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  • Italian Press Accuse Berlusconi of Changing Calipari Report
    3 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Italian press has claimed that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has altered a report investigating the death of Italian secret service agent Nicola Calipari, who was killed by US soldiers in Iraq in order not to endanger Washington-Rome relations.
    The papers revealed that Berlusconi had requested some changes be made in the direction of the report so as not to criticize the US too much and not to jeapodize relations. The headline run by Il Messaggero carried the issue to the public, (…)

  • AMNESTY ITALY! Sign on
    29 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Amnesty the movement of the movements Amnistie
    For medical reasons (impossibility of perfuser serum on base of glucose to a patient in the grip of the aftereffects of a hepatitis), Oreste Scalzone was forced to stop the hunger strike on April 26th in the evening, further to an illness. He pursues to call up to the movement of the movements for the amnesty, after being supported by many emails mainly coming from Italy and now having been reunited by the main confederacies and the Italian (…)

  • Giuliana Sgrena Blasts U.S. Cover Up- Confirms she was shot at from behind-not in self defense
    28 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yesterday, I spoke with Giuliana Sgrena by telephone from Rome, where she is recovering from the injuries she suffered as a result of the shooting. I began by asking her reaction to the Pentagon report.
    GIULIANA SGRENA: Yes, for the moment we have not an official result of the reports, but we have some rumors about the conclusion of the report, so I am very sad about that because I was - is words that I was waiting. I thought that maybe the Americans will spoke of accident or something (…)

  • US soldiers exonerated: Firing at Italian reporter on secure road, while car was driving away is OK!
    26 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Interview with Naomi Klein on Democracy now about her conversation with Giuliana Sgrena...
    "She told me a lot about the incident that I had not fully understood from the reports in the press. One of the most - and at first, the other thing I want to be really clear about is that Giuliana is not saying that she’s certain in any way that the attack on the car was intentional.
    She is simply saying that she has many, many unanswered questions, and there are many parts of her direct (…)

  • Amnesty Italy/ Call Oreste Scalzone for Life!
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hungry Strike to amnesty Italy. Call for the life!
    * PETITION (EN/ US): translation of the contextualized French version
    APPEAL FOR ORESTE! Initiative of support to the battle of Oreste Scalzone for the amnesty and explicit demand why it suspends the hunger strike and does not put ulteriorly in danger its already difficult state of health. This appeal upon request leaves of friends and companions, preoccupied from the determination of Oreste to continue to oltranza the hunger strike: (…)

  • National Analytical Study on Racist Violence and Crime
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RAXEN Focal Point for ITALY
    de Annamaria Rivera Collaboration: Paola Andrisani
    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
    The present report, like the former Analytical Study on discrimination and racist violence (2000-2002) is based on the theoretical supposition that “races” do not exist but rather human groups which are “racialised”, that is, socially considered and treated as “races”1.
    In our opinion, racism is part of a process of social classification so that some groups (migrants, refugees, minority (…)

  • Italian Government in Danger of Collapse
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Italy’s longest post-war government risks collapse. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is in trouble after two small parties withdrew their support from the governing center-right coalition.
    The centrist UDC party, which has four ministers in government, was the first to decide to withdraw its support from the center-right government. Then, the new Italian Socialist party, which has only two minor government posts, followed its example.
    The parties had called on Prime Minister (…)

  • Berlusconi suffers local election wipeout
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Popham in Rome
    Silvio Berlusconi has suffered the gravest electoral rout of his political life this week, with his centre- right coalition losing power in 11 regions from the far north of the peninsula to the heel of the boot.
    The regional elections appeared to have been blotted out of the nation’s consciousness by the death of the Pope, but in the event turnout was high at 71 per cent. And the result was freely admitted to have been a disaster by commentators on the right as (…)

  • Boos And Catcalls Greet Bush At St. Peter’s
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Boos And Catcalls Greet Bush At St. Peter’s Der Spiegel April 08, 2005 Rome: It was a historic moment: George W. Bush was the first president of the U.S. to participate in burying a Pope - despite his controversy with the Pontiff over the Iraq War. When his image flashed on a huge outdooor TV screen, the multitude gathered for the funeral of Pope John Paul II had a pointedly unpleasant message to communicate to the U.S. president. Loud booing was heard, when on a large television (…)

  • An Openly Gay Communist Wins in Southern Italy
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An openly gay candidate of Partito della Rifondazione Comunista wins in southern Italy, in regional elections that resulted in 11 victories for the center-left coalition, which now controls 16 of Italy’s 20 regions.
    Nichi Vendola’s victory decisively refutes the American dogma that militants on the left, choosing radicals, can’t attract votes at the center and lose to the right — the dogma that the Democrats in America and the center-left in Italy promulgate, even though it has been often (…)