Tens of thousands of protesters swarmed around Madrid's parliament building last week for anti-austerity demonstrations that continued for over four days and were met with a brutal police response.
Documentarians Brandon Jourdan and Marianne Maeckelbergh of the Global Uprisings project have been making short films about unrest and dissent all around the globe in recent months, from Europe to Egypt to the U.S.. They put together this short film (below), chronicling the protests and the police response, and detailing the reasons why so many Spaniards took to the streets.
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