“All the cops are just workers for the 1%…As soon as I’m let out of jail, I’ll be right back here and they’ll have to arrest me again.”-Ray Lewis, retired Philadelphia Police Captain
Don’t think the OWS movement is dead, thousands are trying to shut down Wall Street today, November 17. Those thousands include health care workers, retired police officers and even investment brokers!
“The fact of the matter is, there is a schism between the rich and the poor and it’s getting wider.”–Gene Williams, bond trader
The NAZI NYPD physically attacked the protestors, so far more than 200 have been arrested. At one point, when the protestors stared to sign the National Anthem, the NYPD blasted them with sound cannons.
Across the country, in California, at least 100 protestors were arrested after they tried to take over the Bank of America, California HQ, in San Francisco. For awhile the protestors were successful, disrupting bank operations for about four hours.
In Greece, in what could be a revival of the anti-U.S. revolutionary movement, known as 17 November, thousands of Greeks attacked the U.S. Embassy. In 1973 the Greek people overthrew the U.S. backed military government. Now they see what’s happening in their country as an attempt by the corporate world, specifically Corporate America, to take over their country again.
More than 20,000 people marched through central Athens, while another 12,000 protesters joined a rally in Greece’s second-largest city, Thessaloniki. The Greek government called out 6,000 cops to handle the protests.
Thousands of Italians also took to their streets, to protest their new non-elected technocrat controlled government’s draconian budget cuts. Italian college students tried to use firecrackers as weapons against the cops.
Transportation unions shut down Italian public transportation services for several hours.