How many of you have heard that there have been wide protests in Spanish cities? According to my sources, a group called 15-M has organized a protest where official numbers state that about 50000 people have participated, but some comments say there have been a lot more. BBC report can be found from
here. I saw a mention of this in a local news paper that this sort of thing is being planned, but there have been no comments about the actual protesting. Neither did I find any mention from the largest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat. Not much has been said about the protesting in Portugal or Greece. I do know about the talks of forming the government in Greece, but for me it looks Finnish media has already embraced the all too familiar path of finlandization, where all negative news towards the current policy makers are suppressed - and willingly by the reporters themselves.
My understanding at the moment is that the protest movement is radically downplayed here. This is nothing short of amazing to see with my own eyes, luckily we do have the internet now. The fact that the protests have now reached Frankfurt is also worth noting.
The question is, how long can they keep up the facade?