The Telegraph - 12/18/13, Nick Squires
People take part in a demonstration organised by "People from pitchfork movement" to protest against economic insecurity and the government in downtown Rome
Photo: ALESSANDRO BIANCHI/REUTERS
Photo: ALESSANDRO BIANCHI/REUTERS
Thousands of people, many of them waving the Italian flag, gathered in Piazza del Popolo, one of the city’s most beautiful squares, which has as its centre-piece a massive ancient Egyptian obelisk.
“Italy is rising up”, read one placard, while another said: “They don’t let us work, they don’t let us study, because an ignorant population is easier to govern.”
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