GIAGLIONE, Italy — Thousands of protesters marched against a planned high-speed train line in northern Italy on Sunday as police turned out in force fearing rioting by militants and hooligans.
Hundreds of women led the peaceful procession from Giaglione to a construction site in the Susa Valley near Turin, wielding wire-cutters aimed at cutting through barriers erected around the controversial site.
But their hopes of doing so were dashed by some 1,700 Italian security forces encircling the site at a wide radius, acting on a threat Saturday by anarchists and other hardcore militants to join the protest.
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Thousands protest in Italy against high-speed train
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, Oct 27 2011 09:02 AM
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Posted 08 November 2011 - 12:18 AM
According to Google Translate, NIMBY in Italian is "Non nel mio cortile." Closer to home, in Spanish it's "No en mi patio trasero."
I wonder if there are colloquialisms in either language that would make decent acronyms...
I wonder if there are colloquialisms in either language that would make decent acronyms...
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Posted 21 December 2011 - 03:07 PM
In Italian, it might get abbreviated to NONEMICO.According to Google Translate, NIMBY in Italian is "Non nel mio cortile." Closer to home, in Spanish it's "No en mi patio trasero."
I wonder if there are colloquialisms in either language that would make decent acronyms...
For Spanish, it might come out as NEMPTRA.
I don't know if either one is actually used, though.
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Posted 15 July 2012 - 09:54 PM
In the transports forum that I'm moderator (Forotransportes.com) we use just NIMBY. "NEMPTRA" sounds creepy 
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