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Protest against U.S. military base expansion plans * Series of anti-capitalist protests planned By Ian Simpson VICENZA, Italy, July 4 (Reuters) - Anti-G8 demonstrators gathered on Saturday in an Italian city which is home to a contested U.S. military base in the first big protest ahead of next week's summit of the world's richest nations. Organisers expect 10,000 people to attend the demonstration in the northeastern city of Vicenza, launched to protest against expansion plans that would make the U.S. base one of the biggest in Europe, and more generally against the July 8-10 G8 summit which Italy chairs this year. "What we have here is a democracy of the people. At the G8, you've got eight powers that want to govern by imposing their will. That's not democracy," Marco Palma, a spokesman for the protesters, told Reuters.... [read full story]
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