{"id":6140,"date":"2011-10-16T00:04:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T07:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/16\/ows-goes-global\/"},"modified":"2011-10-16T00:04:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T07:04:33","slug":"ows-goes-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/16\/ows-goes-global\/","title":{"rendered":"OWS Goes Global!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Occupy Wall Street and the 99% movement went global yesterday with demonstrations all over the world.  Almost all were peaceful.  There was so much going on that to cover it all would be impossible, but this excerpt and these three video clips should help bring you up to date.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"16Rome\"Linking up with the Occupy Wall Street protests that began in New York, tens of thousands of people around the world took to the streets Saturday to reiterate their anger at the global financial system, corporate greed and government cutbacks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Rallies were held in more than 900 cities in Europe, Africa and Asia, as well as in the United States<\/strong>, with some of the largest taking place in Europe. The demonstration in Rome turned violent, but crowds elsewhere were largely peaceful.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s exciting about what\u2019s happening is a sense of international solidarity,\u201d said Ben Walker, 33, a university teacher from Norwich, England, who was carrying a tent and planning on camping overnight near the London Stock Exchange. <\/p>\n

Organizers of the global demonstration said on their Web site<\/a> that they were demanding a \u201ctrue democracy.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cUnited in one voice, we will let politicians, and the financial elites they serve, know it is up to us, the people, to decide our future<\/strong>,\u201d they said. <\/p>\n

The global demonstrations came on the same day that finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 nations met in Paris to discuss solutions to the debt crises engulfing Europe.<\/p>\n

Television images from Rome showed police launching tear-gas grenades and firing water cannons as a breakaway group clad in black set cars on fire and smashed bank machines and shop windows\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In the first video clip, we have news from London and Brussels.<\/font><\/p>\n