Campaign against a Europe for Capital and War - Panagea, Spain

A coalition of over one hundred local organisations led a demonstration against the European Union Heads of Government Summit that was being held in the city.

Pangea Association for Progressive Communications (APC) member in Spain, was part of the coalition, and contributed the creation of a website -- in Spanish only -- and an online calendar.

Conflict, Rights, Political Development, Social Development.

The Campaign seeks to create a new Europe in which: the market no longer controls the economy; citizens' social needs are satisfied and their cultural and environmental values are protected; the liberty and the equality of all persons, globally, are respected; democractic participation is a reality; the promotion of world peace is on the agenda; universal justice is sought in a very practical way, for instance through the immediate abolition of the external debt of impoverished countries; the planet and all creatures are valued; and a healthy diet is considered a right rather than a business.

Despite extraordinary security measures, warnings of violence, and actions that some described as efforts to sully the demonstration by linking it to terrorism, the march was peaceful and was attended by 400,000-500,000 people.