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Occupy protests spread to South America

2011-10-16 34 Dailymotion

On the day their anti-corporate protests go global, thousands rally in New York's Times Square to show their support.<br/> The month-long Occupy Wall Street movement echoes across Latin America on Saturday as thousands take to the streets in protest.<br/> In Argentina, hundreds gather in front of the congressional palace in downtown Buenos Aires for a peaceful, festive demonstration.<br/> Calling themselves los indignados - the indignant ones - they march through the cities to condemn financial inequality, injustice and unemployment.<br/> Similar scenes fill Chile's capital Santiago, scene of numerous protests recently by students demanding better education.<br/> SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PROTESTER ANGELINA, SAYING:<br/> "Inequality outrages me, arrogance outrages me, the poverty that generates outrages me. Not only economic poverty but people's spiritual poverty."<br/> Hundreds also gathered at Mexico City's Revolution Monument to protest the global economic crisis.<br/> (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) DEMONSTRATOR DANIEL GERSHENSON SAYING:<br/> "We're not figures or currencies to be exchanged. We're citizens, human beings. And we -from the civil society and the base- have to impede what the country and the world gets out of our hands."<br/> According to the website 15October.net, the Occupy Wall Street movement inspired events in 82 countries.<br/> Sunita Rappai, Reuters

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