Greenpeace joins anti-Bezos protest with Venice banner complaining about tax breaks

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Greenpeace has joined the smattering of protests successful Venice against the upcoming wedding of Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez

ROME -- Greenpeace connected Monday joined the smattering of protests successful Venice against the upcoming wedding of Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.

A half-dozen protesters unfurled a elephantine banner aboriginal Monday successful St. Mark’s Square reading: “IF YOU CAN RENT VENICE FOR YOUR WEDDING YOU CAN PAY MORE TAX.” Local constabulary rapidly folded it up and took it away.

The objection followed different anti-Bezos initiatives past week including a banner draped from the San Giorgio doorbell tower, 1 from the lagoon city’s celebrated Rialto Bridge and posters plastered up astir municipality complaining astir the upcoming wedding and the effects of overtourism connected Venice.

The “No Space for Bezos” question — a play connected words besides referring to the bride’s caller abstraction flight — has agreed a twelve Venetian organizations including lodging advocates, anti-cruise vessel campaigners and assemblage groups.

Activists reason the wedding exemplifies broader failures successful municipal governance, peculiarly the prioritization of tourism implicit nonmigratory needs.

Greenpeace said it teamed with the British radical “Everyone Hates Elon,” which has smashed Teslas to protestation Elon Musk, for Monday’s banner. Greenpeace said it wanted to gully attraction to the comparitively debased taxes galore billionaires wage portion allegedly exacerbating the clime situation with environmentally unsustainable lifestyles.

Italian and Venetian officials person powerfully criticized the protests and welcomed the Bezos-Sanchez nuptials, which are scheduled for aboriginal this week.

Over the weekend, arsenic the protests continued to marque headlines successful Italy, a Venetian biology probe association, Corila, said Bezos’ Earth Fund was supporting its enactment with an “important donation.”

Corila, which unites assemblage scholars and Italy’s main nationalist probe assembly successful researching Venetian extortion strategies, wouldn’t accidental however overmuch Bezos was donating but noted contacts began successful April, good earlier the protests started.