Violence or Civil Disobedience ?

In the aftermath of the ECB meeting in Barcelona, this past 1st week of May 2012, I became extremely worried about the meaning of protest and resistance. 

Weeks earlier I had heard in the streets of Barcelona something very interesting <<we need to let 'them' know who is suffering the crisis, how and why. Our point of view>> someone said, and I kept thinking. 

Picture from El Singular

Whilst Spain and the international news were recovering from previous demonstrations and 29M Strike 2012 images that made it to the international headlines, citizens were as usual: complaining, struggling and fighting the new restrictive measures, inventing and multiplying resources to survive, and creating ways to make an echo outside. Given the previous circumstances in Spain, the Indignats/Indignados, and the angry tone of the 29M 2012 strike, the incoming ECB 2012 meeting (European Central Bank meeting 2012) was threaten, or so did the authorities thought about it. Despite of the economic crisis the PP government (right-wing party on power in Spain) decided to deploy another expensive plan to suspend the Schengen treaty for the duration of the 1st week of May to enhance public order and domestic security. Mainly, with the purpose to avoid the arrival of "violent groups" that could disturb the peaceful meeting. However, the irony was that acting like this the government was in true stating that does not know too well the population and demographics of its country, and it is at least undermining the citizens. Citizens that have a right to speak louder and to be listened to. The Spanish citizen is indeed inquiring a direct path to complain and to be listened to. The Spanish citizen is starting to believe in its own power and group gathering to protest and organize a competitive political party and representatives to finally provide the population with a real opportunity to be counted on the future of the country. After all, at this point the Spanish Citizen, the mother, the worker, the student, the children....had nothing else to lose, and it is from desperation that the "click" of change can be achieved. The way we do it will be triggered by the opportunities left,...and all together will draw the future of Spain, and possibly of the European Union.

The Spanish government right now is unaware of who and how a change could come from, and the citizens should indeed take this change to, as in 1968 take the streets to unveil at last the Sand and The Beach. Below, a beautiful part of James Farmer Jr. Debate that, after all, discuses the way to make our path and defend our rights: Violence or Civil Disobedience?

 (From the Great Debaters, Dir. Denzel Washington)

 << ln Texas... they lynch Negroes. My teammates and l saw a man strung up by his neck and set on fire. We drove through a lynch mob, pressed our faces against the floorboard. l looked at my teammates. l saw the fear in their eyes...   and worse... :   the shame. What was this Negro's crime that he should be hung, without trial, in a dark forest filled with fog? Was he a thief? Was he a killer? Or just a Negro?  Was he a sharecropper? A preacher? Were his children waiting up for him?  And who are we to just lie there and do nothing? No matter what he did, the mob was the criminal. But the law did nothing, just left us wondering why.     My opponent says  nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral. But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow South, not when Negroes are denied housing, turned away from schools, hospitals, and not when we are lynched. St. Augustine said, ''An unjust law is no law at all,''  which means l have a right, even a duty, to resist... with violence or civil disobedience. You should pray l choose the latter.  >> James Farmer Jr.