Here is a good overview of the mass uprising in Turkey against neoliberalism. I think the Turkish people understand the significance of making their stand to save their public square, much better than we understand the importance of free and open public squares. Beware the lies on corporate news, if they even cover the revolution at all!
Where is our government's "red line" on the massive use of chemical weapons against peaceful protesters??? There is overwhelming confirmation of chemical assaults, unlike in Syria.
"...In all cases, the violent nature of capitalism itself, and especially Neoliberal capitalism, with its history of bloodshed, well known to Turkey with its US driven 1980 coup and the 1977 May Day massacre at Taksim Square, made its presence , and (in Turkey’s current situation), is making its presence felt...
...People are urged and motivated to leave the isolated comfort zones of their homes and computer spaces to reclaim the public spaces of the squares and streets. It is there, in the most tangible and materially ‘real’ agora, that one witnesses their alternative politics to the more insidious and at times ‘new fascism’ politics played out through representative bourgeois parliamentary democracy...
... the AKP’s neoliberal policy partly rests on the construction sector which involves selling public land to private businessmen. It also partly rests on the creation of real estate speculation which has led to urban gentrification through which people are displaced from their neighborhoods..."
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/10/the-uprising-in-turkey/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/10/the-uprising-in-turkey/
