More than 47 000 [March 9] have already announced their participation in the "manifestation of the swath generation, scheduled March 12 in Lisbon and Porto. Facebook page devoted to it, it says that the mobilization will be "non-partisan, secular and peaceful." The idea is to bring together all those who have neither job nor income.
Those who are dragging internship placement and have never received a holiday bonus [Portugal paid to all employees], or even unemployment benefits, since they've contributed. Those in the uncertainty of the system of recibos verdes ["green receipts", originally designed to reward self-employed without health insurance, but which are particularly widespread in the public and deprive them of many rights ( paid leave, maternity leave, unemployment benefits, etc.).
these employees become service providers], postponing their lives overnight. Those who, though overqualified, resist the temptation to emigration [11% of graduates prefer to leave the country]. Thousands of Portuguese youth, representatives of the "generation without compensation" referred to the song by Deolinda, became their protest song, their generational anthem, March 12 are expected to stand up and say enough is enough.
"We want the Portuguese company opens eyes: in the end, we are the generation most qualified in our history, and the country is designed not to take advantage of our potential [referring to the nickname of" Geração parva "Generation idiot, stupid mentioned in the song Deolinda]", explains João Labrincha, an organizer of the "demo".
At age 27, holds a Master unemployed and without compensation because his last "job" was an internship, the young man responsible person in his entourage had working on permanent contracts. "The people I know are either unemployed or precarious, temporary or fellows, and in all cases with total uncertainty about their future." A snapshot of today's youth is confirmed also in the entourage of the director Raquel Freire who has already mobilized for the protest.
"Almost 60% of my fellow graduates work as vendors or in call centers for 400 euros per month. And then there are the 10% who survived and who are happy, and others have emigrated." Raquel, who, when she is not running, teaches, won last year's average of 400 euros per month, part-time.
She is 37 years old, a son and never signed a work contract of his life. "I stopped contributing to social security a few years ago, simply because I could not. And if the past few years I returned to a more concrete activism, because, like everyone else, I can not get out. There is a proletarianization of the Portuguese bourgeoisie, but it goes further: it is an entire generation is doomed to not enjoy the minimum basic conditions for living with dignity.
"Other" zoom "on this reality, the journalist Joao Pacheco . At 30, father of a boy two years he has been a journalist since 2005. He too has never had a contract of employment, even of limited duration, and never got out of the system of recibos verdes. He lives in a home has bought his mother.
"In the present situation, if I were to live only income from my work, if my family did not help me, I already gave up." João is also "friend" with the event generation swath on Facebook. "I see a phenomenon of imitation of what's happening in Arab countries." Not without a difference, however: "The police pummeled us but not as in Tunisia, as Tunisians, we are hostages.
My whole generation is hostage to blackmail: 'It's that or nothing, right or unemployment. "" That, "in this case is the precariousness of work, internships strung, inability to acquire a car or a home to himself, even to feed her children. According to the Portuguese Institute of Statistics, the country had in the last quarter 2010 68 500 unemployed people with master's degrees.
This figure does not of course the million Portuguese who, according to the movement Fartos / as Estes Recibos Verdes ["tired of these receipts green"], are forced to work improperly received the green scheme. You should also add those who depend on temporary employment agencies, scholars and trainees eternal ...
With them, insecurity affects about two million people. Those who do not belong to strive to find all kinds of nicknames for this generation. Kangaroo generation, because these young people are reluctant to leave the cocoon parental the "neither-nor", for neither workers nor students; mileuristas the concept back to Spain - but that applies to Portugal that with much good will, since their average wages, when they have jobs, rarely reaches 500 euros.
No doubt, "the anger rises, rises and will eventually explode, says João Pacheco. What I wonder is whether people will continue to opt for antidepressants and self-destruction, or whether they will begin to demand that heads roll and in the latter case, I hope they will through the vote and democratic movements.
" Because the risk is great to see that generational discontent erupting into violence. "Discontent is growing, marked by a questioning of a certain type of supervision and ideological affiliation, which shows the inability of the organized forces (unions, parties, etc..) To emerge as voice of this discontent, "sociologist Elísio Estanque.
"And this lack of supervision increases the risk of social explosion." With or without violence, if there is no revolution, the entire country loses, warns Raquel Freire. "If this generation is not what makes the generation of 25 April [that of the Revolution of 1974], basta say and make clear to political power it had its dose of slavery - because it exactly what it means when we do not have the basic social rights we had ten years ago - the only solution is immigration and it's thirty years of development that will fly in Smoke.
" In other words, "Portugal takes the risk of losing the best educated generation that has ever had, a generation that has yet to do any move and to prevent it becoming a mess of German and English tourists." 
Those who are dragging internship placement and have never received a holiday bonus [Portugal paid to all employees], or even unemployment benefits, since they've contributed. Those in the uncertainty of the system of recibos verdes ["green receipts", originally designed to reward self-employed without health insurance, but which are particularly widespread in the public and deprive them of many rights ( paid leave, maternity leave, unemployment benefits, etc.).
these employees become service providers], postponing their lives overnight. Those who, though overqualified, resist the temptation to emigration [11% of graduates prefer to leave the country]. Thousands of Portuguese youth, representatives of the "generation without compensation" referred to the song by Deolinda, became their protest song, their generational anthem, March 12 are expected to stand up and say enough is enough.
"We want the Portuguese company opens eyes: in the end, we are the generation most qualified in our history, and the country is designed not to take advantage of our potential [referring to the nickname of" Geração parva "Generation idiot, stupid mentioned in the song Deolinda]", explains João Labrincha, an organizer of the "demo".
At age 27, holds a Master unemployed and without compensation because his last "job" was an internship, the young man responsible person in his entourage had working on permanent contracts. "The people I know are either unemployed or precarious, temporary or fellows, and in all cases with total uncertainty about their future." A snapshot of today's youth is confirmed also in the entourage of the director Raquel Freire who has already mobilized for the protest.
"Almost 60% of my fellow graduates work as vendors or in call centers for 400 euros per month. And then there are the 10% who survived and who are happy, and others have emigrated." Raquel, who, when she is not running, teaches, won last year's average of 400 euros per month, part-time.
She is 37 years old, a son and never signed a work contract of his life. "I stopped contributing to social security a few years ago, simply because I could not. And if the past few years I returned to a more concrete activism, because, like everyone else, I can not get out. There is a proletarianization of the Portuguese bourgeoisie, but it goes further: it is an entire generation is doomed to not enjoy the minimum basic conditions for living with dignity.
"Other" zoom "on this reality, the journalist Joao Pacheco . At 30, father of a boy two years he has been a journalist since 2005. He too has never had a contract of employment, even of limited duration, and never got out of the system of recibos verdes. He lives in a home has bought his mother.
"In the present situation, if I were to live only income from my work, if my family did not help me, I already gave up." João is also "friend" with the event generation swath on Facebook. "I see a phenomenon of imitation of what's happening in Arab countries." Not without a difference, however: "The police pummeled us but not as in Tunisia, as Tunisians, we are hostages.
My whole generation is hostage to blackmail: 'It's that or nothing, right or unemployment. "" That, "in this case is the precariousness of work, internships strung, inability to acquire a car or a home to himself, even to feed her children. According to the Portuguese Institute of Statistics, the country had in the last quarter 2010 68 500 unemployed people with master's degrees.
This figure does not of course the million Portuguese who, according to the movement Fartos / as Estes Recibos Verdes ["tired of these receipts green"], are forced to work improperly received the green scheme. You should also add those who depend on temporary employment agencies, scholars and trainees eternal ...
With them, insecurity affects about two million people. Those who do not belong to strive to find all kinds of nicknames for this generation. Kangaroo generation, because these young people are reluctant to leave the cocoon parental the "neither-nor", for neither workers nor students; mileuristas the concept back to Spain - but that applies to Portugal that with much good will, since their average wages, when they have jobs, rarely reaches 500 euros.
No doubt, "the anger rises, rises and will eventually explode, says João Pacheco. What I wonder is whether people will continue to opt for antidepressants and self-destruction, or whether they will begin to demand that heads roll and in the latter case, I hope they will through the vote and democratic movements.
" Because the risk is great to see that generational discontent erupting into violence. "Discontent is growing, marked by a questioning of a certain type of supervision and ideological affiliation, which shows the inability of the organized forces (unions, parties, etc..) To emerge as voice of this discontent, "sociologist Elísio Estanque.
"And this lack of supervision increases the risk of social explosion." With or without violence, if there is no revolution, the entire country loses, warns Raquel Freire. "If this generation is not what makes the generation of 25 April [that of the Revolution of 1974], basta say and make clear to political power it had its dose of slavery - because it exactly what it means when we do not have the basic social rights we had ten years ago - the only solution is immigration and it's thirty years of development that will fly in Smoke.
" In other words, "Portugal takes the risk of losing the best educated generation that has ever had, a generation that has yet to do any move and to prevent it becoming a mess of German and English tourists."
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