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Catalan response to police crack down

May 31, 2011
At the Plaza Catalunya in Barcelona, protests set up a media center which was destroyed when the police cracked down.

Riot police scuffle with sitting demonstrators gathered in protest against the government's austeritymeasures at Barcelona's Plaza de Catalunya, May 27, 2011. Dubbed "los indignados" (The Indignant),tens of thousands of protesters have filled the main squares of Spain's cities since May 15th, in a wave ofoutrage over economic stagnation and government austerity, marking a shift after years of patience.Reuters Much more at: http://cryptome.org/info/barcelona-protest/barcelona-protest.htm (plus pictures of Lisbon solidarity)