procession between the Pyramid and the Mouth of Truth. Here is who will be in the square
Rome is ready to host the G20. A great opportunity for those who want to use the event as a megaphone of their discontent. From young people in the streets for energy, to the unions and the antagonists of the Draghi government, many will be demonstrating next weekend. In the field, to guarantee security, there will be over 6,500 men and women of the police and army forces, both for reasons of public order, both to avert the threat of possible terrorist acts and to counter the possible sabotage works of the event around the maximum security area between Nuvola di Fuksas and Palazzo dei Congressi.
The Prefecture of Rome has made it known that nothing will be left to chance. Not only drones but also high-tech military devices will be on the field next Saturday and Sunday to ensure the security of the G20 in Rome. An impressive deployment of men and vehicles is expected for the event. The latest in a series of meetings of the provincial committee for public order and safety, chaired by the prefect Matteo Piantedosi, was held on Tuesday morning at Palazzo Valentini.
A plan that pays utmost attention to the protection of delegations in institutional commitments and collateral programs, but which at the same time is aimed at limiting the repercussions on the normal course of city life. The next committee is scheduled for Thursday afternoon and the final plan will be put into practice there. The work will be twofold: that of guaranteeing security in the EUR area, as mentioned, but also that of focusing on the series of protests that will take place in the city.
Procession between the Pyramid and the Mouth of Truth
Over 10 thousand people will be expected on Saturday, coming not only from all over Italy for the main protest initiative at the G20. The procession announced by the organizers at the police station should start at 3 pm from piazzale Ostiense to the Bocca della Verità , and therefore also to the Circus Maximus. Initiative announced by the Cobas which has already received the support of numerous movements. “We will be in the streets within a great coalition of workers, students, young people, environmentalists, feminist, anti-racist, anti-fascist, pacifist organizations, for economic, social, environmental, climate justice, for the dignity of people and work, to build a future – that other possible and necessary world for which we fought, and we fight, since Genoa and Porto Alegre 2001 with the alter-globalist movement – free from wars, walls, racism, dictatorships and fascisms “, he made known Piero Bernocchi national spokesman COBAS – Confederation of grassroots committees who explained in a note: “The cortep will reach Bocca della Verità , in a unitary block of all the basic and conflictual syndicalism, together again after the success of the general strike of 11 October and as a further step in a path that will have other relevant stages in the months of November and December during the discussion and decisions in the Chambers on the financial and on the use of PNRR resources “.
The antagonists of the Draghi government also took to the streets
The security alert is high, not only for possible accidents at the event, but also for the possible willingness of the No Green Pass and No Vax groups to demonstrate. On Saturday, however, there will be a demonstration “against the Draghi government and the government of the bankers” for which the police station has foreseen reinforced measures in Piazza San Giovanni. “After the increase in electricity and gas, the tax bills, the INPS coup to the disabled (up to 99%), the dismissals for relocations and green passes, the banker’s government reserves the bale of TV channels that ‘jump’ and that ‘oblige’ to change the TV and therefore spend more money, especially from the elderly a real hoax. Also for these reasons we will demonstrate Saturday 30 October in Rome in Piazza San Giovanni from 2.30 pm “, said Marco Rizzo of the Communist Party .
The event, according to the flyer, will be attended by the Cumpanis Association and magazine, the Proletarian Cultural Center, the Communist Youth Federation, Gramsci Oggi, the Movement for the Rebirth of the PCI and the Unity of the Communists, the Communist Party, the Socialist Homeland, Spread.it, Regain the ‘Italy and Fb Groups’ Against Fornero’.
Fridays For Future students strike on Friday
Protests that are also attested the day before. Fridays For Future students will be the first to take to the streets on Friday 30 October, who will strike and demonstrate in the center of Rome. The organization of young people who follow in the footsteps of the climate activist Greta Thunberg will manifest itself together with the numerous realities of the Care Society, the base unions and the Roman social spaces, as well as the delegations of workers of the Gkn and Ilva. The demonstrators are located in via della Piscina Navale, in Acrobax, while today they posted a banner in front of the Cloud.
Flash mob against unequal access to vaccines
On the eve of the G20, the activists of Oxfam, Emergency and Amnesty International – members of the Peoples’ Vaccine Alliance – will create a flash mob, scheduled for Friday 29 October from 10.00 to 11.30 in Piazza Vittorio. At the center, as those responsible in a note, the denunciation of the dramatic inequality of access to vaccines, cures and treatments for Covid-19, in the face of enormous profits made by pharmaceutical companies. A situation that actually occurs to defeat the pandemic, with developing countries seeing only 2% of their population vaccinated.
Hence the urgent appeal to the leaders of the G20 to put in place effective and immediate solutions to save lives and face an emergency that is increasingly splitting the planet in two, starting with the suspension of intellectual property rights for vaccines, tests and treatments Covid-19 held by the pharmaceutical industry, supporting the proposal submitted a year ago by South Africa and India to the World Trade Organization; by putting pressure on pharmaceutical companies, which hold a monopoly on existing vaccines, to share the know-how and technology necessary to enable production in low- and middle-income countries, to be able to produce the demand for doses in countries that cannot afford to pay the prices imposed by current producers; by equitably redistributing existing vaccines from rich countries to all countries of the world, to achieve the goal set by the World Health Organization of vaccinating 40% of the world population by the end of 2021 and 70% by mid-2022. 29, 30 and 31 will also be around the streets of Rome and in the area where the summit is scheduled, a sailing truck that will re-launch the appeal at the center of the initiative.