WORD VIRUS: Did you see this on the news?

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Did you see this on the news?

Did you see this on the news?

Global demonstrations were held today on monday 15 October in more than 950 cities in 82 countries. The global protests were part of a series of protests inspired by the Arab Spring, the Icelandic Revolution, the Portuguese "Geração à Rasca", the Spanish "Indignants", the Greek Protests and the Occupy movement.

This image was taken in Rome, Italy, where an estimated 400,000 people gathered to protest against corporate power, grinding poverty and government cuts. Hundreds of people clashed with police for hours, leaving more than 200 people injured, including 105 police officers. 12 people were arrested.

General assemblies, the social network n-1, mailing lists, and Facebook were used to coordinate the global demonstrations.

This very same day one of the main Dutch newspapers declared that the Occupy movement has "completely disappeared". What do you think? Has the movement vanished or is it still alive? Has it entered a new phase? Where should it be going? How should resistance be organised and reorganised? What issues should we focus on?

Visualisation on a world map of the locations of the protests:

http://

www.globalnoise.net/

wp-content/plugins/leaflet-maps-marker/leaflet-fullscreen.php?layer=1

For more pictures from Italy, the USA, Japan, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, Australia, Mexico and the UK see World Riots 24/h

For more info on the world wide actions see #globalNOISE

Report from The Nation: "Global Noise: Worldwide Debt Protests"

http://www.thenation.com/blog/170560/global-noise-worldwide-debt-protests

Report from RT: "Global Noise takes on austerity: 'We are not going to be silent'"

http://rt.com/news/global-noise-demonstrations-378/

Report from Democracy Now!: "Global Noise Anti-Austerity Protests Held Worldwide"

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/15/headlines/global_noise_anti_austerity_protests_held_worldwide