Spain’s 15M encampment protests birthed Podemos

Evidence

Just three months earlier, Juan Pablo and Maria had made the pilgrimage to Madrid to join thousands of protesters at the Puerta del Sol, where a month-long encampment established Los Indignados, the 15M, as the new voice of a people who had finally been pushed to the breaking point by the economics of contempt. All that was left to say was “Ya. No mas!” Enough already! The convergence of so many citizens in Madrid led to a wave of protests across the nation, and eventually those protests would give way to new political parties, including Podemos. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 174

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s framing note that surveillance capitalism is a new capitalism needing tethering to society; the 15M movement is presented as an earlier tethering attempt.