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Cheney NOT welcome in Rome

Small is beautiful!

Out sit-in/"presidio"  yesterday -- to tell Cheney he was NOT welcome in Rome -- went over really well despite our numbers.
Gene did a marvellous job getting the press to come (as well as his Irish guests!), Anna's costumes were great and Rose's string of crimes committed by Cheney filled out the square like a theatrical backdrop. 
Piero Leone from the Girotondi joined us (and helped distribute flyers) as did a Dal Molin supporter with flag, a few Comunisti uniti and an Iraqi  with the flag of Iraq.   The Palazzo Venezia librarians, who let us recharge the megaphone battery at their desk, congratulated us and took 100 anti-Cheney flyers to distribute to their visitors.  (We distributed 500 flyers in all.)

Among the many tourists who stopped: a couple from... Hiroshima who signed up on our mailing list! There was a huge turnout from the police -- never saw so many for a simple "presidio" but I guess the orders from above are to show Cheney that the current Italian government is getting tough.  The scandalous police violence at Vicenza is the prime example of that, of course.

Yesterday though everything went peacefully at our sit-in.   One of the plain clothes "dirigenti", chatting informally with us, said we were doing a great job and that he was confident Cheney would not get Italian support for an attack on Iran: "We've got too many economic ties with Iran, so I'm optimistic."   One would wish for a better reason not to make war, but  let's hope he's right.

Patrick

P.S.  Photos at:  http://tinyurl.com/sit-in-photos

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