Re: Giant anti-war demonstration in Melbourne

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 05:47:37 MST

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    me:
    >And Rome, tomorrow, too.
    >(a million anti-war demonstrators are expected)

    "estropico" <estropico@virgilio.it>, Fri Feb 14, 2003:

    >This strange alliance ranging from the pious to the hardline
    >communists is called in Italian "buonismo" (kind of translates as
    >"goodism"). Historically, it make sense: after all Italy still has the
    >Vatican and used to have the largest communist party in Western
    >Europe...

    used to?

    http://forum.javien.com/XMLmessage.php?id=id::GQ0JQAQj-VUwh-UiYX-ch4@-Pi0@TTAlUX8l
    http://forum.javien.com/XMLmessage.php?id=id::Tw8PNVUY-fTAW-Aj0k-GEcG-JQ5dH1NLeFxC
    http://forum.javien.com/XMLmessage.php?id=id::YhFgdQFv-KFAp-eClJ-EkgO-URxKdiQiHSVC
    http://forum.javien.com/XMLmessage.php?id=id::aGtWM3hU-ewNh-EztX-SW91-XgBbfzsEAk1t

    For a city of 2.5 (?not sure) million, I think the large number for the
    Stop the War demonstration was was extraordinary. It was covered all day
    in the media too.

    Plus, Fabio, I am skeptical that the large turnout was due only to
    the buonismo.

    (simple, quick example, if one counted the flags for the communists and the
    flags for Pace, the Pace flags far outnumbered the communist flags).

     From what I've seen and heard in this country, so far, Berlusconi's
    foreign policy doesn't reflect the general opinion of the average
    Italian citizen. 

    -- 
Amara Graps, PhD
Istituto di Fisica delle Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Roma, ITALIA
Amara.Graps@ifsi.rm.cnr.it

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