Italian Streets Burn With the Fight to Educate

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's multi-billion-euro education cuts were voted into law on Wednesday in Rome.

It's estimated that more than a million students and teachers spilled upon the
streets to demonstrate their disapproval of changes to primary school education, including a return to one all-purpose class teacher, who will remain with the same class for five years.

Domenico Pantaleo of the General Confederation of Labour union said: "These are not reforms, these are just budgetary cuts. The government is destroying public schools and replacing them with a private system."


It's amazing to me how people on the other side of the world will
take what ever measures are necessary in order to have their voices
heard.

While we, the freedom loving Americans that we are, rarely make even
a squeak when our education is compromised


Marches also took place in Milan, Turin, Venice, Naples and other cities. In some places, the protests have been going on, on a smaller scale, for weeks.


When is the last time you heard of anyone taking action near were you live?

most of you would probably respond

NEVER.


of course the response by Mr Berlusconi was:
"I regret that young people have been manipulated by the left."

Why is it considered communist, or socialist, to search for an
equal and just government of the citizens which instill political
power in order to facilitate and benefit their living conditions?