About 200 people on Saturday marched peacefully but loudly along downtown's tourist core as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, denouncing alleged corporate greed and government cutbacks.

“Banks got bailed out! We got sold out!” the protesters yelled in unison, some scraping washboards and beating on drums.

The group has been holding protests in downtown San Antonio since early this month, piggybacking on the Occupy Wall Street protests that began in New York and have now spread to many major U.S. cities. The protests went global Saturday, linking up with long-running demonstrations against European governments' austerity measures.

The New York campout started Sept. 17 in Lower Manhattan and eventually drew support from more organized groups and labor unions, whose members have swelled the protesters' numbers into the thousands.

In San Antonio, the group traveled from HemisFair Park, down Alamo Street and ended in front of the Alamo, where dozens of curious tourists snapped photos and shot videos of the noisy progression.

“I think it's interesting,” said Linda Sinker, a British tourist who was resting by a sidewalk on Alamo Plaza when the protesters arrived. “I agree with them, and this is a good place to do it.”

The demonstrators were diverse in background and included long-haired, shirtless young men carrying backpacks, families with young children, and conservatively dressed men and women.

“The thing that was the straw that broke the camel's back was Citizens United,” said Mary Hiller, 67, referring to the landmark 2010 U.S. Supreme Court case that holds that the First Amendment protects corporate and union funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections. “I'm an independent, and I am appalled at what's going on,” Hiller said.

Marty McMillan, who helped organize Saturday's march, said the group's goal is “reinstating the capital gains tax and reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933,” which separated investment and commercial banking activities. Though many of the protesters have differing views on many issues, he acknowledged.

“I'm helping educate people,” McMillan said about his role within the group. “We're a peer-led group. We're all in this together.”

But not everyone agreed.

Cindy Jascob, 51, was out for a stroll with her husband when they came across the marching group. Annoyed by the protesters, they stood silently facing their backs to them as the progression passed by Alamo and Commerce streets.

“We turned our backs to them as a protest to the protest,” Jascob said. “It's a waste of manpower (for police). They're spending an awful lot of money on something that doesn't make sense.”