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ACTION
FOR PEACE

   --- 2007 --- AGAINST US MILITARY BASE
Benjamin: Italian Women Lead Grassroots Campaign Against US Military Base
Caveggion: Vicenza: a stop to telecommunications cable-laying
Licata: The High Cost of War Economy
Swanson: Italians Block Construction of U.S. Base

   --- 2005 ---
Goodman: Shoot first, ask questions later
Saviano, Nazzaro: Giuliana Sgrena's Kidnapping
Sgrena: This is the truth

   --- 2004 ---
Biosa: Photos of march for peace in Rome 2004
Modugno: The Gross National Product of War

   --- 2003 ---
Giovine: Counting Multitudes?
IMC: Photos of march for peace in Rome 2003
Marcos: A Letter to Rebel Italy
Oliveri: The Two Fronts Of Italy's War
Oliveri: Stop That Train!
Oliveri: (Anti)War Bulletin from the European South
Santi: The Price of Courage
Vauro: Dead People Walking - cartoons

   --- 2002 ---
Oliveri: Italy Repudiates War



ACTIVISM

   --- 2006 ---
Owen: The baker who beat McDonald's

   --- 2004 ---
Albert: My Italian Trip
autistici.org: Here comes a wagonful of...
Popham: Disobbedienti face full wrath of law
Rete Antirazzista Siciliana: A normal day of deportations
Shiva: Celebration of living economies
ZNet Blogs: Medal of Italian Republic

   --- 2003 ---
Cerboni: Telestreet: experiencing democracy
Hamster5: Telestreet Rome

   --- 2002 ---
Giovine: Terrorism against the Justice Movement
Oliveri: We Are All Subversives
Siddig: Disobbedienti
Vera-Zavala: Disobbedienti

   --- BEFORE 2001 ---
Bacon: A New Europe?
Giuliano: Social centers: it's repression again
Klein: Something Beautiful Emerging



GENOA
G8 2001

   --- 2004/5 --- 3 YEARS AGO
Agnoletto V.: Open letter on Genoa 2001
CVGG: Committee for Truth and Justice...
Indymedia: Indymedia campaign for g8
Popham: Senior riot police to be tried over Genoa attack
Popham: Anti-G8 riots 'mastermind' back in Italy
Popham: Trial to relive police brutality
Summers, Peroni: Ghosts of G8 haunt Genoa

   --- 2003 --- DURING THE TRIAL
FAIR-L: Media missing evidence about violence
G.L.F.: Appeal for a collection of video
Tartarini: Genova: The Internal Front

   --- 2001 --- ON THE STREET
Agnoletto S.: An Account From Genoa
Brecher, Costello, Smith: The Road from Genoa
Kagarlitsky: The Road from Genoa
Klein: After Genoa
I.A.A.: State terrorism in Genoa
I.M.C.: GENOA G8: What happened?
Starhawk: Fascism in Genoa



INDYMEDIA
under Attack
October 2004

I.F.J.: On the seizure of Indymedia
Indymedia: FBI Seizes IMC Servers
Indymedia: Seizure requested by Italy
Milan: Indymedia's servers confiscated
Press Release: FBI Seizes Indymedia Servers in the UK



FLORENCE
E.S.F. 2002

Healy: Another globalization is possible
Kagarlistky: Autumn Reflections
Nineham: The European Social Forum
Wainwright: Porto Alegre by the Arno

 
Italian
POLITICS

   --- 2008 ---
Hooper: Pope pulls out of visit to Rome university (Jan. 16th, 2008)

   --- 2007 ---
Ali: Official politics in the west ignores public opinion at will
Ali: Italian Soap-Opera
Fisher: Devil's Advocate
Harris: Italy's New Left Party, Old Divisions
Revelli: Decree Law on deportation and the "war against the last"

   --- 2006 ---
Harris: Telecom Italia scandal
Harris: In Italy's Constitutional Referendum, Berlusconi Gets Slapped
Jacques: The most dangerous man in Europe
Jacques: New Labour must recognise that Berlusconi is the devil
Popham: An American Icon: Gore Vidal on Italy

   --- 2005 ---
Fisher: Berlusconi Changes Rules to His Benefit
Harris: The Church Re-enters Politics, Dividing the Left
Hooper: Minister's husband faces Berlusconi tax trial
Hussain: Guerilla War is not Terrorism
Ireland: Restoring Pasolini
MacArthur: Where Local Craft, Loyalty Still Mean Something to Firms
Walston: Revising Italian history

   --- 2004 ---
Andruccioli: The State of malaise
Ardù: A nation without leaders
Carlini: Merchants in Pills
Dal Lago: Sea Alarm
Galapagos: Scandalous Alitalia
Giovine: 40 months of Berlusconi
Hooper: Italy Goes On Strike Over Economy
Parlato: Seven days
Popham: Politics and Mafia
Robecchi: Apply-Once Torture
Rossanda: The Fiat Model
R.T.: Italy, Land of the Tax Evaders
Singh: Parmalat's Fall, Europe's Enron?
Sossi: Grigore, who didn't want to fly
themelip: Spaghetti Western in Lombardy

   --- 2003 ---
Arie: Censoring furore of Italian TV over Berlusconi jibe
Arie: Senate approves Berlusconi's immunity bill
Arie: Berlusconi launches media counterattack
Arie: Berlusconi, the man who would be king
BBC News: New storm over Berlusconi 'remarks'
BBC News: Italian senate backs PM immunity
Hooper: Mussolini wasn't that bad, says Berlusconi
Hunt: More Judas than Moses
Jacques: The Italian poisoner
Oliveri: Halting Italy to halt Berlusconi
Reuters: Editor's resignation sparks strike in Italy
R.S.F.: Italy - Annual Report 2003
The Economist: Dear Mr. Berlusconi...

   --- 2002 ---
BBC News: New tests say 'Calvi was murdered'
Fisk: Berlusconi the Censor
Mastrolonardo: Trade Unions, Berlusconi and Press
Pacitti: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
Ramonet: Old Italy, new facism

   --- BEFORE 2001 ---
Ali: Blair and Berlusconi
Anderlini, D'Onofrio: Recent Italian Politics
Dowd: A tale of two cities
Guyatt: Operation Gladio
Ledeen: Borking Berlusconi
Parenti: The functions of Fascism



FROM THE
ITALIAN PRESS


   --- Sep/Oct 2004 ---
Eduati: Take America back
Piovesana: Beslan
SkyNews 24: Gino Strada Interview
Rossanda: Spearhead Faith
Rossanda: There is no lesser evil
Vecchi: Manual for the Other World

   --- Apr/May 2004 ---
Cartosio: Redemption in Paranoid Style
Cavallaro: The D-Day Roller
Dominijanni: The torture of the antibodies
Liberti: A Superpower illusion
Parlato: A hot cup of tea with the Talibans
Sgrena: Those cells of shame



ELECTIONS
Apr. 9-10, 2006

   --- AFTER ---
Cobble: Palazzo Papers, Anyone?
Harris: Post-election diary; troubles on the left
Kettle: A very Italian coup
Hooper: Italy faces political turmoil as Berlusconi battles to the end
Hooper: Berlusconi clings to last miracle
The Guardian: Struggle to defeat the darkness
Magnuson: Challenger Claims Win in Italy

   --- BEFORE APR. 9 ---
Harris: The Election Campaign's Dark Underbelly
Hooper: Berlusconi promises to abolish council tax
Hooper: Prodi deemed winner in Italy election debate
Owen: A lagging leader tries to make up with electorate
The Times: Losing face



ELECTIONS Jun. 2004

Hooper: Berlusconi's wake up call to voters...
BBC News: Italy spat over PM's poll text
BBC News: Iraq and economy are key