…A sarà dura!

 

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Infoaut.org’s editorial comment (The No Tav square warms the heart):

A political success!

It is difficult to evaluate the outcome of this new day of struggle by the No Tav movement otherwise – and maybe not only of the No Tav movement, if it is true that this struggle now represents and embodies all the claims of struggle and otherness against a system only made of great unnecessary works, great corruption, lack of future, and false promises.

The bet was as important as arduous: to mobilize beyond the boundaries of Val Susa, on a difficult case, the defense of four youths of the movement from an exaggerated charge of “terrorism” – without recanting but, on the opposite, reclaiming the practice of sabotage.

The success is given by more than 20.000 people, who took the streets with the awareness of what this action meant. The greatness of the day lies in the numbers and in the heterogeneous, wide and differentiated composition, whose militant components were a minority. The No Tav movement and tens of comrades built an appointment that was filled by a significant representation of that active and conscious part of the current Italian society. A proof that, once again, antagonist components and coherent movements can mobilize significant numbers, propose an agenda and be more recognized as subjects than the institutional gospel truth.

The counterpart tried it all: blatant criminalization, scaremongering, gratings, securitarian dispositifs and the setup of a no-go area that sequestered a considerable part of the city, that one delimited by the Tribunal-new regional administration building-new Porta Susa station boundary; rampant media terrorism, helicopters and militarization of the territory since the last few days. To get to corso Francia from piazza Adriano meant to cross a part of the city already emptied by the police department and the media. Beyond that, it was possible to start meeting the citizens, that watched the march, applauded and beefed up an already packed demonstration.

The city of Turin today made a good show of itself and stood up for it, supporting an as harsh as righteous battle. A proof that the perseverance and determination of 20 years of struggle start to be acknowledged; and maybe a proof that the composition of the May Day demonstration in the city, and the police violence too, compelled many people to get back on the streets to say that things cannot go on like this. The delegations coming from outside the city were nice, determined and important, too: Milan, Genoa, Bologna, Tuscany, Rome…

It has been a day that warms the heart, cements beliefs and makes it possible to plan new leaps forwards. It was a demonstration of dignity and pride, against whoever wants us to hang our heads and accept a world whose sole motto seems to be the Thatcherite “there is no alternative” one and the newly, Renzi-fostered, one: “we must be competitive”. Today the No Tav movement, many militants and a dignified city once again proved that it is possible and mandatory to say and be something else!

Once again, against the powers that be. The police department reported 2000 people being there, the Repubblica daily some thousands people. How gross…and what a nerve! We remember the words of Niccolò’s mother. ” I Am proud of being the mother of my son, I am proud of being a part of your history!”

There is nothing more to say… we prepare ourselves to greet and encourage Chiara, Mattia, Niccolò, and Claudio for the beginning of the trial. For what concerns us, strong of having many comrades on our side, we embark on a new adventure, in order to build participation to the European summit on youth employment on next July 11.

#civediamolundici (# let’s meet on [July] 11)