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Occupy Underground

Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts) Mon Sep 10, 2012, 05:00 PM Sep 2012

BREAKING: Labor unrest is spreading across South Africa.

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?[020] BREAKING: Labor unrest is spreading across South Africa. From 10,000 to 15,000 South African miners are striking today.
In the last two weeks, the street marches have grown from a few hundred to thousands. This is the most active labor protests since the end of apartheid. Apartheid ended, but brutal capitalism didn't.
Photo: Mine workers take part in a march at Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa's North West Province September 10, 2012.
REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR37S0Y&slide=1#a=2

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South African Labor Unrest Spreads; 41,200 Miners Strike (PHOTOS)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/10/south-africa-miners_n_1869755.html

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People on the march for their rights IS an Occupation, world-wide!

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