Great parade in Rome. Grassroots unions and civil society
In the event parents, teachers, professors and many students
School, three hundred thousand in the square
"It 'just the beginning of the protest"
ANDREA DI NICOLA
The procession of rome
ROME - "We will not pay for your crisis". Copyright is the slogan of the university, but the piece bouncing in the large body of the piece in the big march in defense of public education that has crossed the city in pouring rain. A procession of students and college first, and then professors, teachers, school workers and parents. Civil society, in short, of which the base unions Cobas and intercepted the urgency of wanting to express their no to what everyone calls "the destruction of public schools".
Outside the official policy, outside parties except for some banners outside of the PRC, however, the center of the protest. The procession of three hundred thousand, it soon becomes clear, was not born in their homes, but in primary schools, in homes of the promoters of the thousand committees Parents are being born throughout the peninsula, in the occupied faculties.
That would be a huge event it was understood by the early morning, the general astonishment from the organizers. At 9.30 square Esedra was already full.
And the figure a little common 'to all but the many elementary school children happy for this day where they can be confused with the approval of teachers and parents, is the concern. That of teachers in anguish for the job running with homemade signs that read "cut, cut, brays the child" or that m proudly claim "is already a single teacher." Parents, worried too, because it can already be seen with children at home at lunch time and forced to review all the family organization is presented with the green shirt that says "the future of children does not rhyme with Gelmini" . The high school boys express their concern in a direct way: "Preokkupati for the future," they wrote those of the Student Network which also give an advice to the minister "cuts them to you do to your hair." The school's precarious, very many, who fear they have thrown many years. The leading university in the square their nightmare: the insecurity of the future. No coincidence that their banner is signed "students precarious" and many turn with a sign written in English: "I am an Italian student, adottatemi". While the collective of Sciences has written on the banner "cuts, privatization, precarious. Here is the spa universities. "
The procession passes slowly into the Piazza San Giovanni and when the head reaches the finish is still in the queue Esedra Square. This gives the digits beyond the sense of the greatness of the event. And from one end of the stars are getting their: Gelmini, Brunetta, Tremonti. Berlusconi is almost forgotten in the slogans and banners in. The Minister for the Civil Service is portrayed with a drip and suck the blood to civil servants by a truck and when to spend "A judge" De Andre, with allusion to the stature of the minister, is a roar.
The atmosphere is quiet and serene, however austere professors expect of greek and latin could be turned into black bloc would have been difficult. And yet there were a few tense moments when university and high school students have decided to go to find the Gelmini in his lair, the Ministry of Education, out of the programmed path. "We were yesterday by Tremonti, otherwise the Gelmini was hurt," smiles a guy behind the banner of Rome III. The managers of public understand that there are dangers: the faces of those guys say they are not the sfasciatutto and then agree to the outside program.
So while St. John is beginning to return home, the youngest prolong the protest. Against police and carabinieri no provocation unlikely invitations just to dance and slogans to remind men and women in uniform that "you also have children, we are also fighting for them." Even the minister for a single chorus: out, out. "They accuse us of not wanting to talk - says Francesco Science of Wisdom - because it does not come out and talk to us?".
Gelmini will not fall but they do not fall apart: "We will go on until it is withdrawn Law 133. From tomorrow occupations with a vengeance in schools and universities. Today is just the beginning. " Incidentally, the "ce n'est qu'un debut" of '68. They may not know this and, as they are distant from the movements of the past, if they know they do not care.
(October 17, 2008)
Source: Republic
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