Germans protest against the banks

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/germans-protest-against-the-banks-16076519.html

More than ten thousand people are protesting against the banks' dominance in two of Germany's major cities, police said.
Police in Frankfurt, continental Europe's financial hub, said some 9,000 people are protesting peacefully near the European Central Bank's office tower in the city centre.

[femrap]

1. I don't blame them.

Fuck the Banksters.

[Kaleko]

2. Between 15- and 18,000 protesters altogether in Frankfurt and Berlin today.

http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/berlin-und-frankfurt-tausende-protestieren-gegen-die-macht-der-banken-1750474.html

This is the second Saturday in a row that brought mass demonstrations against the "Banks dumping their debt onto the people", specifically those of Germany and Greece.

Calls for more peaceful acts of civil disobedience by OWS-inspired organizers.

In front of the Reichstags building in Berlin.

[gateley]

3. Why was I under the impression that Germany was doing (relatively)

okay?

[Kaleko]

4. They are doing very well, relatively speaking,

and they have a highly informed citizenry that can see the through the austerity programs imposed by the global financial elite and know a mountaihn of shit from shinola.

[PETRUS]

5. It's true.

In spite of the lingering Nazi jokes, many Germans have a strong social conscience. And remember, the first take to the streets are usually informed people with strong ethics, not necessarily those suffering personally.