it's being called the mother of all strikes and as the mainstream media insecure and violent and angry protests there is r t as to what sparking the fire is this is a sign of worse things to common will anyone come to the rescue. and from greece today you will ask protesters occupying wall street ends with their second month of holding their ground but as they look for blame who is the number one wall street or washington. and there's also a red hot fight going on in chile this morning for education but as students fight for what they say is there a fundamental right what kind of movement like occupy wall street learn from these killing and protests. it's wednesday october nineteenth eight pm in washington d.c.

i'm liz mall and you're watching artsy. violent riots in greece as tens of thousands of people protest a proposed austerity plan the e.u. and i.m.f. are demanding deep cuts in exchange for a bailout package in order to prevent a diva there is fear that without the bailout the rest of the eurozone will spiral and the economic collapse meanwhile greece faces rising unemployment and massive government debt legislators are voting on bills that would hike taxes and cut salaries but protesters don't want to pay and they're taking their fury to the streets of athens a forty hour strike is shutting down the country government agencies closing their doors to take part in the strike flights have been grounded and services are at a standstill more than one hundred thousand workers and students gathered in the streets of the capital and in front of parliament building the demonstrations turning ugly as police fired tear gas up the mobs protesters firing back at them for petrol bombs and stones. well it's obvious people are angry but what exactly is

sparking the fire there is feeling that things there are not fair why should the public not to carry the burden of the debt and why does the everyday worker have to suffer downsizing the government to save money will directly affect the quality of life for people there so why are these austerity measures and violent rising protests a sign of worse things to come are the correspondent sara firth is on the ground to bring us the latest. with the riot police still waiting to clear the remaining protesters that hair on syntagma square nowhere near the amount of people we saw earlier when hundreds of thousands turned out is the biggest protest the greatest thing since the beginning of the financial crisis and we saw more of these violent clashes that we've seen before but i really i can't quite despite here i mean of three seeing the kitchen spy now the scenes that we saw here and to the station really as a violent clashes broke out you can still see is very dark at the moment there are

a lot of riot police still on the streets me do you have sort of more advocates movements that remain on the streets here they're still having those run ins with the right place precisely they've managed to calm the situation a lot but as we said scenes of devastation just devastation on the streets of athens that the street is just been destroyed they had a lot of the buildings on fire earlier although when they fronts have been smashed there was a very large meat east meets and then they were saying you know they're trying to live under these conditions which in their parents' struggle in his job losses in the country with these continued attacks like this incredibly hard to saying today this is the country in the future that they're going to inherit you know it's very concerning earlier when we saw the chaotic situation very very quickly these things always escalate quite fast and just the sheer number of children that we've seen a sixteen seventeen years old i think and they're telling us think they felt that obligation to fight this battle is what it really is that's the battle here though

battle scenes we saw earlier today as the violence broke out very disturbing indeed and who's really now for years they needed to find a different approach to criticism right from the start has been that they it's with that to the situation that the euro is in crisis we've heard analysts saying that they believe the rhetoric they didn't think that a crisis would ever happen in the usa and it did and the institutions in the mechanisms. do it there's simply not being a place to say tonight we still see a small outbreaks of tensions bubbling eight ok people say they simply had enough they call what could be dishes any will and they will think. that was r t correspondent sara firth reporting from athens greece and from coast to coast here in the u.s. protesters voicing their fury over the economic system occupy wall street protests have grown exponentially and have spread to cities around the globe they're protesting corporate greed and corruption which they say is line the pockets of

a privileged few out the expense of the masses the movement once ignored and mocked by political leaders and the mainstream media is now being taken seriously by some or even seeing republican presidential candidates changing their tune when it comes to the growing movement and that romney for example first call the occupy wall street movement dangerous class warfare when asked about the protests there in last night's presidential debate here's what he had to say we've had a president responsible for this economy for the last three years and he's failed us he's failed us in part because he has no idea how the private sector works or how to create jobs on every single issue he's made it harder for our economy to reboot and as a result we have twenty five million americans out of work or stopped looking for work or part time work and can't get full time employees home values going down you have median income in america in the last. three years has dropped by ten percent americans are hurting across this country and the president's out there campaigning

why isn't he governing. so who is to blame wall street or washington answer that i just spoke to gerald celente a publisher of the trans journal and director of the trans research institute here's what he had to say. wall street is washington and washington is wall street look over the heads of the u.s. treasury over the last couple of presidents robert rubin goldman sachs they're moving. two to citi group then you had read paul's the treasury secretary on the bush the lies the whole top program where did he come from both the c.e.o. of goldman sachs we had to bail out goldman sachs making a bad bet of thirteen billion dollars with a i.g. who is the chief of staff for president obama where it's the oh that's bill daley i wasn't he the vice chairman of j.p. morgan chase it's the same club it's just a different version so you just have wall street as washington so does that mean

that they should be taking their protests to washington they should be taking they're taking them everywhere this is really again we're not monday morning quarterbacks on this i wrote a book in one thousand nine came out in one thousand nine hundred seven trends two thousand and i was predicting what the future would look like it's right there it's are you get anywhere when we had revolutions taking place on wall street and we said they were from all different generations that was in his sixty's and the reason we said it was very simple the gap between the rich and the poor that's all this is about whether it's tunisia whether it's egypt whether it's bahrain whether it's greece whether it's rain whether it's italy whether it's t u k when the money stops flowing down to the man on the street the blood starts flowing in the streets and that these occupy long day and that is what they're protesting and any quality

so if you think our sister are assessed do you agree that well with their mass and our system favor is powerful at the expense of bella's that are striving for the american dream to summon up in four simple words. too big to fail we just heard herman cain you know that nine nine nine guy chastising the wall street protesters of saying they were anti capital is now i'm sorry mr cain you have it backwards hailing out there too big to fail as the rich bankers the federal reserve dumping trillions of dollars worldwide that anthy capital so yes and when you look at that data you know mitt romney repeated some of it and you know he says job you know listen to his answer it was a no answer from the answer he gave the last time he's pinning it on obama and by well more political atheist i don't believe in anybody's political fairy tales or religions so you know having said that well bob as responsible but bush was before

that clinton was before that you know so this thing is very very into your woven thirty year romney you know trying to come out as though you know this is all we have to do is straighten things out a little bit it's been a takeover it's one big corporate takeover named the industry is a handful of people running it agriculture communications you go down the list whether it's retail whether it's the military so yes wall street is washington washington is was three and the number romney threw out a ten percent decline in median household income since the recession began while you look at the other data for the top one percent here rake in the. you know with at least one presidential republican presidential candidate might agree with what you're saying telling an extent that the american

dream is not select a novel any more let's take a lesson from rick santorum sat in last night's debate. believe it or not studies have been done to show that in western europe people at the lower part of the income scale actually have a better mobility going up the ladder now than in america. so the people have a better shot at the american dream and you're at now well known in europe anymore either they're going on there as well but he just write it out to get a quality and you could follow the money we used to be the most egalitarian nation on earth until the republicans and democrats started deregulating the laws that made us that robinson patton and the sherman antitrust eagle act that put all the play in the power of the big we want to start a business promise you're going to create several hundred jobs they'll give you tax breaks loan guarantees you name it infrastructure but if you're an entrepreneur and want to start a business why they got the state agencies the local agencies they have everybody

down on your back getting licenses and making sure you abide by the letter of the law and this other guy like since you are a these are the people that come out with what we have to do is do you regulate it business a given before you head how about the regulating me about the regulating the average person out there you know they think they have this thing in. these are the people he was in the senate look at the great job that's going on over there in pennsylvania rick the state capitol over there is filing bankruptcy why would anybody listen to these people and then gerald lastly you predict that president obama will win the next election and approval rating they aren't some great people are not satisfied with the economy why do you make that prediction if the election were held today in the front runners or perry romney or cain we say obama wins because when you listen to the programs coming from the republicans it's

almost as though they have been infiltrated from the democratic party that's giving them the law like we got to cut back on its idle bit you know social security is running rampant and we don't get we have to rein it in medicare is out of control you're telling people this is they're losing their homes don't have any jobs can't afford health care while obama he plays that style of the president and becomes the born again populist and blames it on. and those people with their work projects out there so he's going to play the phony role of being the warrior for the working. and being that when you watch these debates it's it's the president show reality show and he's the best performer and you know some people use that are a layer of that wall street as in washington and some people and the financial

industry are they say about financial industry and the last remaining industry in america when what do you think about that you know what are they creating all these guys do is deals it's not like they're you know they were they contributing to society they're just doing deals so they can make more money. it's not productive it's as being a money junkie they can't get enough when i was a kid growing up my parents may they rest in peace with depression era people and they used to say when they had enough how many steaks could one person eat these people want to control more and more when wayne is a billion dollars and look at the disconnect you hear along the billionaire mayor of new york chess guys in the protesters say they are going after the wrong people the people that are making forty or fifty thousand dollars on wall street the

average salary of wall street according to the new york controllers office is three hundred sixty six thousand dollars forty thousand dollars people will gird story about handing out the towels in the laboratory for the money junkie carroll thank you so much for your thoughts on this that was a gerald the lance and publisher of the transparent and director of the transit research institute. now is the occupy wall street movement continues to grow and spread around the world people on both sides of the political spectrum are still questioning the i'm from ny angle similarities between the tea party and occupy wall street so we want to know if folks on the streets and tell the difference between the two parties i began it was that i had it out to ask whose line is it anyway the tea party or occupy wall street. with all the hoopla surrounding the relationship between the occupy wall street movement and the tea party now i hit the streets to find out computer you can tell the difference number one they derive

power and wealth from their access to our money and taxpayer dollars they use it beyond their friends on wall street and their corporate cronies there's a name for this is called corporate crony capitalism. i would say that probably is going for the wall street fads. now. i would guess the tea party but i don't know for sure it is the same position that both take but i do believe only capitalism sounds like doctor by wall street. and sarah pail and sarah palin and she's the mistress of county capitalism number two it's not a choice of the lesser of two evils it's often the choice of the evil of two lesser . of the one. who gives back to the tea party no yeah well anybody could say that. that sounds like a tea party thing to do. i generally think it could be either. i'm usually

a couple of signs and they're either going to be from the tea party rally or from occupy wall street really close the number on. that would be the occupy wall street correct second one. that looks like a tea party thing correct. that i would assume to be the occupy wall street but just because of this. you know i think it's to occupy wall street now it's. a chance like the tea party. occupy wall street next to last. that's going to be the tea party correct. last one i think this is. i think that's actually the model for all of both of. these and we know they are very very

similar movements there is a very very similar. well there you have it it seems the occupy wall street movement and the tea party may have a bit more in common that they care to admit the burden from washington i'm adriano said o r t so it's clear people can't seem to really tell which movement is which but there must be something that sets the two a parcel what is that fundamental difference earlier i posed that question to iraq war veteran member of the party for socialism and liberation michael prysner together with conservative political commentator and strategist heather here's what they had to say. the main similarity is that people are mad. as hell as one of the signs showed that the main difference is that the occupy wall street crowd now not the original one but the one now that is much more liberal than the original one is saying that they want more government they want government to take care of their needs whereas the tea party would say that now we need less

government and the way we can operate better and the way we can make some positive changes our society is having less government interference in our lives michael is occupy wall street the tea party of the last. no i would say absolutely no i would say that you know as the american dream that heather mentioned is a nightmare for most americans which is why so many people have been coming into the streets you know the when this country was founded on a system of capitalism under system of slavery really you know the gap between the rich and the poor since that point has constantly been growing and now we're at the biggest gap between the rich and the poor ever in u.s. history this is a crisis that is global and that it's hitting every single capitalist country in the world showing that it systemic it has nothing to do with how that individual governments are running their capitalist country even you know bush walk on a mission and pro-capitalist economists will talk about the boom and bust cycle of capitalism this is the crises like the one that we're in today are built into this

system of capitalism cannot exist without these crises and every time there's a crisis there are tens of millions of people who lose their livelihoods who were kicked out of their homes who lose their jobs for no other reason other than the the way that the system is set up and so the occupy wall street movement and people that are saying that we are the ninety nine percent directing our anger against the one percent will the rule of the one percent over the ninety nine percent that's capitalism that is a system of capitalism and turning that on its head and saying that the ninety nine percent the ones who make all the money should make all the decisions and decide how that money is spent and rule over that one percent that. as socialist and i'm all that how did very very clearly expressed very artificial to the formulation good people are beginning to me and the percentage that michael keeps on mentioning the ninety nine percent versus the one is very misleading to give the impression but you know ninety nine percent of the americans are for what occupy wall street is advocating for and we're not i mean yes as we see more news stories about what

is going on and more people on the streets there are people improvise i empathize with what's going on i am unemployed the question is how do we solve the problem it's not more government it's not changing government not anarchy the how we do it is we minimize government governments become too big there are too many abuses and we've seen you know government bail out wall street and that was not helpful either that's why the reasons why we have so much and still gets wall street we have so many do polls and be close we really do need to have a better tax code a simpler tax code we're not asking lawyers to help us get up to get us out of a of a bind so you know i agree i empathize with going on with occupy wall street just like it was a teapot ready the question is how to address the problems and that was iraq war veteran member of the party for socialism and liberation michael prysner and conservative political commentator and strategist heather ceremony and from the

united states to abroad the occupy wall street movement have gone global with protests breaking up all over europe and beyond however the american branch of occupy wall street still feels ignored by the mainstream media are the correspondent reena core and i and that with an activist was breaking that information barrier. from the mass demonstrations of support. to the disturbing images of police force day after day the world has been able to watch occupy wall street in action through global revolution t.v. is a live web stream documenting the ongoing corporate resistance and civil unrest growing and growing in the big apple it's not about one political party or that it's actually creating a crowd for to have this debate without being manipulated by the powers that be five years ago blood type was a derivative street or on wall street today the thirty nine year old is among those

camped out in zuccotti park protesting against the financial institutions he once worked for i saw unbelievably combined with. the call hierarchy system come by with a still be the biggest bomb in the waters of us in the saga will the company co-founded i launched global t.v. weeks ago we're going to bring people with explain what's going on with the occupation movement began in new york will supply people how to shoot video of the edit they just uploaded and how to make it go viral and the whole idea is that you creating its opinions record in the with this now can movement has exploded road why the web channel will be broadcasting live streams for more than seventy countries and six hundred cities we're going to see more people that's going to be a thing called think with all the other square of much as we go at picking out what's happening there and taking best dreams of putting them on the go but it will

show you the sort of a model for a replacement for c.n.n. take burke says mainstream media outlets will be unable to marginalize in the peaceful uprising as people from all over the world take to the streets demanding elected leaders begin working for the majority. instead of the financial elites it's worldwide with it's these principles of equality i'll give you that for the everything because we've basically created the united nations it's everybody that if you go to people the people of the occupy movement take their first flight with the most economic political force and this is the first criticized now spreading across the planet. artsy. and from wall street's agrees to chile economic unrest over economic policies and the chilean capital of santiago protests erupt over education reform and the demonstrations have turned

violent protesters have set of burning barricades blocking traffic in anger is aimed specifically at the education system there which they say is an equal student leaders are demanding a reform of the system they want the government to step in and control education and public funding and so the system in chile it seems the attitude is no matter who you are no matter what your financial standing education is a fundamental right so what if anything can americans learn from this thinking well earlier i asked freelance multimedia journalist bernie peterson here's her answer. one thing that has really upset a lot of the massive protests here and you mentioned some people i nike a peaceful the. movement has been incredibly impressive with its level of organisation with how well spoken the student leaders are how clear there clearly is in it to me and there but what has really messed up. a.

lot of people is the violence that has taken place and so i think that once you have done it reach out to keeping everything he saw in the u.s. has a lot of good examples to look at in its own history as far as civil disobedience and he saw protests girls so to keep peace thought is one thing that the u.s. can surely. that's going to station uncertainty and you know our guy was very has been criticized for having scattered demands or not having a gas and killing is chaos they've narrowed it down to adequate as i need to do the same. well i think to get anything through an organized democratic government that we have elected yes it will and so we need to have a very focused. plan ahead ahead of it but at the students planned has been around for about five years now the two thousand and six move but there are many high school students that are protesting today there are universities and then you want

them as well so really truly has a long history of knowing exactly what they're to me and so for the education system and we've been so organized for a long time now and worked so hard to get. the have they have a good history going for them so it's going to be some time to get there but yes protests what are you of course like to be organized right now is that it's not working yet it's getting there were people are experiencing what is democracy looks like let's rethink the american dream and thinking process that creative process is happening now in and you can be as will become clear and you know it here in the u.s. the cost of college is skyrocketing students are burdened with exorbitant sums of college and there are the days where education is our portable to everyone to what extent would you compare the problems of education and their education and cheli to problems here in the here and here in the u.s. . so the biggest. student. is that so many things at least

it's really hard to say if you're stronger in the u.s. or if it's stronger but i don't know is that. students are leaving school and she delayed with huge amounts of debt your middle class family they're not able to access that look class families can access and so a lot of families that may have three or four kids in university at the same time here in too late have parents who are both working but they're looking for for university educations and what monthly tuition is the cost that is the same case that the only ones. and so it's been so hard and so they're not getting loans from duluth from the government they're not getting grants so they're taking out these private loans but of course those years going to be good at trying to keep those loans they're juggling in that is the same thing that we're seeing in the united states to go leaving with fifty thousand dollars get it couple years later they have no idea how it happened because that is it's a very hundred thousand dollars in a given year in the making and but how do. you know the funds are built through

public funding for education has made it to that higher education is not accessible to everyone. and that was freelance multimedia journalist burton. well from chile it's agrees and more if you want to see what's going on in the world be sure to watch our team well the mainstream news channels such as c.n.n. and fox and then as n.b.c. continue to cover major stories from the comfort of their own studios we are on the ground in the middle of the action just like our intrepid sarah ferguson who was in the line of fire in greece this morning and had to run from her post during a live news shot as you can see here so for the latest the real action in greece you can follow my colleague sarah for on twitter and for everything and that's only you can also follow me liz wahl does it or it's an i have a great night. welcome

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