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France 24 | Italian protesters gather en masse at Rome's Coliseum | France 24

Demonstrators, in the hundreds of thousands, marched through the streets of Rome on Saturday in a protest organised by the CGIL, Italy's largest trade union, against Silvio Berlusconi's government's response to the economic crisis.

 

"This is a day we will remember for a long time," said Guglielmo Epifani, general secretary of the CGIL. "There are so many of us. We represent the part of Italy that works, the pensioners, those without stable jobs."

 

"I wish the government would pause and think about the seriousness of this crisis, I wish the government would try and do more against it," he told journalists during the protest.




*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Apr 4th, 2009 at 02:52:29 PM EST
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"This is a day we will remember for a long time," said Guglielmo Epifani, general secretary of the CGIL. "There are so many of us. We represent the part of Italy that works, the pensioners, those without stable jobs."

"I wish the government would pause and think about the seriousness of this crisis, I wish the government would try and do more against it," he told journalists during the protest.

As Berlu's unofficial spokesman, I reply "Get out of here before I sic my rabid dogs on you.  Stay in your place and consider yourself lucky to even HAVE a place.  Filthy pigs!  Now where did my prostitute get to?" (All in Italian.  Sounds like opera)

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sat Apr 4th, 2009 at 05:36:34 PM EST
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