"NO AL RAZZISMO" anti-racism demonstration in Rome, Italy

250,000 people marched the streets of Rome to ask for more rights for migrants. Rome, Italy, 17/10/2009.

As the official program says:
"On October 7th 1989 hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Rome for the first large march against racism. The same year, August 24th, in Villa Literno in the province of Caserta, the South-African refugee Jerry Essan Maslo had been killed.
Twenty years later racism has not been defeated, it still causes victims and is being fuelled by the policies of the Berlusconi government. The “pacchetto sicurezza” approved by the centre-right majority, by introducing the crime of “illegal immigration” and a number of provisions worsening the living condition of migrants, follows a persecutory intent and violates their human dignity and their basic rights.
This dramatic situation is dangerously encouraging and legitimizing fear and violence against any diversity within the society.
Meanwhile in the Sicilian sea, by now turned in to a real marine cemetery, hundreds of human beings are dying in the attempt to reach our coasts.
It is time to react and to work together for the building up of strong reply made of struggle and solidarity for defending the rights of all, for the refusal of any form of discrimination and to stop the growth of racism."

250,000 people marched the streets of Rome to ask for more rights for migrants. Rome, Italy, 17/10/2009.

As the official program says:
"On October 7th 1989 hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Rome for the first large march against racism. The same year, August 24th, in Villa Literno in the province of Caserta, the South-African refugee Jerry Essan Maslo had been killed.
Twenty years later racism has not been defeated, it still causes victims and is being fuelled by the policies of the Berlusconi government. The “pacchetto sicurezza” approved by the centre-right majority, by introducing the crime of “illegal immigration” and a number of provisions worsening the living condition of migrants, follows a persecutory intent and violates their human dignity and their basic rights.
This dramatic situation is dangerously encouraging and legitimizing fear and violence against any diversity within the society.
Meanwhile in the Sicilian sea, by now turned in to a real marine cemetery, hundreds of human beings are dying in the attempt to reach our coasts.
It is time to react and to work together for the building up of strong reply made of struggle and solidarity for defending the rights of all, for the refusal of any form of discrimination and to stop the growth of racism."

250,000 people marched the streets of Rome to ask for more rights for migrants. Rome, Italy, 17/10/2009.

As the official program says:
"On October 7th 1989 hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Rome for the first large march against racism. The same year, August 24th, in Villa Literno in the province of Caserta, the South-African refugee Jerry Essan Maslo had been killed.
Twenty years later racism has not been defeated, it still causes victims and is being fuelled by the policies of the Berlusconi government. The “pacchetto sicurezza” approved by the centre-right majority, by introducing the crime of “illegal immigration” and a number of provisions worsening the living condition of migrants, follows a persecutory intent and violates their human dignity and their basic rights.
This dramatic situation is dangerously encouraging and legitimizing fear and violence against any diversity within the society.
Meanwhile in the Sicilian sea, by now turned in to a real marine cemetery, hundreds of human beings are dying in the attempt to reach our coasts.
It is time to react and to work together for the building up of strong reply made of struggle and solidarity for defending the rights of all, for the refusal of any form of discrimination and to stop the growth of racism."

250,000 people marched the streets of Rome to ask for more rights for migrants. Rome, Italy, 17/10/2009.

As the official program says:
"On October 7th 1989 hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Rome for the first large march against racism. The same year, August 24th, in Villa Literno in the province of Caserta, the South-African refugee Jerry Essan Maslo had been killed.
Twenty years later racism has not been defeated, it still causes victims and is being fuelled by the policies of the Berlusconi government. The “pacchetto sicurezza” approved by the centre-right majority, by introducing the crime of “illegal immigration” and a number of provisions worsening the living condition of migrants, follows a persecutory intent and violates their human dignity and their basic rights.
This dramatic situation is dangerously encouraging and legitimizing fear and violence against any diversity within the society.
Meanwhile in the Sicilian sea, by now turned in to a real marine cemetery, hundreds of human beings are dying in the attempt to reach our coasts.
It is time to react and to work together for the building up of strong reply made of struggle and solidarity for defending the rights of all, for the refusal of any form of discrimination and to stop the growth of racism."

250,000 people marched the streets of Rome to ask for more rights for migrants. Rome, Italy, 17/10/2009.

As the official program says:
"On October 7th 1989 hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Rome for the first large march against racism. The same year, August 24th, in Villa Literno in the province of Caserta, the South-African refugee Jerry Essan Maslo had been killed.
Twenty years later racism has not been defeated, it still causes victims and is being fuelled by the policies of the Berlusconi government. The “pacchetto sicurezza” approved by the centre-right majority, by introducing the crime of “illegal immigration” and a number of provisions worsening the living condition of migrants, follows a persecutory intent and violates their human dignity and their basic rights.
This dramatic situation is dangerously encouraging and legitimizing fear and violence against any diversity within the society.
Meanwhile in the Sicilian sea, by now turned in to a real marine cemetery, hundreds of human beings are dying in the attempt to reach our coasts.
It is time to react and to work together for the building up of strong reply made of struggle and solidarity for defending the rights of all, for the refusal of any form of discrimination and to stop the growth of racism."

250,000 people marched the streets of Rome to ask for more rights for migrants. Rome, Italy, 17/10/2009.

As the official program says:
"On October 7th 1989 hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Rome for the first large march against racism. The same year, August 24th, in Villa Literno in the province of Caserta, the South-African refugee Jerry Essan Maslo had been killed.
Twenty years later racism has not been defeated, it still causes victims and is being fuelled by the policies of the Berlusconi government. The “pacchetto sicurezza” approved by the centre-right majority, by introducing the crime of “illegal immigration” and a number of provisions worsening the living condition of migrants, follows a persecutory intent and violates their human dignity and their basic rights.
This dramatic situation is dangerously encouraging and legitimizing fear and violence against any diversity within the society.
Meanwhile in the Sicilian sea, by now turned in to a real marine cemetery, hundreds of human beings are dying in the attempt to reach our coasts.
It is time to react and to work together for the building up of strong reply made of struggle and solidarity for defending the rights of all, for the refusal of any form of discrimination and to stop the growth of racism."