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24th October 2011, 07:13
Global Occupy movement spreads to Kolkata
22 October 2011
KOLKATA, OCT 22: The Global Occupy Movement spread to Kolkata this afternoon, with around 300 demonstrators meeting at College Square at 2 p.m., before walking to Metro Channel, holding banners in support of Wall Street protestors.
According to Mr Deborshi Chakroborty, a history student at Presidency University and one of the convenors of the protest, the event was organised through Facebook. "We created the Occupy Kolkata group two weeks ago, and we called for this rally on last Sunday, and have gathered about 300 people.” As of this evening, there are 2,386 members in the Facebook group.
Mr Chakroborty said, “We are organising this rally in solidarity with the United States.” He said that the rally was not linked to any political party, neither Trinamul-Congress nor the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), adding, “In the United States, the protestors are not Democrats or Republicans. Like them, we are non-partisan. We are 99 per cent of the people.”
He also said their movement believed in “horizontal leadership”, before adding that the Occupy Movement perhaps did need a leader to achieve their goals, but that the leader should be chosen from the bottom, and not from the top.
Link to the article
http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=387383&catid=42
Kolkata is a old city in eastern part of India well known as intellectual capital of India, the city has a reputation for pioneering political movements, legend has it "what Kolkata thinks today rest of India thinks tomorrow"
Any ways I will keep posting more articles and pic on this one
22 October 2011
KOLKATA, OCT 22: The Global Occupy Movement spread to Kolkata this afternoon, with around 300 demonstrators meeting at College Square at 2 p.m., before walking to Metro Channel, holding banners in support of Wall Street protestors.
According to Mr Deborshi Chakroborty, a history student at Presidency University and one of the convenors of the protest, the event was organised through Facebook. "We created the Occupy Kolkata group two weeks ago, and we called for this rally on last Sunday, and have gathered about 300 people.” As of this evening, there are 2,386 members in the Facebook group.
Mr Chakroborty said, “We are organising this rally in solidarity with the United States.” He said that the rally was not linked to any political party, neither Trinamul-Congress nor the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), adding, “In the United States, the protestors are not Democrats or Republicans. Like them, we are non-partisan. We are 99 per cent of the people.”
He also said their movement believed in “horizontal leadership”, before adding that the Occupy Movement perhaps did need a leader to achieve their goals, but that the leader should be chosen from the bottom, and not from the top.
Link to the article
http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=387383&catid=42
Kolkata is a old city in eastern part of India well known as intellectual capital of India, the city has a reputation for pioneering political movements, legend has it "what Kolkata thinks today rest of India thinks tomorrow"
Any ways I will keep posting more articles and pic on this one