In this week’s episode of People & Power, Al Jazeera goes to Spain to tell the story of why they have risen up over the last month. The show includes some wonderful footage from the protests and insightful interviews with Spanish academics and activists that help put the nonviolent movement in context.
To read our report on how Spain’s Real Democracy Now movement got started, click here.
Eric Stoner is a co-founding editor at Waging Nonviolence and an adjunct professor at New York University. His articles have appeared in The Guardian, Mother Jones, Salon, The Nation, Sojourners and In These Times.
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