Student Protest in Rome

The song that they are singing is called Fischia Il Vento (thanks to those of you who helped me figure that out!)

The footage from November 30 is from RussiaToday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-AR_Z80EP8

A message from Filippo: Well, again, hello, I'm an Italian student... and fortunately you saw some of the more pacific protests. Tuesday november 30th was an extremely important day in Italy. All over the country, in every city, thousands of students gathered and occupied (took over) public buildings, like the train stations, the airports, and so on so forth. The reason was to finally show to the public our protest against the "riforma gelmini", a reform that changes the public university system. See, in Italy there is a very good public school system, and most major universities are public (unlike in most other countries). The education and preparation coming out with a b.a. is really top-notch. What this "reform" does, is that it cuts funds for the university. This way, researchers will not be able to become professors, because when older ones retire, no new ones will be hired; many faculties will be closed, and since in Italy there are not many job offers, almost all of the Phd students from now on will not find jobs. If you want to know the numbers, 8 billion euros of cuts in 2 years to the University, more than 5000 courses closed, all while instead favoring the private universities, which in Italy are very few, with tax cuts ecc. And yes, demonstration =protest :D
It was really a historic day.Protests in Italy almost never make the news, because there is really a huge wall between the politic government and the people. Once your a politician, there is so much corruption that you don't even care what catastrophic effects have the laws you pass. If you want to see a highlight video of the protest in various cities, here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp0Y9yBknzU&feature=related
This instead is a photo gallery of the protest in MY city, Pisa, which I am very proud of, because we were more than 10000, without a single injured during the day, but we made ourselfes heard :D: http://iltirreno.gelocal.it/pisa/multimedia/2010/11/30/fotogalleria/gli-stude...
Well, i hope I answered your questions, if you want to ask me other, or more specific things, just PM me :D... Filippo

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[chochets]

Wow! Way to go Italian students and standing up for your right to a free education! Our schooling system in North America is seriously ridiculous!!

[cricio93]

OMG YOUR....YOUR ....EYESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS .....im in love looool

[mynameisdrj]

So linz what do you think about occupy wall street or the occupy movements you haven't spoke about them jasmine revolution the arab spring what is your take on the protests taking that are happening globally

[TheMacDonaldz]

Gheyyyy

[powergamer6]

It's not really mean to say it sounds like a Renaissance festival, because if you remember, the Renaissance started in Florence.

[Mikeofdundee1987]

@CorruptedCheeze that was a beautiful moment!

[joinusinsong]

@CorruptedCheeze *better. The royals can stuff themselves

[mastrotoni]

GREEK AND ITALIAN STUDENTS FOREVER TOGETHER

[mastrotoni]

@CorruptedCheeze much better!

[adventerer]

meh... Protests... It's Latin Europe you know. France, Italy, Spain. It's a bloody sport down here. I'm a highschool student and I've been on strike 3 times, blocked the school twice and went to a demonstration twice. Last year one ended in a riot. Donno I guess it's just european culture...