“We are very proud of this! We are nobodies, we have no money, nothing!” Tommaso Cacciari, from a group calling itself No Space for Bezos, told the BBC.

“We’re just citizens who started organising and we managed to move one of the most powerful people in the world - all the billionaires - out of the city.”

The wedding kicks off later this week, and has a star-studded guest list of the rich and famous that is rumoured to include Kim Kardashian, Mick Jagger and Leonardo diCaprio, as well as several of the Trumps.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    The activists have been heavily criticised by city officials, who argue that such high-rolling visitors are an important source of income.

    I hope the voters remember to kick these politicians and officials to the curb. They clearly don’t work for the people they represent

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      All they see is income and screw everything and everyone else. Way too much of that right now from governments and corporations.

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        It sure get’s better when 200 people, mostly from the US, get in their private jets and travel half the world. That’s how that works, right? Right?