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<span class="date-display-single">Sun, 27/05/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1228">Sibylle Kaczorek</a></span>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/4289">Frankfurt</a></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>Up to 30,000 protesters from across Europe took to the streets on May 19 in the financial district of Frankfurt. The rally, which lasted for seven hours, ended outside the European Central Bank (ECB). </p>
<p>The protest, “Blockupy Frankfurt”, was part of a three-day action, organised to oppose the European debt crisis policies of the “troika” made up of the ECB, the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission. </p>
<p>Theses polices include the so-called Eurozone bailout funds, which have helped push people across Europe into poverty and the dismantled democratic rights.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51150" target="_blank">read more</a></p>