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OWS Week 5/23 – G8, Chicago NATO Summit, Tom Morello and more

All eyes turn towards Chicago, beginning May 17th, as 99 percenters rode solidarity bosses from New York City and other cities across the country to meet up with fellow patriots and protest against NATO.

NATO has killed many civilians in Afghanistan, bombed Libya into the Stone Age to plunder its oil.  This is while it ignores repressive regimes in Bahrain, Yemen and Egypt.

NATO forces, backed by the US, invaded Iraq and as a result Iraqi petroleum sources ended up in Western hands.  Cuts are being made to healthcare and students are being crushed by a trillion-dollar debt.

In a protest against NATO warmongering policies, veterans returned their medals. They protested the huge amounts of money being spent on wars at a time of austerity.

OWS Week 4/11/12, Occupy DC/DC Now, Chicago Spring, Florida protests

Press TV’s new program; ‘OWS Week’ highlights 7 days of the protest movement’s happenings as viewed from American protesters’ eyes. The program also examines the wide range of social issues addressed by the ‘occupy’ movement in the US.

This episode of the show covers a range of actions across America. They included the Occupy DC/DC Now; a protest march in Washington against student fee hikes. Thousands of 99ers joined the transit Union workers in 20 US cities including New York and Boston. The Chicago Spring rallies against social, economic and political injustices were called to “educate, inspire and unite.”

And in Tampa Florida protests hit the “State of the City 2012” mayoral address against the coming Republican National Convention.