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Group to Call for 'Robin Hood Tax' at Protests Saturday
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News Date | Tuesday, October 25, 2011 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | An anti-capitalist group which sparked the Occupy Wall Street movement has called for global protests Saturday to demand that leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) nations impose a "Robin Hood tax" on financial transactions and currency trades.
Canada-based Adbusters wants the Occupy Wall Street protest movement against economic inequality to take to the streets to call for a 1 percent tax on such deals ahead of a Nov. 3-4 summit of the G20 leading economies in France.
"Let's send them a clear message: We want you to slow down some of that $1.3 trillion easy money that's sloshing around the global casino each day—enough cash to fund every social program and environmental initiative in the world," the activist group said on its website, www.adbusters.org.
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