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Je suis

Bankster

For many years he was considered an exemplary economist, an exemplary banker, an exemplary person.  +15MpaRato now discovers that he was:

#ToqueaBankia with choke

Some years ago, watching dirties dances we found choke dance. This song, "choke con toque", was one of the few of choke style we liked, refers to ball culture. As you know we closely follow #15m and other activist groups, as Interviene Gila or #TubasuraAlBanco. This year though #Opboladenieve we found an interesting open debate that visualizes movements beyond typical demonstrations. Actions as the escrache proposed by PAH, the #OpLolaFlores, #cierratucuenta, and others that you can see in this pad via @tirorere. Trying to give a bit of atmosphere to the #15m2013, and with this idea of a sexy citizen movement, we made this video to support the action #ToqueaBankia which consists of "coming all together at a branch office of Bankia, in a fixed day and make peaceful and weary actions to block it: playing dominoes, paying invoices in cents. Putting down complaint forms so slowly and all you can think of".

Democracy's party

Some months ago José Jurado gave us a series of etchings he did when he was in Manchester, for us to complement them with colours and material.
Images taken from the mass media, later passed to this classic etching technique and then manipulated with collage and paint.

Images which reflect those moments of celebration of democracy in Spain so far in this century.

We think you might like to see this series on these days when corruption becomes a tradition in this country.

There is an etching we haven't published yet, with confetti from the last carnival.