OWS protest goes global

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Occupy Wall Street protests go global

By Bill Weinberg
On October 17, 2011 · 1 Comment

Times Square, New York, October 15th. Photo credit: Eliot Tokar.

A comprehensive global round-up from journalist Bill Weinberg’s invaluable World War 4 Report:

Under the slogan “From Tahrir Square to Times Square,” the Occupy Wall Street movement reports demonstrations in over 1,500 cities across the globe Oct. 15, including over 100 US cities from coast to coast. In New York, 74 were arrested as police attempted to block thousands of marchers behind barricades in the Times Square area, where the protesters had marched from the Financial District.

Full story at http://ww4report.com/node/10430.

A detailed list of demands for political and economic direct democracy, from the October 15th organizing group in Barcelona, is available online at http://climate-connections.org/2011/10/15/october-15-global-protests-for-the-earth-reform-or-transformation/

Photo credit: Eliot Tokar (www.tibetanmedicine.com).