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3"Indignant" demonstrators stage a protest in front of the Stock Exchange in Brussels, on October
15, 2011. Demonstrators rallied on Saturday across the world to accuse bankers and politicians
of wrecking economies. (Reuters/Sebastien Pirlet) #
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The Atlantic Home
Occupy Wall Street Spreads Worldwide
Oct 17, 2011 |
The Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow and has now spread across the world,motivating thousands to voice their anger at financial and social inequality, and in some places
merging with existing anti-government protests. On Saturday, a global "Day of Rage" was
observed, and demonstrations took place in more than 80 countries around the world. Protesterstook their messages and anger to the streets from Hong Kong to Fairbanks, from Miami to
London, from Berlin to Sydney, and hundreds more cities large and small. The demonstrations
were largely peaceful -- with the exception of some violent clashes in Rome. Collected here aresome images from the past several days as the Occupy Wall Street message continues to resonate
and grow. [50 photos]
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A participant protests with a mock 500 euro bill during a demonstration to support the "Occupy
Wall Street" movement in Munich southern Germany, on October 15, 2011. Protestors gatheredat many major European cities Saturday to join in demonstrations against corporate greed and
inequality.(AP Photo/Joerg Koch)
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2Protesters with the "Occupy Seattle" movement march, Saturday, October 15, 2011, near the
Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) #
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3"Indignant" demonstrators stage a protest in front of the Stock Exchange in Brussels, on October
15, 2011. Demonstrators rallied on Saturday across the world to accuse bankers and politicians
of wrecking economies. (Reuters/Sebastien Pirlet) #
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4An Occupy Tokyo protester wears a mask during a rally in Tokyo, on October 15, 2011.
Protesters worldwide geared up for a cry of rage on Saturday against bankers, financiers and
politicians they accuse of ruining global economies and condemning millions to poverty andhardship through greed. Galvanised by the past month's Occupy Wall Street movement, they
plan to take to the streets from Sydney to Alaska via London, Frankfurt, Washington and New
York. The characters on the mask, "99%", stemmed from the Occupy Wall Street movement, is areference to the idea that the top 1 percent of Americans have too much. (Reuters/Issei Kato) #
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5Protesters shout slogans during the "Occupy Seoul" rally near the Seoul Plaza in central Seoul,
on October 15, 2011. About 1,000 people rallied in the evening on Saturday in support of theworldwide cry of rage against bankers, financiers and politicians they accuse of ruining global
economies and condemning millions to poverty and hardship through greed. (Reuters/Cho Sung-
bong) #
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6People make their way along Cushman Street during the Occupy Fairbanks march through
downtown Fairbanks, Alaska, on October 15, 2011. Hundreds of people turned out for the event
to show their concern and disapproval for the government. (AP Photo / Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Eric Engman) #
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Protesters clash with police in downtown Rome, Italy, on October 15, 2011. Protesters in Romesmashed shop windows and torched cars as violence broke out during a demonstration in the
Italian capital, part of worldwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures. (AP
Photo/Gregorio Borgia) #
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Police fire tear gas in Rome, on October 15, 2011. Italian police fired tear gas and water cannons
as protesters in Rome turned a demonstration against corporate greed into a riot Saturday,smashing shop and bank windows, torching cars and hurling bottles. The protest in the Italian
capital was part of "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations against capitalism and austerity
measures that went global Saturday, leading to dozens of marches and protests worldwide. (AP
Photo/Angelo Carconi) #
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9A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask look on as a Carabinieri police vehicle burns during a
demonstration by the "Indignant" group in Rome, on October 15, 2011. (Reuters/StefanoRellandini) #
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10Protesters with the "Occupy Seattle" movement burn a Bank of America debit card as they
protest, on October 15, 2011, in downtown Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) #
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People sign a huge banner during the "Occupy DC" anti-corporations protest at Freedom Plaza inWashington, DC, on October 10, 2011. A four-day protest in Washington to reclaim American
politics for the people went into overtime, its participants vowing to stay put despite the expiry
of their permit. The Stop the Machine occupation of Freedom Plaza is one of two ongoing
protests in the capital, alongside the like-minded but more youthful Occupy DC sit-in, now in its10th day. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images) #
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12Five-month-old Augustus Rutt, who is teething, chews on a sign during a Rally in support of
Occupy Wall Street, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on October 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Sunday News,
Justin David Graybill) #
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Occupy Wall Street protesters spend the day marching from their base in Zuccotti Park in New
York City, past several banks towards Washington Square before they head to Times Square fora rally on Saturday, October 15, 2011. (AP Photo/David Karp) #
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Occupy Wall Street participants try to push trough police barricade as the authorities stop them
to take their demonstration onto the street on Times Square in New York, on October 15, 2011.Thousands of demonstrators protesting corporate greed filled Times Square and some 15
demonstrators were handcuffed and loaded into a police van following confrontation with police.
(Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images) #
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Occupy Wall Street protesters shout slogans during a protest at Times Square in New York, onOctober 15, 2011. Thousands of anti-Wall Street protesters rallied in New York's Times Square
on Saturday, buoyed by a global day of demonstrations in support of their monthlong campaign
against corporate greed. (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz) #
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New York City police officers arrest a man who was at a Citibank branch near WashingtonSquare park where the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are holding a rally, on October 15,
2011 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) #
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A demonstrator affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street carries a sign during a rally in New York's
Times Square, on October 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) #
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18A demonstrator with her face painted with Puerto Rico's flag colors attends an Occupy Puerto
Rico protest in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 15, 2011. The gathering in the capital of San
Juan was one of dozens of global protests launched Saturday in support of the Occupy WallStreet movement. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) #
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A demonstrator speaks as he holds a Puerto Rican flag during the Occupy Puerto Rico protest in
San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 15, 2011. About 200 people in Puerto Rico gathered in afinancial district dubbed "The Golden Mile" to protest capitalism and government cuts as part of
worldwide demonstrations. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) #
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20Protesters display their banners as they march towards the U.S. embassy in solidarity with the
U.S. protest dubbed "Occupy Wall Street", on October 15, 2011 in Manila, Philippines. (AP
Photo/Pat Roque) #
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21Thousands of protesters gather at the Vancouver Art Gallery as they participate in the Occupy
Vancouver protest on October 15, 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. An estimated
2,000 people participated in the Vancouver occupation. (Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images) #
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San Diego police officers haul off Occupy San Diego protesters as they remove tents andstructures from the Civic Center Plaza, on October 14, 2011, in San Diego. One man was
arrested Friday as police officials removed the tents, where protesters have been camping out for
days. (AP Photo/ Gregory Bull) #
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A protester holds a placard during an anti-capitalist demonstration, in Paris, France, on October
15, 2011. The placard reads: " We are the 99 per cent, too big to fail". (AP Photo/ThibaultCamus) #
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24In this photo taken Saturday, October 15, 2011, protesters take part in a march and rally at
Michigan and Congress in Chicago, Illinois for the Global Day of Occupation. About 2,000
people participated Saturday in an Occupy Chicago demonstration, and about 500 pitched tentsin Congress Plaza that evening. Chicago police say the protesters were told to remove their tents
and leave the park when it closed at 11 p.m. When they refused, police began cutting down the
tents and making arrests. (AP Photo/Chicago Sun-Times, Scott Stewart) #
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25A demonstrator dressed as Jesus Christ takes part in the Occupy London Stock Exchange
demonstration in London, on October 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel) #
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26A woman speaks on her phone at the information point for demonstrators in front of St Paul's
Cathedral on the third day of a protest to occupy the London Stock Exchange on October 17,
2011 in London, England. The demonstration, which is targeting corporate greed, stemmed fromthe "Occupy Wall Street" movement in New York, and has spread to the financial districts of
cities around the world. Currently approximately 250 protesters in 100 tents are camped outside
St Paul's Cathedral, which is adjacent to the Stock Exchange. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images) #
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27A businessman sticks his tongue out in jest as he walks past tents erected by protesters from the
Occupy London Stock Exchange group, as they continue their demonstration that started onSaturday outside St Paul's Cathedral in London, on October 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
#
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"Occupy Together" activists gather underneath the Monument of the Revolution in Mexico City,
Mexico, on October 15, 2011. (Reuters/Claudia Daut) #
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29Swedish and international protesters hold banners as they take part in the "Occupy Stockholm"
demonstration held at Sergels Torg in Stockholm, on October 15, 2011. Protesters launchedworldwide street demonstrations on October 15 against corporate greed and biting cutbacks in arolling action targeting 951 cities in 82 countries. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images) #
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30A bird flies above a bronze statue of a bull where protesters left Guy Fawkes masks during an
"Occupy Hong Kong" rally outside the Hong Kong Exchange Square, on October 15, 2011. Agroup of people gathered in support of "Occupy Wall Street" and the Occupy Movement aroundthe world. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) #
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Protestors march through the streets of Berlin during a demonstration to support the "Occupy
Wall Street" movement on Saturday, October 15, 2011. Protesters gathered at many major
European cities Saturday to join in demonstrations against corruption, capitalism and austeritymeasures. (AP Photo/Maja Hitij) #
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Berlin police officers carry a protester after a sit-in demonstrating against the influence of
bankers and financiers in front of the Reichstag building on October 15, 2011 in Berlin,Germany. Activists are demanding an end to the free-wheeling ways of global financial players
whom they see as responsible for the current European and American economic woes. (Carsten
Koall/Getty Images) #
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Tourists in a cable car take photographs of Occupy San Francisco protesters during ademonstration along the streets of San Francisco, California, on October 15, 2011.
(Reuters/Robert Galbraith) #
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Tymaeus Yunker works on making tie dye shirts at Pioneer Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas, onOctober 13, 2011. Yunker, an Occupy Dallas activist, is part of the movement that came togetherfollowing the Wall Street demonstrations. The local group which numbers in the 200 to 300
range has been based at the downtown park since last Thursday. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) #
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Occupy Tallahassee demonstrators listen to a speaker at the Florida Capitol, on October 14,
2011, in Tallahassee, Florida, Demonstrators plan to return Saturday in support of the ongoing
Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York. (AP Photo/Phil Sears) #
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Addie Becker, right, cheers as demonstrators march through center city Philadelphia, on October
14, 2011, in the Occupy Philly protest. The encampment at City Hall is one of many being held
across the country recently in support of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstration in NewYork. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek) #
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37People participate in an Occupy Miami protest on October 15, 2011 in Miami, Florida. Inspired
by the 'Occupy Wall Street' protests in New York City, an estimated 1,000 people showed up to
participate in the Miami protest. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) #
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Protesters gather in front of the Reserve Bank of Australia in central Sydney, Australia,Saturday, October 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) #
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A Jordanian protester carrying a placard readin in English, "in Solidarity with 'Occupy WallStreet Movement'" stands outside the US embassy as members of the Communist Party gather at
one of a number of protests around the world in Amman, Jordan, on October 15, 2011. The
banner behind him, which is partially obscured, reads, "Jordanian Communist Party, capitalism
is vicious and a known threat to humanity." (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon) #
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A group of about 200 demonstrators take to the streets of downtown Phoenix, Arizona lateFriday afternoon, October 14, 2011 as part of the "Occupy Phoenix" movement. (AP Photo/TheArizona Repubiic, Dave Seibert) #
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Thousands of demonstrators gather at Madrid's landmark Puerta del Sol as part of the United forGlobal Change movement against banking and finance in Madrid October 15, 2011.
Demonstrators rallied on Saturday across the world to accuse bankers and politicians ofwrecking economies. (Reuters/Susana Vera) #
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Protesters who sympathize with Occupy Wall Street gather at the state Capitol in Little Rock,Arkansas, on October 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston) #
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43An activist holding a placard reading "I want a job!" takes part in a protest in front of the Taipei
101 building October 15, 2011. More than a hundred protesters gathered in front of Taiwan's
landmark Taipei 101 building on Saturday in response to the global Occupy Together movementagainst unfair wealth distribution. (Reuters/Pichi Chuang) #
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44Rose Olsovsky of Richmond, Virginia, takes her message high above the crowd during the
Occupy Richmond rally in Monroe Park in Richmond, Virginia, on October 15, 2011. (AP
Photo/P. Kevin Morley,Richmond Times-Dispatch) #
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Protesters march during a "March of the outraged" in Santiago, Chile, Saturday October 15,
2011. The gathering in the capital of Santiago was one of dozens of global protests launchedSaturday in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez) #
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People march towards the state Capitol during an Occupy Atlanta protest march on Saturday,October 15, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser) #
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Participants hold placards to surround Taipei 101 during a protest named "Occupy Taipei"organized by Taiwanese net friends in Taipei, Taiwan, on October 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Chiang
Ying-ying) #
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Occupy Los Angeles protesters march in the Protest Against Corporate Greed on their
International Day of Action in Los Angeles, California, on October 15, 2011. Occupy LA is partof the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York last month with a few people and
expanded to protest marches and camps across the US and abroad. (Reuters/David McNew) #
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49Protesters with Occupy Pittsburgh take part in a rally in Pittsburgh, on October 15, 2011. The
demonstration is one of many being held across the country recently in support of the ongoing
Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York. (AP Photo/Don Wright) #
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