According Daniel Raventos and Julie Wark, of the Spanish Basic Income Network, the demand for a universal basic income is growing quickly, and the Spanish Occupy movement is now working hard to explain its principles to the public. For example, on Sunday May 13th, 1,000 people attended a workshop on the theme of basic income. Pablo Yanes of the Basic Income Earth Network believes that this is an indication of growing acceptance and massive support for basic income in Spain. According to Yanes, “I think basic income actually is in that country not just an academic issue but increasingly a social and political one.”