Protesters demand the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. This protest collected nearly 400,000 fans on Facebook and was organized to take place simultaneously in other Italian cities. Rome, Italy. 05/12/2009.
The Facebook page for this initiative has collected around 400 thousand fans and the event takes place simultaneously in Rome identical initiatives in many Italian cities and abroad.
In Italy is the first time that a group of citizens not linked to political parties organized a demonstration that important. Organizers say it is born a new form of communication, a new language for mass that passes through the internet excluding the traditional channels.
In the pictures Antonio Di Pietro, leader of "Italia dei valori" party.
Took part in the demonstration from the stage, the brother of Paolo Borsellino, a judge who has fought the Sicilian Mafia, who was killed by a bomb in Palermo. This year for the first time the Italian authorities have not brought wreaths of flowers at the murder: family members of the court reject this additive government collusion with the Mafia.
Dario For, Nobel Prize for literature, has starred on stage with his wife Franca Rame, a monologue of protest.
The italian singer Fiorella Mannoia and others are present.
At the event there are about 500 thousand people. In Piazza San Giovanni is a platform from which successive testimonies and 9 will host a concert.
No Berlusconi day ended with a concert by the Italian singer Roberto Vecchioni which inflamed the minds of those who have reached Rome from all over Italy to demonstrate.
The organizers said that at 7 pm there are approximately one million people.
Carmine Flamminio for Demotix.






























































nice images. I never realised
nice images. I never realised that people would rise against the same person they voted only several months ago, so soon. thank you for sharing the report with is. looking forward to more of your work.
thx for sharing!
thx for sharing!