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The World is Rising Up!
Governments, corporate media, and financial institutions have indoctrinated us with the belief that things can’t change – that the people don’t have the power.
But people all over the world are proving them wrong.
In 2009 alone, uprisings have contributed to governments being replaced in Iceland, The Czech Republic, Latvia and Hungary. U.S. propped-up governments in Georgia and Ukraine are facing revolt, and the people of El Salvador and Guadeloupe recently won big victories. Fiji's president re-appointed a former coup leader to head the politically unstable South Pacific nation's government. The people of London have had multiple mass demonstrations this past month surrounding the G20, and some in France have been taking corporate executives hostage (Caterpillar big-wigs were the latest). Riots in Greece shut down Athens in December; Governor Crist's groundbreaking support for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers Campaign for Fair Food; the conviction of the U.S.-supported former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on human rights violations, and many more instances of people successfully fighting for change. Most recently:
| Thai protests cancel Asian summit - A summit of Asian leaders in Thailand has been cancelled after anti-government protesters broke into the venue in the resort of Pattaya.
 The Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) meeting, called to discuss the global financial crisis, was due to start on Saturday and included India, Australia and New Zealand, among others. But as the talks were about to start, thousands of red-shirted supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra smashed into the media centre adjacent to the conference hall. Fearing the protesters, leaders from the various countries were airlifted from the area (read). Thai protest leaders are now calling for an end to their demonstrations following a few days of violence (read). The protest reportedly stems from a dispute pitting royalists, the military and the urban middle-class against a poorer rural majority loyal to the exiled former prime minister. |  | Moldova students raid Parliament… - Violence rocked the Moldovan capital of Chisinau as thousands of protesters stormed the presidential administration building and parliament in a second day of street protests. Footage showed the protesters, mostly young men, hurling rocks at the windows of the presidential administration building and setting it on fire as large crowds looked on. The riots came after parliamentary elections gave President Vladimir Voronin's Communist Party around 50 percent of the vote (read), making Moldova the first former-Soviet republic to return to Communism. The so-called "Twitter Revolution" appeared to be influenced by the west and is being condemned by Russia.
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