A thousand trunks in Rome's Piazza del Popolo: the demonstration today to support the show

One thousand trunks in the streets of Rome today, at 5 p.m. in Piazza del Popolo, to demonstrate on behalf of the entertainment industry, which has been severely affected by anti-Covid restrictions. “The goal,” organizers let organizers know, “is to reiterate the urgency of structural and ongoing support for businesses and especially for workers, many of whom are self-employed or on atypical contracts.” The timid reopenings granted as of April 26 in the yellow zones convince operators little, and are not seen as the solution to the problems: it will still be a matter of working amidst a thousand difficulties. What is needed, according to the operators in the sector, is to have the ability to plan and rely on protocols that allow for safe and stable reopenings, without false starts.

Then there are several demands that the Bauli in Piazza movement is launching to the government, specifically the immediate establishment of a fund to be disbursed in monthly solutions to all entertainment and events workers, both discontinued and VAT parcels, covering the period January-December 2021, to ensure a minimum threshold of income continuity; immediate economic support for companies in the supply chain based on annual turnover related to entertainment and events; the immediate scheduling of an inter-ministerial table that, on pre-established parameters, would set the gradual models of restarting the sector, in order to give a prospective vision and entrepreneurial agility; the immediate scheduling of an inter-ministerial table that would address the reform of the sector with particular reference to the welfare and assistance of workers.

“The back-and-forth game of the various governments and Minister Franceschini toward our category,” say the organizers, “has the serious responsibility of driving people to despair and then to anger the time for farce is over and so is our patience.”

A thousand trunks in Rome's Piazza del Popolo: the demonstration today to support the show

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