The center of Madrid in Puerta del Sol is beautiful....well it was about a month ago before the protesters arrived. I am all about protesting to get your views across for a good cause.... However, after about a month of protesters camping out in the center and little being accomplished I am kind of over it. Maybe I don't have a valid opinion since I, myself, am not a Madrileño but I checked out the action in Puerta del Sol yesterday and this is what I saw: tents, graffiti, hippies, lots of young people smoking weed, a ping pong table with people playing and one small rally with a speaker. Is this really what has come to a movement that a month ago seemed so powerful? Puerta del Sol was littered with garbage and graffiti. I was disgusted. If you want to create a strong movement you need to RELATE to the general public, get out in the streets and talk to people. This is what it was like about a month ago when it started but now its just become a sit-in for jobless young people to be lazy and smoke. Are they really proving a point by doing this? I think at this point they are just embarrassing themselves. Nobody is going to take a hippie pothead seriously...Get up, get out and DO something or else just go home.
Emily, I love the direction that your writing is moving with this blog. It is definitely becoming a photojournalist's blog: several very powerful photographs intermixed with a brief writing. The blog also seems to be becoming more introspective and more about the real important issues of the world like economy and politics. Thumbs up.
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