Justice for Trayvon Martin – London Protest
1.30pm – 4pm
Saturday 31 March
Outside the US Embassy
Grosvenor Square
London W1A 1AE
On Facebook here
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Justice for Trayvon Martin – London Protest
1.30pm – 4pm
Saturday 31 March
Outside the US Embassy
Grosvenor Square
London W1A 1AE
On Facebook here
Occupy Wall Street – the progressive answer to the Tea Party movement
By Jane West
Following the mass protest on the weekend of 1st/2nd October, hundreds of primarily young people remain camped out in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park under the slogan of ‘Occupy Wall Street’, and calling for action against the banks to alleviate poverty and unemployment.
While the precise demands of the protests are vague and varied, there is no doubt about the overall character of the mobilisations – they reject that the American people should be forced to pay for an economic crisis made on Wall Street.
Struggle in Wisconsin – beginning of upturn in US
By Jane West
The mobilisations in Wisconsin in response to Republican proposals to strip public sector workers of collective negotiating rights indicate that the US working class may just be beginning to stir from the slumber that has gripped it through three decades of assault on its living standards.
A demonstration held on Saturday 12th March after the Republicans found a way to force their legislation through despite the Democrats’ blocking tactics saw a demonstration up to 100,000. Initial large protests were further galvanised by the decision of the Democrat members of the state legislature to render the body inquorate and absent themselves. In order not to be subject to subpoena they had to go outside the borders of the state.