Protesters say Jeff Bezos’s Venice wedding highlights growing inequality

A large banner against Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s planned wedding in St Mark’s Square in Venice, Italy (Greenpeace via AP)

This weekend’s star-studded Venice wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez has galvanised activist groups which are protesting against it as a sign of the growing disparity between the haves and have-nots as well as disregard of the Italian city’s residents.

About a dozen Venetian organisations – including housing advocates, anti-cruise ship campaigners and university groups – have united to protest over the multi-day event under the banner “No Space for Bezos”, a play on words also referring to the bride’s recent space flight.