Sardines in Rome, 100 thousand target in Piazza San Giovanni. The info on metro and closed roads

"It is clear that the demonstration in the Capital takes on a national value". And so we are at the test of maturity for the Sardine movement, which aims for 100 thousand in Piazza San Giovanni, with a 40 meter long banner on which the volunteers have designed a giant sardine to be paraded over the heads of the participants. Mattia Santori, one of the founders, speaks on the eve of the appointment (scheduled for Saturday from 3 to 7 pm), which will be followed by a more "operational" meeting with the 160 representatives of the movement of the various cities; referents not 'named' by the four creators of the Sardines but who have somehow "selected themselves" by organizing the events in the various territories.

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"The goal of gathering 100 thousand people is very courageous – Santori says – but in the last few weeks being ambitious has paid off. People will come from all over Italy, but this is great, it will be mainly the square in Rome. , it is Rome that loses or wins this challenge ". The Forza Nuova or Casapound militants? I don't think they will come but otherwise a few dozen spoilers will not be able to ruin the party. Then "if they want to participate in an anti-fascist demonstration in which 'Bella Ciao' is organized by a black guy who fights for 'Ius Soli', they have an internal problem".

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"CasaPound? CasaPound who?" also the Roman organizers of the Sardines answer. The CasaPound militants have made it known that they will take to the streets despite the no, "not in a parade, but in a few steps to listen to what these Sardines have to say," they said. But there will not be an order service to check the presence of the tortoises: about 300 volunteer stewards will take care of welcoming the people in the square. In case of provocation "the police will take care of it".

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In Piazza San Giovanni, the organizers will speak from a rented truck thanks to the contributions (about 11 thousand euros), arrived through online crowdfunding and which also serve for the amplification system, two ambulances and the printing of cardboard sardines for those who are not managed to manufacture them by himself. To take the microphone to read poems, articles from the Constitution and to sing songs, the boys of Bologna will be among others, from where everything was born, like Santori himself. Groups will arrive not only from Lazio but also from the Trentino Alto Adige, Lombardy, Piedmont, Emilia Romagna, Umbria, Campania, Molise, Puglia.

"It is a movement that gives me sympathy, there is a desire to participate – says Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte – I don't see why we should be worried about these manifestations of which I take all the positivity. Meet them? If they want I am available, but "It's a lot of respect on my part, I don't go so far as to propose myself because I could be misunderstood, like an attempt to put my hat on." The singer Paola Turci, the writer Erri De Luca and the showgirl Alba Parietti will also be in the square.

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Officially, "there will be no famous artists, but nothing detracts – explains the same promoter of the initiative, Stephen Ogongo quoted by Santori (his sentence on the event open to all, including Casapound, which started the controversy) – that some Sardine can go on stage and sing a song for the square. The soundtrack will obviously be Bella Ciao, but it's a party: you can dance and sing and everyone can sing the song they want "." I ask all anti-fascist and anti-racist people – he adds – to take to the streets to demonstrate with physical presence that it is time to change this political language and to say no more to the words of hatred. This is the time to learn to live in a multicultural and multi-religious society. Above all, we re-embrace our Constitution, a true antidote to all forms of fascism ".

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Another story, the meeting between referents. "We will have to give ourselves a structure – explains the leader of the movement, looking at the 'summit' of the next day, Sunday – not so much on the content as on the organization. The idea that we will explain – explains Santori – is that the goal is to be an intermediate body between politics and the active civic world. We cannot replace associations, struggles and political battles from the bottom. We must be a link between the parties and the active civil society. We try to present to politics the demands of this world, in aggregate manner ".

The organization and the detours of the buses
The event takes place from 3pm to 7pm, in Piazza di Porta San Giovanni (internal garden area). It was organized "to protest against all forms of violence discrimination". Bans on parking in the area will start from the first hours of the day. From 1 pm until ceased needs, the gate to the gardens of Viale Carlo Felice is closed, on the side of the statue of St. Francis. Also from 1 pm until all requirements ceased, the taxi stand in Piazza di Porta San Giovanni, at via Emanuele Filiberto. From 4 pm, the suspension of the "San Giovanni" stops of metro A and C. The buses of lines 16, 81, 85 and 87 were diverted. In case of closures also in via Emanuele Filiberto and viale Carlo Felice, deviation also for the tram 3 and for bus lines 51, 360 and 590. Furthermore, from 1 pm, for the temporary suspension of the terminus of Piazza di Porta San Giovanni, lines 218 and 792 will be limited.