Sister Teresa Forcades: "The current economic model, institutional and political order has failed."

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/19-6

From the peaks of Monserrat, a new and unlikely leader has emerged in Spain's rising "indignado" protest movement, leading the charge against the excesses of capitalism.

Wearing her nun's black habit, Forcades spoke with AFP about austerity, religion and revolution. (Photo: AFP) Sister Teresa Forcades—a Harvard-educated Catalan nun who resides at the convent Sant Benet—along with economist and "indignant" leader, Arcadi Oliveres, has launched a political manifesto that's amassed nearly 17,000 signatures in just two days.

The document calls for the nationalization of banks and energy firms, housing rights and tough measures against corruption. Forcades and Oliveres also pledge non-violence asking for "international solidarity, not war."

"The current economic model, institutional and political order has failed," they write (roughly translated). "It is urgent that we create between them a new political and social model and to do so without repeating past formulas, knowing that the process is not easy nor short."

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