In the early hours of the morning police surrounded the Spazio Popolare Neruda, the building that was occupied a couple of weeks ago by about thirty families under eviction, in order to proceed with the eviction. About thirty people, among which ten little children or so, were inside the building – a former school that […]
Now, after the break of the negotiations with the Troika and the calling of the referendum on the terms of the so-called “agreement” (i.e. diktat), some results and elements of reflection are already evident, regardless of the outcome. The first is that there is a certain loser: leftist Europeism, of those saying “a bad European […]
The number of camping/resisting people on the reef looks to be short of tens of people each day, but it is difficult to give an even vaguely right number. It keeps being a significant one, of about a hundred people. The local and national media – the first ones being an expression of the interest […]
Saturday, June 20 h 2pm Piazza della Stazione Ventimiglia through which we believe there is an urgency to raise, beside the fundamental humanitarian issue (featuring hundreds of people that have been undertaking a thousand different solidarity actions for days), the political problem that, tragedy after tragedy, abuse after abuse, stands at its core. We publish […]
Samedi 20 juin 14h Place de la gare Vintimille nous croyons il qu’y a l’urgence de soulever, à côté de la fondamentale question humanitaire (qui voit tous les jours des gens se prodiguer avec des actes de solidarités), le problème politique qui, tragédie après tragédie, vexation après vexation, en est à sa base. […]
About a voter out of two did not go to the polls for electing regional governors: this trend steadily consolidated through the years, with a net 10% average voters’ loss in comparison to previous elections (2010) and expresses a rising discontent about the Italian ruling class, and its forms of representation and cronyism. There are […]
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 […]