A third of Greeks and millions of Spaniards joined protest marches in 2011

Evidence

During these months, it’s possible that up to three million Greeks, a third of the population, and six million Spaniards out of around forty-five million total participated in a wider set of marches and demonstrations. A vast majority of people in both countries said they agreed with the wider goals of the protest movements. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 262

Categorization

• QUESTION: A third of an entire national population participating is an extraordinary turnout that bears checking against other sources on the Greek and Spanish 2011 mobilizations.
• XREF: connects to: Global protest movements of 2011 coordinated through shared tactics against the 1 percent; Spanish 2011 protesters organized horizontally with consensus-based assemblies — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 261; 2011 uprisings crossed continents through imitation of tactics and solidarity (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Global protest movements of 2011 coordinated through shared tactics against the 1 percent #exemplifies (0.88)
• 2011 mass protests shared tactics across continents against the global 1 percent. #exemplifies (0.88)
• Spanish 2011 protesters organized horizontally with consensus-based assemblies #exemplifies (0.85) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 261
• 2011 uprisings crossed continents through imitation of tactics and solidarity #exemplifies (0.85)
• The 2011 square movements broke from older left protest forms in scale and organization #exemplifies (0.80) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 87