Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets Saturday in the October 15 Global Day of Rage inspired by the Occupy Wall Street encampment. Protests reportedly took place in 1,500 cities worldwide, including 100 cities in the United States. The day’s largest protest took place in Italy, where more than 200,000 took to the streets of Rome.

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While the protests were peaceful around the globe, in Rome some people set cars ablaze and broke the window of banks and shops, sparking the country’s worst riots in a decade. Forma policii dlya foto na dokumenti pc. News reports said that some of the 12 arrested for the riots were believed to belong to right-wing soccer fan groups, while others were linked to anarchist groups. In Britain, thousands of protesters marched on the London Stock Exchange. Spyro Van Leemnen: “The issue is global, so for the first time we have a truly global movement that is bringing together people from different countries focusing on one aim: to change the financial system and how it interacts with governments, because we feel that we’re not fairly represented through the democratic system as it is now, which seems to benefit a handful of banks as opposed to the 99 percent of the public.”. Here in the United States, police arrested hundreds of people over the weekend at demonstrations and occupations inspired by Occupy Wall Street, which began a month ago today in New York City’s Financial District. In Illinois, police arrested about 175 Occupy Chicago protesters after they refused to leave Grant Park, the site of President Obama’s election night victory rally. In Arizona, nearly 100 were arrested at Occupy protests in Phoenix and Tucson.

Nineteen members of Occupy Raleigh in North Carolina were charged with trespassing for refusing to leave the State Capitol grounds. Twenty-four protesters were arrested at Occupy Denver.

In Washington, D.C., Princeton University Professor Cornel West was one of 19 people arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court during a protest against money in politics. And in New York City, at least 92 people were arrested on Saturday during a day of action that saw tens of thousands march to Times Square. Earlier in the day, about two dozen people were arrested at a Citibank in Manhattan while they attempted to move their money out of the bank. The protesters were reportedly locked into the bank and then detained.