New Saturday of protests, demonstrations and marches in various Italian cities
From Turin to Bologna, from Genoa to Milan: the protesters return to the streets. High alert on the security front.
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- New Saturday of protests in various Italian cities, including Turin, Rome, Bologna and Milan, against high prices of living, war, rearmament, high rents and cuts to education and healthcare.
- High security alert after the tensions of recent weekends.
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Why It Matters
Protests in Italy against the high cost of living and government policies take place over the weekends, registering tensions on the public order front.
From Turin to Bologna, from Genoa to Milan: the demonstrators return to the streets against the high cost of living, war and rearmament, high rents and cuts to education and healthcare. High alert on the security front to avoid tensions and clashes as happened in recent weekends
New Saturday of protests in several Italian cities. In Turin the city center is armored for a demonstration against high prices and rearmament. Events also in Bologna, Rome, Genoa and Milan. The tensions of recent weekends have raised the security level of the security system.
The procession in Turin
In the Piedmontese capital, the demonstration will pass through various streets of the city: 10 thousand people are expected. The march is against the high cost of living, war and rearmament, high rents and cuts to education and healthcare. It will leave at 3pm from Piazza Castello and will cross Via Po, Piazza Vittorio Veneto, Via Vanchiglia, Corso San Maurizio, Corso Regina Margherita, Piazza della Repubblica, Via Cigna and Corso Vigevano, before reaching Piazza Crispi. Among others, Cobas, the CPS Student Assembly, Cambiare Rotta, Turin is against rearmament, Turin for Gaza and the Turin School for Peace announced their participation in the mobilization. Among the promoters there is also the Torino in piazza network, a local branch of Italia in piazza, which aims to coordinate the different realities involved in the protests.
The other squares in Italy
The Turin event will take place simultaneously with other initiatives in Genoa, Florence, Bologna, Udine and Lecce. On this Saturday of protests there is a new mobilization organized by the Italy movement in Bologna, in Rome a procession on the Esquiline which will cross some of the main streets of the neighborhood to reach the Imperial Forums, in Genoa the "Italia in piazza" demonstration, organized against rearmament and against cuts to public services. In Milan, however, there will be an event at the Arco della Pace to tax the rich: the "Tax the rich party" will take place.
Open Questions
- What will be the final numbers of participants in the various cities?
- Will there be police interventions during the demonstrations?
