Activists throughout Canada set to show solidarity with Wall Street protesters

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Globe and Mail

The Occupy Wall Street demonstration started out last month with fewer than a dozen college students spending days and nights in Zuccotti Park. It has grown significantly, both in New York and elsewhere as people display their solidarity in similar protests.

Organizers in Toronto and several other Canadian cities say they plan to follow the New York example. Activists say they plan to converge on Toronto’s financial district on Saturday Oct. 15, and will wait to march on the streets until the Toronto Stock Exchange opens on the Monday. Other protests are also planned for Calgary, Victoria, Ottawa, Montreal, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, according to a website called Occupy Together.

Nearly 800 people say they plan to attend the Occupy Toronto event, according to its Facebook page. In Vancouver, more than 1,000 people have said on Facebook that they plan to occupy an area outside the Vancouver Art Gallery. Those attending have been asked to bring tents with them, and the group’s Facebook page says protesters will stay “as long as it takes.”

The Occupy Together website suggests similar events are being planned in Mexico, Australia, Tokyo, about a dozen European countries, and more than 40 U.S. states.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/activists-throughout-canada-set-to-show-solidarity-with-wall-street-protesters/article2188341/

[No Elephants]

1. Fantastic. I hope the world rises up. the wrong wing controls way too many countries.

And I hope no one gets placated with crumbs, either.

[DeSwiss]

2. K&R

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o45FmBU8ins">October 15 2011- Occupy Toronto! - Nuit Blanche Renegade Parade Oct 1

video recorded on October 01, 2011
Join Us in Solidarity! www.facebook.com/OccupyCanada
Revolution 2.0 always starts on the internet. It will be tweeted, facebooked, YouTubed liked and shared. If your government shuts down the internet. Shut down your government.

OCTOBER 15 -OCCUPY TORONTO!
https://www.facebook.com/OccupyToronto

There is no time left to be complacent. The world is changing now. Not tomorrow. Be part of the change for good. The love. Not the fear. Let go your attachment to the old world and embrace the new.

BE THE CHANGE - Join Occupy WallStreet
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt

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[TomCADem]

3. I Bet Romney - A Former Wall Street Exec Will Side With Them!

Given that his only consistent stand has been to repeal the Financial Reform Bill.

[Zorra]

10. Um, no, that's definitely not going to happen. It's a very anti-republican phenomenon.

Wall St = Republican

[TBF]

4. Thank you Canada - Solidarity! nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. Yesss! nt

[Mosaic]

6. Corporatism's Days are Counted

As the World wakes up!

[Little Star]

7. This is great! Good luck my Canadian friends! n/t

[Enthusiast]

8. kr

Thank you, Canadian brothers and sisters!

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Oh my... like a wildfire in the prairie...

[Eyerish]

11. K&R

[Yon_Yonson]

12. CANADA ~ GREAT NEWS SOLIDARITY & PEACE

[jwirr]

13. Great. This is an international issue. Corporations/Banksters are

strangling all of us.

[PETRUS]

14. fantastic

As some of y'all are pointing out - it ain't just Americans who are victimized by Wall Street and there are powerful financiers all over the globe who must be stripped of their influence.

[Uncle Joe]

15. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, highplainsdem.

[Remember Me]

16. My dream --

for the internet, since BEFORE the worldwide anti-war protest in 2003, the one with protests against the upcoming war held on the same day on EVERY continent, has been for the world's people to unite together as one and throw off the shackles and chains and TAKE OUR POWER BACK. This news brings me to tears of joy. Every little sign does.

Let the world wide revolution begin -- er, continue.

[Skittles]

17. THANK YOU CANNADA

[Canuckistanian]

18. Occupy Toronto, Oct. 15th

[mother earth]

19. We can all support OWS with $$ to RebuildTheDream.