2012.8.21 单词 A Spanish Robin Hood?

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A Spanish Robin Hood?

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They've dubbed him Robin Hood after he led raids on a supermarket

chain and distributed the looted goods to the poor. Today, Mayor

Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo and the left-wing union he leads, set

out on a 20-day march around Andalusia, the southern-most region

of the Spanish mainland. 

He is calling for the government to drop plans to bail out the banks 

with public money; to postpone cuts to social services and to stop

people being forcibly evicted from their homes. He's also calling for

all of Spain's banks to be nationalised. 

Mr Sanchez Gordillo, from the United Left Party, is the mayor of the 

town of Marinaleda in Seville, where the people work in

cooperatives, there is full employment and everyone earns the

same wage. That's quite an achievement in a country where

unemployment is soaring and is already at 40 percent among the

young. 

He says the aim of the march is to unite Spain's villagers with

city-dwellers so they'll understand they're all facing the same

problems. But some mainstream politicians in the south call his

activism populist and say he's making it harder for Spain to pull out

of the economic crisis.

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dubbed

named, labelled

raids

break-ins, attacks

looted

stolen

union

organisation of workers (trade union)

bail out

rescue from crisis by offering large amounts of money

postpone

delay

evicted

removed from a property

cooperatives

organisations owned and controlled equally by the people who use its services

unite

connect, bring together

populist

political ideas that appeal to ordinary people's needs and wishes