Up to 1,000 protestors took over Zurich’s Paradeplatz, the symbolic heart of the Swiss banking industry, on Saturday as the Occupy movement went global.
Peaceful Wall Street-style protests were also held in Geneva, Basel and Bern, as well as in hundreds of cities around the world as part of a day of action protesting against capitalism and austerity measures.
“I’m here as I want to tell the banks and those in power that things have to change,” said Angelo Zehr, a 21-year-old student from St. Gallen, waving a cardboard sign “We are the 99%”.
“We’re fighting for a fairer world where everyone has the chance to make a good living. It’s unjust that one per cent of the population have the same amount of wealth as the remaining 99 per cent.”
Organisers had spread the word through Facebook and Twitter and people started to gather at Paradeplatz from 10am on the freezing autumn day.
By lunchtime the trams that snake through the square past the UBS and Credit Suisse Swiss headquarters had been cancelled as the crowd swelled.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/Swiss_Indignados_take_to_streets.html?cid=31356288
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