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3.3
July 2011
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20–25 June
The first columns of the Indignant People’s March be-
gan walking towards Madrid from throughout the coun-
try, planning to arrive in the capital on 23 July. The
March’s goal was to expand the proposals of the Move-
ment while visiting rural areas, collecting their demands,
and starting people’s assemblies. [98]
The March was organized in eight columns, consisting of
dozens of activists from 16 cities: [99]
• Eastern route: from Valencia, 20 June
Southern column near Aranjuez, July 21
• Murcia route: from Murcia, 20 June
• Northern route: from Santander, Bilbao and
Pamplona, 23 and 29 June
• Northwest route: from Santiago de Compostela,
Vigo, Ferrol, Avilés and Gijón, between 24 and 30
June
• Southern route: from Cádiz, 24 June
• Southeastern route: from Málaga and Motril, 25
June
• Northeastern route: from Barcelona, 25 June
• N-II route: from Zaragoza, 7 July
All columns of the Indignant People’s March unite in Puerta del
Sol on 23 July
3.3.2 23 July
After a month-long walk, the columns of the Indignant
People’s March joined in Puerta del Sol, where the move-
ment first emerged. Thousands collapsed the main en-
trances of Madrid in an improvised demonstration, as
sympathizers from Madrid and all over Spain joined the
walkers.
Indignant People’s March Northeastern column, 11 July
3.3
3.3.1
July 2011
1 July
The eight columns reunited at 9 p.m. in Puerta del Sol un-
der a banner saying “WELCOME DIGNITY,” received
with cheers and applause. The march culminated in a
wrap up and after-action review assembly, at which par-
ticipants shared the social, political and economic prob-
lems of the towns visited along the way, as well as the
proposals made by the townspeople. The protesters cre-
ated The Book of the People to collect these experiences
and redacted it into an official document to be deposited
in the Congress of Deputies' register. [101] A provisional
camp was established in Paseo del Prado to host the thou-
sands of newly arrived walkers. [102]
3.3.3 24 July
Dozens of people protested outside Barcelona’s town hall A demonstration formed under the motto “It’s not a cri-
during the swearing-in ceremony of Spanish Convergence sis, it’s the system” and the poetic “It’s not a crisis, I just
and Union's candidate Xavier Trias. [100]
don't love you anymore,” joined by the hundreds of thou-