TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS

on our last night in barcelona, we walked down from the jardin de miramar toward la calle de la princesa for some tapas. as we passed through la placa de sant jaume, we saw a stage to our right with musicians playing this music. after a few more steps, we saw hundreds of people dancing like this. they all seemed to be having a pretty good time. then, on the other side of the square, even more people had gathered around a man with a megaphone, all shouting like this. apparently, we had stumbled upon a protest by some citizens of barcelona who still think that their government is not giving them all the facts about who was behind the terrorist attacks in madrid on march 11, 2004. they all seemed very angry. by the way, the week after the 2004 attacks, 1 million people in barcelona marched to protest terrorism. that's 1 million out of a total of 1.5 million inhabitants. throughout the country, 28% of the entire population took to the streets. and subsequently, prime minister zapatero withdrew spanish troops from iraq. i think that's impressive.