As the Eurozone’s austerity crisis drags on and takes down more and more citizens with it, people have been forced to come up with new and more creative ways to draw attention to their plight.  In Spain, they’re turning to Flamenco.

“To hold my own, I’ve had to pawn the parrot,” a man in back of the line at a bank in Seville wails.  “I’ve even had to sell my house.”

A woman, dressed in black and wearing oversized black sunglasses, claps along.  Seconds later, she bursts into a flamenco performance, and more dancers join throughout.  The branch manager calls the cops, but it’s over in four minutes.  No one is charged with trespassing that day.

Singing to average Spaniards about the ravages of “austerity” is the brainchild of an anti-capitalist collective known as Flo6x8.  The morning this video was shot, they performed in three banks, getting their message out to customers in each branch.

Flo6x8’s videos have been seen by more than a million people on YouTube, no small feat in the crowded world of viral videos. 

Unemployment continues to soar in Spain and the Eurozone, but banks refuse to heed public calls for leniency on those who fall behind on mortgage payments.  Instead the banks in Spain carried out an average of 115 evictions each day last year.  Flo6x8 is doing all it can to encouraging people to raise their voices against this trend.