Thousands rally for higher wages at Asia’s May Day marches, Europeans to protest austerity

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/thousands-join-may-day-protest-in-manila-as-philippine-president-rejects-wage-hike-demand/2012/05/01/gIQAOIeKtT_story.html?hpid=z3

MANILA, Philippines — May Day moved beyond its roots as an international workers’ holiday to a day of international protest Tuesday, with rallies throughout Asia demanding wage increases and marches planned across Europe over government-imposed austerity measures.

Europeans will take to the streets to protest against the measures that are being blamed for a big increase in the number of unemployed, particularly in Spain where one in four people is out of work.

In the United States, demonstrations, strikes and acts of civil disobedience are planned, including what could be the country’s most visible Occupy rallies since the anti-Wall Street encampments came down in the fall.

In Asia, thousands of May Day protesters in the Philippines, Malaysia and Taiwan demanded hikes in pay that they say has not kept up with rising consumer prices, while also calling for lower school fees and expressing a variety of other gripes.

In Moscow, around 100,000 people — including President Dmitry Medvedev and president-elect Vladimir Putin — took part in the main march through the city center

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1. Workers of the world unite

We are the 99%

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2. Finally, the people have gone Global. The corrupt Global Corps were able to exploit workers in

third world countries for so long, moving jobs out of first world countries so they could take advantage of cheap labor, often child labor to increase their profits.

Now the people of the world are uniting, and hopefully will force liveable wages in every country, leaving the greedy, predatory Corps with nowhere to go to exploit human beings. They went Global long ago, now it's the people's turn.