Fed Up With Austerity Policies, #Blockupy Storms Streets of Frankfurt

[eridani]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/18/fed-austerity-policies-blockupy-storms-streets-frankfurt

Anti-austerity protests boiled over near the new headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt on Wednesday, with hundreds of people arrested after an off-shoot from an otherwise peaceful march clashed with police.

Around 10,000 anti-austerity protesters reportedly gathered under the banner of #Blockupy—an alliance united against the so-called 'Troika' of the ECB, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund who oversee bailout packages in the eurozone. The alliance opposes the economic policies behind such packages, saying they harm the poor and middle class.

According to the German news service Deutsche Welle, the Blockupy network "is composed of more than 90 organizations from across Europe—some big, some small—that have united in opposition to what Blockupy calls 'the European crisis regime'."

[DetlefK]

1. Oh yeah. Destroy fire-trucks and shops. That will show the ECB.

[eridani]

2. 10,000 people took part, only a few of whom engaged in trashing

Katja Kipping, leader of Germany's Left Party, which supported the Blockupy actions, stressed that "Most people demonstrated peacefully. Unfortunately not everyone stuck to the consensus for the action. We want that to change."

Reminds me of 1999 in Seattle, when the police let the trashers alone and pepper sprayed the non violent people sitting on the sidewalks.