Ok. I have to tell this. I just have to share this. Never in my life have I experienced anything similar. About an hour ago me and my partner, our neighbours, the neighbours of our neighbours and their neighbours switched off their lights, televisions, computers and their phones - like in so many places in the world, stepped out to their balconies or to the street with pans and spoons to protest against the war. In fifteen seconds the air was filled with rattle and noise and people everywhere. Then we all started to switch on and off our lights, and the thing is that we live on the 15th floor with a large-screen view - suddenly there was this sea of lights in front of us. Twinkling lights in every direction saluting each other. We were standing on our balcony breathless saluting the nameless lights with our living room lamp. We've been to every demonstration since March 15th, sometimes with a million or more other people, and today at noon my colleagues and me, and the whole building, not to say the whole city, stepped down to the street to cut down the traffic completely for fifteen minutes as a protest against the war. Even the traffic regulators, or whatever those graphic panels are called, had the text "Traffic cut. Demonstration going in the city." And a few days ago, like almost every day now, the students were demonstrating on the highway, blocking the traffic. The truck drivers stepped down from their trucks and applauded to the students. But nothing can be compared to the sea of light tonight. Don't believe what the Spanish Government says. We know better. In this city and in all the other cities in the Peninsula that have been demonstrating for days against the politics of the Spanish Government. They say: "Not in our name."
From Barcelona with peace,
Annamari'