At about 7am, as small groups of blacklegs were trying to access the warehouses escorted by their gangers, a squad of a tensome drivers and blacklegs, headed by a SDA supervisor and an owner, attacked the picked with extensible batons, bottles and helmets. The two cars of the police flying squad, that were already on […]
Transformations of the social reality depend on a mix of factors which render partial any unequivocal determination. To come to terms with the unshakeable uneasiness of the human world, in the contemporary critical geography, one often refers to a phenomenon of “turbulence”. Such terminology, which in the scientific lexicon indicates the wild and whirling flows […]
Dans l’ensemble, cette présence a su exprimer avec force le refus d’une ville modelée autour de l’Expo, renversant fermement cette “valorisation du terroir” dont se gargarisent les patrons de la nourriture. Elle a réussi à compromettre l’Expo-isation de la ville qui prétendait même délimiter l’espace d’expression politique de celleux qui s’opposent au modèle de développement […]
The First of May in Milan gives us a multi-faceted day. The first fundamental fact to realize is that those tens of thousands of people who took to the strees represent a social spectrum which cannot be co-opted by mainstream politics and party representation. Overall, these presences managed to strongly express the refutation of a […]
Während die Zahlen der Ankünfte und der Toten im Mittelmeer und an den sizilianischen Küsten stetig wachsen (ungefähr 1200 allein in der vergangenen Nacht, mehr als 5000 in den letzten vier Tagen) ist heute Morgen in Palermo im Viertel Ballarò – Albergheria etwas Emblematisches vorgefallen, das uns nur zum Nachdenken anregen kann. In einem Viertel […]
His lawyers and friends tell that he is well and that receives and reads with glee the lots of letters of solidarity that are arriving from Italy and England – though, sadly, his stay in jail will last longer. Actually, on last April 9, the judge rejected the request of release brought by the defense, […]
True horror has the strength to annihilate the capacity of expression of who suffers from its impact. It is a relation with grief that leaves us speechless and makes it impossible for us to contextualise an event. The political sphere sounds immediately obscene and false, and the only human reaction seems that of pure empathy, […]
After seven years of crisis the precarious pride has become rage and indignation against the burgeoning unemployment and the growth of poverty imposed by BCE & IMF to most of the population with austerity policies, particularly in Italy, Greece and the rest of the Latin Europe. Social slaughter, plunder of wealth and common goods, the end of the public city […]
In the many rebel and mestizo squares, packed with thousands of men and women that organize themselves in order to resist the crisis, the call “One great work only: house and income for everyone!” was strongly echoed. It is not a slogan but a practice that lives in the anti-eviction pickets, in the defense from […]
As the Lupi minister himself was forced to resign after his associate Ettore Incalza – a longtime state manager which did supervise great unnecessary works’ projects such as the TAV high-speed railway – was prosecuted for corruption, a second march of dignity approaches in Bologna and other initiatives are developing in other cities, to reaffirm […]