Spanish views from a small town

Five years ago today, 15th May, 2011, there was a protest in Madrid's Puerta del Sol. It was organized by different associations that had gotten together to protest against the mishandling of the economic crisis, imposed austerity, loss of workers' rights, the bailout of corrupt banks with public money, and the entrenched corruption in politics. It was a large march, about twenty thousand estimated protestors, and that night about forty of them decided to hunker down in Puerta del Sol, after the march had disbanded. They said they weren't moving until things were fixed. Unfortunately, the police had other things in mind, and ran them from the square in the early morning, detaining around twenty of them. But indignation was running high - against the politicians, against the police, against the banks, and against the injustices caused by the crisis. On the seventeenth, people were back in Puerta del Sol, this time to camp out and stay the night. By the next day the number ...