

Source: x-press.org




In June 2012, they started a nationwide campaign, coordinated throughout the entire country, with the purpose to read out their manifesto in Deutsche Bank branches (in Sabadell, Mataró, Palma de Mallorca, Castellón, Córdoba and Sevilla). Their manifesto dealt with increasing democracy, abolishing the financial dictatorship, salvaging people instead of banks, and cooperating of “our German brothers” with all other Europeans. In Barcelona, one partaker of the movement went to the Deutsche Bank to confuse the police, while the others took to the German consulate to read out their manifesto and talk to the consul. Later on, they marched to Barcelona’s centre, singing traditional songs of resistance and making their support for the striking miners known.

Having not only banks for a target, they have also occupied a bus to protest again cutbacks in the welfare state. Among the further topics the Iaioflautas are against is the usage of rubber bullets by police and the criminalisation of peaceful protest.