Come Together

London, United Kingdom: Demonstrators block the road as they gather outside the Embassy of the United States to protest the death of George Floyd. Photo: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images.

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John Sato, 95, one of only two Japanese servicemen in the New Zealand army in the second world war, took two buses from Howick to join the march against racism at Aotea Square in Auckland, New Zealand. Photo: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images.

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• Associated Press, Milan Anti-Racism Rally Draws Tens of Thousands, Voice of America, March 2, 2019

MILAN – Tens of thousands of people have marched in Italy’s financial capital against policies by the populist government that they say promote racism. The Milan city official in charge of migrant policy, Pierfrancesco Majorino, put the number of marchers under the banner “People First” at 200,000. [Read more].

DJ Simon Samaki Osagie, with throngs of protesters behind him, sings during an anti-racism rally, in Milan, Italy, on March 2, 2019. Photo: AP.

The Deluge

A deluge myth flooded today the White House, with thousands and thousands people marching and rallying all over the United States in a global mass protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Photos: Reuters/la Repubblica.

The Red Thread

Hundreds of thousands are gathering across all 50 U.S. states (and also elsewhere) against family separations carried out by the Trump administration.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new star of the Democratic Socialists of America, marching during the Bronx’s pride parade on Wednesday. Photo: David Delgado/Reuters.

Protesters at a demonstration in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images.

A rally against the detention of migrant children staged in front of the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, Canada. Photo: Lorenda Reddekopp.

Actress Susan Sarandon (centre) was one of the roughly 575 people arrested during a Capitol Hill protest of Trump administration’s immigration policies and family separations at the southern border on Thursday. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP.

The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi

• Jamiles Lartey, Oppression in America: “To root this out we need a movement against racist policies”, The Guardian, June 6, 2018

Demonstrators protest outside the Starbucks cafe in Philadelphia, United States where last April 12 two black men were led away in handcuffs after the manager called police, saying the men refused to order anything. After the fact, the Starbucks chief executive Kevin Johnson came to Philadelphia to apologize to the men. He also announced that more than 8,000 Starbucks stores in the U.S. would close on the afternoon of May 29 so nearly 175,000 employees can get training against racial bias. Photo: Ron Todt/AP.

In Time Like Air

It happened yesterday in Florence at the anti-racist rally in memory of Idy Diène, 54, the Senegalese street vendor who was killed on Ponte Amerigo Vespucci last Monday. Young people hold a banner saying “Whatever the colour, hold my hand” (from the single “Ora d’Aria” by the Tunisian-Italian rapper Ghali). And it’s important that this is true for everyone in everyday life. Photo: la Repubblica FIRENZE.it.

Stay Human

At least 10,000 people rallied in downtown Florence on Saturday in memory of Idy Diène, 54, the Senegalese street vendor who was shooted dead in a “random” racist rampage on Ponte Amerigo Vespucci last Monday. The Senegalese community en masse joined the anti-racist rally also from other Italian cities, prompting the Italian authorities to put a stop to the “tolerance” which they often show at almost every level towards fascists and racists.

With a wish for everyone to “Stay human”. Photo: ANSA.

Join the Human Race

The Senegalese community in Florence is organising a national and peaceful rally in memory of Idy Diène, 54, the street vendor who was shooted dead on Ponte Amerigo Vespucci last Monday. The meeting point will be next Saturday at 15,00 everywhere in downtown Florence. Everyone of any race or class or gender is expected to participate. Incidentally, Idy Diène was the cousin of Modou Samb, another Senegalese street vendor who was shooted dead by an Italian fair right extremist in Florence on December 11, 2011. Samb’s widow, Mrs. Rokhaya Mbengue, remembered that Idy Diene offered much support and help to her family after the tragedy of six years ago.

Muhammad Ali. Photo © Thomas Hoepker.

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Some 500 African migrants and Italians protested in downtown Florence, Italy on Tuesday, chanting “no more racism” and criticizing the anti-migrant Northern League party for incitement to racial hatred after an Italian man shot dead a Senegalese street vendor, Idy Diène, 54, on Ponte Amerigo Vespucci in central Florence (near the U.S. Consulate General) earlier Monday. It’s not the first time that African vendors get targeted for shooting in Florence. Six years ago, an Italian right-wing extremist shot dead two street vendors and wounded three others in a racist raid.

Anti-racism protesters rallying in downtown Florence on Tuesday, March 5, 2018. Photo: Roberto Visintini/News Press Photo.

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Several thousands anti-racism protesters have rallied in Macerata, Italy one week after a far-right extremist shot and wounded at least six people, five men and one woman, in a racially motivated attack. Pictured above are demonstrators of Florence’s Anti-Racism Network holding a banner saying “nobody is clandestine”. Photo: AFP/Tiziana Fabi.