On OWS and the Democratic Party

[BelgianMadCow]

57. both the streets and the press are turning since that latest package

it used to be all about "all greeks are lazy bums looking for easy money",
but now that it has become clear how savage the package is
and how it will hit ordinary people already on the brink,
editorials are starting to draw parallels between them and us
and people both left and right denounce the EU/troika.
But, only yesterday, the EU announced they are gonna conduct
and extensive investigation in "the competitiveness of our country".
They have a problem with our indexation mechanism...and our wages.
I haven't heard them about the very large corporations like Arcelor Mittal's financial center that pays 400 euro taxes on 18 billion profits...
Problem is, if we can't show nice results, they now have the authority
to fine us to the tune of 750 million and to make binding recommendations.
The "fiscal compact" that was agreed recently is also draconic - but this is not known.
People are still in for a rough surprise, and the press did show lots of fire and no pic of the 100.000 before the greek parliament,
so much remains to be desired on the press side.

Best news, we have a book by a PVDA (more left than socialist) writer at nr 4 in the non-fiction top ten, which usually is only cookbooks and the like. Occupy is in the first and the last chapter.
I'm reading it, an eye opener even if I read about almost nothing else already.

There is hope the people in Europe simply won't have it. We have too much of an activist base as well, and no real robocops like you do. THE challenge is making sure left and right don't hit each other first (and the press does play on the political divide in a populist way).

ps on the cops: on our first GA, we had two undercovers only, they came and announced themselves and went to sit on a bench nearby. I tried to give them soup At 4.30, they were kind of yawning and went home. Then we marched to the city center (which I kind of regret since some people got carried away and went sticking flyers in a bank on the terminals, not very smart).
I do feel the police can and should be occupied to. We had plans to go kiss the cops in Brussels, but the robocops there were a bit too intimidating. We are a shy people too