Purple people
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The Purple People are an Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 mass protest movement who are calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi , also known as Il Cavaliere – from knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977 – is an Italian politician and businessman who served three terms as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is also the...

. The movement is dissaffected with mainstream Italian politics, and identify themselves at demonstrations and rallies by wearing items of the colour purple
Purple
Purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue, and is classified as a secondary color as the colors are required to create the shade....

, chosen because it is not associated with any major Italian political party. The group originated in October 2009 when a group of bloggers organised demonstrations using word of mouth, twitter
Twitter
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 and Facebook
Facebook
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, culminating in No Berlusconi day
No Berlusconi day
No Berlusconi Day was a spontaneous mass political event organised by the Purple people and held worldwide on December 5th 2009. The protest was organized almost entirely trough the Internet...

on 5 December 2009. Since then, thousands of people have attended several subsequent rallies.
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