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September 17, 2018

European Activists Protest Banks on 10-Year Anniversary of Lehman Brothers' Collapse
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And over the weekend, activists in Europe protested outside banks in
France and Germany to mark the 10-year anniversary of the collapse of
Lehman Brothers, whose bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, is seen as the
start of the global financial crisis. Millions of people in the United
States and around the world lost their jobs, homes, and life savings,
even as the US government bailed out some of Wall Street's biggest
failing banks. The financial crisis also sparked massive global
anti-capitalist movements, including The Occupy Movement, the M-15
movement in Spain, and the massive anti-austerity movements in Greece.
This is activist Aurélie Trouvé, speaking at the protest in France this
weekend. 
bq. Aurélie Trouvé: "The government should make it so that we can take
the money from the wealthiest, from financial institutions, for this
ecological and social transition. Today, they make us believe that the
money isn't there, but I assure you that with an efficient tax on
financial transactions, with a real fight against fiscal evasion, we
will have the means and the needed money for this ecological and social
transaction."


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