Thursday, November 3, 2011

USA today - Hundreds of protesters in the Californian town of Oakland called what they described as a "General Strike".

From: Euronews  | Nov 3, 2011
http://www.euronews.net/ Hundreds of protesters in the Californian town of Oakland called what they described as a "General Strike".

Teachers, trade unionists and trades people held rallies aimed at bringing the town to a halt.

The action was an extension of the Occupy Oakland movement criticising capitalism which escalated after police attacks last week
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From: AssociatedPress  | Nov 2, 2011
Several thousand Occupy Wall Street demonstrators forced a halt to operations at the United States' fifth busiest port Wednesday evening. Video silent from source. (Nov. 3)

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