Demostration of workers

I'm sorry to bring on the social-political arguments but, I think there are some points to think about lately.
Today there was a demonstration of workers at the airport from 8 to 11am. I work at 3pm so I went. The demonstration is a protest against Aviapartner, one of the 3 handling companies in the Bologna airport, that will close it's office here in Bologna leaving jobless some 70 workers: check-in agents, weight and balance agents, ramp agents and loading teams. The offices will be closed in days and still nobody knows where those 70 people will go.
Now the thing is that the Airlines they give service to will keep on fly from and to Bologna Airport, so that somebody will have to give services to them. Aviapartner serves KLM, Airfrance, Malev, Spanair and other charter airlines... meaning a good slice of the traffic in this airport. At today we still don't know if Marconi Handling (the one I work for) or Bas (the other handling companies in the airport) will gain those airlines meaning they will also need more employees to give the right services = they will hire those 70 jobless left home by Aviapartner.
So we protested with slogans, whistles and billboards. We were not more than a hundred and we were allowed only to protest and not stop flights or such... we just wanted to inform passengers and public opinion of what it's happening in the airport.
Usually passengers complain about long lines, lost baggages, poor services and delays, but sounds like they don't know that if there are only 2 check-in agents to check-in 200 passengers in 2 hours, and if passengers arrive 1 hour prior departure, it is really difficult that the flight will be able to leave in perfect time and that all baggages (that have to go throught the security checks and x-ray and then sorted out over different carts and then all the way to the aircraft and loaded over it) will get into the right aircraft. It is stupid to think that everything can work perfectly with few workers doing the job of a lot others left home.
So I was distributing leaflets to the passengers standing in line for the Airfrance check-in with a big smile, trying to explain our presence there. We were not stopping the check-in... we were just shouting slogans... when a woman crumpled up the leaflets I just gave her and throw it to me shouting that I had to go clean my ass with it... and that she has been waiting 3 years for this flight and that I am an asshole who is disturbing her vacation. Of course I was shaken but I calmly replied her that it was more than 3 years that I do not take a vacation and that I was simply trying to let her know what it is happening to 70 persons who have families and will be jobless in some days... and then the tension rised and other collegues started yelling at her and she yelling at them and a big caos came out of it... I just tried to tell her I wanted her solidarity and that being jobless it's nothing to wish for and that we were there protesting for a future better service for her and other passengers but she replied I have to go to manure a field because this is the only thing that parassites like us are worth for.
I did not replied except for 'I wish you miss your vacation for other 3 years' phrase that skipped out loud from my month.
Now the thing is: I am not in the 70 who will be jobless in days and some of them will probably be hired by Marconi handling meaning that, since I still have a short term contract, I may be left home at the end of my contract because they will take 'my place' and those of other 40some seasonal workers like me. But I was there protesting because I think that it is my duty to do so... because I know what it is to be jobless and because nobody should suffer this condition.
I give simpathy to those who have less and I wish I could protest against unequity more often.
But I tell you... that lady yelling at me and looking at me like if I was a shit really hurted me. It is so unbelievable to me to understand that people around me does not shows any solidarity to us but wish for us the worst.
After the intervention of the police and other verbal accuses flying around, the protest finished at 11 and I took my bike back home. Of course I was crying... but the thing that I don't know how to fight is this sense of defeat, of being left to ones chances... sense of being alone, lonely in this big world... where loving persons should live together to SHARE this humanity, to joy for the gift of life we received and to join together for a better life. And yet only bad words and hate and indifference and apathy surrounds me.
I believe we can change this attitude, I believe I can live in a better world, I believe another world is possible... I only need the strenght to fight for it.
... but it is this 'fight' word I don't want to use... is this building differences I don't think it's right.