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Protesters of the Occupy Sydney movement hold signs in front of the Reserve Bank of Australia in central Sydney October 15, 2011.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Police broke up a Sydney protest camp inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in an early morning raid on Sunday, making dozens of arrests, police and protesters said.
The 'Occupy Sydney' protest against corporate greed and economic inequality in the Martin Place business district had been going on for a week, with a small group sleeping out in the square despite seizure of camping equipment, setting up solar panels to charge mobile phones.
The raid by about 100 officers came two days after police in Melbourne broke up a parallel protest there in violent scenes. New South Wales state police said they had made 40 arrests in Sydney on Sunday. Some protesters were expected to be charged with crimes, including assaulting police.
Video shot by protesters and posted on their website (www.occupysydney.org.au) showed a rubbish-strewn patch of ground, with police moving through in the dark.
Protest spokesman who gave his name as Tim Davis Frank said about 70 people were in the area when the raid started around 5 a.m. (2:00 p.m. EDT Saturday), including some homeless people who had joined the demonstrators.
"I was fast asleep. People started yelling - get your camera out. One of the police was yelling something into a microphone," Davis Frank told Reuters. "They basically informed us we had 10 minutes to gather our possessions."
Police said protesters had originally had permission to protest for two hours, which they had exceeded more than a week ago, and had repeatedly ignored requests to leave.
"Protesters were given a final warning to leave Martin Place this morning before police moved in and cleared the area," police said in a statement.
Although inspired by the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement, the protests generally only attracted crowds of up to a few hundred, largely drawn from left-wing groups.
Australia's economy weathered the global economic crisis better than most developed nations, buoyed by its key resources exports, and currently has a low unemployment rate.
Reporting by Chris McCall, Editing by Yoko Nishikawa)
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sbugle wrote:
of course,The occupy Syndey movement is sign of solidarity with NYC,London,because Australia is well-off country.Nevertheless,it supports over the world concern about the hottest problems-involvemet in military conflicts.Victory in Lybia and joy and pride of killing Gaddafy spaeks about wrong policy.Murder of Bin Laden,Hussein,Gaddafy do not resolve real problems,but distabilize world political order
Oct 22, 2011 10:25pm EDT -- Report as abuse
tdanby wrote:
Political order is not sacrosanct. In fact, history is spattered by a number of criminal/unjust/cruel/corrupt political orders.
Oct 22, 2011 11:47pm EDT -- Report as abuse
brian-decree wrote:
You have the right to protest, in the way WE let you protest.
You have the right to resist arrest, but you will be charged with assault.
It is a FACT in Australia that resisting arrest or assault by a police officer is a criminal offence. The name of the charge is ‘assaulting a police officer’.
So I’d like the record to state that those ‘assaulting a police officer’ could more likely have just been ‘resisting arrest’, because there is no distinction made between the two charges under Australian Law.
It is ridiculous! And I say this from personal experience of two officers dragging me out of my own house, beating the crap out of me against my car and charging me with ‘assaulting a police officer’ for trying to avoid injury and manuvour away from a vulnerable position. This was over an alleged driving offence.
Australian police are brutal!! And Australian law protects their crimes systematically.
There are many deaths in custody, and no-one is charged.
Oct 23, 2011 2:40am EDT -- Report as abuse
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