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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Occupy / International Meanwhile in the Philippines

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:35 PM

For the second day in a row, militant groups, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States, failed to reach the Chino Roces Bridge (formerly Mendiola Bridge) in Manila where they had planned to stage a camp-out to dramatize their dissatisfaction with the Aquino government’s failure to deliver basic social services.

At around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, riot policemen used truncheons and water cannons to disperse the around 500 “Occupy Mendiola” protesters who were marching on Bustillos Street on their way to the bridge.

Five of them were picked up by policemen and taken to the Manila Police District (MPD) headquarters.

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Why have they been labeled "militant"? They want to stage a peaceful protest. Militant is a bullshit slander that is used by the corporate paper to discredit protesters and it's disgraceful.

Posted by Vince on December 8, 2011 at 7:07 AM

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They are labeled as militant groups as they have, in the past, clashed with police in a very non-violent way. Now theyre using OWS as a means to do basically what theyve been doing for the past few years.

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