A cyclist rides past electoral banners by Solidaritat Catalan independence party (SI) and Convergencia i Unio (CIU) party in Vilassar de Mar near Barcelona, Spain, May 21, 2015. REUTERS/Gustau Nacarino
MADRID (Reuters) - In an apartment block in central Madrid, homeowners and tenants in danger of being evicted gather every Thursday to plan awareness campaigns and get free advice from lawyers.
'The Mortgage Victims' Association', or PAH - its initials in Spanish, has stopped hundreds of evictions and is one of many grassroots campaigns to rise from Spain's brutal six-year economic downturn in a popular revival of political involvement.
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