Pepe Escobar: Inspiring Protests and a Decent Life

As a Monte Python Skit once advised: No-one Expects the Spanish Inquisition. Sorry, now it's No-one expects the Spanish Revolution, and now it's not even funny anymore: Monte Python revised for the age of Twitter! The exhilarating northern African winds of the great 2011 Arab Spring have now crossed the Mediterranean and hit Iberia with a vengeance. In an unprecedented social rebellion, the Generation Y in Spain is forcefully protesting - among other things - the stinging economic crisis. Mass unemployment is now at a staggering 45% among less than "30-year-olds", and the ossified Spanish political system treats treats the citizen as a mere consumer! This citizens' movement is issuing petitions that get five signatures per second! You can follow it on Twitter, if you are curious: (#spanishrevolution), streaming live from Puerta del Sol at Solttv.tv. Reverberations are being felt all across Spain and world-wide: From Los Angeles to Sydney. A mini-French revolution started at the Bastille in Paris, and Italians are planning THEIR revolutions from Rome and Milan to Florence and Bari. They call themselves "los indi gnados", translated to "the outraged". Puerta del Sol is their Tahir Square, a self-sufficient village complete with working groups, mobile first-aid clinics, and volunteers taking care of everything from cleaning to keeping an Internet signal.