the news I saw last Saturday (non web accessible) they told about an okupation (squat) in an abandoned cinema building. They explain that the police had to remove them due to some similitude with the squat of a building, a few days before the general strike of the 29th of September (2010), without telling "there's an strike planned for the 27th" until the last second of the report.
Today the video they have public is more impartial they explain the thing more in a fifty fifty way. But this was not what the people saw at the first moment that this happen. Also they publish another video about the Catalonian (new) government announcing a zero tolerance in the squatting. Even of the big problem we had in this country last months the government did not say anything about zero tolerance in politics corruption, police, or companies. A citizen can go more days to jail for being in a protest than for million euros corruption.
What the government announce yesterday is the derogation of an internal police rule about ethics. The reason: we can trust in our police. Then we can remove all the laws, because we can trust in our citizens. People is ideal! People is great from nature. I don't thing it's easy to be a cop, but without rules for them weird things happen. Why to remember all the press to dress the distinguish with a bracelet? Do I have to dress another bracelet telling the police that I am a good citizen?
The Spanish mass media are talking about Egyptian, Tunisian and Yemen protests. In local news they don't talk about any type of protest, only they explain the agreement about the prolongation of the age of retirement, even if this is the reason of the general strike of today, they don't talk about strike. In Europe we even don't have media information about Iceland revolution.
We cannot discuss the official speech. If you are not agree about what the capitalism and neoliberalism, the only option they give you is to be excluded of the system, to be against the system. With what is happening on this crisis, the best thing they can tell about the people is that the are anti-capitalist.
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