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ellenrr

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15. People around the world ARE in the streets.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 04:37 AM
Jun 2014

Almost every day there are protests (some huge, some not) in Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal. Even England. I see them on Euronews.

And in South and Central America.

it's what keeps me from despair. because for sure there is no mass movement here, (US) altho there are many people - in small numbers around the country - doing good things - like fighting debt, fighting foreclosure, Moral Monday in North Carolina.

But the numbers are not such as to create a mass movement.
of course in Europe these are not mass movements, but they do get out for ex 60,000 people in the streets.
And not just young people - older people, middle-aged people, employed, unemployed, even sometimes cops. It's really wonderful.

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