{"id":2624,"date":"2014-12-08T06:28:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2014-12-08T06:28:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:28:25","slug":"fk-austerity-protesters-clash-with-cops-outside-opening-night-at-la-scala-milan-rt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2624","title":{"rendered":"\u2018F**k austerity\u2019: Protesters clash with cops outside opening night at La Scala, Milan \u2014 RT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/212339-italy-milan-protesters-police\/\">\u2018F**k austerity\u2019: Protesters clash with cops outside opening night at La Scala, Milan \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">At least 300 protesters clashed with riot police in an anti-austerity march in Milan, Italy, outside La Scala which opened its glamorous opera season. Activists threw Molotov cocktails and flares, leaving two officers injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: baseline; background-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">The demonstrators were protesting against the austerity policies of Italian PM Matteo Renzi. They demanded rights for social housing after authorities launched a series of squatter evictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">Among the protesters there were public workers and students who voiced their criticism against Italy\u2019s labor reforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">About 1,000 officers attempted to hold back the protesters, who were carrying banners reading\u00a0<em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">&#8220;fight the power&#8221;, &#8220;we resist!&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\u201cJobs Act = Bad Jobs.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Some of the banners were slightly more radical, with expressions like\u00a0<em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\u201cF**k austerity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018F**k austerity\u2019: Protesters clash with cops outside opening night at La Scala, Milan \u2014 RT News. At least 300 protesters clashed with riot police in an anti-austerity march in Milan, Italy, outside La Scala which opened its glamorous opera season. Activists threw Molotov cocktails and flares, leaving two officers injured. The demonstrators were protesting against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40,1464,1744,632,657],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-austerity","tag-italy","tag-milan","tag-police","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}