[lbo-talk] Latvia - Economic crisis spawns mass protest

[Chris Doss]

I'd like to see an ethnic and ideological breakdown of the marchers. It's kind of important in Latvia.

--- On Wed, 1/14/09, Steven L. Robinson <srobin21 at comcast.net> wrote:


> From: Steven L. Robinson <srobin21 at comcast.net>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Latvia - Economic crisis spawns mass protest
> To: progchat_action at yahoogroups.com, "Out of the frying pan" <Out_Of_The_Frying_Pan at yahoogroups.com>, lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org, Green_All_Views at yahoogroups.com, "BV" <bangla-vision at yahoogroups.com>
> Cc: "Jeffrey" <JGSHURT69 at aol.com>
> Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 1:43 AM
> Latvian anti-government protest turns into riot
> 
> By Patrick Lannin and Jorgen Johansson
> Reuters
> January 13, 2009
> 
> Riga  - Hundreds of youths destroyed police vehicles,
> smashed windows and
> looted stores in Latvia's capital on Tuesday when an
> anti-government protest
> turned into a riot.
> 
> The violence, after a peaceful protest by thousands calling
> for early
> elections in a country which last year had to seek a
> multi-billion economic
> rescue deal, was the worst seen since the collapse of the
> former Soviet
> Union in 1991.
>