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NEWS & LETTERS, October 2002
OUR LIFE AND TIMES
Italian demonstrations
Hundreds of thousands marched in Rome, on Sept. 14, to
protest the fusion of media and state power in the hands of one man, rightist
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. A demand was to stop proposed legislation that
would make it easier for Berlusconi to avoid prosecution on corruption charges.
Another issue was Berlusconi's simultaneous control of both government TV and
the largest private TV network. In a less-publicized event earlier, more than 100,000 came
out in Genoa on July 20, the anniversary of last year's anti-globalization
protests, when Berlusconi set up martial law conditions in Genoa and his police
brutalized demonstrators, murdering 23-year-old Carlo Giuliani. This year, youth, union members (including Giuliani's parents), and ecologists joined together, as one young woman put it, to continue Carlo's efforts "to change the world." |
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