Students protest budget cuts in Italy

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Saturday, 08 October 2011 01:53

Rome: Thousands of Italian schoolchildren and students took to the streets countrywide yesterday to protest youth unemployment and education budget cuts by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right government. There were mostly peaceful protests in about 100 Italian cities, with some scuffles breaking out in Milan’s banking centre and near the education ministry in Rome.

“This is the first rally of the autumn, the beginning of a large mobilisation to come,” Cesare Cagnetta, a student activist from Roma Tre university, said. A small group began the day of protests with a symbolic gesture, putting alarm clocks outside of Berlusconi’s offices in Rome before dawn ...

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