
Mass tourism, impossibly high rents, worker exploitation, inequality and elitism: Venice protests in recent days against Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s high-profile wedding have highlighted growing global grievances.
Local politicians dismissed protesters as a fringe minority.Bezos’s fame and Venice’s stunning visual backdrop have offered them international visibility which they effectively exploited.
“No Space for Bezos” banners draped over the iconic Rialto Bridge and a huge canvas laid out on St