Quote 1:
We do not make demands from governments … or parliament members, which some of us see as illegitimate, unaccountable or corrupt.
Quote 2:
We demand … free and universal access to health, education from primary school through higher education and housing for all human beings. We reject outright the privatisation of public services management.
From Occupy’s “manifesto”.
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