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"Occupy" protests go global, turn violent
CBS News / The Associated Press ^ | October 15, 2011

Posted on 10/15/2011 11:22:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Italian police fired tear gas and water cannons Saturday in Rome as violent protesters turned a demonstration against corporate greed into a riot, smashing shop and bank windows, torching cars and hurling bottles.

The protest in the Italian capital, which left dozens injured, was part of the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations against capitalism and austerity measures that went global Saturday.

Tens of thousands nicknamed "the indignant" marched in major cities across Europe, as protests that began in New York linked up with long-running demonstrations against government cost-cutting and failed financial policies in Europe....

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: anarchy; communists; germany; italy; occupy; occupylist; occupywallstreet; owsglobalist; owsoneoworld; owsviolence; owsviolent; spain; sturmabteilung
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

s/b “Protests Continue Their Pattern of Violence, Spread to the United States Under the ‘Occupy’ Brand Name”.

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.


21 posted on 10/15/2011 12:17:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Damage: Demonstrators walk past a broken statue of the Virgin Mary during worlwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures

Italy: Masked protesters wore masks and carried weapons as they took to the streets of Rome to protest

Read more: HERE

22 posted on 10/15/2011 12:19:31 PM PDT by arkady_renko (I want to believe.)
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To: arkady_renko

Ah, the Spanish Civil War all over again?


23 posted on 10/15/2011 12:24:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Better to ask forgiveness than permission.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzeNj1vlzAk


24 posted on 10/15/2011 12:34:58 PM PDT by seton89 (Starve the Beast)
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To: ronnie raygun

Those DemocRats..their such cards ....lol


25 posted on 10/15/2011 1:43:55 PM PDT by dbrew2u
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To: Logical me

Time to let a few grizzly bears loose in the park. That ought to help them commune with nature and get the closer to their goddess Gaia.


26 posted on 10/15/2011 2:16:56 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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