Starhawk on Genoa

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But nothing could save our friends across the street, at the school where people were sleeping and where another section of the Independent Media were located. The police entered: the media and the politicians were kept out. And they beat people. They beat people who had been sleeping, who held up their hands in a gesture of innocence and cried out, "Pacifisti! Pacifisti!" They beat the men and the women. They broke bones, smashed teeth, shattered skulls. They left blood on the walls, on the windows, a pool of it in every spot where people had been sleeping. When they had finished their work, they brought in the ambulances. All night long we watched from across the street as the stretchers were carried out, as people were taken to the jail ward of the hospital, or simply to jail. And in the jail, many of them were tortured again, in rooms with pictures of Mussolini on the wall.

http://www.zmag.org/starthree.htm

Comments

[adjectivegail]

i'm not sure whether i just feel bad because it's awful, or if it's worse because i'm not surprised. whichever, it's still fucking depressing though.
i don't want the world to be this way, and yet i've no idea what would make it better.
sorry; don't mean to mope, but reading ^that was really, really depressing *wry grin* i'll get over it...