Title: Anti-austerity movement in Spain - Wikipedia
Headings: Anti-austerity movement in Spain
Anti-austerity movement in Spain
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Contents
Background
Organization
2011 events
May 2011
15 May
16 May
17 May
18 May
20 May
Appeal before the Supreme Court
Appeal before the Tribunal Constitucional
21 May
22 May
24 May
25 May
27 May
June 2011
2 June
4 June
8 June
9 June
11 June
12 June
14 June
15 June
19 June
20–25 June
July 2011
1 July
23 July
24 July
25 July
26 July
27 July
August 2011
2 August
3 August
4 August
October 2011
15 October
December 2011
5 December
28 December
2012 events
May
Asturian miners' strike
August
September
2014 events
2015 events
March
April
Political response
See also
References
External links

Content: These protests took place mostly without incident, except for an exchange of insults between some protesters and members of the Fraternity of the Virgin of Rosario, whose procession overlapped with the end of the protest after the latter continued longer than expected. In Santiago de Compostela, a group of eight hooded people smashed several banks and local businesses. It was estimated by Deconomia that about 130,000 people throughout Spain followed the protesters that day. At the end of the demonstrations in Madrid, protesters blocked the Gran Vía avenue and staged a peaceful sit-in in Callao street, to which police responded by beating protesters with truncheons. As a result of the clashes and the following riots, several shop windows were destroyed and trash containers burned. Police officers arrested 24 people, and five police officers were injured. On 17 May, ¡Democracia Real YA! condemned the "brutal police repression" and rejected any association with the incidents. After the incidents, a group of 100 people headed to Puerta