19o: Final Statement from the acampada assembly in Porta Pia
The movements which brought to life yesterday’, culminated in a siege against the Austerity palaces and the Porta Pia acampada, have gathered today to confront themselves within a plenary assembly to which they participaeted with hundreds of people.
All interventions highlighted a mobilization which, despite mainstream media criminalization and oscurantism, turned out to be a complete success, bringing together more than 70 000 people as testimonies of precarity with their composite, mestizo determination. The goal of reclaiming the square and advance popular dissent, behalf of all those ones who are paying the price of the crisis, has been achieved. From now on struggles to reclaim housing, income, knowledge, spaces, and timing, can only grow bigger and stronger. This path which converged here after taking off from the territories and the cities around the country, shall now continue without a stop until everything will be changed. The assembly has also saluted the Anonymous initiatives which, as the siege gained consistency throughout the streets of Rome, have once again projected social conflict in the web – declaring the TANGODOWN on the websites of those ministries and institutions we were contesting.
In rejecting any attempt of division between the good ones and the evil ones, Porta Pia square has strongly affirmed that the anger from yesterday was a mestizo one. The rage of those who every day have their rights denied, cannot be approached in terms of public order and courtrooms.
At the moment we know of 2 women and 4 men under detention, who are being followed up by a legal support team – they have already visited the 6 today but we do not yet know a possible validation of the arrest. We would also like to point out the gravity of the stay away orders issued against 5 activists from the “” movement of Florence, who were prevented from join protest they had been working together with the rest of us.
The assembly has reiterated those same propositions advanced to the Government during the week prior to the march, summed up by the slogan “One only great : house and salary for everybody”
Briefly: a general arrest of all eviction orders, of outletting public properties, and a plan for public housing policies; a no to great , starting from the TAV railway in the Susa Valley; the cancellation of the Bossi-Fini Law and the recognition of full citizenship for immigrants and refugees.
The offer Minister of Infrastructures Lupi to meet the movements has been positively received as a successful outcome of the great 19O day and of the struggles against evictions, although it partially those points we raised.
Therefore we have decided to maintain this acampada in front of the Ministry of Infrastructures, promoting a new day of action in all cities on Tuesday the 22nd of October at 5 during the meeting
Another common appointment is that of the roundtable on the right to residency ANCI has called for on the 24th, 25th and 26th of October in Florence, with the participation of Deputy Prime Minister Alfano. That will be an occasion to gather again as an assembly of the #19O movements. A new plenary meeting of all movements is now scheduled for the 9th and 10th of November: it’s there that new propositions for initiatives, of conflict challenges and transformation of the status-quo will be made.
The richness and diversity which animated the 19th of October march are extraordinary and surprising. Many were expecting devastations which never took place. Now they stare in disbelief to an acampada which, by starting from fundamental issues such as right to housing and income, can only be embraceed.
This is why we are sitting in, in front of the Minist of Infrastructure, with our tents and our contents. And we invite the citizens of Rome to support it.
We repeat that next Tuesday we will give no truce to Minister Lupi. Our request to block evictions is not negotiable. And either is negotiable the re- of public resources to sponsor a housing plan worth of this name – resources w into great construction works such as the TAV railway or the EXPO event.
The powerful energy expressing itself yesterday in the square of and siege against the Austerity Palaces says that there is no way back.
Freedom for everybody!
Slightly modified version of the translation by annalenadg
The movements which brought to life yesterday’, culminated in a siege against the Austerity palaces and the Porta Pia acampada, have gathered today to confront themselves within a plenary assembly to which they participated with hundreds of people.
All interventions highlighted a mobilization which, despite mainstream media criminalization and oscurantism, turned out to be a complete success, bringing together more than 70 000 people as testimonies of precarity with their composite, mestizo determination. The goal of reclaiming the square and advance popular dissent, behalf of all those ones who are paying the price of the crisis, has been achieved. From now on struggles to reclaim housing, income, knowledge, spaces, and timing, can only grow bigger and stronger. This path which converged here after taking off from the territories and the cities around the country, shall now continue without a stop until everything will be changed. The assembly has also saluted the Anonymous initiatives which, as the siege gained consistency throughout the streets of Rome, have once again projected social conflict in the web – declaring the TANGODOWN on the websites of those ministries and institutions we were contesting.
In rejecting any attempt of division between the good ones and the evil ones, Porta Pia square has strongly affirmed that the anger from yesterday was a mestizo one. The rage of those who every day have their rights denied, cannot be approached in terms of public order and courtrooms.
At the moment we know of 2 women and 4 men under detention, who are being followed up by a legal support team – they have already visited the 6 today but we do not yet know a possible validation of the arrest. We would also like to point out the gravity of the stay away orders issued against 5 activists from the “” movement of Florence, who were prevented from join protest they had been working together with the rest of us.
The assembly has reiterated those same propositions advanced to the Government during the week prior to the march, summed up by the slogan “One only great : house and salary for everybody”
Briefly: a general arrest of all eviction orders, of outletting public properties, and a plan for public housing policies; a no to great , starting from the TAV railway in the Susa Valley; the cancellation of the Bossi-Fini Law and the recognition of full citizenship for immigrants and refugees.
The offer Minister of Infrastructures Lupi to meet the movements has been positively received as a successful outcome of the great 19O day and of the struggles against evictions, although it partially those points we raised.
Therefore we have decided to maintain this acampada in front of the Ministry of Infrastructures, promoting a new day of action in all cities on Tuesday the 22nd of October at 5 during the meeting
Another common appointment is that of the roundtable on the right to residency ANCI has called for on the 24th, 25th and 26th of October in Florence, with the participation of Deputy Prime Minister Alfano. That will be an occasion to gather again as an assembly of the #19O movements. A new plenary meeting of all movements is now scheduled for the 9th and 10th of November: it’s there that new propositions for initiatives, of conflict challenges and transformation of the status-quo will be made.
The richness and diversity which animated the 19th of October march are extraordinary and surprising. Many were expecting devastations which never took place. Now they stare in disbelief to an acampada which, by starting from fundamental issues such as right to housing and income, can only be embraceed.
This is why we are sitting in, in front of the Minist of Infrastructure, with our tents and our contents. And we invite the citizens of Rome to support it.
We repeat that next Tuesday we will give no truce to Minister Lupi. Our request to block evictions is not negotiable. And either is negotiable the re- of public resources to sponsor a housing plan worth of this name – resources w into great construction works such as the TAV railway or the EXPO event.
The powerful energy expressing itself yesterday in the square of and siege against the Austerity Palaces says that there is no way back.
Freedom for everybody!
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