Para un pequeño grupo de activistas con sede en Barcelona dedicado a temas de la cultura libre, la neutralidad de Internet, la tecnopolítica y la democracia de la red como formas de lucha contra la corrupción, el trabajo de este colectivo ha tenido más impacto del que la mayoría de los activistas pueden soñar. Xnet no sólo ha jugado un papel clave en el descubrimiento de los escándalos... Read more
For a small group of activists based in Barcelona working on free culture, internet neutrality, technopolitics and network democracy as a way to fight against corruption, their work has had more impact than most activists can dream of. Not only have they played a key role in uncovering the political & economical scandals that are shaking Spanish politics today but their campaigns have also... Read more
The ability of the Occupy movement to create platforms outside our closed political system to force open a debate on inequality, the taboo at the heart of the financial crisis, is impressive. It is a new source of political creativity from which we all have much to learn.... Read more
The Catalans have a phrase: 'em planto'. It has a double meaning: 'I plant', or 'I've had enough'. At end of the huge 15 October demonstration of Indignados (‘outraged’) in Barcelona – the papers put it at around 250,000 – we were we greeted with an impromptu garden under the Arc de Triomf, the end point of the march. Campaigners for food sovereignty had planted vegetables in well-spaced rows,... Read more
