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Dave Johnson, Campaign for America s Future: 'This situation of crony government protecting the connected rich while people are in the streets demanding change is more and more reminiscent of Egypt under Mubarak. The 1% would be well-advised to pay attention to what has happened in other countries where government ignores the people and takes care only of the connected rich.'

http://www.truth-out.org/people-streets-mubarak-congress-continues-push-austerity/1320589153



Occupy DC Disrupts Koch Group Gathering; Activists Struck by Car

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet: 'Time was when David Koch could bring his Americans for Prosperity Foundation convention to our nation s capital, and conventioneers could feel pretty secure in the notion that Washington, D.C., was theirs for the taking. No longer. The triumphant glow of hagiography that usually marks the convention's annual Ronald Reagan tribute dinner Friday night gave way to the heat of confrontation with the Occupy D.C. movement.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-dc-disrupts-koch-group-gathering-activists-struck-car/1320600431



At G20 Summit, Civil Society Demands 'People First, Not Finances'

Cléo Fatoorehchi, Inter Press Service: 'Led by the slogan 'People First, not Finance', the People?s Forum, a group of anti-capitalist and anti- G20 activists based in Nice, 20 miles from the high-level meeting in Cannes, are concerned that the G20 will do little to nurse the deep social wounds in Europe and around the world.'

http://www.truth-out.org/g20-summit-civil-society-demands-people-first-not-finances/1320597980



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