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Sea Change In Spanish Politics As Citizens Reclaim the City
Madrid's city council is prioritizing money for "social sustainability" and diverting €500 million into public spending, while Barcelona's city council has turned empty properties from banks into social housing.
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Spain's Electoral Rebellion: Welcome to the Post-Party Political Era, Part II
If the M15-Indignados movement inaugurated a new social grammar in Spain, last month's municipal election victories created a new political ecosystem – signaling transformational shifts that have upended the old order.
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Spain's Electoral Rebellion: Welcome to the Post-Party Political Era, Part I
From Madrid and Barcelona to Zaragoza, A Coruña, Cádiz and other major Spanish cities, government is now in the hands of independent citizen fronts called “confluences” – revealing a seismic shakeup in European politics.
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Six Lessons for the U.S. from Spain’s Democratic Revolution
I traveled to Barcelona and Madrid last month to witness the historic elections firsthand, and to learn from Spain’s independent social movements – and what I saw was a whole new way of doing politics.
