Scream directed against Prime Minister Berlusconi: "Resignation, resignation ' messages to estimate Boccassini: "Hang '
(Corriere della Sera)
LONDON - They arrived in Piazza della Scala with a white scarf, symbol of mourning for the situation of our country as thousands of people, mostly women but also men, participated in the protest organized in Milan to defend the dignity of women and demand the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. At the protest - the first of a series, they promised the participants - joined the parties of the center, the CGIL and numerous associations (women and not, as We emerge from silence and Arcigay). "Another Italian history is possible. Together, women and men, "the title of the event which, according to organizers, attended by more than ten thousand people who filled the square scarves not only white but also signs and balloons. Messages to estimate Boccassini and against Berlusconi: "Ilda are great, this place wants you to resist," "I do not want to move from room to Arcore to make policy." Hanging on the coat, then, many women wore hanging from a enlarged photocopy of their ID card, "to say who we are, laid off, jobs, precarious researchers, artists, students, directors, workers and journalists, to say the force we represent, in spite of everything. "
ON THE STAGE - To take first the word, the director of Unity, Conchita De Gregorio, and between the laughs, began by declaring "the grandson of Indira Gandhi." "We tell the girls - said - that prostitution is not the only way to live." Several times, the speeches and messages from the stage were interrupted by the shouts of the protesters targeted the prime minister: "Resignation, resignation." Lucrezia Lante della Rovere read a written appeal by De Gregorio and some actors have performed a series of messages from the candidate of the center in Milan, Giuliano Pisapia, in this square, to those of the writer Luis Sepúlveda, secretary of the CGIL Susanna Camusso Nichi Vendola and that "the event is an important element for building a better Italy." The most applauded, however, was that of Rosy Bindi. "I join you - wrote the chairman of the Democratic Party -. We are not women at his disposal. " Franca Rame, accompanied by her husband Dario For, has been hailed on a bench transformed for the 'chance on stage. "I'm sorry for this climate malicious towards Berlusconi - said between laughs the actress -. Silvio elevates the dignity of women. We say that loves women. Especially topless and without panties. Today - added at the end - it was a beautiful signal. We hope you start to do politics. "