ABSTRACT
On May 15, 2011, thousands of citizens in the main spots of Spain took to the streets in demonstrations of protest, answering the call of a Facebook event that had circulated in the previous months through social media and online communities. Reasons to protest were quite defined and specific though. A rampant unemployment that for younger people was reaching dramatic proportions, a widening of the gap between citizens and a political class perceived as privileged and detached from everyday problems, constant scandals of corruption, and above all, a deep dissatisfaction with a dysfunctional democracy, stuck in an increasingly bipartisan system where both options end up meaning, in practical terms, no real option, and perceived as equally inefficient and unable to provide real solutions. In the months after the events on May 15 many different narratives were proposed and drafted to create a genealogy of a movement.
