Pressenza Pressenza International Press Agency Madrid, 23/08/10 The activist group began its march in Zaragoza and will travel 1,700 kilometres through several European cities where they will incorporate new protesters to accompany the initial group in the various sections.

For this initiative, the organizers have issued a manifesto advocating a new model for "distribution of wealth, work and healthcare", and urge workers and the unemployed to "rise up against the pessimism which rains down up on us, against the dictatorship of the markets and the governments which serve it and against the logic of capital."

Groups participating in the march include the CGT (General Confederation of Labor), the Workers Trade Union Organization of Aragon (OSTA), Ecologists in Action, the IU (United Left), the Anti-capitalist Left, the Junta Aragonesista, and various Christian associations.

Translation: Ramiro Pozzo