Community | October 23, 2011 | 4 comments

Greece Strikes, the People Rise, Global Economy Teeters

source: http://www.unions.org/home/union-blog/2011/10/21/greece-strikes-the-people-rise-global-econo...

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Everyone knew it was a losing battle, but everyone showed up anyway. In an uprising virtually unprecedented in its size, scope and diversity, malcontents united across Greece to push back against the government's assault on working people.
This week's 48-hour strike drew workers from both public and private sectors, students, the unemployed--just about everyone about to get smacked with the austerity measures that the Parliament has approved under pressure from IMF and Eurozone officials. With tens of thousands of civil service jobs to be downsized, pensions and wages to be gutted, and labor and civil rights under siege, the people's upheaval has proven as severe and persistent as the fiscal butchery that politicians keep ramming down their throats.
People took to the streets because they had nothing to lose.

As one protester, civil engineer Vagelis Filezis, told CNN, "We have no hope. The only hope we have is the strength of the people.”

Sound familiar?

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4 comments // Greece Strikes, the People Rise, Global Economy Teeters

  • artemis6
  • Kelly_Balthrop
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      Kelly_Balthrop  

    • Watch and learn folks, watch and learn.

      This only the beginning. Greece will collapse, followed by several more European countries (probably Spain next). Then all of Europe will go. By then we will be in the midst of a depression far deeper that the one in the 30's. It may come quick or it could take another 12 to 18 months, but the U.S. and the rest of the world, including China will follow.

      This much the banks already calculated before they started this process to take over the world and fashion it in their image. However, the people will speak, like they are starting to in Greece, and on Wall Street. If we stay united,

      we can bring the banks down to the ground, and reform them in an image of OUR choosing...one that does not not live off the blood of their customers, nationalize them and then turn them over to the states to run. 100% state owned banks with 100% reserve limits.

    • 7 months ago
  • trut
  • kvb1
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      kvb1  

    • Greece is leading the way with #Occupy. Maybe it is getting time to co-ordinate these movements internationally.

    • 7 months ago
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