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January 26, 2012

Occupy Protesters Rally at Davos World Economic Forum 
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The annual gathering of some of the world's most powerful political and
corporate figures is underway as Switzerland hosts the World Economic
Forum in Davos. Scores of protesters have made the trip to protest
corporate greed. On Wednesday, Greenpeace International Executive
Director Kumi Naido took part in a protest in Davos.

Kumi Naidoo: All of our democracies have been captured to a large extent
in many, many countries by corporate power that, in fact, should
corporations have a voice about public life? Yes. Should they have the
level and depth of the voice that they have now? Absolutely not. And we
need to put a leash. That's the message of this campaign — on
corporations for them to be more accountable, for them to be better
global citizens.

Dozens of Occupy protesters have also set up an igloo encampment in the
sub-zero temperatures near the summit.

Ed Sutton: They come together each year to makes these decisions with
enormous consequences for the entire world and they don't feel its
necessary to consult with the vast majority of people who inhabit the
world. There's seven billion people on the planet who don't have any
kind of a say in what they are doing. And we just find that its
personification of the fact that free market capitalism and democracy
don't really fit together and that's the fundamental thrust of the
Occupy movement in general."



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