Austerity

Beating Back Austerity: Lessons From Fighting Irish

December 18, 2014 Justin Weeds, www.detroitwaterbrigade.org Resist! Austerity, Detroit, Human Rights, Water

The Detroit Water Brigade was honored to join the Irish Right2Water Campaign for International Human Rights Day in Dublin on December 10th. We traveled across the country to meet communities actively resisting the Irish government’s plan to privatize and commodify Ireland’s public water supply – a plan that would drive the country into even more bond-financed debt in order to enrich bankers and their European Union technocrat lapdogs. The anti-water charges campaign, however, is winning. Prime Minister Enda Kenny’s ruling Fine Gael party has watched its ratings sink to an 11-year low, and the minor concessions offered by the government to the overwhelmingly-popular campaign have only galvanized more people to take to the streets and awakened a once-apathetic and dormant populace.

General Strike Hits Italy As Unions Protest Labor Austerity

December 13, 2014 DW, www.dw.de Resist! Austerity, Italy, Labor Unions

A general strike called by two major Italian trade unions on Friday hit schools, hospitals, airports, highways, ports and public transport across the country, as public and private sector workers protested against unpopular reforms to the labor market and cuts to public spending. The strike was initiated by Italy's first and third-largest unions, CGIL and UIL, with the second-largest labor confederation, CISL, refusing to participate. More than 50 rallies or protest marches at various locations were expected to accompany the walkout, held under the motto "Cosi non va!" (approximately: "This is not the right way"). Railways staff are among those taking part in the strike, despite having been initially banned from participation by the government.

UCSD Protesters Occupy Building

November 27, 2014 Gary Warth, www.utsandiego.com Resist! Austerity, California, Education

A few dozen UC San Diego students vowed to occupy a campus lecture hall Monday night and beyond as part of ongoing protests against tuition increases approved by University of California regents last week. “One of the best things you can do in activism is just be present,” third-year sociology student Andrew Mackay said as he contemplated spending the night inside Peterson Hall. “This is a physical statement that there are actual people who oppose the hikes.” Mackay, who participated in the Occupy San Jose demonstration in 2011, said the protests planned for this week at various UC campuses are a way of keeping the issue about tuition hikes on people’s minds. Regents approved a plan that will increase tuition by 5 percent each year for five years, unless lawmakers in Sacramento substantially increase the UC budget.

“Austerity Kills’: Five Thousand People Take To Paris Streets

November 17, 2014 Signs of the Time, www.sott.net Resist! Austerity, France, Protests

Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris on Saturday to protest against austerity and condemn French President Francois Hollande for betraying his voters. The demonstration gathered around 5,000 people, RT's Ilya Petrenko reported from the French capital. A variety of left-wing political forces occupied an entire street in downtown Paris for the rally. The majority of those who came voted for socialist Francois Hollande two years ago and now say they were betrayed by the president they put in power. They gathered to say 'no' to austerity and budget cuts, as well as Hollande's policies which have been dictated by EU authorities in Brussels.

Mass Anti-Austerity Protest Faces Riot Police

October 3, 2014 Alliance News, www.morningstar.co.uk Resist! Austerity, Europe, Italy, police brutality

Thousands of anti-austerity protesters took to the streets of Naples Thursday as the European Central Bank (ECB) convened in the city to discuss how to avert looming deflation in the eurozone. "No to the ECB, no to austerity - housing and income for all," was the slogan of the march organized by left-wing groups that attracted protesters including students, laid off workers and squatters. "They are coming to the South to 'celebrate' the social disaster that they have created," the organizing committee said on a Facebook page with the title Block BCE! Jatevenne! (Block the ECB! Go Away!).

Expanding World Of Poverty Capitalism

August 29, 2014 Thomas B. Edsall, www.nytimes.com Educate! Austerity, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Poverty, Racism

In Orange County, Calif., the probation department’s “supervised electronic confinement program,” which monitors the movements of low-risk offenders, has been outsourced to a private company, Sentinel Offender Services. The company, by its own account, oversees case management, including breath alcohol and drug-testing services, “all at no cost to county taxpayers.” Sentinel makes its money by getting the offenders on probation to pay for the company’s services. Charges can range from $35 to $100 a month. The company boasts of having contracts with more than 200 government agencies, and it takes pride in the “development of offender funded programs where any of our services can be provided at no cost to the agency.” Sentinel is a part of the expanding universe of poverty capitalism. In this unique sector of the economy, costs of essential government services are shifted to the poor.

Thousands Rally Across Australia

July 8, 2014 Lucinda Kent, www.abc.net.au Resist! Austerity, Australia, Budget, Inequality, Labor

Thousands of people have attended rallies across Australia to protest the Abbott Government's first budget. Large Bust the Budget protests were held in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Darwin. Smaller rallies took place in regional areas including Lismore in New South Wales, and Wodonga in Victoria. Union groups including the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) marched at the protests. ACTU secretary Dave Oliver says a wide range of people, including families, students, retirees and pensioners, were marching to send a strong message to the Government. "This budget is going to hit the most vulnerable in our society," he said. "What this budget is doing is sending our country down the same path to where the United States is today ... they have a country that is divided by a nation of haves and have-nots."

Ghanians Launch Occupy Movement

July 6, 2014 L. Abena Annan, wwwglobalvoicesonline.org Resist! Austerity, Corruption, Ghana

A group of Ghanaians rallied near the president's office as part of a campaign dubbed #OccupyFlagStaffHouse to protest corruption and the country's poor economic situation and press the government to do something about it. The peaceful march, organized in less than five days, happened on July 1, 2014, a public holiday that marked the 54th year since Ghana became a republic following British colonial rule. The movement was launched on Facebook as OccupyGhana on June 28, and by July 1 it had over 3,000 followers in support of the protest. It now has more than 6,000. This comes in the wake of a series of backlashes against the government for the fast depreciation of the cedi since it tightened the country's foreign currency rules and eased them last month, and the shortage of fuel that led to long queues at petrol stations for about a week.

Protests Seek To Occupy Westminster Abbey Over Cuts To Disabled

June 30, 2014 Huffington Post UK, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk Resist! Austerity, Disabilities, Occupy, Protest, United Kingdom (UK)

Campaigners have tried to occupy the grounds of Westminster Abbey in protest against the Government's decision to axe a fund for the disabled. The move, reminsicent of the long protest occupation at St Paul's Cathedral in 2011, saw at least ten police vans were part of a heavy police presence, with officers at times three rows deep to deal with around 100 protesters. The Guardian reported the protestors had planned to occupy the space until July 22 but the police presence caused the number of protestors to dwindle to around 50. The BBC reported that the protest ended at around 9pm on Saturday. The group had sent a letter to Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, urging the Church of England not to forcibly remove them, The Guardian reported. Tents were erected on the grass and draped with banners against the planned closure of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) for severely disabled people. Protesters claimed their attempts to negotiate their presence on the Abbey's grounds with the Dean of Westminster, Dr John Hall, had been rejected and they had been advised by police to leave the grounds or face arrest. Many moved on but a group of disabled protesters, many in wheelchairs, stayed on to continue the protest.

Rising People-Powered Movement Is Transforming The World

June 24, 2014 Margaret Flowers, www.kosmosjournal.org Strategize! Austerity, Climate Change, Occupy, Revolution, wealth inequality

On a snowy weekend in January, activists for social, economic and environmental justice from across the United States gathered in a Chicago union hall to plan a Global Climate Convergence: ten days of action from Earth Day to May Day. Many of these activists had never focused on the climate crisis before, being mired instead in fighting battles that loomed more immediately in their lives. Who has the capacity to worry about climate change when your community is hungry, cold, without shelter, lacks health care or is being poisoned? During that weekend meeting, we transcended the barriers that typically lead to working in narrow silos and treading water while the oceans literally and figuratively continue to rise around us. We stepped outside of our particular areas of advocacy, connected our struggles, and forged a collective effort to take action together this spring and beyond. The rallying cry was that the time has arrived to join hands and change course.

Tens Of Thousands March Against Austerity

June 22, 2014 Kevin Rawlinson, www.theguardian.com Resist! Austerity, Poverty

A spokesman for the People's Assembly, which organised the march, said the turnout was "testament to the level of anger there is at the moment". He said that Saturday's action was "just the start", with a second march planned for October in conjunction with the Trades Union Congress, as well as strike action expected next month. People's Assembly spokesman Clare Solomon said: "It is essential for the welfare of millions of people that we stop austerity and halt this coalition government dead in its tracks before it does lasting damage to people's lives and our public services." Sam Fairburn, the group's national secretary, added: "Cuts are killing people and destroying cherished public services which have served generations."

London: Massive Assembly Against Austerity

June 21, 2014 Staff, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Austerity, Education, Poverty

Tens of thousands rallied in London today to protest imposed austerity and cuts to basic services. Here is the day in their own words through their tweets and photos. The mainstream media failed to cover the protest despite its size. They protested privatization of public services such as health care and they protested growing unemployment and poverty. And they chastised the media for blacking out the event.

Puerto Rico Unions Threaten Strike Against Austerity Budget

June 14, 2014 Yana Kunichoff, www.inthesetimes.com Resist! Austerity, Puerto Rico, Strike, Unions

Public union workers from a handful of unions across Puerto Rico have spent the last week blocking ports, shutting down thoroughfares and slowing public transit. But that may be just the beginning: In the coming week, workers are expected to vote on whether to hold a general strike across the country. The unions are standing against the austerity budget proposed this spring by members of the U.S. commonwealth’s General Assembly to deal with the country’s recent bond downgrade and looming payment of its debts to bondholders. The Fiscal Sustainability Act of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as the budget is called, would allow the government to bring in “emergency powers” to deal with the crisis. Under this authority, it could renegotiate all public employees’ contracts, liquidate unused sick days, and freeze salaries—thereby gutting workers’ collective bargaining powers. Privatizing the commonwealth’s electrical company, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, has also been placed on the table as an option for stanching the crisis; the emergency measures would also include closing 100 public schools. The budget must be passed on June 30 to coincide with the beginning of the 2015 fiscal year on July 1. And as that deadline nears, unions across the island have been escalating their protests.

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