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DEMONSTRATION AT THE ITALIAN EMBASSY IN LONDON (Grosvenor Square): SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER at 12.00<\/p>\n
We are students, teachers, researchers, employees, workers, women and men who have come to Britain in search of a better job than any we could have had (or rather, could not have had) in Italy. We are not "settled" immigrants– we
\nregularly go back, and keep in touch with our country on a daily basis, reading and listening to the news on the internet. Ever since moving to the UK our affection for Italy has not diminished, on the contrary, it has grown stronger. This is why we feel very involved in the political events taking place in Italy today.<\/p>\n
The cuts to the research and education budgets on the part of the current
\ngovernment have provoked a steady rise in the number of Italians who are forced
\nto look for work or to study abroad. The outrageous, tailor-made laws that have
\nbeen passed to protect the Prime Minister from trials for corruption and
\nassociation with the Mafia have demonstrated the government’s contempt for
\njustice and its lack of interest towards workers, employees on a short-term
\ncontract, and the jobless. The fact that institutions attack immigrants on a
\ndaily basis means that the worst citizens feel legitimized in using physical
\nand verbal violence against foreign nationals. There has even been a government
\nproposal to set up separate classes for immigrant children in schools. The most
\ninhuman forms of racism have been directed against the tiny Roma population;
\nthere have been official attempts to fingerprint them and to close down the
\ncamps, throwing women and children out in the street as if they weren’t human
\nbeings, recalling the time when Fascist Italy passed the racial laws. Then as
\nnow, the Vatican, which intervenes regularly in almost all aspects of Italian
\npolitics, is not taking a position on this.<\/p>\n
But we should not lose heart. A huge number of Italians and immigrants,
\nstudents, teachers, workers, are taking over schools, universities, occupying
\ncity squares, protesting against this arrogant, corrupt and racist government.
\nThis is the biggest political movement that Italy has seen in the last decades.<\/p>\n
NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION IN ITALY: FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER<\/p>\n
DEMONSTRATION AT THE ITALIAN EMBASSY IN LONDON (Grosvenor Square): SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER at 12.00<\/p>\n
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