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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2834607" data-attributes="member: 56035">this is a battle coming to a city near you.&nbsp; the economic system is even worse than it was in the past, the political system is totally controlled (and run in the case of trump) by rich people who dont care about average peoples best interests.&nbsp; from democracy now:Greek Pensioners Blockade Finance Minister &amp; Call for General Strike on May 17HeadlineMay 12, 2017<img src="https://www.democracynow.org/images/headlines/64/36564/quarter_hd/H09_Greece.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />In Greece, pensioners and workers blockaded the entrance of the Finance Ministry Thursday to call for a general strike on May 17 to protest a new round of austerity measures imposed by international creditors and accepted by the Greek government. This is one of the protesters, a 65-year-old pensioner.Ioakim Yatzisis: &quot;The amount of harm that has been done to the Greek people by all these policies is unbelievable. A battle must be waged. What else can we do? We cannot do anything else.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2834607, member: 56035"] this is a battle coming to a city near you. the economic system is even worse than it was in the past, the political system is totally controlled (and run in the case of trump) by rich people who dont care about average peoples best interests. from democracy now: [SIZE=6][B]Greek Pensioners Blockade Finance Minister & Call for General Strike on May 17[/B][/SIZE] HeadlineMay 12, 2017 [IMG]https://www.democracynow.org/images/headlines/64/36564/quarter_hd/H09_Greece.jpg[/IMG] In Greece, pensioners and workers blockaded the entrance of the Finance Ministry Thursday to call for a general strike on May 17 to protest a new round of austerity measures imposed by international creditors and accepted by the Greek government. This is one of the protesters, a 65-year-old pensioner. [B]Ioakim Yatzisis[/B]: "The amount of harm that has been done to the Greek people by all these policies is unbelievable. [B]A battle must be waged. What else can we do? We cannot do anything else."[/B] [/QUOTE]

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