Enric Duran (AKA Robin Bank) in English from Shaun Chamberlin on Vimeo.
Enric Duran (AKA Robin Bank) is a Catalan activist who spent the two years to 2008 taking out loans totalling nearly half a million euros, and then donated all of the money to various social movements working to build alternatives to our unequal and suicidal economic-political system. I find this video message - revealing what he had done and explaining his motives - to be one of the most inspiring stories of insight and resultant action that I have yet heard.
Here are Enric's words subtitled in English.
As a part of this operation Enric prepared a publication explaining the corruption of our economic system, the looming energy crisis, and the ideas defended by the Degrowth movement, a magazine called 'Crisi' released on Sept 17, 2008. Its associated website can be read also in English:
http://www.17-s.info
Enric left Spanish territory 2 days before his action of civil disobedience was made public and is now awaiting the consequences of his campaign.
More information in English
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20080920062510935
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2987154/Spanish-Robin...
Disobeying the Banks: An Interview with Enric Duran
Arrest of Enric Duran and 'We Can Live Without Capitalism'
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