MADRID COUNTERSUMMIT ENDED, THE STRUGGLE GOES ON

Many people were in the students countersummit in Madrid, working hard to get things done these days. Now everything is over, but there are much things to be done. This is a short chronicle of what happened in the last days.

On Monday, 12^th a demo went through the city to make visible the students countersummitin Philosophy Faculty. Around 2000 international people walked the streets to make their voices heard.

On Tuesday 13^th in the morning, the ministerial summit took place in the outskirts of Madrid. Students had the aim of blockading the meeting and they tried to do so by making human blockades outside the minister’s hotels in the centre of the city. There were two blockade points, one human, in the other, students chained themselves with tubes. Police arrived to both blockades and removed the people from the blockade points after 30 minutes in one case, 20 in the other. There were no people harmed or arrested. The ministerial conference was delayed and the city centre was colapsed by traffic.

More info and pictures of demo and blockades: centrodemedios.org

In the last day, the occupation was left. Students did a final assembly to comment the countersummit, which was seen in a positive way though there were critics to make about organization and technical points. They also highlighted the importance of international networking.

Madrid countersummit ends, but the international struggle keeps on going,

Thanks to all who came and joined us, who supported us in any way and to all who worked restlessly during this week.

La lucha es el único camino,

Bologna keeps on burning

Madrid, April 2010