From Little Acorns, Great Oak Trees Grow.

     From rolling anger to joined-up protests across Europe. Stockholm, Berne, Istanbul, Frankfurt, while all that was going on there were demonstrations in Athens, Madrid and Lisbon. That number of angry people prepare to take to the streets tells you the system is rotten.

Thousands blockade European Central Bank in Frankfurt

  The Daily Sheeple

    Anti-capitalist protestors have taken to the streets the financial heart of Frankfurt a day ahead of Europe-wide gatherings planned for June 1 to protest leaders handling of the three-year euro debt crisis.

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"Resistance Is Everywhere".

     The other week Stockholm was rocked by riots, and before the smoke and tear gas had dispersed, Berne took to the streets to show their anger at a system that tramples people in all countries. Now Istanbul takes up the cry against police brutality and authoritarian government. Whether that babbling brook of bullshit, the media reports it or not, the people of Europe are rising, as the chant in Istanbul proclaims, “Resistance is everywhere”. We are in an era of tremendous potential change, people everywhere are waking up to the fact the the present system is not interested in the well being of the ordinary people. In fact they are beginning to realise that it is set up to screw them and they now have knowledge, imagination and ability to do something about it. There is another way to structure society, a fairer more just way, a society based on mutual aid and freed from the cancer of the profit motive. The murmur of the poor is becoming a roar.

Some of the slogans and info from the streets of Istanbul, from Contra Info: 

 

 A banner hung in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in support of the Turkish people.

faşizme karşı omuz omuza / stand shoulder-to-shoulder against fascism

hükümet istifa / government, resign

katil Erdoğan / murderer Erdoğan

Taksim bizim, İstanbul bizim / Taksim is ours, Istanbul is ours

direne direne kazanacağız / we will win by resisting

her yer Taksim, her yer direniş / everywhere is Taksim, resistance is everywhere

sık bakalım, sık bakalım, biber gazı sık bakalım, copunu bırak, kaskını çıkar, delikanlı kim bakalım / shoot it, shoot it, fire the tear gas, drop your baton, take your helmet off, then we see who’s the tough guy

fettullahın piçleri hepiniz orospu çocuğusunuz / you’re all son of bitches [to the police]

orospu çocuğu Tayyip Erdoğan / son of a bitch Tayyip Erdoğan
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There is no official confirmation of the deaths as of yet.

In Istanbul, on 1/6, the cops left the Taksim Gezi Park for a while. Then people gathered to occupy the park again. Soon thereafter, the police stormed the area to remove the protesters.

Recent updates in Turkish : 1, 2, 3

Comrades’ message from the streets of Istanbul at 17:15 (local time): “We did it. Taksim square and Gezi Park occupied. Police pulls back; they’re leaving. People celebrate inside Gezi Park. One police car, with ‘sikik (fucked)’ written on it, was overturned and set on fire…”

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Growing Anger Must Find An Answer Outside The Sytem.

       Day in day out, the people of Europe take to the streets, anger, frustration and disgust at a system that punishes them for wanting a decent life and lavishes wealth on those who rob them of that decent life. Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal have regular explosions of anger from the people. Now as Stockholm's anger quietens, Switzerland, the millionaires bank, explodes. Sedate, well regulated Swiss society, like the rest of Europe has its cabal of super-wealthy parasites and its abundance of angry and frustrated poor. Right there in the midst of the parasites' world of secret bank accounts the rumblings of the angry people are growing. You'll find it almost impossible to name a country in Europe where the people are not taking to the streets in ever growing numbers to voice the total dissatisfaction with this system of injustice and greed.

      The anger has to develop to the next stage, taking control of our lives, shaping society to see to the needs of all our people. We can live without parasites feeding of our labour, they can't live without us producing the wealth.  Anger without direction is like a blind archer behind the bow, we have to plan the changes we want and have the determination to implement them. We would be blind fools if we didn't believe that we can organise our affairs in a fairer and more sane fashion than what is at present being forced onto us. The world is awash with wealth, and we swim in a cesspool of deprivation, we have the ability and imagination to sort out that injustice.

Photos from ContraInfo:

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