Francesca Albanese and Greta Thunberg to join Rome rally.
Around 100,000 people are expected to join a major rally in Rome on Saturday to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
The USB trade union, which organised a national general strike on Friday against the Italian government’s “war budget”, has urged workers to take to the streets in large numbers on Saturday and “block everything”, as they did during recent mass rallies for Gaza in Italy.
Among the aims of the protest is to reject the government’s “warmongering and rearmament policies” and to call for an “end to all complicity with Israel and the genocide in Palestine”, USB said in a statement, adding: “Let us remember that Italy is among the main suppliers of weapons to the Israeli state, while the genocide continues.”
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, is set to attend the rally along with climate activists Greta Thunberg and Thiago Avila, who joined the Global Sumud Flotilla this autumn.
The demonstration will begin at 14.00 at Piramide before making its way through the Aventino area and past the Colosseum to San Giovanni, resulting in street closures and the re-routing of multiple bus lines.
Image: Greta Thunberg. Photo credit: Ryan Nash Photography / Shutterstock.com.
