tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post8789259366127428149..comments2024-03-14T07:32:30.141+09:00Comments on Marketing Japan: Massive Anti-Government Protests in Spain Spreading to Italy! No Mention at all in Japanese Pressmike in tokyo rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977446676243085409noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-31952495122989527692011-05-23T15:58:43.847+09:002011-05-23T15:58:43.847+09:00I'm spanish and have been in the protests sinc...I'm spanish and have been in the protests since they started on May 15th. Each and every day they've grown stronger, it took us supporters by surprise too! Right now there are over 700 associated protests worldwide, and the protesters are not just young people. You can find workers, jobless people, parents with children, elderly persons. Newspapers say "young people" just as a way to make them seem narrower and less important in scope.<br /><br />Also, we've been very strict to make the protests peaceful and non-committal to any political party.<br /><br />The main gripes are the separation of political and justice systems, political class privileges control and banking control too. Any other demands are "nice to have", but what we really need is to take our democracy back from corrupt politicians and lobbies.<br /><br />The coverage here in Spain (and the resot of Europe) has been spotty and misleading, but that's what you get with mainstream media. Luckily, we have the Internet, but net neutrality has been under attack everywhere for a long time, let's hope we can keep it open, as it was meant to be!<br /><br />Thank you, Mike, for taking notice of these grassroots movements.Zanchitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10020223251056103248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-3541130702320489582011-05-23T15:57:28.260+09:002011-05-23T15:57:28.260+09:00I'm spanish and have been in the protests sinc...I'm spanish and have been in the protests since they started on May 15th. Each and every day they've grown stronger, it took us supporters by surprise too! Right now there are over 700 associated protests worldwide, and the protesters are not just young people. You can find workers, jobless people, parents with children, elderly persons. Newspapers say "young people" just as a way to make them seem narrower and less important in scope.<br /><br />Also, we've been very strict to make the protests peaceful and non-committal to any political party.<br /><br />The main gripes are the separation of political and justice systems, political class privileges control and banking control too. Any other demands are "nice to have", but what we really need is to take our democracy back from corrupt politicians and lobbies.<br /><br />The coverage here in Spain (and the resot of Europe) has been spotty and misleading, but that's what you get with mainstream media. Luckily, we have the Internet, but net neutrality has been under attack everywhere for a long time, let's hope we can keep it open, as it was meant to be!<br /><br />Thank you, Mike, for taking notice of these grassroots movements.Zanchitonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-73977949222545853602011-05-21T11:20:03.006+09:002011-05-21T11:20:03.006+09:00Well spotted! I don't know why the Japanese me...Well spotted! I don't know why the Japanese media doesn't write about this. There's absolutely no way this could spur the Japanese to do likewise. What's happening in this country that the populace could possibly have to complain about? I mean, yes, there's the "inevitable" raise in consumption tax, the highly probably increase in deficit spending to "pay for" the Tohoku compensation and reconstruction, the 20 years (and counting) of recession in Japan thanks to the central bank and the elite's management, the somewhat lax management and supervision of the country's nuclear industry... Mere bagatelles! And anyway the Japanese never riot. It's not in their DNA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-30099619984396468842011-05-21T07:42:03.728+09:002011-05-21T07:42:03.728+09:00www.Democracynow.org also has English language cov...www.Democracynow.org also has English language coverage of the Spain protests.Andy "In Japan"https://www.blogger.com/profile/04505038501136945817noreply@blogger.com