High support for Spain's anti-Capitalism movement

High support for Spain's anti-Capitalism movement
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IRIB News - May 20th, 2012

Spain's "indignant" protest movement against economic inequality and spending cuts as legacies of Capitalism continues to enjoy widespread support a year after it was launched, a poll published Sunday showed. Overall 68 percent of Spaniards said they had sympathy for the movement, compared to 66 percent who expressed that opinion in June 2011 just after it was born with the establishment of a sprawling encampment at Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square, AFP quoted El Pais as saying. Even more of those surveyed, 78 percent, said the "indignant" protesters "are right", compared to 71 percent who felt this way in June of last year. The Metroscopia poll was carried out on May 16-17, just after the protesters wrapped up four days of demonstrations in 80 cities and towns across the country on May 15 to mark the birth of their Internet-fueled movement a year ago

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