This video is about Israel's 'tent city' movement.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Privatisation drives Israelis onto streets
Friday 05 August 2011
Thousands of people took to the streets of towns across Israel on Thursday night to express their anger at the government‘s privatisation drive and its failure to build affordable public housing.
A thousand people rallied in central Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, while smaller numbers turned out in Kiryat Shmona and Beersheeba.
… demonstrators marched down Rothschild Boulevard chanting: “The people demand public housing,” and “What’s the answer to privatisation? Revolution.”
Organisers said that they are gearing up for mass demonstrations this weekend.
They hope rallies in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem tonight will be the biggest show of force so far in their effort to press the government to suspend the privatisation of state firms, improve enforcement of labour laws and increase taxes on the rich.
Activists are also urging the government to allocate substantial budgets for public housing projects and enforce rent controls.
Rallies last Saturday drew about 150,000 people.
Millions of Egyptians watched their former dictator, Hosni Mubarak, in a court cage last week. Many of us were speechless: here.
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Chiefs at trade union removed
EGYPT: Prime Minister Essam Sharaf issued an executive order on Thursday to dismiss the executive board of the Mubarak-era Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF).
A new committee is to be elected to represent the body’s 2.5 million members.
It is not yet known whether the election will pave the way for the revival of ETUF, which is widely seen as state-controlled.
Many activists are calling for it to be scrapped and replaced by a new organisation such as the Federation of Egyptian Trade Unions, a parallel body that was formed during January’s uprising.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/107920
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Taxi owners end strike for talks
GREECE: Striking taxi owners voted 13-4 today to end strike action that they had launched on July 18.
The protesters, who say that industry deregulation being demanded by the European Central Bank and IMF will eat into their earnings, had staged blockades on highways and at ports and airports.
Representatives of taxi owners’ associations opted to end the strike after local authorities agreed to delay issuing new licenses until after a new round of negotiations between the protesters and the government.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/107920
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Gaza pounded by Israeli aircraft
PALESTINE: Israeli war jets pounded the blockaded Gaza Strip early this morning without causing any casualties.
The air strikes, which were mounted after militants in the coastal enclave fired three rockets towards Israel on Wednesday, appeared to target bases of the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the military branch of Gaza’s Hamas administration.
An Israeli woman was lightly wounded by shrapnel on Monday when a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory exploded near a cemetery.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/107920
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FIG LEAF
Netanyahu is sending Peres
To offer plans to the Palestinians –
But has no intention
To end the occupation.
Netanyahu is sending Peres
To offer support to the protesters –
But has no intention
Of providing affordable housing.
Why does Peres agree
To serve as a fig leaf
For Netanyahus’s nakedness?
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