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LuvNewcastle

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9. I think people around the globe need to be in the streets

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 08:45 AM

Jun 2014

showing our governments who's really in charge. We in America need to stand for a guaranteed minimum income and free education at state universities. They should wipe out student loan debts. Our bloated defense budget needs to be slashed. They could take the military budgets of several other countries who have the next largest budgets, combine them, and our military budget would still be larger than that. We don't need to be in Iraq at all. They can close down that fucking embassy if they have to.

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50,000 protest austerity outside BBC; BBC ignores [View all] ellenrr Jun 2014 OP

Recd. Must've borrowed a page from American MSM. nt raccoon Jun 2014 #1

BBC = ReRe Jun 2014 #2

I posted years ago about the change in control of the BBC -- snot Jun 2014 #12

Yeah... ReRe Jun 2014 #13

Canada's CBC is going that way too. Joe Shlabotnik Jun 2014 #14

Yes, I remember that. And we still don't know what really happened behind the scenes. Just that one sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #17

It took our media, which was covering three person Tea Party "events" about two weeks to acknowledge merrily Jun 2014 #3

I loved this one...reminds me of home. Stellar Jun 2014 #4

+1 daleanime Jun 2014 #6

That is exactly what has happened... truebrit71 Jun 2014 #10

Hear, hear! k&r n/t Laelth Jun 2014 #5

Next week, half that number of right wingers will show up NewJeffCT Jun 2014 #7

They already did, with round the clock UKIP coverage nxylas Jun 2014 #8

I think people around the globe need to be in the streets LuvNewcastle Jun 2014 #9

People around the world ARE in the streets. ellenrr Jun 2014 #15

There was a very large demo in Spain the same day also. Joe Shlabotnik Jun 2014 #11

Hmm. Time to move the protest *inside* the building(?) Matariki Jan 2015 #16