The Young Greens protest in Old Town Prague on September 30

By Shuan Sim

While the Occupy Wall Street movement grabs headlines in America, a grass-roots movement in the Czech Republic is taking its own stand against consumerism and globalism.

On September 30 approximately 20 young people met on Prague’s Old Town Square with signs, banners and shopping bags filled with rags. “How much happiness have you bought today?” read a banner which a woman wore like a cape.

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