It 's a huge flag of 60 square feet to open parade that is slowly leaving square Esedra in Rome. A square that has been gradually filling up. Crowded with young people, students, parents and teachers but also pupils of elementary strong cry of their intention to defend Constitution . A slogan on everything from the meaning of the event: "The Constitution protects us, we defend the Constitution." No flag of the party, but a huge crowd with tricolor flags, badges and copies of the paper in his hand. Some reprinted, others yellowed by time. Lots of handmade signs that read "Take the Constitution on the back: I adopt ..." and the part that has decided to defend. Many students with several articles in our paper and shouting "The Charter is a wonderful thing." In particular, students carry on their shoulders the article 33 "Art and science are free and they have free education." But also, the article 4 bed with a bleak prospect "The Republic recognizes all citizens the right to work and promotes conditions to fulfill this right."
A group of children in a multiethnic school in Rome, Di Donato district Esquilino , holding a colorful banner. Each of them, behind the bag stuck to Article 3 which reads: "All citizens have equal social dignity and are equal before the law, without distinction of sex, race, language, religion, political opinion, personal and social conditions. " Many articles 34 running in the procession "The school is open to all capable and deserving students without financial resources also have the right to attain the highest levels of education." Virginia, 11 years attended the sixth grade and in addition to carrying on his shoulders Article 34 in his hand, on display like so many others who are marching by the Barberini volume is collected in the articles of our Constitution in hand.
"I distressed - said Flavio Lotti, a spokesman for the National peace table , which has long led the flag - on the grounds that the Italian armies continue to slaughter of innocent people in Libya. Words are not enough to stop the bombs. Italy has the duty to defend human rights. We can not allow Gaddafi regains control of Libya with weapons. If this were to happen would result in a massacre of civilians and rights from which none of us could perform. " Lots explains so that the peace table is involved as the thousands of people who are marching today, "to remember that our Constitution is waiting to be implemented. Must be defended, but also implemented at the same time to give solidarity to those young people who are struggling to get one. "
Meanwhile Network April 29 university researchers to organize well and better than a gazebo and launched an initiative "Adopt a Article of the Constitution. " A researcher at the University of Rome La Sapienza pay a € Cday symbolic to the organizers of that these days have spoken of this mobilization for self-financing in the Italian squares. "I adopted the Art .21, that for the freedom of the press - says Dr. Patricia in pharmacology - because if they want to muzzle the press gag even those like me cry out against the cuts, the research, against the development."
But it is the manifestation of the many workers . Of those who chose to take to the streets coming from the rich regions of Italy. "I Emilia - tells ilfattoquotidiano.it Joan, 50 years - but I lost my job recently, the crisis is affecting regions like ours, that we never had major employment problems. " The woman joins a group of workers of Technicolor in Rome, one of the flagship of the Italian film: 73 workers put in layoffs and mobility.
The long line meets the many thousands of people waiting for hours to Piazza del Popolo. And from the stage of Cday is appealed to stop for a minute. A minute of silence to remember the victims of the terrible earthquake in Japan . We start with the speeches, preceded by the sound of the orchestra "resistance music" playing the Nabucco sung loudly by many protesters. "Long live the Constitution" is the slogan which is raised from the big stage. Then we start with the many familiar faces and including representatives from the world of entertainment, journalism, labor, politics, the judiciary. Women as Ottavia Piccolo, Monica Guerritore, Fiorella Mannoia, Paola Lavin and then actors like Ascanio Celestini, Moni Ovadia, singers like Roberta Flack and magistrates as Antonio Ingroia who read the first articles of the constitution. And 'the anti-Mafia magistrate who said from the stage: "The challenge has to do not so much with our present but with your future."
In the square, among the people, the signs stand out against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi . "Berlusca, brain flabby" or "I do not hate Berlusconi, I just want to see him in a cell with Hannibal Lecter," hand held by a young unemployed with a child of 11 in tow. "I do not see the future - said - I lost my job, my husband is out of work for three years, was employed for 17 years in the field of glass processing, which today is facing a deep crisis."
Reading the articles you read from the stage is also the leitmotif of the other events "For the Charter" in other Italian cities. More than a thousand demonstrators gathered in Largo Cairoli to Milan . At present the event is Piero Ricca Qui Milano free is he is doing on stage alternate hosts for the various interventions. Piazza della Signoria in Florence is invaded by more than 8 thousand people instead of with tricolor flags, large signs that read "I like the public school and a group of people form a huge slogan human, a letter for every protester, with the inscription "We in the streets, the government at home."
At least 10 thousand people marched in central Bologna starting from Piazza XX Settembre to Piazza San Francesco. To open the Orange parade a banner that read: "We have the right to study. We are the public school. " Other 2 thousand people gathered in Padua. Too many people who gathered in Piazza Verdi in Palermo, in front of the Teatro Massimo. A Torino in Piazza Castello, the national anthem was played by the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio busy for weeks, like all other employees of the opera in Turin, in initial mobilization against cuts to fund one of the show. Here too, many waving the flag.
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