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Domenica 18 Marzo 2012 16:11
PRESS RELEASE WRITTEN BY THE 12 PRISONERS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT OF THE PRISON OF SALUZZO, TORINO (ITALY)
Italian original version of the appeal here For the kind attention of the Media, We are the prisoners in solitary confinement of the prison of Saluzzo (Turin) and we would like to acquaint you with the situation we are forced to live in. We are all defendants awaiting trial (and therefore only under investigation) and, despite that, we are locked in a solitary confinement section. The jail administration says that we (we are 12 inmates) are not in solitary…
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Giovedì 23 Febbraio 2012 17:55
The waning article 18
Between the Freudian pronouncements of Walter Veltroni [ideologue of the ‘centre left’ opposition Democratic Party] and the statements by Monti [The appointed technocratic Prime Minister] regarding the reform of the labour market, which will be undertaken with or without the consent of the unions, article 18 [the article in the Italian constitution that should guarantee the minimum conditions of wage workers, most importantly protection from unfair dismissal] is on its death bed. On the inside of the modern technical composition…
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Mercoledì 15 Febbraio 2012 17:17
Letter from jail by Giorgio
English translation of the letter sent from jail by Giorgio Rossetto, one of the arrested people in the No-Tav judicial inquiry [thanks to Lorenzo for the translation]. Dear comrades,On the morning of Thursday the 9th I was moved from the temporary holding cells to a solitary confinement division of the prison with other detainees. I don't want to succumb to the complaining that afflicts the other inmates; instead I will merely describe the reality of my situation. It is a…
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Martedì 07 Febbraio 2012 13:14
The Occupy Movement in Bologna challenges president Giorgio Napolitano
On 30 January 2012 the Occupy Movement in Bologna - alongside with the universitary and secondary-school CUA and CAS students' collectives and the Laboratorio Occupato Crash autonomous social centre - promoted a day of action against the government's austerity measures and the awarding, by the local University, of an honorary degree in International Relations to Giorgio Napolitano - Italy's President. Far from being an impartial figurehead, Napolitano was actually responsible for a number of outrageous developments in the Italian political…
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Sabato 04 Febbraio 2012 22:16
Why we’re not afraid of the pitchforks
Original article here Translated by ItalyCalling (@ItalyCalling) The 5 day-strike announced by the pitchfork movement is over; but the struggle against the crisis and the blackmail of debt has finally reached the souls of those living on Sicilian lands, and large parts of the movement have announced their will to carry on the protests. Today a big demonstration of more than 1000 students in Palermo is more evidence of the sympathy and complicity of the urban areas with the struggle…
Sabato 28 Gennaio 2012 16:48
Interview with the occupants of Starbucks in Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
Original article here Occupiers' Manifesto here Interview with the Starbucks occupants at Istanbul Boğaziçi University from our correspondent in Istanbul Josef Yusuf The occupation of Starbucks at the public Boğaziçi University has been going on for over a month and was at the beginning a struggle for clean, healthy and inexpensive food on the campus and for free student certificates and shuttle buses. Has these demands been met and has the occupation produced new needs and desires? Çiçek: Our demands…
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Venerdì 20 Gennaio 2012 23:50
The lobbies of copyright flee. Netwar, final showdown?
Original article in Italian SOPA and PIPA "undermine the internet's fundamental architecture" professor James Boyle of Duke University said. And he is certainly right. Not by chance yesterday Massimo Gaggi on the Corriere della Sera reported the sarcasm of Chinese newspapers towards the implementation of the censorious barriers entailed by the approval of these bills. There is little space for rejoicing, to say it all. If by any (unlikely) mean the Stop Piracy Online Act and the Protect IP…
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Giovedì 24 Novembre 2011 14:49
From the occupied Faculty of Humanities, Bologna
Translated by Italy Calling. Fourth year of the crisis: the Autumn of The Struggles is building up. First the huge international day of struggle on October 15 called by the Spanish indignados; then November 11, promoted by the American Occupy movement: a second, fundamental stage of the mobilisations against the elites of global finance. “Eat the rich”, “We are the 99%”, “Occupy everywhere” are some of the slogans that have echoed throughout the world. In Italy, 20 years of…
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Sabato 22 Ottobre 2011 12:49
Occupy Rome 15 October 2011
Translation by Italy Calling As we write the helicopters still hover above us in the sky and the smoke from the barricades can be seen rising through the buildings of the city centre. Rome is burning! The day of the indignados isn't finished yet, revolts are still carrying on throughout the city. In the meantime, the political elite – which didn't get the confidence vote of the enraged Roman people – is busy criminalising a whole day of extraordinary struggle,…
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