Spanish 2011 protesters organized horizontally with consensus-based assemblies

Evidence

These groups, especially those affiliated with ¡Democracia Real Ya!, were committed to horizontalism and radical participatory democracy. Throughout Spain, protesters set up “people’s assemblies” that sought to come to decisions through full consensus. Anybody was free to join. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 261

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the horizontalism and radical participatory democracy at the core of the indignados movement, useful contrast to the leaderless-but-hierarchical OWS that followed.
• XREF: connects to: Vegan punk festivals physically modeled horizontal no-leader organizing in Brazil — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 128; A major Brazilian protest movement organized as consensus-based and leaderless by design — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 149; A third of Greeks and millions of Spaniards joined protest marches in 2011 — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 262 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Global protest movements of 2011 coordinated through shared tactics against the 1 percent #exemplifies (0.85)
• Hierarchical organization correlates with protest movement success #complicates (0.80) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 847
• Horizontal protest collectives cannot negotiate because they lack decision mechanisms #complicates (0.80) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 445
• Horizontal protest movements that refuse representation get co-opted or crushed by existing powers #complicates (0.78) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 444
• Protest movements need determinate goals and institutional embedding to last #complicates (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2158
• Modern protest movements are transient swarms held together by stimuli, not durable organizations #complicates (0.75) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 229
• Local protest movements can aggregate into a national politics without top-down coordination #exemplifies (0.75) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 620
• Coordination without unity strengthens political movements #expands (0.74) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1875
• Networks of local protest can constitute national politics from the ground up #exemplifies (0.73) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 620
• Digital protest crowds behave like swarms that cannot be organized durably #complicates (0.72) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 343
• Similarities in protest tactics across countries can mask crucially different local conditions #qualifies (0.72) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 46
• Global media templates shape how local protests are interpreted and copied #qualifies (0.72) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 272