Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Spain's Robin Hood Mayor

TRNN Exclusive Interview with Spain's Robin Hood Mayor

by TRNN

Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo has become the face of the growing protest movement in Spain


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Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo has become the face of the growing protest movement in Spain. The mayor of a small town in Southern Spain called Marinaleda, he has become well-known for leading combative protests and sit-ins, including a protest in a supermarket in which food was taken and redistributed to the poor. But Sánchez Gordillo has backed up his critiques of capitalism with a viable alternative. In his town of Marinaleda, there is full employment, people rent homes for 15 Euros a month, and everybody who works in the agricultural cooperative that was formed, including the mayor, earns the same salary.