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Protests in the world: the line that binds it

Stories and News No. 920 Today's strike in Italy and many protest, but, lifting our gaze across the border, people have also raised in Ethiopia , where 1500 were arrested, in Congo , where the so-called security forces shot, burned, beaten and killed at least 45 civilians, and also in the Philippines two days ago, where the police used a van to disperse the alleged troublemakers. There are other worlds besides this. I like to think that, sometimes, when things get too ugly to be looked at. I have to do, when I am not even able to imagine. Of strikes and protests, for example. Strikes and protests one of them is woven of. A spherical world, as the best known should be, but much less regular. Hard stuff to draw, in fact. Part of that convoluted table of illegal forms, called by the experts of freedom, the geometry of awkward shapes . It is a strange world to draw, I agree, but if you happen to grasp, even casually, the right end of the rope, you just have to follow th...