'Time for Outrage' protests draw little response in Poland
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
17.10.2011 08:35
Just a few hundred students took to the streets of Warsaw at the weekend as larger demonstrations based on the Occupy Wall Street protests took place in over 80 cities worldwide.
Protestor at Saurday demo; photo - PAP/Radek Pietruszka
The Warsaw “Demonstration of the Outraged” was meant to be an act of solidarity with protesters on Wall Street and around Europe.
The young protesters in the Polish capital, mostly high school students the October 15 Understanding organisation demanded changes to protect their age group against the global financial crisis.
“No one appreciates young people,” one demonstrator told Polish Radio. “I am mostly outraged by the treatment of young people in the laboor market..”
Politicians Ryszard Kalisz (SLD) and feminist Wanda Nowicka (RP) attended the small demonstration which police say attracted just 150 people.
The protesters started their march in front of the Palace of Culture in the centre of the city and then went on to the Ministry of Finance and the Prime Minister's Office.
Meanwhile, in Lisbon, Portugal saw a protest of 50,000, and rioting broke out in Rome on Saturday night after a few hundred of the several thousand demonstrators torched cars, smashed windows of banks and threw rocks at police. Over one hundred were injured in the Italian protest. (pg)