By now everyone knows what has been happening in Spain for the last couple of weeks, the so called #spanishrevolution. Basically, everyone is fed up with politicians governing according to the markets, and against the needs of the people. An electoral reform is needed to prevent power simply switching back and forth between two parties, none of which is seen as actually caring for the well-being of the citizens. Personally I’m amazed that only about one hundred candidates of our latest elections were under court investigation for political corruption charges, given the situation we currently face. By the way, most of such candidates belong to the party that has been the clear winner of these elections, which should speak by itself about how adequate our electoral system is/isn’t.

Add to it official rulings against civilized protests, violent police behavior against peaceful demonstrators, an the absolute certainty of not being taken into account, and you can imagine why everybody has been so pissed off.

Here’s a video to show how much work remains to be done. This was shot in Barcelona on May 27, when peaceful protesters were violently dislodged. I saw it through Meneame. You can skip to 2:05 to see Spanish Law Enforcement at it’s finest. Sensitive people should skip it all together.

After all, this is the country where the Government has just spent almost 750K€ as a covert gift to SGAE, our equivalent to RIAA, also known as ladrones. Beware, no copy-left music there. It is shameful in so many ways that I better not get started.

Saying Creative Commons is not an option is outrageous. Not just because I’ve always been a FLOSS advocate and CC simply fits in my mindset. I believe these kind of options simply make the World a better place.

Take this as an example. My friend Álvaro had a CC song playing today. It is called Code Monkey. Not only did I love it, being a geek and all. Knowing it was CC, I googled about the author, and it turns out Jonathan Coulton releases his work under CC. He used to be one of us (and forever will be), but he switched fields from IT to music, and he seems to be doing pretty well. Kudos to you, sir! I love your work.

I’m pretty sure he would have had a hard time trying to live from his art through mainstream media (yes, Mu$ic Indu$try, I’m talking about you).

Not only does he succeed and has made my day a lot more fun. I also found out his work has been used in award winning works, which is something permitted by the licensing used. This music-clip won several Anime contests back in 2007. I’m not saying it is like winning a Nobel prize. But Madonna is not going to win one either. And quite frankly, seeing that Henry Kissinger once won the Peace Nobel prize, this shouldn’t even be considered as a dignifying example.

Check out the videoclip. I for one had a warm fuzzy feeling listening to Jonathan Coulton‘s work. You can buy all his pieces at really really inexpensive prices.