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I know the cut and paste is a half-arsed way to write a blog, but I'm doing anyway. I got sent this and thought it deserves to be shared. Nice to see what is still possible.

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Check out this place in Spain, Marinaleda "A Utopia Towards Peace" (the local council's slogan!) in Andalucia, where they have reclaimed 1500 hectares of land from the local count and have set about building their own little utopia!

http://pathsthroughutopia.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/a-utopian-detour/

The local Mayor (who has been in power for 30 years - its been a long struggle including 700 people going on hunger strike for 13 days, trapping the Spanish president in a local village, 25 days of government building occupation in Seville, sabotaging the Counts farm machinery and most importantly occupying his land - describes capitalism as "A thieving and terrorist system. Thieving because it is based on expropriation and exploitation and terrorist because it uses violence to maintain the privileges of the few"

They have full employment and have self built over 300 houses and are building 120 more. And lots more!