Occupy Italy

[Reed]

Live Stream:
http://videochat.corriere.it/index_H2401.shtml

Unconfirmed reports of 100k protesters, sporadic fighting with police, a cop van driving into protesters and burning cars.

[Tim Cornelis]

They also smashed windows of banks.

[Triple A]

http://aeiou.expresso.pt/users/2661/266108/confrontos-no-protesto-em-roma-10b2.jpg

Italian police fired tear gas and water cannons as protesters in Rome turned a demonstration against corporate greed into a riot Saturday, smashing shop and bank windows, torching cars and hurling bottles.

The protest in the Italian capital was part of "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations against capitalism and austerity measures that went global Saturday, leading to dozens of marches and protests worldwide.

Black smoke billowed into the air in downtown Rome as a small group broke away from the main demonstration and wreaked havoc in streets closed to the Colosseum.

Protesters clad in black with their faces covered threw rocks, bottles and other objects at police in riot gear. Some had held clubs, others had hammers. They threw an incendiary devices and firecrackers at banks, destroyed bank ATMs and set trash bins on fire, news reports said.

Two news crews from Sky Italia were assaulted.

TV footage showed police in riot gear charging the protesters and firing water cannons at them.

The ANSA news agency said some protesters trashed offices of the Defense Ministry and of a labor agency, smashing windows with clubs and setting cars on fire.

Police were out in force as up to 100,000 protesters were expected a day after Premier Silvio Berlusconi barely survived a confidence vote in Parliament. Italy is rapidly becoming a focus of concern in Europe's debt crisis.

"People of Europe: Rise Up!" read a banner in Rome. Some peaceful demonstrators turned against the violent group and tried to stop them, hurling bottles, Sky Italia and ANSA said. Others fled, scared by the violence.

At least one man was injured as he tried to stop some protesters from hurling bottles.

They say 100 thousand :lol:

[Smyg]

They also smashed windows of banks.

Oh the horror.

[ВАЛТЕР]

Did anyone just see the massive counter offensive on the live stream?!

Very nice!:thumbup:

[ВАЛТЕР]

Anybody else watching this Live Stream? Are those cops in that burning van dead?

[Aleenik]

Around the world the movement goes. Where it stops nobody knows.

[Smyg]

Did anyone just see the massive counter offensive on the live stream?!

Very nice!:thumbup:

Very nice indeed.

I'm going to go ahead and say that yesterday's failure to get rid of Berlusconi is making people angrier than usual.

[Reed]

Anybody else watching this Live Stream? Are those cops in that burning van dead?

I'm watching, I don't think there were any cops in the van.
On another note, smart move by the protesters to wear crash helmets.

[ВАЛТЕР]

Can't wait to see how Fox news and the likes of Glenn Beck are going to report on this. Probably going to be just wild propaganda and accusations.:laugh:

[ВАЛТЕР]

A little musical support for our comrades in Italy!

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[ВАЛТЕР]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/10/15/protesters-in-europe-march-against-corporate-greed/#comment

Comment section of Fox News story on the Italian uprisings. :laugh::laugh:


Angry at their own foolishness. They worship at the alter of materialism and then seek to destroy those that proviede the means. If they were content with what God gave them and stopped coveting after what the rich man has they would not be having all these troubles.