The rise of the Reflective Block

Here some news of the 15 May Newsletter, involving inflatable actions for the 12th and 15th of may..

*4. BARCELONA IS PREPARING THE #12M15M WITH A TOUCH OF CREATIVITY... *

Barcelona has been preparing the *Global May* actions for one month and
a half. A demo on the 12th and blockings and actions on the 15th are
planned. In Spain, May the 15th is also the first anniversary for the
15M movement.

A mass mobilization is expected (it could be bigger than the 350.000
people that took the streets on 15O). A circular route will start and
end in Plaza Catalunya, where the square will be taken again and
self-organized: a camp will be settled during 3 days with assemblies and
conferences to show the work done all along this last year and call more
people towards the 15M movement.

The */Forum dels pobles/* (/people's forum/) will embrace those days of
debates on the streets, focusing on 5 central themes: 1) No more money
to rescue the banks; 2) Public education and health care; 3) We say no
to the work reform and to job insecurity; 4) Decent housing for
everyone; 5) Universal basic income.

A lot of projects are on their way, like the */Reflectantes/* one.
Following the "Como acabar con el mal" (How to end evil) workshop -see
NL8- a workgroup has been creating reflective armours with the aimof
giving a funny and happy air to the demos and, at the same time, to
create protective and calming bodies: dressed in a brillant costume,
looking for a superhero aesthetics, and equiped by any kind of
reflecting devices, they are going to reflect all the evil that the
capitalism throws to the people and their lifes. Thanks to the
German  */Electric electric collective/*, and to their workshop of
inflatables, the Barcelona group is preparing inflatable cubes of 4
square meters that could become giant baloons to play with and also
protection against police violent charges.

Other cities such as Madrid, Malaga and Berlin are working on similar
projects.
A website is collecting the tutorials on how to make these structures,
as all the cities and towns could work with his "reflectantes" improving
and creating new tactics of creative activism.




*LINKS:*
Web for Barcelona's 12M15M
campaign: http://12m15m.acampadadebarcelona.org/?lang=es/
Web for global May: http://globalmay.org/
Global call from Barcelona in
English
http://acampadabcninternacional.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/call-for-12m-from-barcelona-12m15m/
Presentation of the reflectant
team: http://www.enmedio.info/los-reflectables-ya-estan-aqui/#.T5SrnXiA8UQ
Video: How to create a reflectocube
[EN] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w-8JYZLub-A

Blog de Electric Electric Collective
Testing the reflective armours http://bambuser.com/v/2573904