Protesters Seal Off Bahrain’s Financial Center

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CAIRO — Thousands of antigovernment protesters in Bahrain blocked access to the financial district in Manama, the capital, on Sunday, preventing many workers from getting to their offices and pushing back the police who tried to disperse them. It was the most serious challenge to the royal family that rules Bahrain since protests began last month.

Witnesses said the police used tear gas and fired on the protesters with rubber bullets.

“This was a very, very big day,” Mohammad al-Maskati, president of the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights, said by telephone from Pearl Square, the epicenter for protests in central Manama. “Now the protesters control these streets. There are walls of rubble keeping out the police and armed groups. People say they will not sleep tonight.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/world/middleeast/14bahrain.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimesglobal&seid=auto

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Maybe we could import them to tackle Wall Street.