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Prairie Gates

(6,367 posts) Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:03 PM Sep 22

Italian workers' strike in solidarity with Gaza brings disruptions across the country

Source: Associated Press

ROME (AP) — Thousands of protesters and strikers calling for solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza took to the streets in Italy on Monday, with some storming Milan’s central train station and clashing violently with police.

Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike in both public and private sectors, including public transportation, trains, schools and ports.

The strike caused disruptions across the country, with long delays for national trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/italy-gaza-israel-strike-rallies-disruptions-ddb543962208f4ec4ac86da38c99b9f1

Heavy fighting between protesters and police at Milan Central Station and spilling into surrounding streets. Clashes also took place in Rome, where 20,000 students and workers blocked Termini Station. More than 50,000 protesters in Bologna. Protesters cleared from highway with tear gas and hoses in Bologna.

More videos at Rai News.

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Italian workers' strike in solidarity with Gaza brings disruptions across the country (Original Post) Prairie Gates Sep 22 OP

Police use fire hoses against protesters advancing on the Porto Marghera commercial ports outside Venice Prairie Gates Sep 22 #1

Roma: protestors occupy the tangenziale (it's like a belt parkway or highway, I guess you'd say here) Prairie Gates Sep 22 #2

Get ready folks. Bend the knee or stand tall. This is what Power to the People looks like. flashman13 Sep 22 #3

No one here to smear the protesters as Hamas or Putin's Puppets? AloeVera Sep 22 #4

More Prairie Gates Sep 22 #5

Great!! Meloni is a TrumpNetty puppet, though. AloeVera Sep 22 #6

I was disappointed to cancel a trip because the trains weren't running OrwellwasRight Tuesday #7

Prairie Gates

(6,367 posts)

1. Police use fire hoses against protesters advancing on the Porto Marghera commercial ports outside Venice

Reply to Prairie Gates (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:30 PM

Sep 22

https://www.rainews.it/video/2025/09/il-corteo-a-venezia-sciopero-per-gaza-a-marghera-la-polizia-apre-gli-idranti-sul-corteo-c2726cc8-759c-4502-b7b1-f444b98c8914.html

Video at link.

Prairie Gates

(6,367 posts)

2. Roma: protestors occupy the tangenziale (it's like a belt parkway or highway, I guess you'd say here)

Reply to Prairie Gates (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:33 PM

Sep 22

https://www.rainews.it/video/2025/09/corteo-per-gaza-a-roma-i-manifestanti-occupano-la-tangenziale-5d772727-a4ce-4e05-8203-326934ede90d.html

flashman13

(1,547 posts)

3. Get ready folks. Bend the knee or stand tall. This is what Power to the People looks like.

Reply to Prairie Gates (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:57 PM

Sep 22

AloeVera

(3,775 posts)

4. No one here to smear the protesters as Hamas or Putin's Puppets?

Reply to Prairie Gates (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:16 PM

Sep 22

Getting harder and harder to defend the indefensible I guess. Good!

And bravo to all the protesters. Italians are showing us what solidarity and people power look like.

Prairie Gates

(6,367 posts)

5. More

Reply to AloeVera (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:29 PM

Sep 22

Centinaia di migliaia di persone in corteo in circa 80 città. La protesta di sindacati, studenti e cittadini comuni per chiedere il cessate il fuoco in Palestina e contro la collaborazione militare, politica ed economica con il governo israeliano è stata imponente e in gran parte pacifica.

Con l'eccezione di alcuni gruppi violenti che hanno attaccato la stazione centrale di Milano e si sono scontrate con la polizia, fatti che hanno innescato una polemica politica da parte dei partiti di maggioranza.

Tra i cortei più nutriti, quello di Roma, con oltre 50mila presenze: autorizzata dalla polizia una deviazione sulla tangenziale est, percorsa per un tratto e parzialmente bloccata.

Autostrade e tangenziali invase anche a Bologna e a Pisa, bloccati i porti di Genova, Livorno e Marghera.

My translation
Hundreds of thousands of people marched in 80 cities. The protest of unions, students, and ordinary citizens asking for a ceasefire in Palestine and standing against military, political, and economic collaboration with the Israeli government took place and was for the most part peaceful.

The exceptions were a few violent groups that attacked Milan Central Station, a fact that has been turned into fodder for political arguments on the part of the majority parties.

Among the more positive marches was that in Rome, with over 50,000 present: police authorized a deviation of the march onto the tangenziale east (a beltway/highway), which was partially blocked for a short time.

Highways and beltways were also occupied in Bologna and Pisa, and the ports of Genoa, Livorno, and Marghera (Venice) were also blocked.

https://www.rainews.it/maratona/2025/09/sciopero-generale-lunedi-22-settembre-per-gaza-a-rischio-scuola-e-trasporti-anche-taxi-e-navi-406c3222-191b-4e72-912b-763bdfb579d1.html

AloeVera

(3,775 posts)

6. Great!! Meloni is a TrumpNetty puppet, though.

Reply to Prairie Gates (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:54 PM

Sep 22

She is making hay about the vandalism of a few while ignoring the peaceful protest of hundreds of thousands and not condemning Israel's violence and war crimes. She's fine with a genocide but draws the line at property damage. Typical right-wing hypocrite.

OrwellwasRight

(5,267 posts)

7. I was disappointed to cancel a trip because the trains weren't running

Reply to Prairie Gates (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 06:32 AM

Tuesday

And then I found out it was this strike and I was ok with it.

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