'Systematic' issues spawning US, Europe demos
Press TV has conducted an interview with Joe Lombardo, United National Antiwar Coalition from New York, to get his take on the international protests by the Anonymous Army, a group of people protesting censorship, corruption, war and poverty.
The following is a full transcription of the interview.
Press TV: For the fourth year in a row, the Anonymous Army has taken to the streets all across the world in massive numbers. What did you think about the turnout; are you surprised?
Lombardo: Yeah, I don’t know what numbers there were in Europe and other demonstrations in many cities in the United States. The Anonymous movement is one of the movements that initiated the protests in 1912 - the Occupy protest that took place in hundreds of cities all across the United States.
Press TV: Do you think that taking to the streets a few times a year can actually change the world?
Lombardo: Well, no. I mean one of the things that we’re seeing is (that) instead of having a demonstration where people demonstrate and come home, what we’ve learned from the Occupy movement and what we’ve learned from Black Live Matter movement is people need to stay in the streets.
And with Occupy, they did for quite a long time and the same thing with the Black Lives Matter movement; they just came out day after day after day.
This in itself is not going to change anything, but it has influenced the thinking of many Americans. And right now, you see these demonstrations that we’ve seen the Anonymous has initiated, the million-mass march that is focusing on capitalism.
And I think that’s very important rather than having a single issue around war or around austerity or around spying. They are tying all these together and saying it’s systemic. And I think that’s the real situation.
Press TV: And very briefly, if you may, what did you think about the mainstream media’s coverage of these marches?
Lombardo: Frankly, I haven’t seen too much mainstream media coverage in the United States anyway. And that is a general situation in this country when something is anti-government, you don’t see it very much. It’s new kind of censorship that is happening in this country.
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