sea of red - 2 million march

[komsomol]

Hey, you guys must've heard and seen the marchers in Rome, protesting to new shitty laws that take away workers rights and also against the terrorist attack on a goverment advisor by the Red league. I saw it on TV, it proves that we are growing stronger day by day. Anybody from this forum from Italy/march?

[PunkRawker677]

i heard it.. they were waving red flags.. it was 2 million at the Circus Maximus.. they were all supporters of socialism.. this was in the paper this morning.. also pro-socialist protests in guatemala and argentina..

[bleed3r]

2 million?? christ... i'd love to see that article.. ironic, my history teacher just came back from rome.

[Guest]

Look here:

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/top...rum=14&topic=83 (http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/topic.pl?forum=14&topic=83)

[Zippy]

http://www.mosh-pit.com
That RATM midi file is amazing. :D

Zippy.

[Commisar BOB]

thats a lot of protestors. i dont think the police couls stop them from going about thir buisiness do u?

[peaccenicked]

A letter in todays Times
Letters to the Editor



March 25, 2002

Protesting against capitalism
From Ms Cynthia Fitzsimons



Sir, Rosemary Righter (Economic View, Business, March 19) contrasts the courage of Zimbabwe’s “would-be voters” with the rock-throwing “affluent children of the prosperous West” in Barcelona and argues that “capitalists are not our oppressors . . . but our servants”. If so, why are individuals increasingly raging against capitalism, as exemplified by 250,000 people in Barcelona last week? Unelected corporations have more access to governments than the electorates who vote for them. This is not democracy. Unsurprisingly, we find ourselves with an anti-globalisation movement.
One’s right to protest in a democ- racy should be sacrosanct but, for example, during the G8 summit in Genoa, a student, Carlo Giuliani, was shot dead by police while exercising his right to protest (report, July 21, 2001). If meetings of the WTO, the World Bank or the EU are “doomed to be sealed off by giant barriers” then we need to ask just what is being protected.

Are we, as individuals, no better at having our voices heard than in Zimbabwe? How can we hold an African state up for scrutiny when our own democracy is being undermined by capitalism and the free-market agenda? Yours faithfully,


CYNTHIA FITZSIMONS,
17 Money Road,
Caterham, Surrey CR3 5TF.
March 20.

[I Will Deny You]

She put her address at the end of a letter that was published in a newspaper? That's ballsy.