What Remains of All Our Outrage?
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1258 .... May 20, 2016
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What Remains of All Our Outrage?
Esther Vivas
It's been five years since the massive occupation of May 15, 2011 that gave birth to the movement of los indignados, known as the 15M movement, followed by five years of faltering progress with many advances and set-backs along the way -- five years of a tremendous crisis, civil unrest and mass protest. What remains today after such a sustained period of outrage?
15M has changed the way we read and interpret the crisis we are facing. We were all told in 2008 that "we live beyond our means," were blamed for the present situation; but the movement of los indignados has enabled us to change the story. One of its principle slogans, "no somos mercancías... en manos de políticos ni banqueros" (we are not mere things to be manipulated by politicians and bankers), pointed us in this direction. 15M said that the banks were the authors of economic collapse, and that most of the political class was also complicit. Los indignados imposed a counter-narrative that challenged the official lie: neither guilty nor responsible, it said; we are victims of an age of corruption.
