A new protest movement, labeled the “Pitchforks Movement”, has emerged in Italy. It is clearly a grass-roots movement, and its protests have been small but widespread. The movement is comprised of members of the hard-left and the hard-right, students, pensioners, truck drivers, and farmers. It started in Sicily in 2011 as a response to austerity measures imposed on Italy by the Eu, the IMF, and the European Central Bank, and its rise has been meteoric. A march on Rome is being planned and the already shaky Italian government is in danger of losing its ability to govern.
Location of the Pitchforks protests so far
Bangladesh executed Abdul Quader Mollah for crimes committed during its war for independence in 1971. The execution will deepen the conflict between the ruling Awami League and the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP), a conflict which has rendered Bangladesh weaker in the face of difficult problems. An ally of the BNP is the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), of which Mollah was the assistant secretary general, and everyone fears that the terrorist group will strike back hard against the execution.
Kenya celebrated fifty years of independence. Just as his father did, Uhuru Kenyatta addressed crowds at midnight, and called upon the world to recognize, finally, African independence and equality. The drive for independence in the 1950s was a bloody struggle, and many Kenyans believe that Britain has not yet faced up to its crimes against the Kenyan people. The damage colonialism caused can never be undone or repaired; the honest recognition of the damage is, however, a necessary precondition for moving forward.
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