The precarious housing and employment conditions of the immigrant population in Barcelona's El Raval neighbourhood are simply a reflection of the conditions that our Spanish parents and grandparents - also migrants - experienced during the post-war period.

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” George Bernard Shaw. Some images from the 2011 protests at Puerta del Sol in Madrid. “These are just some impressions, which I have etched in my mind. With all my respect to the people who have acted in accordance with their beliefs and gathered in this square for days. And to Antonio, warrior of words who shares his outrage with all those present."

On May 27, 2011, police tried to evict the camp at Plaça Catalunya (Barcelona), which consisted of citizens exercising their right to freedom of assembly in a public space. The ensuing events in Barcelona became one of the most-documented cases of police brutality in recent history. They will also go down in history for the effective, exemplary and forceful non-violent response of the demonstrators. Following these events, a group of citizens filed a complaint reporting police abuse. But the judge closed the case without even hearing the complainants. This decision effectively left the claimants – and all citizens – utterly defenceless, and left the perpetrators of the serious events that took place on May 27 unpunished. It also created a dangerous precedent that is reminiscent of the impunity that existed in Spain during Franco’s dictatorship. #SOS27M Police impunity questions Spain’s democracy and justice system and calls for the support of the international community.

I don't think politicians have read any history at all, modern or ancient. Situations repeat themselves, and no matter how many guns they have, it will all be repeated again, because it will be necessary. Watch out world leaders, murderers like Mr Bush...this is a Barcelona you can't see; one that hides.

An interview with Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduard Galeano, who spoke at the Acampadabcn assembly on May 23, 2011. “There is another world beating inside this one, a world that is different and seemingly difficult. It will not easily be born, but its definitely beating in this present world, and I sense its presence in these spontaneous demonstrations: in Plaça Catalunya in Barcelona, in Sol in Madrid (...) People ask me: “What's going to happen now?.. What’s next?... What will become of this?” And I can only answer from my own experience. I say: “Well... nothing... I don’t know what’s going to happen, and it doesn’t really matter to me. All I care about are the things that are happening now, the present moment, and what this moment augurs about another moment that will come into being, although I do not know how it will be. It would be as if, every time I had an experience of love, I asked myself what was going to happen next."

The Mahabharata is the epic poem of oblivion; of forgetting the source.