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10/16/2011

Protests denouncing the global financial system



A group of demonstrators in Rome, throwing stones at police (French)

Saw about a thousand cities across the world wide popular movements to protest the global economic policies that perpetuate exploitation and greed against the millions of people. The most violent protests in Italy, where police clashed with hundreds of demonstrators in the capital Rome during protests against global economic policies and the performance of government in addressing the social consequences of the crisis.
The response of thousands of people around the world with a call to "angry" to demonstrate Saturday in the first day of mobilization to protest deteriorating economic conditions and the dominance of capital.
Under the slogan "People of the world Arise" and "down to the street," and "Make a new world," he called "angry" to protest in 951 cities in 82 countries, depending on the location "15 October", to protest the economic situation is fragile emerging from the crisis global economic power and capital.
A statement of the Movement of October 15 "from America to Asia, Africa and Europe, the people rise up to claim their rights and genuine democracy" and that "the forces working for the benefit of a minority, ignoring the will of the vast majority, and must be relieved that this situation is intolerable."
After five months of the birth of this movement, chose the "angry" places carry symbolic significance in the global economy such as Wall Street in New York inspired "City" of London and the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, where there were about 6000 people on the impact of shouts of "We will not sell our future for the European Central Bank ".
The agency said the French press that the U.S. police have arrested dozens of protesters in Times Square after the march on Wall Street, the trucks and took them follow her.
In Italy, announced that the Italian news agency "ANSA" yesterday evening that 70 people were wounded, including three in serious condition in the violence that took place between demonstrators and police on the sidelines of the demonstration called for by the "angry" and included tens of thousands in the capital Rome in today's global regulated by this action.
In the center of Rome, police confronted a few hundreds of factors "undisciplined masked men who were firing smoke bombs and Molotov cocktails at security forces."


Revolution
In the afternoon, turned square to the Church of Saint-Jean Lateran Square to the historicalreal war. At this time, thousands of people demonstrated peacefully in the world, carrying banners reading "is only one solution, revolution ..." and "We are not property in the hands of bankers."

And received "angry" to support the Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi, who is due to assume the presidency of the European Central Bank as of next month.

Draghi said the Italian told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of the Group of Twentyin Paris, "the young men the right to be angry, and they are angry at the world of business, and I understand them."

And got "angry" to the streets in various parts of Europe, in Lisbon, gathered about 50thousand people of all ages on the impact of chants of "Let the International Monetary Fund," and a banner reading "Stop the troika," referring to the creditors of Portugal(European Union, and the Central Bank European and international Monetary Fund).

In the Netherlands, about one thousand people demonstrated in The Hague and a similar number at the Square in Amsterdam stock exchange. As about one thousand peopledemonstrated in the yard Paradiblatz in Zurich, the most prominent centers of the financial sector in Switzerland, while gathering a few hundred "angry" in the French capital Paris.


SymbolsIn the Spanish capital Madrid - where I was born this movement of protest on May 15 / May last - off tens of thousands of sub-streets in the direction of Puerta del Sol Square, which carries great symbolic.
The demonstrators had occupied the square for a month in the spring. He wrote on one of the big signs "The problem is in crisis, and then rose up."
The spokesman for the "angry" in Spain, John Aguirre said the expansion of the movement "indicates it's a question does not belong to Spain, but also the whole world, because the crisis is global, markets are moving on a global level."
In London - where there were limited confrontations with British police in the afternoon - gathering 800 "angry" in the neighborhood, "City" financial support and received an undisclosed pre-founder of the site "Wikileaks' Julian Assange.
The arrival of Assange joy of the audience, knowing it is being released on parole, near London, awaiting possible extradition to Sweden, where he prosecuted on charges of rape.
The founder of Wikileaks on the scale of the Cathedral of St. Paul, where the protesters gathered "We support what is happening here, because the banking system in London is the beneficiary of the money resulting from the corruption."
And about one thousand people gathered in the city of Frankfurt the financial capital of Germany in front of the European Central Bank, and held up banners reading "You Tdarbon our lives" and "You Tqamron our future."
In Australia, about two thousand people rallied in Sydney, including representatives of indigenous peoples and the communists, trade unionists outside the headquarters of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Several hundred people demonstrated in the main street in Auckland, New Zealand, to join the march included about 3,000 people chanted slogans and banged drums in protest at what they called corporate greed.
Africa and AsiaSouth Africa has seen similar demonstrations in major cities, including Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, Johannesburg, in the demonstrations focused on the conditions of the stock market, and dozens of demonstrators carrying banners sent political messages, including "Feltenstwa of the people" and "Fletkasem people's wealth."
In Asia, hundreds came out in the Japanese capital Tokyo with the participation of protesters, anti-nuclear energy, and in the Philippines capital of Manila, a few dozen systems march to U.S. Embassy, ​​carrying banners saying "Down with American imperialism" and "the Philippines is not for sale."
And walked about 250 South Koreans on the streets of Seoul to protest what they described as corporate greed and the widening gap between incomes, reported South Korean news agency Yonhap that, despite the rain activists rallied off the headquarters of the Financial Services Committee, the largest system of financial regulation in the country.
Activists carried banners in English and Korean reading "I'm not Asravkm automatic" and "taxes to capital" and "jobs for the workers."

Source: Al Jazeera + and agencies

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