On Sunday 19 June, over 200,000 protesters — young and old, those with jobs and those without — marched in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville and nearly 60 other cities to drive home their anger over high unemployment, bleak economic prospects, and austerity measures. After this weekend, the country’s one-month-old protest movement was regarded as gathering momentum. The movement demanding democratic reforms had demonstrated its capacity to peacefully mobilise large numbers of people, and could no longer be ignored by political and economic leaders, commentators said.
English: http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Spanish-marchers-protest ...;
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