Italia !!!!! ...... Workers demand their bailout from the crook Berlusconi

[marmar]

via MichaelMoore.com:



April 5th, 2009 12:57 am
Mass protest in Rome over financial crisis


ROME (AFP) — Several hundred thousand workers, pensioners, immigrants and students filled a Rome park on Saturday in protest at the Italian government's handling of the financial crisis.

Led by Italy's largest union, the left-wing Italian General Confederation of Labour, many wore red hats or waved the CGIL's red flag as helicopters circled above Rome's Circo Massimo, an ancient hippodrome.

"There's too big a gap between what needs to be done and what is being done," CGIL leader Guglielmo Epifani told the throng, with banners reading "Together to Build a Different Future" and "Down with the New Mussolini."

"It's a pleasure to see the park filled once more," he said, recalling a mass protest in 2002 that drew three million people to the same venue to protest a bill that would have annulled a law protecting against unfair dismissal.

That protest took place under the last government of Silvio Berlusconi, the conservative self-made billionaire who was elected to a third stint as prime minister last year. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=13671

[EmilyAnne]

1. He's on the phone right now, so he didn't hear them. Maybe later? nt

[Golden Raisin]

2. Maybe the citizens of Italy

will vote the cafone Berlusconi out for good the next time. Regrettably, they keep bringing him back into power.