Conflict
Nowadays, Spain is one of the most effected european countries by the economical crisis. Since 2008, the unemployement rate has raised up to 27% and the unemployement of young people is close to 60%. And the effects of the bank bailout is provoking a severe austerity movement. The privatization of public entities, the brutal cuts in the social service budget and the constant legal reforms has brought lower salaries and higher taxes. Also it is estimated that in the last five years, more than 400,000 families have lost their homes and a fifth of the Spanish population are living in the poverty. For these reasons, on May 15th of 2011, thousands of young people went into the streets to protest their lack of future opportunities. At the end of the demonstration, some of them decided to sleep in the Puerta del Sol as part of the protest. The police removed them violently. This caused an indignant wave the next day that culminated in a camp inspired by the "arab spring" that lasted almost a month. This protest was mimiced in the most important western cities. Since then, the protest has spread throughout the whole country. From the public functionaries to...
