Around twenty people set up a stall and petitioned shoppers in Bristol's Broadmead today. Condemnations of police violence met with a warm reception, as shoppers made the connections between privatisation of health & education in Bristol, the video of the Wakefield copper assaulting an individual, and the brutal response of the Italian state to valid protest. Resistance is fertile for the growth of a really deep mass movement - Genoa is a turning point,as the very tiny number who slagged off the protesters illustrates.Most sympathise, as they did after the poll tax riot. And Thatcher hit the deck I think three months later; knifed in the back because she was provoking too much opposition. This time, Fini - and Berlusconi next. Direct action works.