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Amazon Tycoon should marry Lauren Sanchez in the sumptuous marriage of Venice while activists protest against the “growing disparity”.
Amazon Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s multi-loving founder arrived in Venice before their starry weekend wedding, an event that galvanized an eclectic assortment of militant groups that protest it.
Bezos agitated a taxi of water while he and Sanchez arrived at the Quay of the Aman hotel, a five -star hotel in the Grand Canal on Wednesday, with two trailer safety boats.
The sumptuous event has attracted demonstrations by groups which consider it a sign of the growing disparity between the wealthy and the non, while the residents complain that it illustrates the way in which their needs are ignored in the era of mass tourism in the city of historic and emblematic lagoon.
About a dozen Venetian organizations – including housing defenders, anti -crushing ships and university groups – united to protest against the event of several days under the banner “No Space For Bezos”, a piece on words also referring to the recent spatial flight of the bride.
They organized small-scale events, deployed anti-Bezos banners on emblematic Venetian sites. They were joined Monday by Greenpeace and the British group “Everybody Hats Elon”, which broke Tesla vehicles to protest against Elon Musk, to deploy a giant banner of St Mark’s Square protesting against the so -called tax alternatives for the billionaires.
On Wednesday, other activists launched a float on the large canal with a Bezos model hanging on an Amazon box, its fists full of false dollars. The British advertising cabinet which announced the blow declared that it was not a marriage protest, “but against uncontrolled wealth, media control and the growing privatization of public spaces”.
There were no comments from Bezos representatives on the demonstrations.
Local activists had planned a more organized protest for Saturday, aimed at obstructing access to the canals with boats to prevent guests from reaching a wedding place.
“It will be a strong and decisive, but peaceful demonstration,” said Federica Toninello, social activist Housing Assembly Network. “We want it to be like a party, with music, to explain what we want our Venice to look like.”
Among the 200 confirmed guests to participate in the wedding are Mick Jagger, Ivanka Trump, Oprah Winfrey, Katy Perry and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Venice, renowned for its romantic views of the canal, welcomes hundreds of weddings each year, not rarely those of the rich and famous. The marriages of previous celebrities, like that of George Clooney to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin in 2014, were adopted by the public. Hundreds have proven to wish the couple well to the town hall.
Bezos has a different political and commercial profile, said Tommaso Cacciari, an important figure in the movement that has managed to ban cruising ships of more than 25,000 tonnes traveling through the Giudecca canal in the center of Venice.
“Bezos is not a Hollywood actor,” said Cacciari. “He is an ultra-millionaire who sat next to Donald Trump during the inauguration, who contributed to his re-election and contributes to a direct and intense way to this new global obscurantism.”
