Participation of the 15M activist movement
The 15 m movement participation profile is difficult to delimit since it was a very heterogeneous group. At first, citizens were for individual title completely disconnected from unions and/or political parties but were committed to regenerating politics. In case of linking with these associations it was personal and never as a delegate of the same. With the passage of time, a new group with political ideologies appeared on the scene that began to acquire relevance due to the decrease in intensity of the first group of people without political activism. As for ideologies, the left ones prevailed although there were also small groups of animalists, environmentalists and feminist.
However, the most heterogeneous aspect was age and socio-economic level. Regarding the first, the majority were at an age between 20 and 40 years although there were differences depending on the city where the movement had been seconded. However, this majority also converged with the elderly and even teenagers. Regarding the second, there was a wide range as Roitman (2012): "… are stopped for long duration, precarious workers, professionals looking
ORGANIZATION
The basis of the 15M organization were the camping that were carried out around the Spanish geography and that helped create the necessary environment to achieve the proposed objectives. These camping varied in size and structure so that each of them were independent and different from the others. The camping the larger organization, structure and greater name of subgroups. However, all of them had two common factors: the forms of action and decision making.
Decision making was carried out in assemblies formed by a horizontal structure in which there was no directive couple or hierarchy but that all participants equally could give their opinion democratically. These assemblies were divided into: commissions, working groups and general assembly.
The commissions were meetings developed in public sites where everyone who wanted to attend and participate. Mainly, they were dedicated to concrete and necessary tasks for the support and dissemination of the movement such as: infrastructure for camping, food, legal advice, media, cleaning ..
The working groups were also meetings but that were held in specific places at a few hours and were open for the entire citizenship. In these meetings, these were issues or issues that affected society as a whole and that were considered important by the outraged where the objective was to promote a debate and promote the critical spirit as well as make proposals.
The General Assembly was the body where all the proposals considered in the working groups were transmitted and deliberated, ultimately, whether or not they were carried out. Were composed of all camping and supporters who wanted to collaborate. Decision making was carried out unanimously and not by majority, so that the decision was not taken until all attendees could express their opinion in this regard. For the correct execution of it, several groups of people who were in charge of modulating and coordinating the meeting were available: team of facilitators, interpreters, minutes …;
The 15 M replaces global stimuli but they do so interacting with local stimuli, so they do not show a globalized structure, but glocalized. That is, its response not part of globality, it is much more located, that is, part of the glocal. In 15M, the local takes true form around the globalidad of the problem.
In turn, all these assemblies and most work groups or Tenin commissions and has on the Internet their best burning both for the dissemination of acts, demonstrations and demonstrations, and for the organization of them.
The 15M action forms were already marked from the beginning for five key sides: pacific tone of understanding their actions and manifestations, the way of creating, exposing and transfering their message, its rejection of the existence of a leader, does not incorporate flagsand symbols prior to my 15, and the use of the NTIC, elements that mark the identity of the movement.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Delgado, s. (s.F). The 15-M movement and the outraged: a new cycle of social movements? (Master’s thesis). University of Oviedo, Asturias
- Mora, f. (2012). Organization and participation in 15 m. Sociological praxis, 16, 99–124. Recovered from https: // dialnet.united.is/servlet/article?CODE = 4777293
- Roitman, m. (2012). Those outraged to the rescue of politics. Madrid, Spain: Akal Editions.
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