It met with the Barcelona March for a series of protests, the largest being in La Place de Bastille on September 17th.
In Madrid, protesters reoccupied the Puerta del Sol square where the Indignados had camped five months earlier on 15 May.
[16] During the peaceful march against corporate greed and austerity measures, a group of people broke away from the main demonstration and threw rocks, bottles and incendiary devices at banks and riot police.
Riot police charged and clashed with the protesters repeatedly, firing water cannons and tear gas.
The sound system was not loud enough for such a big gathering and so it was proposed to use the human microphone (das menschliche Megaphone in German) technique of Occupy Wall Street.
The police then proceeded to violently and forcibly remove the peaceful gathering of people in the park in front of the parliamentarian.
People from the protest reported that the police blocked sms and Twitter communication containing certain key words such as "occupyreichtag" or "occupywallst" during periods of the day.
Organizers declared they would occupy and blockade the square in front of the ECB "for an undefined period of time."
Demonstrators set up a protest camp like those in Madrid and New York with 109 tents and 9 pavilions, soup kitchen and bread line, facility's, generators, W-Lan and live stream and a media team with its own podcast called Klargestellt (German for clarified).
[27] A small number of Greek and Turkish Cypriot activists gathered in Eleftheria Square in Nicosia as a response to the global call for a protest.
[28] A group of protesters organized an occupation of the London Stock Exchange to bring attention to what they see as unethical behavior on the part of banks.
[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] A similar protest group inspired by Occupy Wall Street has formed in the UK under the name OccupyLSX.
[41] In the same article this newspaper describes the movement in the following terms: The group has no hierarchical structure, has set up a Facebook page and Twitter account – with the social media links attracting a very mixed, and sometimes critical, reaction.
In the following days, the camp size has risen to some 30 tents with continuing assemblies averaging between 150 and 200 participants, before ceasing in early 2012.
A gathering with an assembly and marching was held in the capitol Budapest where about 1500 people attended during the day, according to the police and organizers.
[49] 15 October was the day that many local offshoots of Occupy Wall Street started, mainly in smaller cities.
[citation needed] Protests were organized in dozens of cities and countries, including in Egypt, Tunisia and Israel.