Students hold rally in India inspired from Wall Street protests

Students organised a protest rally in Kolkata, capital of Indias eastern West Bengal state, inspired from the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests that have been staged in various parts of the world.The students from the state capital Kolkata organised a huge rally in the city with the theme of that was participated by about 200 protestors.About 200 protesters demonstrated during the Occupy Kolkata rally protesting corporate greed, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York and in other parts of the world.Holding placards, posters and banners, students marched through some of the important routes of the city raising slogans against capitalism and expressing solidarity with the protests that have been going on worldwide.The purpose of todays rally is mainly to show solidarity with the ongoing global Occupy movements that started with Occupy Wall Street. That is mainly the purpose to show solidarity with it and highlight issues that are relevant in our locales, in Kolkata and in India as a whole. Our demands are not very homogenous. There are many such demands that we are still trying to frame the demands organically. We have not started with the demands and then started with the movement. It is the other way around. We have started with the movement and organically the demands are formed from the movement with mass participation, said Debadyuti, a moderator of the Occupy Kolkata protest.The Occupy Wall Street movement began a month ago in lower Manhattan among a few young people, and has grown to tens of thousands around the country and the world.