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‘Occupy’ camps provide food, shelter for homeless - Taiwan News Online
When Occupy Wall Street protesters took over two parks in Portland’s soggy downtown, they pitched 300 tents and offered free food, medical care and shelter to anyone. They weren’t just building, like so many of their brethren across the nation, a community to protest what they see as corporate greed. They also created an ideal place for the homeless.
Between the 8th and 15th of October the marches started in Spain, France, Holland, UK and Germany, along with hundreds of confirmed people from Sahara, Switzerland, Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Poland, Israel, Palestina, EEUU, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, México, Egipt and many other countries to confirm, will arrive in Brussels. This meeting was born as a consequence of this revolutionary and unpresidented Worldwide historical moment. We will unite in Belgium in order to try to understand the causes of this dramatical situation, that is leeding us towards an uncertain future, and the common ilusion of all, in contributing to a social and concious change. The aim of the meeting is the coordination of this re-evolution at an International scale, thru the creation of a network in order to build a society that priorizes life before economic or political interest.
Worldwide Agora in #Brussels #oct15 #15oct | Take The Square
Global revolution: protests in 1,000+ cities — in videos | Reflections on a Revolution ROAR
Compiling this incredible list of videos was probably the single most exciting thing we’ve done since we started ROAR. When we set up the blog in August last year, we knew something was in the air but we never even dared to expect anything like this. Just 10 months after Tunis and Tahrir, this weekend we witnessed the globalization of the resistance: millions of people in 1,000 cities in over 80 countries on 6 continents uniting for global change. Brothers and sisters, we are making history. And we’re only just getting started!
Eight years ago, on February 15, 2003, upwards of 15 million people in sixty countries marched together to stop President Bush from invading Iraq … a huge chunk of humanity lived for one day without dead time and glimpsed the power of a united people’s movement. Now we have an opportunity to repeat that performance on an even larger scale. On October 29, on the eve of the G20 Leaders Summit in France, let’s the people of the world rise up and demand that our G20 leaders immediately impose a 1% #ROBINHOOD tax on all financial transactions and currency trades. Let’s send them a clear message: We want you to slow down some of that $1.3-trillion easy money that’s sloshing around the global casino each day – enough cash to fund every social program and environmental initiative in the world. From America to Asia, from Africa to Europe, people are rising up to claim their rights and demand a true democracy. Now it is time for all of us to join in a global non violent protest.
15th october: #United we will re-invent the world
REUTERS - Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across the globe on Saturday to denounce bankers, politicians and businesmen for ruining the world’s economies, with violence breaking out in Rome as angry protestors torched cars and smashed bank windows. Galvanized by the Occupy Wall Street movement, the protests began in New Zealand, touched parts of Asia, spread to Europe, and ultimately resumed at their starting point in New York. The demonstrations by the disaffected coincided with the Group of 20 meeting in Paris, where finance ministers and central bankers from major economies were holding talks on the debt and deficit crises afflicting many Western countries. While most rallies were small and barely held up traffic, the Rome event drew tens of thousands of people and snaked through the city centre for kilometres (miles).
Protesters take anti-greed message to world's streets - WORLD ECONOMY - FRANCE 24
REUTERS - Protesters worldwide geared up for a cry of rage on Saturday against bankers, financiers and politicians they accuse of ruining global economies and condemning millions to poverty and hardship through greed. Galvanised by the past month’s Occupy Wall Street movement, they plan to take to the streets from Sydney to Alaska via London, Frankfurt, Washington and New York. Riot police prepared for any trouble—cities such as London and Athens have seen violent confrontations this year—but it was impossible to say how many people would actually turn out despite a rallying call across social media websites.
Anti-bank protest spreads around the world - WORLD ECONOMY - FRANCE 24
Anti-capitalist protesters set up camp in London - FINANCIAL CRISIS - FRANCE 24
REUTERS - The global “Day of Rage” against the world’s financial system won some limited sympathy from political and economic leaders on Sunday, after protests that were peaceful everywhere but Italy. Cities from east Asia to Europe and north America saw rallies on Saturday denouncing capitalism, inequality and economic crisis, but riot police were busy only in Rome. “Yesterday we once again showed the world the anomaly of Italy and today, again, we have to feel shame,” La Stampa newspaper said.
Rome counts costs of worst street violence in years - FINANCIAL CRISIS - FRANCE 24
AFP - Rome's worst street violence in years injured 135 people and caused damage of one million euros ($1.4 million) to public property, officials said on Sunday, as the clashes ignited a political row. "We have to act with appropriate toughness against these animals," Mayor Gianni Alemanno said, as he visited the area around St John Lateran square near the city centre that was devastated by the violence on Saturday. "There was a million (euros) in damages to public property and you have to factor in damage to private property too," he said, adding that the city would seek government money to compensate private citizens for their losses. He also said city hall would constitute itself as a plaintiff in any legal action against the 12 protesters already arrested and indicated there could be further arrests once police had studied video footage from the protests.
About 400 people participated in the demonstration called Real Democracy Now and demanded participatory democracy, social justice, decent life and sustainable development. The meeting took place in the very centre of Prague (Republic Sq.) and was followed with a march to the buildings of the Government, Parliament and President (Prague Castle). A very broad range of people took part, including those from the civic initiatives SDT (Real Democracy Now!), Alternative from Below, Humanist Movement, No to Military Bases!, For Alternatives, Socialist Solidarity, New Anticapitalist Left, anarchists and individuals from the Communist, Social Democrat and Green parties.
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AFP - Protesters torched cars, smashed up banks and set fire to a military building in Rome in the worst violence of worldwide demonstrations against corporate greed and government cutbacks. Tens of thousands took to the streets of the Italian capital for a march that turned violent and equal numbers rallied in Madrid and Lisbon, while Wikileaks founder Julian Assange joined angry demonstrators in London. The protests were inspired by the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in the United States and the "Indignants" in Spain, targeting 951 cities in 82 countries across the planet in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. It was the biggest show of power yet by a movement born on May 15 when a rally in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square sparked a worldwide movement that focused anger over unemployment and opposition to the financial elite. "I think it is very moving that the movement that was born here has extended throughout the world.