Today the plan was to go see all the Roman ruins in the middle of the old city of Rome. So I left nice and early and while going past the Termini down the Via Cavour I kept running into assorted feeder marches of protesters, who were joining into an absolutely enormous protest near the Colosseum. This was clearly a Left'wing protest, though it took me a few minutes of making out what the signs were saying to figure out that the key issue was attempts by the right-wing government to cut educational spending so as to privatize more of Italy's public sector (sound familiar?). Apparently all the students and teachers are on strike today. Click here for a good article about the background to the situation, and click here to read about today's protest.
I took a lot of video, but have had a bitch of a time getting this blog posted and lost most of it in the process (Internet Cafe's in Rome suck). So there is one short video uploaded and more pictures than I'm posting here (see in My Photos). There was a large Palestine contigent, but that is one of the videos I lost...
And yes, I did make it to the Roman ruins (more pictures in My Photos)...
So, I had a good time today. I need to get some food...
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