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Rage against Corporate Greed

Protests turning into global movement

AFP, Rome
Clashes erupted in New York and Rome and protesters camped out yesterday in worldwide demonstrations seen as a show of force by a rising global movement against corporate greed and government cutbacks.
There were rallies in 951 cities in 80 countries around the globe on Saturday in an extension of a campaign born on May 15 with a rally in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square by a group calling itself "Indignados" ("Indignants").
"The fact is there is now clearly an international movement. Its preface was the 'Arab Spring' seen in Cairo, Tunis and Benghazi," Eugenio Scalfari, a columnist for the Italian daily La Repubblica.
" It expresses the anger of a generation with no future and no faith in traditional politics but above all financial institutions seen as responsible for the crisis and profiteers of the damage to the common good," he said.
The biggest rallies were in Lisbon, Madrid and Rome, where tens of thousands came out. There were thousands too in Washington and New York where the "Occupy Wall Street" movement has gained momentum in recent weeks.
In Rome, which saw the worst violence of the day, the march quickly degenerated into running street battles between groups of
hooded protesters and riot police who fired teargas and water jets into the crowd.
"Today is only the beginning. We hope to move forward with a global movement. There are many of us and we want the same things," said protester Andrea Muraro, a 24-year-old engineering student from Padua.
Berlusconi later condemned the "incredible level of violence” at the march, which took place amid a security lockdown on Rome's major monuments.
Groups of protesters torched cars, smashed banks and vandalised a church in
the Italian capital, hurling paving blocks and bottles at police.
Seventy people were injured and there were 12 arrests.
In New York, 88 people were arrested as police on horseback charged into busy Times Square and at least one woman was injured.
In London, scuffles broke out after a few thousand people gathered in the financial district near St Paul's Cathedral, raising banners saying: "Strike back!" "No cuts!'' and " Goldman Sachs is the work of the devil!"
Some of the London protesters spent the
night camped out in front of the cathedral in around 70 tents despite police calls for them to disperse. Participants said they intended to stay until the government responded to their demands.
Major protests took place at European Union institutions in Brussels and Frankfurt, as well as in Athens, where painful budget cuts imposed by international lenders in return for a bailout have sparked widespread anger.
In Canada more than 10,000 blew bubbles, strummed guitars and chanted anticorporate slogans at peaceful protests in cities across the country.
"I believe a revolution is happening," said 30-year-old Annabell Chapa, who brought her one-year-old son Jaydn along in a stroller to a rally in Toronto.
There were smaller mostly peaceful protests also in Amsterdam, Geneva, Miami, Montenegro, Paris, Sarajevo, Serbia and Zurich, with protesters chanting anti-capitalist slogans and wearing satirical masks.
In Mexico, Peru and Chile, thousands also marched to protest what they slammed as an unfair financial system and stagnant unemployment.
As the day began, hundreds rallied in Hong Kong and Tokyo where demonstrators voiced their fury at the Fukushima nuclear accident.