15 October 2011 global protests

Europe Brussels The March to Brussels travelled north for five months after leaving Madrid on Thursday May 19. It met with the Barcelona March for a series of protests, the largest being in La Place de Bastille on September 17. After which they continued to travel north, arriving in Brussels in the days prior to the Global protests and occupied an abandoned university building where International activists gathered for a week until the day of the Global Protest when more than a 15,000 people took to the streets in Brussels. Spain As a continuation of the 2011 Spanish Protests, the largest protests took place in Spain, where more than a million people took the streets on 15 October, including 500,000 in Madrid, This started the Occupy Buffer Zone movement in Cyprus. The movement had a strong focus on the Cyprus Dispute and its relation to the economic status quo. Several dozen people gathered also in Pécs. North America United States On 15 October many local offshoots of Occupy Wall Street started, mainly in smaller cities. Most of the big cities already had Occupy movements that people from the smaller cities and towns came to. In New York City, after police prepared to evict protesters from Zuccotti Park near Wall Street, the protesters marched into the heart of the city where they gathered 10,000 supporters. of major cities across the US such as Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and Dallas and smaller communities like Champaign–Urbana, Memphis Oklahoma City, Buffalo, and Fort Lauderdale. Latin America Protests were organized in dozens of cities, including in Chile, Brazil, Peru and Mexico. Middle East and North Africa Protests were organized in dozens of cities and countries, including in Egypt, Tunisia and Israel. ==Arrests==