Protest movement against growing social and economic gap reaches Switzerland
The “Occupy Wall Street” movement started in the United States and has now reached Europe. In Switzerland protesters are gathering in the major cities of Zurich, Bern, Geneva and Basel to express their existential fears as well as anger over excessive salaries. Swiss television talked to people of different age groups and social classes about the growing discontent over growing social inequality. (SF/swissinfo.ch)
This content was published on October 21, 2011
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