thread: Occupy Melbourne/Wall St discussion

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  1. #1
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    Oct 2009
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    I hardly think there is a lack of ideas behind the movement, unless the only information you (collective) have is gleaned from the evening news.

    The main solution people are proposing has been dubbed 'the Robin-Hood tax'...a 1% tax on all financial and currency transactions that would raise literally billions to help those in our world who are poverty stricken:

    http://robinhoodtax.org.au/

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    Have already stuck up my hand to say that I haven't been following it closely other than listening to interviews on 774 with some of the protesters in which they did not, to my knowledge, put forward the idea you've just described - unless that's one coming from the American protest.

    If they do have specific ideas, then they are not getting them across very well in the mainstream media and if they are to bring about change they do need to get their message through to the mainstream media.