Wall Street protests gather momentum across the world

TAHRIR Square in Cairo, Green Square in Tripoli, Syntagma Square in Athens and now Zuccotti Park in New York — popular anger against entrenching the power elite is spreading around the world.

Many have been intrigued by the Occupy Wall Street movement against financial inequality that started in a New York park and expanded across America from Tampa, Florida, to Portland, Oregon, and from LosAngeles to Chicago.

Hundreds of activists gathered a month ago in the Manhattan park to vent their anger at what they see as the excesses of New York financiers, whom they blame for the economic crisis.