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'Occupy' activists take to streets across planet

AFP, Madrid
Activists scuffled with police in London and decried the wealthy in Hong Kong yesterday as an unprecedented outcry against corporate greed and government cutbacks spread worldwide.
Inspired by America's "Occupy Wall Street" and Spain's "Indignants", people took to the streets in a rolling action targeting 951 cities in 82 countries from Asia to Europe, Africa and the Americas.
Anger over unemployment and opposition to the financial elite hung over the protests, which coincided with a Paris meeting of G20 financial powers preoccupied by the eurozone debt crisis.
But the demands and the sense of urgency among the activists varied depending on the city.
Clashes broke out at an anticapitalist protest in Rome attended by tens of thousands of people, with one group setting fire to a government office and riot police firing tear gas and water.
Some protesters smashed bank and shop windows and set cars alight, while others shouted "No to violence!" and tried to restrain them.
"Today is only the beginning. We hope to move forward with a global movement," said one protester, Andrea Muraro, a 24-year-old engineering student from northern Padua.
Scuffles broke out in London where about 300 people rallied in the financial district by Saint Paul's Cathedral, raising banners saying: "Strike back!"; "No cuts!" and "Goldman Sachs is the work of the devil!"
Three lines of police, and one line at the rear on horseback, blocked them from heading to the London Stock Exchange and pushed back against lead marchers, some wearing masks.
"I am here today mainly as a sense of solidarity with the movememts that are going on around the world," said Ben Walker, a 33-year-old teacher from the eastern English city of Norwich.
A small group of about 50 protesters gathered outside of Africa's biggest bourse, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, to voice concern over the country 's widening gap between rich and poor.
As the day began, around 500 people gathered in the heart of Hong Kong's
financial district to vent their anger at the inequities and excesses of free-market capitalism, while 100 demonstrators in Tokyo also voiced fury at the Fukushima nuclear accident.
Around 600 demonstrators in Sydney set up camp outside Australia's central bank, where the plight of refugees and Aboriginal Australians was added to the financial concerns.
The "indignant" protests first took hold in Spain, which has a jobless rate of 20.89 percent rising to 46.1 percent for 16- to 24-year-olds, where for a month activists lived in a ramshackle camp in Puerta del Sol.
They then spread elsewhere in Europe, finding strong backing in crisishit countries like Greece, and then worldwide — last month reaching the centre of global capitalism in Wall Street.
In New York, organisers have called a rally in Times Square at 2100 GMT.
Over 100 authors, including Salman Rushdie and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham, have signed an online petition declaring their support for the protests.