Spain's Crisis Leads To Rise Of Grass-Roots Groups
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Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images A demonstrator shouts during a protest against housing evictions in Madrid last month. The sign to his right reads, "Stop evictions." A year and a half ago, recession-ravaged Spanish society reacted to the economic crisis with the "Indignados," a mass protest that inspired the worldwide "Occupy" movement. The "angry ones" are long gone from Spanish streets, but they've evolved into many grass-roots associations now filling the gaps left by the eroding welfare state, spawning a new form of anti-austerity resistance that embraces all branches of society, from those who have lost homes to foreclosures, to the entire judiciary. Hardly a day passes in Spain without a noisy demonstration by one sector of society or another. One day, it's doctors. With drums beating, thousands of white-clad health workers protest government plans to overhaul the country's highly respected public health system.
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Arturo Samis
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Relevance: 0.430973
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| 0 | "They are trying to steal our education," Samis says. ... |
| 0.0855444 | "They are trying to steal our education," Samis says. "Now it is getting so expensive we cannot afford it. In some years maybe there won't be any public education in Spain. This is in the long term a shout that we need help to keep on studying." |
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Violetta Assiego
Overall Sentiment: -0.160968
Relevance: 0.392093
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| -0.255026 | "The Indignados gave birth to a myriad number of citizens' groups that are channeling much of the protest and people's sense of desperation," says Assiego. |
| -0.224619 | "The Indignados gave birth to a myriad number of citizens' groups that are channeling much of the protest and people's sense of desperation," says Assiego. "Without these groups, there would have been a social explosion." |
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Jose Luis Armengol
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Relevance: 0.358992
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| 0 | "In an unprecedented action, we've all joined together — judges, prosecutors, lawyers and clerks, from left to right. We feel this incompetent political establishment is trying to dismantle the basic pillars of Spanish society — health, education and justice," Armengol says. ... |
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Pablo Blazquez
Overall Sentiment: -0.35985
Relevance: 0.347823
Pilar Saura
Overall Sentiment: -0.235711
Relevance: 0.326321
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| 0.0292029 | "All that generosity is impressive, but simultaneously, as the crisis is so big, it is almost impossible to cover all the needs," Saura says. ... |
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Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy
Overall Sentiment: -0.154147
Relevance: 0.314009
Olwen Leaman
Overall Sentiment: 0.0686825
Relevance: 0.309156
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| 0.0641343 | "What they want to do is privatize the hospital, and we are here to just say we don't want that to happen. We want that to stop because we think it has to be universal; everybody has to be able to go to hospital," says Olwen Leaman, ... |
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Irene Gonzalez
Overall Sentiment: 0.137343
Relevance: 0.27638
Cristina Escribano
Overall Sentiment: 0.0403707
Relevance: 0.272128
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Spain's Crisis Leads To Rise Of Grass-Roots Groups
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The country's protest movement has evolved into a broad range of groups now filling the gaps left by the eroding welfare state. From doctors to teachers and homeowners to judges, Spaniards are organizing.
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