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tries to be a memory of an action of civil society that saw how sistematically ,and specially from 2002 to 2004, its demands where not heard by power, its protests where ignored, and even, in Madrid´s region parliament scandal (1), the popular will was betrayed. Civil demonstrations, that started on June 2002 general strike, understimated by public media (2); that continued with those organized by Nunca Mais collective against the wrong Government management of Prestige´s crisis (3) , and that reached its bigger strength on those of February 2003 in the attempt to stop Aznar´s alliance with Bush to participate in Iraq´s illegal war (4) , crystallized on 3/13 () . That saturday, after an avalanche of news, thinkings and emotions after the 3/11 (11M) Madrid train bombings and the later attempts of ruling Popular Party (PP) to assign its authory to ETA (5) to gain profits on sunday´s general ellections, there started concentrations that, despite not being so massive as those agaist war, represent in a better way the fact that although power, any power, always tries to keep citizenship subdued, missinformed or narcotized, sooner or later it awakes

On Saturday 3/13 () , summoned in an spontaneous way, by SMS and e-mails, people gathered in front of PP national´s headquarters on Madrid´s Génova (Genoa) street at 6 in the evening. At the beginning we were only a few , much less than the riot police squad that guarded the building, and all of us fearing to be broken up violently as we were the year before on the demonstrations against war. But, gradually, as a constant trickle, with movile phones ringing without stop, we were a crowd. With no trace of violence, people were asking for true. Naional media barely covered the smart mob, but there were a lot of foreign correspondents. Short after, there arrived news from other cities: Barcelona, Bilbao, Donostia, Pamplona ...from where friends called asking: “Are you there? I´m watching it on EuroNews,” where people was doing the same: TAKE TO THE STREETS. Dusk arrive, people came by and leave. Rajoy was on TV sending us home and on TVE1 (public channel) a film about an ETA terrorist attack that was already shown the night before on Madrid TV, which provocated protests from film´s director´s and productor´s and that attack victim´s familiars. Concentration started to move: Sol (city center), Atocha (where the bombings took place) , the Parliament, Sol again, Génova again. And so it went on, till dawn.

(1)  On May,2003 Madrid regional elections resulted in 53 MP for PP (right), 46 for PSOE and 9 for IU (both left). Combined, PSOE and IU had the majority. 15 days later of the election, on the inaugural session of the parliament, unspectedly 2 MP ( E . Tamayo and M.J. Saez) from PSOE refused to support their party. As there´s a national pact that does not allow a party to take advantage of this kind of situations, 6 months later the elections had to be repeated. The results were: PP 55 MP, PSOE 44, IU 9. Just as if Tamayo&Saez had changed of party. Thus, some call this el “ Tamayazo ”

(2)  On June, 2002 there was a general strike. Public TV news “informed” from 8am in the morning that the strike was a failure, although millions of people had participated personally at it . Alfredo Urdazi, the anchorman of the main national public TV station during the PP administration , was later sentenced by spanish justice and EU for missinforming during the the media coverage of the general strike ( as well as for the coverage of ecological disaster of the Prestige oiltanker), but still continued performing the role of spokesperson in the main news bulletin for the government for months. Including 13M

(3)  On Winter 2003 Prestige oiltanker broke its hull near Galicia´s coast. PP government missattended it ( one of its ministers was hunting meanwhile) and tried to get rid of it, setting an erratical ( in the best of the cases) course for the tanker that led to its shipwreck in open waters and multiplied the efect of the spill, causing the worst ecological disaster in Spain´s history, with oil arriving to french beaches. Public media under political control of PP and frienly media tried to understimate it. The citizen collective Nunca Mais (in galician Never More, as others tankers had already wrecked before in Galicia´s coasts) organized huge demonstration against PP policies on this fact and its media coverage.

(4)  Despite the fact 90% of the population was against Irak´s war, Aznar send troops and supported Bush. On Feb 15 2003 there were the biggest demostrations in Spains history, until those of Mar 12 2004´(12M), against the Madrid terrorist attack

(5) Basque independentist terrorist group, that has killed 800 people in Spain since the 60´s, and frequently used by PP as its “favourite enemy”.