'Occupy Wall Street'-style protests spread across Europe

[FarCenter]

Taking a cue from the 'Occupy Wall Street' and 'indignant' protest movements, demonstrators have taken to Europe's streets, expressing their anger over rising inequality and government austerity measures.
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In Germany, where public opinion has been skeptical of the eurozone bailout of Greece, around 1,000 demonstrators gathered outside of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt while 5,000 marched on Chancellor Angela Merkel's offices in Berlin, and another 1,000 took to the streets in Munich.

Some 2,000 protesters marched in Brussels, the seat of the European Union, to keep up pressure on European leaders.

And in London, protesters took part in "Occupy London Stock Exchange," a collective that had more than 15,000 fans on Facebook and some 5,000 confirmed attendees.

Smaller protests also took place in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Taiwan and South Africa.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15463241,00.html

[woo me with science]

1. K&R

Yes, people of the world! There are more of us than there are of them!

[lunatica]

2. All brought to you by the internet

I knew it would come to this, but I'm still surprised at the incredible speed that it's happening. It's only been a month and now it's worldwide.

There is no resistance possible to quell this. They may succeed in doing so much damage in one pocket that it would make the movement stop, but they can't do it everywhere, and not even in the majority of places. The writing is on the wall.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Hopefully, the international pirates will soon have no place to call home

Let them offshore their jobs to the moon and move up there and start a new intergalactic stock exchange where they can rob all they want. Ah, but designing advanced rockets and space stations is something the privateers won't do, as it involves risking their own money in a venture as opposed to risking the capital of other people.