Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Sunday, May 29, 2011

List of specific demands from Spain's 15-M movement

CONTROL OF BANKS:

Prohibition of any kind of bailout or capital injection to banks: those companies in difficulty should fail or be nationalized to form a public bank under social control.

Raising bank taxes in direct proportion to the social cuts being made in this crisis caused by mismanagement.

Returning all banks that received money from the public coffers to public ownership.

Banning investment of Spanish banks in tax havens.

Regulation of sanctions on speculation and banking malpractice.


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