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During the spring-summer of 2011, as a result of the 15M movement, a group of people who met in Sol
decided to carry out a series of interviews to amplify the voices that came out of Sol.
They did it through three questions...
What does the 15M movement mean to you?
The 15M movement has been the spontaneous explosion
of everything that's latent in society
of non conformity, of indignation,
of the institutions not working as they should
and above all of many people getting tired
of precisely this lack of compromise
by those in public service who have the obligation
of giving answers and of being coherent
and of having convictions, don't have them.
To me it's that spontaneous explosion which therefore
has to be assumed and channeled
and projected so it can become
a permanent force.
What proposal would you take to a General Assembly?
It depends on which field, perhaps in the one I know,
in that which I know best,
because of my profession and my experience
I would certainly propose
that justice became a real defense mechanism
of people's interests,
to set up mechanisms to make it faster,
to bring it closer to citizens,
for judges to be held accountable
also by the citizens,
to set up mechanisms of purity and cleanness
that avoid any process
or any form of corruption
and, of course, regarding politics
I would demand that politicians
really respond for the things they promise,
that there were direct elections
in which each one responded to the citizens
and did so face to face.
I mean, I think that
the model in which politics
are only practiced from the podium is over
and that it has to be popularized a lot more.
What makes you feel outraged?
I am outraged by indifference,
I'm outraged by the lack of responsibility,
the lack of compromise, in many people
who should feel strongly about the public sphere,
who should fight for convictions,
for values which give as a meaning as people,
that is, not fighting for what's yours
but to defend others.
That is, that lack of response
and that lack of push, of rebelliousness
is what worries me.
And I'm worried about issues such as
justice, or universal justice
not drawing the attention of a city,
of citizens which really
lack a lot of justice.
Well, the message would be that
the strength of the reasons that move this movement
is to implement them,
and to try to pass them on to each and every citizen
and that this movement has to evolve,
it has to be dynamized
and not be just this action of protest
because if not, the energy, the vitality is lost.