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Real News: 250,000 Turkish workers join as mass protests reach more than 67 cities (Original Post) geefloyd46 Jun 2013 OP
11 unions strike over undemocratic practices... and T.V. showed beauty and cooking shows.. midnight Jun 2013 #1
It started as a protest to keep a park from turning into a shopping mall fasttense Jun 2013 #2
I'ts hard not to think otherwise with the spying on our journalist... midnight Jun 2013 #3
 

fasttense

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2. It started as a protest to keep a park from turning into a shopping mall
Tue Jun 4, 2013, 12:05 PM
Jun 2013

then when the police came in with their abusive weapons, putting thousands of people in the hospital, the rest of the people, who didn't care about the park decided they had had enough too. The current conservative government has imprisoned journalist and destroyed any free press so the corporate media merely ignored the injuries and brutality.

I suspect this is how it will go down in America too.

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