[size="3"][url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Oct-revolution-Wall-St-stir-goes-global-today/articleshow/10361660.cms"]Oct revolution? Wall St stir goes global today[/url] : TOI, Oct 15, 2011
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[size="3"]That's the word going out - politely - on the web to rally street protests on Saturday around the globe from New Zealand to Alaska via London, Frankfurt, Washington and, of course, New York, where the past month's Occupy Wall Street movement has inspired a worldwide yell of anger at banks and financiers.[/size]
[size="3"]How many will show up, let alone stay to camp out to disrupt city centres for days, or months, to come, is anyone's guess.[/size]
[size="3"]The hundreds at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park were calling for back-up on Friday, fearing imminent eviction. Rome expects tens of thousands at a national protest of more traditional stamp.[/size]
[size="3"]Few other police forces expect more than a few thousand to turn out on the day for what is billed as an exercise in social media-spread , Arab Spring-inspired , grassroots democracy with an emphasis on peaceful, homespun debate , as seen among Madrid's "indignados" in June or at Wall Street park sit-in .[/size]
[size="3"]Blogs and Facebook pages devoted to "October 15" - #O15 on Twitter - abound with exhortations to keep the peace, bring an open mind, a sleeping bag, food and warm clothing; in Britain, "Occupy London Stock Exchange" is at pains to stress it does not plan to actually, well, occupy the stock exchange.[/size]
[size="3"]Concrete demands are few from those who proclaim "We are the 99%", other than a general sense that the other 1% - the "greedy and corrupt" rich, and especially banks - should pay more, and that elected governments are not listening.[/size]
[size="3"]George Soros denies funding movement[/size]
[size="3"]George Soros isn't a financial backer of the Wall Street protests, despite speculation by critics including radio host Rush Limbaugh that the billionaire investor has helped fuel the anti-capitalist movement. Limbaugh summed up the chatter when he told his listeners last week, "George Soros money is behind this" .[/size]
[size="3"]Soros spokesman Michael Vachon said that Soros has not "funded the protests directly or indirectly" . Soros has donated at least $3.5 million to an organization called the Tides Center in recent years, earmarking the funds for specific purposes. Tides has given grants to Adbusters, an anti-capitalist group in Canada whose inventive marketing campaign sparked the first demonstrations last month. Vachon said funds were not for general purposes to be used at the discretion of Tides. [/size]
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Quote:LONDON: For an October revolution , dress warm.[/size]
[size="3"]That's the word going out - politely - on the web to rally street protests on Saturday around the globe from New Zealand to Alaska via London, Frankfurt, Washington and, of course, New York, where the past month's Occupy Wall Street movement has inspired a worldwide yell of anger at banks and financiers.[/size]
[size="3"]How many will show up, let alone stay to camp out to disrupt city centres for days, or months, to come, is anyone's guess.[/size]
[size="3"]The hundreds at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park were calling for back-up on Friday, fearing imminent eviction. Rome expects tens of thousands at a national protest of more traditional stamp.[/size]
[size="3"]Few other police forces expect more than a few thousand to turn out on the day for what is billed as an exercise in social media-spread , Arab Spring-inspired , grassroots democracy with an emphasis on peaceful, homespun debate , as seen among Madrid's "indignados" in June or at Wall Street park sit-in .[/size]
[size="3"]Blogs and Facebook pages devoted to "October 15" - #O15 on Twitter - abound with exhortations to keep the peace, bring an open mind, a sleeping bag, food and warm clothing; in Britain, "Occupy London Stock Exchange" is at pains to stress it does not plan to actually, well, occupy the stock exchange.[/size]
[size="3"]Concrete demands are few from those who proclaim "We are the 99%", other than a general sense that the other 1% - the "greedy and corrupt" rich, and especially banks - should pay more, and that elected governments are not listening.[/size]
[size="3"]George Soros denies funding movement[/size]
[size="3"]George Soros isn't a financial backer of the Wall Street protests, despite speculation by critics including radio host Rush Limbaugh that the billionaire investor has helped fuel the anti-capitalist movement. Limbaugh summed up the chatter when he told his listeners last week, "George Soros money is behind this" .[/size]
[size="3"]Soros spokesman Michael Vachon said that Soros has not "funded the protests directly or indirectly" . Soros has donated at least $3.5 million to an organization called the Tides Center in recent years, earmarking the funds for specific purposes. Tides has given grants to Adbusters, an anti-capitalist group in Canada whose inventive marketing campaign sparked the first demonstrations last month. Vachon said funds were not for general purposes to be used at the discretion of Tides. [/size]
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