Spent two months working in Munich, Germany, The last day before leaving, I was so lucky to be invited to join a party at the d’Wiesn, like locals call the Oktoberfest.
Al pictures have been taken with a Ricoh GR3.
During the afternoon of May 30, 2011 the results of Milan’s city elections where clear and definitive: mayor Letizia Moratti was defeated by Giuliano Pisapia. And soon, the party started downtown…
More Blows to Berlusconi Coalition on the New York Times.
Pictures taken with a Ricoh GR3.
The Italian resistance (It. Resistenza italiana) is the umbrella term for the various partisan forces formed by pro-Allied Italians during World War II. They were also known as the Partisan Resistance, in Italian: Resistenza partigiana, and the Second Risorgimento.
The 1947 democratic Constitution of the Italian Republic declared itself to be “built on the Resistance”.
On April 19, 1945, concurrent with the renewal of the Allied offensive, the CLN called out a general insurrection.Bologna was liberated on April 21 by Polish and Brigata Maiella troops. Parma and Reggio Emilia were liberated on April 24. Turin and Milan were liberated on April 25 when Fascists retreated. Over 14,000 German and Fascist troops were captured in Genoa on April 26 and 27, when General Meinhold surrendered to the CLN. Allied troops arrived in the liberated cities in the next days.
(Wikipedia)
This year’s rally held in Milan was dedicated to Vittorio Arrigoni, the italian volounteer killed in Gaza few days ago. A lot of political parties, association and citizens marched through Milan’s city center remembering partisans and citizens killed during the german occupation, and supporting the values of the Italian Constitution. The current italian government nor any party supporting it were present at the rally.
All the pictures have been taken with a Ricoh GR3.
Second day of protests in Italy. A million protesters, many of them women, took to the streets across Italy on Sunday calling on scandal hit Silvio Berlusconi to resign. These pictures have been taken in Milan. If you want to know more about the reasons why so many people spent their sunday on the streets, read this Telegraph article (or this one, from CBS) and have a look at my previous gallery.