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marmar

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Thu Sep 27, 2012, 10:48 AM Sep 2012

Thousands Surround Spanish Parliament in Bid to "Occupy Congress" and Stop Austerity


from Democracy Now!:


Pt. I


Pt. II



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AMY GOODMAN: Joining us from Madrid is Democracy Now! correspondent and independent journalist Maria Carrion, who has been at the protest all day yesterday.

Maria, welcome to Democracy Now!

MARIA CARRION: Thank you, Amy. Good to be with you.

AMY GOODMAN: Tell us what’s happening.

MARIA CARRION: Well, as you, as your viewers and listeners have been able to see, it’s a very serious situation here in Spain. This is just the latest of many, many protests that we have been having here in Spain, in the last year, especially, and there will be many more coming. People have lost faith in government. People have lost faith in the main institutions. And we are facing 27 billion euros in social spending cuts. Every week, the government unveils a series of new measures that affect primarily education and health and salaries and the welfare of Spanish people. And as we saw at the top of the hour, Greece is really an example of what’s coming our way, and that’s why I think people are so enraged and so worried, because they see that none of the measures imposed on Greece on in Portugal or in Ireland are having any sort of effect on the economy, on people’s welfare, on employment. And so, I think people are saying we do not want to head in that same direction.

NERMEEN SHAIKH: Maria Carrion, you’ve spoken also about some of the effects on people already with the austerity measures in place, quite apart from what might happen tomorrow. Can you talk in particular about housing and food? ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/26/thousands_surround_spanish_parliament_in_bid



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Thousands Surround Spanish Parliament in Bid to "Occupy Congress" and Stop Austerity (Original Post) marmar Sep 2012 OP
Their can be no peace when a countries wealth is being occupied by the 1 %! Spread this concept. midnight Sep 2012 #1

midnight

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1. Their can be no peace when a countries wealth is being occupied by the 1 %! Spread this concept.
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 12:15 PM
Sep 2012

It is simple and it is wrong... The 1 percent can no longer occupy our wealth.... It belongs to all of us...

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