Question to those in Spain

I was in Wichita, Kansas for a conference yesterday, March 11, when the bombings (10 of them?) happened in Madrid, Spain. I caught the end of a news report on TV and I assumed, based on what I heard, that a bomb had gone off in one train. I had no idea of the extent of it all.

I went to the first presentation for the day where AP News was demonstrating some software that gives Universities access to their entire photo archive and it’s updated constantly with about 2,000 pictures a day. The guy talking did a search for “today” and there in front of me, projected on a big screen on a wall, I started seeing pictures of what happened in Madrid and it sank in a little more.

But anyway, I have finally been able to catch up on the news now that I’m back home. I’ve been watching CNN in my office for a couple of hours so far and I’ve seen footage of demonstrations calling for an end to the violence. What I thought was strange was that every person was holding their hands up. And my question is, what is that supposed to signify? What is the origin of that? I guess I don’t get it.

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