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"… of capitalism that exists in both Europe and the US. Working people on both sides of the Atlantic increasingly face the same issues: mass unemployment, attacks on workers’ wages and conditions, and drastic cutbacks in the public sector.
In response to these attacks, the Occupy movement, which started in Wall Street, has gained an echo right around the world. Its key message is that the 99% must not pay for the greed and the speculation of the 1%. Now you have occupations taking place in basically every European city, including throughout Ireland.
Precisely because that movement challenges the rule of the 1%, the police have now brutally moved against occupations in the US, in Zuccotti Park and Oakland.
I salute the response of the movement in Oakland where 20 000 people have demonstrated to defend their right to protest. They have not just demonstrated: teachers have come out of their workplaces, public sector workers have gone on sick leave, the ports have been shut down through workers’ action, and Occupy Oakland has launched a call for a general strike.
Here you can see the massive potential. If we can bring the Occupy movement – the anger, the energy and the ideas – together with the power of the organised labour movement, society could be fundamentally transformed."@en1
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