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Gearing up for the second wave

05/10/2012 11:38 By PEGGY CIDOR

Social-protests this year will focus more on real poverty, less on the erosion of the middle class, organizers say.

sign on a tent reads ‘We demand public housing.’

Photo by: Marc Israel Sellem

Last week, more than 75 people crammed into the small Salon Shabazi coffee shop in Nahlaot in response to an appeal launched through Facebook to initiate serious discussions about the plans for this summer’s social protest. The massive reaction – from various organizations, as well as individuals not affiliated with any group – and wide age range of the participants gave the organizers the answer they were waiting for – that a desire to take action was in the air.

It was immediately decided that a large outdoor demonstration would take place on Saturday night (May 5) at Hamashbir Square, with former MK Charlie Biton, the last veteran of the Black Panther movement to advance the rights of Mizrahi immigrants that pervaded Jerusalem in the 1970s, as the head speaker.

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Gearing up for the second wave

Social-protests this year will focus more on real poverty, less on the erosion of the middle class, organizers say.

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