{"id":128842,"date":"2019-03-04T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=128842"},"modified":"2019-03-03T13:30:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T13:30:56","slug":"milan-anti-racism-march-draws-hundreds-of-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/03\/milan-anti-racism-march-draws-hundreds-of-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Milan Anti-Racism March Draws &#8220;Hundreds of Thousands&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Huge crowds have gathered in the northern Italian city of Milan to protest against racism. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_128845\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/milan-demo-racism.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128845\" class=\"wp-image-128845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/milan-demo-racism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/milan-demo-racism.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/milan-demo-racism-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators marched under the slogan &#8220;People First&#8221; &#8211; EPA<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>3 Mar 2019 &#8211; <\/em>Organisers said about 200,000 people turned out in the city in Lombardy, a region where the right-wing populist League party has strong support.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners say the government promotes fear and hatred to spread division.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy prime minister and League leader Matteo Salvini says the government&#8217;s new immigration policies will &#8220;make Italy safer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-45625833\" >Italy government backs &#8216;anti-migrant&#8217; bill<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-44660699\" >Migration to Europe in charts<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A decree issued in September makes it easier to deport migrants and take away their citizenship if they commit serious crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new governing coalition, Italy has tried to close its ports to boats with migrants travelling across the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128846\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/milan-demo-racism2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128846\" class=\"wp-image-128846\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/milan-demo-racism2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/milan-demo-racism2.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/milan-demo-racism2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organisers said about 200,000 people took part in the march. EPA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128847\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/milan-demo-racism3.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128847\" class=\"wp-image-128847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/milan-demo-racism3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/milan-demo-racism3.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/milan-demo-racism3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-128847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milan&#8217;s mayor described the demonstration as a watershed moment. EPA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Demonstrators marched under the slogan People First, with organisers issuing a mission statement saying diversity is a cultural treasure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want Italy and Europe to change their policies, to put people at the centre with their difficulties,&#8221; one man told Italian broadcaster Rai TV.<\/p>\n<p>A woman said the march was to show that &#8220;reception is a very beautiful thing and diversity an enrichment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Milan&#8217;s social democrat mayor, Beppe Sala, described the protests as a watershed moment.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-47431311\" >Go to Original \u2013 bbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Mar 2019 &#8211; Organisers said about 200,000 people turned out to protest against racism in the northern Italian city of Milan in Lombardy, a region where the right-wing populist League party has strong support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":128846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}