# 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.

## 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.
* «YES, WE CAMP».
** in English
*** A tongue-in-cheek reference to Barack Obama's campaign slogan.
* «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).
* «No es una crisis, ¡es el sistema!»
** It's not a crisis, it's the system!
*** Main banner on the demonstration on July 24th
* «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
* «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)
* «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.
* «Que nuestras conversaciones ahoguen las sirenas»
** Our conversations will drown the sirens
* «Pienso luego estorbo»
** I think, therefore I disturb
* «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
* «Si no nos dejáis soñar, no os dejaremos dormir»
** If you don't let us dream, we won't let you sleep
* «Me sobra mes a final de sueldo»
** I have month enough after my salary
* «¿Dónde está la izquierda? Al fondo, a la derecha».
** Where's the left? At the bottom, on the right
* «Se alquila esclavo económico»
** Economic slave for rent
* «Error 404: Democracia not found»
** Error 404: Democracy not found
* «Error de sistema. Reinicie, por favor»
** System error. Please reboot
* «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
* «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
* «Mis sueños no caben en tus urnas»
* «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!
* «No falta el dinero. Sobran ladrones»
** There's no money missing. There's plenty of robbers
* «¿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!
* «No es una crisis, es una estafa»
** It's not a crisis, it's a con.
* «Nobody expected the #SPANISHREVOLUTION»
** A reference to Monty Python's, Nobody expected the Spanish inquisition.
* «No apagues la televisión… Podrías pensar»
** Don't turn the TV off... You could start thinking.
* «Tu futuro es ahora»
** Your future is NOW
* «¿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?
* «Manos arriba, esto es un contrato»
** Hands up, this is a contract!
* «Ni cara A, ni cara B, queremos cambiar de disco»
** Nor side A, nor side B, we just want to change the record
* «Rebeldes sin casa»
** Rebels without a home
* «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
* «Nosotros buscamos razones, ellos victorias»
** We are looking for reasons, they are looking for victories
* «Cuando los de abajo se mueven, los de arriba se tambalean»
** When the ones at the bottom move, the ones on top tremble
* «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
* «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
* «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)
* «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.
* «Lo llaman democracia y no lo es».
** They call it democracy, but it isn't so
* «El problema es el sistema, la solución: LA REVOLUCIÓN"
** The problem is the system, the solution: REVOLUTION

## See also

* Egyptian revolution
* Occupy Wall Street

## Sources

* Protest camp Granada

## Referencias

* ↑ http://www.cadenaser.com/espana/fotos/violencia-cobrar-600-euros/csrcsrpor/20110515csrcsrnac_15/Ies
* ↑ http://www.adelantandoelmundo.com/2011/06/pienso-luego-estorbo.html
* ↑ http://www.cadenaser.com/espana/fotos/primavera-ha-llegado-sol/csrcsrpor/20110520csrcsrnac_27/Ies
* ↑ http://www.nacionred.com/derechos-y-libertades/el-cartel-en-el-bunker-del-viejo-psoe-de-interior-con-rderepresion
* ↑ http://www.diariocritico.com/nacional/15-m/congreso-de-los-diputados/403154