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
Watch full multipart Protests In Spain
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.
