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"We paid a price of a thousand years in jail, but we got almost nobody wanted to do the mili"
on Thursday 24 February 2022
on Thursday 24 February 2022
The three years and two months that Pepe Beunza spent in prison were the starting point of one of the most successful campaigns of civil disobedience in Spain: conscientious objection and insumption to compulsory military service. It was 1971. Thirty years later, the Spanish Government finally gave its arm to twist eliminating the milli. We talked to Pepe Beunza.
How did you become interested in nonviolence and conscientious objection?
I lived in Valencia and studied agricultural (…)