RIGNANO GARGANICO, Italy - After crossing half of Africa and surviving a perilous boat trip from Libya in search of a better life in Italy, Boubacar Bailo is now contemplating suicide.
One of an army of illegal immigrants hired to harvest tomatoes in the Puglia region, Bailo squats in a fetid cardboard shack restlessly waiting for a call to the fields.
Every year thousands of immigrants, many from Africa, flock to the fields and orchards of southern Italy to scrape a living as seasonal workers picking grapes, olives, tomatoes and oranges.
It's the slogan of the citizens committees that have formed in the central
Italian city of L'Aquila, hit by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on April 6, 2009.
And it was on display for world leaders during the G8 summit being held
just outside the city in an area off limits to the local people.
