Call Me a Sardine— Italy’s anti-Fascist, anti-Hate Response to Matteo Salvini’s League Party

Barbara Castleton, M.A.
4 min readDec 20, 2019
https://www.giornaledibrescia.it/brescia-e-hinterland/le-sardine-bresciane-crescono-ora-devono-stabilire-che-fare-1.3429405

Wearing a fish placard as a crown, google eyes to the right, finned tail to the left, one demonstrator among 35,000 in Rome Saturday, December 14th, spoke up, saying, “People were looking for someone to start this, and so many people wanted to say, ‘Enough’, ‘Enough to this way of doing politics… ”’

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Barbara Castleton, M.A.

Writer, teacher, seasonal ex-pat— my life is both an intentional and serendipitous circumstance. Mottos — “Buy the ticket, and go!” “Offer help where you can.”