Francesca Albanese and Greta Thunberg to affix Rome rally.
Around 100,000 persons are anticipated to affix a serious rally in Rome on Saturday to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
The USB commerce union, which organised a nationwide common strike on Friday towards the Italian authorities’s “battle finances”, has urged employees to take to the streets in giant numbers on Saturday and “block every thing”, as they did throughout latest mass rallies for Gaza in Italy.
Among the goals of the protest is to reject the federal government’s “warmongering and rearmament insurance policies” and to name for an “finish to all complicity with Israel and the genocide in Palestine”, USB mentioned in a press release, including: “Let us do not forget that Italy is among the many predominant suppliers of weapons to the Israeli state, whereas the genocide continues.”
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, is about to attend the rally together with local weather activists Greta Thunberg and Thiago Avila, who joined the Global Sumud Flotilla this autumn.
The demonstration will start at 14.00 at Piramide earlier than making its method by the Aventino space and previous the Colosseum to San Giovanni, leading to avenue closures and the re-routing of a number of bus traces.
Image: Greta Thunberg. Photo credit score: Ryan Nash Photography / Shutterstock.com.
