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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 06:07 PM Mar 2013

Happening NOW: Massive anti-austerity protest in twenty cities across Portugal.

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Happening NOW: Massive anti-austerity protest in twenty cities across Portugal. http://aje.me/YGp22H

Ƥhĭlĭppe de Ɠrosboĭs ‏@metronomephil
Incroyable: un manifestant portugais dans ces photos porte un macaron de @ASSEsolidarite! #ggi #2m #WeAreEverywhere http://www.esquerda.net/fotogalerias

Jorge Martin ‏@marxistJorge
Portugal pop. 11 million, over 1.5 came out on the streets to say "the people has the power, out with the troika" #2M #queselixeatroika

#2M Amazing view of #austerity #protest in #Portugal. The people are saying bank-controlled government must go.
https://twitter.com/Pirata13/status/307986739656544256

☠ Master Pirate ☠ ‏@Pirata13

#Portugal #2M #acordaPortugal video of when the 1000s in #Lisbon sang "Grandola Vila Morena"


… #2M #Portugal

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Happening NOW: Massive anti-austerity protest in twenty cities across Portugal. (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Mar 2013 OP
The 1% is too ill-educated to know anything of Macchiavelli. Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #1
Maybe the Sequester will be just the ticket lunatica Mar 2013 #2

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
1. The 1% is too ill-educated to know anything of Macchiavelli.
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 06:27 PM
Mar 2013

I The Prince, Niccolo pointed out that you have to leave the peasants at least enough crumbs to keep them from desperation, which is a sure ticket to insurrection.

Or, to quote Kris Kristofferson (via Janis Joplin), "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
2. Maybe the Sequester will be just the ticket
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 06:44 PM
Mar 2013

to get Americans to have our own massive austerity demonstrations. History shows us that those who change things are those who feel the pain personally.

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