First Action by Democratic Revolution

22 May 2011 Williamsom Square, Liverpool
Although there is an interested review of what happened on last Sunday, read here, I would like to add what happened in the 24h-ish previous to the event:
In only one night and a whole day, 10 people worked very hard, which I felt very proud of all of you. The just born group contacted the police and the press to inform about the demonstration; we created leaflets to analyse the politic situations in other European countries, see below. We also spread the word, by opening a new FB group and this blog. We even wrote the minutes of the first spontaneous reunion on Friday, containing what we had to do for the Sunday protest and for the future. In particular for Sunday, we looked for a lot of cardboards, poles, markers to compose signs and banners, adding up with portfolios of the last day press news and photos. In order to pay the attention of the people, two kind of masks were printed: a Pig and a Vendetta-like or Guy Fawkes...and finally all of us meeting at Williamson Sq, on Sunday noon, checking all the boxes of the TO DO LIST of the first demonstration. The group were excited to see the reaction of the people, to listen what they knew about the last demonstrations in Spain and just spreading to other parts of the world.

11.50am. we found at the square a pair of perfect fences, or steel railings, to stick on all the banners and signs, becoming "a wall of solidarity with Spain- and also for Greece and Italy", called like this by the Liverpool Solidarity Federation. We also provided the material to other people to make their own banner and protest. In one hour a lot of people turned up, from a lot of different backgrounds, and I copy again from Truth, Reason & Liberalism blog, as I can´t express better: "It was also noteworthy that almost all of those involved were Spanish, and certainly not recognisable as any of the same faces you see at every protest and demo in the city. In fact, the only people there who could be described as "regulars" in activism were two of us from Liverpool Solidarity Federation and a small bunch of teenagers involved in UK Uncut. Anarcho-syndicalists and youth with no particular deference to the traditional hierarchies of the left arguably fitting into the event with far more ease than a stall staffed by old Trots living on well-worn formulas for theory and action ever could". I only have to add, we were mostly Spanish, but also Italians, Greeks, English, French, Polish....from other countries of the world, not belonging to any particular active group.
We were just innocently happy to feel all of you there, so, without any idea of how to organize a group of spontaneous people (WE ARE AN APOLITICAL GROUP without any experience!!!!), we decided to make a circle on the floor, in order to listen what people wanted to say and why they had joined us. As the circle ended up being quite big, next time we will split in smaller groups, some pieces of paper were handed out for the circle to write: why did they come, and what do they want. You can see in the photos what everybody wrote. These photos should make you reflect...I encourage you to comment them*. That afternoon, we also created an email list to keep in contact. If you want to contact us, to contribute to this blog, you only email us: democratic.revolution.lvp@gmail.com or just join the page and group in FB!

To summarize that wonderful day, that was a successful protest to support the other demonstrations occurring in Spain and the spreading wave of protests across Europe. Meeting more people interested in join us and discussing with you, was highly grateful for all of us. Remember, analysing together how other world can be possible is the beginning, and everybody needs to contribute a bit and get involved, if we want to make this real, firstly with their own awareness of the actual situation in the world!DON´T LOOK AT US, JOIN US!

Please group, I encourage you to complete my partial point of view of what happened on 22/05/11.

Thanks everybody for coming last Sunday.
Join us in the next events

Calendar:
Next event Tuesday 31st at 7.00pm

These are the leaflets distributed by very encouraged members of the group, they had a really good discussions on the street.

Sun Day 22 May 2011

*Photos: work in progress.

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