"Do you exile 'ase k'? I'm struggling "

• Son la generación que se alzó contra el 'ninismo', la antipolítica y el discurso único de que la falta de oportunidades les hará vivir peor que sus padres
• Este domingo vuelven a la calle para protestar contra un mercado de trabajo que sólo les abre la puerta de la precariedad o el "exilio laboral"

Young people were presented as "no home, no gigs and no pension" but, above all, "without fear". Tired of being branded with the perverse concept of nini generation (neither in school nor working) decided to put "politics." And they did it since college, community centers and, above all, the street. Although many others have come after, his first major action was the call for demonstrations against precarity, unemployment and privatization of education. It was on April 7, 2011, when young people still blamed him lethargic situation which eventually burst into the emergence of 15-M. In Madrid managed to gather 7,000 people, although the mobilization had replicas in other cities.

Two years after that wake, members of the group Youth without a future meeting in a cafe of Madrid's Lavapies infoLibre relate to the mood of a platform committed to combating the only speech that his generation is doomed to live worse than their parents. When the group launched many haunted twenties and had just started college. Others were in their final years. The latter have already finished and were found face down with a labor market that only opens the door of precariousness. According to the latest EPA, for the fourth quarter of 2012, unemployment is already affecting 55.13% of young jobseekers, ten points higher than two years ago.

One of the faces that led the protest was to Pablo Padilla. At 24 years old, and about to end policies, has only 14 days quoted by a telephone interviewer job. At his side, after chewing a piece of carrot cake, Sarah speaks Bienzobas, 27. Although he started working at age 17, his working life only adds three. It takes a few months "militant" in this group, but, since joining, try not to miss a meeting of celebrating at a busy social center of Madrid's Masalaña. "It's a group that works from the young and for the young, so he convinced me," he says.

In the same idea that Sarah saturates Luis Alegre, Professor of Philosophy at the Complutense and "fan" of the group since its emergence. "They speak the language that speaks his generation. Though they share the traditional principles of the left, they do so with a different aesthetic. Has shown that one is no less committed to use the yellow color that identifies them-instead of red" says. "There was a need to break with the political culture of this country, also in the aesthetic," says Miguel Bermejo, activist 25 years.

Communication Tools

His ability to weave networks of communication-are more than 100,000 followers on Facebook and over 44,000 on Twitter, and the strength of its messages, word games that reach people of his generation, is another of its strengths. There Paul laughs rescues one of the posters to promote spread tracking Strike March 29, 2012 and spread like wildfire through social networks. "The 29 is not going to work or Peter", could be read next to a drawing of Peter Griffin, a character from the series Family Guy.

And how do you get that? "Giving head and being empathetic, things we talked about the living, not in abstract thought." Not surprisingly, therefore, the success of his last campaign against the lack of employment opportunities for youth. The dim job prospects have led many of them have spent the last two years dodging friends who were laid off from packing to seek opportunities abroad. The result of that experience came the campaign "We will, we throw", which began last March to protest against the "labor exile" that, say, your generation is doomed. 7000 Spanish youth all over the world have submitted their experiences them. And the anger of these young people is palpable now exiled on an interactive map that is updated daily with new stories.

The drama of these new economic migrants from non-official data is accurate because the statistics only reflect the emigrants that are targeted at the consulates-is what I try to visualize this Sunday at demonstrations in Spain. Also in several European and Latin American Spanish youth organized by residents in those places. However, the number of people between 15 and 29 years living abroad has increased from 242,154 in 2009 to 302,623 in 2012, according to the Census of Spanish Abroad (PERE), published by the National Statistics Institute.

Achievements and aspirations

"The official" is how they refer to the Office Precarious, a project launched in May 2012 to provide legal advice to the most vulnerable workers (trainees, false self, in fraud of any law ...) and denouncing the "abusive practices" increasingly common in the labor market. Months after the campaign started # abretubiblio, to vindicate libraries open for 24 hours in exam period. But beyond specific projects, believe that one of the greatest achievements is having made political discussions commonplace. "When you go to a job and someone decides what you charge, that's politics. In Spain there was no record of it," says Miguel.

Similarly points Esteban Sanchez, Professor of Sociology at the Complutense and expert on youth and insecurity. Considers the Future Without Youth movement links two realities, labor and politics. "Never the situation of young people in Spain had been so troubling in a democracy, they have managed to politicize so unconventional that discomfort through a qualitatively different activism and political activism away from previous generations."

Its unfinished, remember Paul, Sarh and Miguel, is expanding to other cities, groups say there are already being mounted in Zaragoza, Murcia and Palma-or approaching youth who do not share the link university, but the same problems generational. "It is hard, for example, to reach people who left school to work in construction and is now without opportunities.'s Why work is so important now. Internet is now the agora where everything moves," say

Although almost needless to say, are busy explain that they are not anti-political. "We are not an apathetic youth phenomenon, not feel disaffected by politics, but their policy is that we do not like," says Miguel. And remember that its not so nascent activism is here to stay him. Paul made it clear in the portrait of himself that contributed to the campaign "We will, we cast": "Paul. 24. Would you exilias or 'k ase'? I'm fighting."

ELENA HERRERA

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