The Subcomandante Marcos (Ezln, Chiapas, Mexico) said in a message to
the greek rebels on december 2008:
"Seven winds in the lower calendars and geographies: first wind, a
worthy and angry youth."
And today at the anti-G8 demonstration in Rome a big banner recited:
"V-Strategy against the G8 from Rome, looking at L'Aquila and at the
World"
36 people were captured at the demonstration held in the Italian capital,
for 10 of them the arrest was confirmed, plus other 5 french citizens
were arrested in L'Aquila for "carrying sticks in their van", the
police declared.
In an article titled V-Strategy, waiting for the leaders of the Earth
the wombles.org.uk website publishes today the following text,
accompanying a call to protest against the G8 in L'Aquila:
On July 8th, 9th and 10th the president-master of the italian
government, Silvio Berlusconi, will host the summit of the "Big
Eight" of the Planet. The summit will take place in the fortress of
a State Police Corps, in Coppito, a town close to L'Aquila, a city
where people and land are still devasted by the earthquake of the
6th of April 2009. The president moved there the summit from its
original destination: a luxury liner off the sardinian coast of La
Maddalena.
Due by the action of this arrogant governor, leader of a speculation
and war system responsible for the crisis, is taking shape an
attempt to validate again the failed global political governance.
The situationist of reaction, Silvio Berlusconi, gives to the "Big"
of the Planet the opportunity to perform a show of "sobriety", as he
called it. A show he would like to be appropriate to face the
growing ostilities and rebellions rising in every corner of the
World against the G8's decisions and dominance.
Behind the pitiful cabaret - set up to take for a walk the highest
political offices of the world, along the tent-camps of the
earthquake's victims - the summit will confirm those decisions and
that dominance: to fund again the financial speculation; to save the
banks; to make labour more precarious and unstable; to reinforce the
security architecture; to implement cooperation among Nations in the
matter of repression; to keep on with the no-border exploitation of
human beings and natural resources and to build up, at the same
time, new frontiers of blood and shame, to appease universities
through control and police.
The G8/G14/G21 is not just taking place on a scene devasted by an
earthquake, whose consequences are worsened by speculation and
social injustice, but it will be held in the middle of a global
crisis, in a period of riots against oppressions bursting at
different latitudes. From the Argentinazo to the revolt in El Alto,
Bolivia; from the Appo, in Oaxaca, Mexico, to the resistance of
indigenous people in Peruvian Amazonia; from the rebellions in the
french banlieues to those of migrant people against the lagers they
live in, and against the deportation systems that work in the
buttres of European Union - as in Ceuta, Melilla, Peloponnese and
Lampedusa; from the recent riots in Greece after the murder of
Alexandros Grigoropoulos - 16 years old, shot dead by the police -
to the protests against the G20 in London - where Ian Thomlison was
murdered by the police too - until the night of the riots in Berlin,
on the first of May, and the Nato meeting in Strasbourg.
The July appointment has been preceded in Italy by a sequence of
campaigns, protests and marches addressed to the highest ministerial
offices and to the lobbies that organized the G8. As in the cases of
the summits on Agriculture and Environment; of the meeting organized
by the chancellors in Torino - ended with a clash between the march
of the students and the repressive police; of the encounter among
the Ministers of Economy in Rome, on March 28th, welcomed by a
demonstration of students, unions and flex workers that succeded in
breaking the prohibition to access to the center of the city; of the
actions on May 29th and 30th in Rome: the one against Oim, the
symbolic occupation of churches, the contacts with the migrant
people inside the Cie (centers of identification and deportation for
immigrants) at Ponte Galeria, and the antiracist and
antisecuritarian march that went all over the streets of the city,
in line with the march in Milan a week before.
On the first of June a national meeting in L'Aquila launched a
call-out for realizing an "extended mobilization" in the name of
"radicality" against the G8. On June 21st, a following meeting drew
up a calendar. Into this frame, the No-G8 network of Rome - a
convergence of different movements of social struggle that organized
the March and May actions reported above - proposes a "Welcoming Day
for the Mighty of the Planet" on July the 7th, when the
international deputations will pass through the italian capital.
Moreover, the No-G8 network proposes to practice a "Map of the
crisis", through actions carried out by affinity groups. A "Map of
the crisis" based on the one sperimented in London during the G20:
decentralized actions in different cities during the days of the
summit - in Italy, in Europe and in the countries belonging to the
"Club of the Mighty".
We, social activists, natives and migrants, flex workers, builders
of independent ways of life, jealous of our sincere and convinced
political independence, anti-capitalists and antifascists as much as
anti-authoritarians and anti-militaristics, anti-racists and
anti-sexists, support the final demonstration in L'Aquila.
In the meantime, we intend to realize during the "Welcoming Day" on
July the 7th, a block of the traffic and of the mobility that, by
combining creative and smartly radical practices, addresses our
worthy rage to obstruct the functionality of the celebrations of the
Mighty of the Planet and of their bankruptcy. Cooperation between
different subjects scares the Crisis rulers, and so we believe in
this interaction as fundamental.
We propose the same to all the no-border networks, movements and
individuals that want to join us. We are going to receive you at the
best of our possibilities, through the resources and the initiatives
of the movement, in the frame of the local features and of the
methods shared by the unitary mobilization in Rome.
We propose again, to all the networks, groups, movements, activists
living in the big cities of the "Club of Mighty" to share a "Map of
the crisis", as much as possible open and global, and to practice it
actively, in a reciprocal communication, during the following days.
We propose to make converge actions in the guiding lines of growth
and continuity, of a protest movement to develop during the months
to come, through the public denunciation and the social siege:
- of the principal responsibles for the crisis and for the
subtraction of income, freedom and rights.
- of the structures belonging to the security architecture.
- of the principal responsibles for precarious labour, for firing,
for death on the job.
- of the centers responsible for the distruction of resources and
life on the planet.
- of the centers responsibles for the aggression against the
material conditions of life.
- of the centers responsibles for the expropriation of social wealth
and knowledge.
With these suggestions and purposes, we are open to an active
political cooperation and to a connection with alternative social
practices. From the July days of the meeting and on.
"Akat qhiparux waranq waranqanakax kutinixa (I'll be back and we'll
be millions) Tupac Katari, 1781
Purple: is, among the colors of the visible spectrum, the one that
has the shortest wave length and the highest frequency, it's the
color of the women's liberation movement, of the sexual self
determination, it's the color of dreams, of metamorphosis, of
transition, of magic, of children's urgency to express themselves.
Purple is the color of slavery too. In England, during the XVI
century, it represented deep mourning; for the candomblé, a
Brasilian religion, it is linked to the Orixà Iansà, Goddes of
Storms; in Lima it is the color of the cult to the Black Christ,
"God of Miracles", venerated by the African slaves, the same on
which the indigenous transferred their devotion for Pachacamac, "He,
who moves the World", God of Earthquakes. During the days of the
protests against the G8, Purple will be our color.
Revenge: It's a strong word that doesn't leave any space. It's
dedicated to the ones who get up in the morning, take a bus, their
car or a motorcycle, get to their workplace and find their
death. It's dedicated to the statistics that count the deaths on
job, statistics longer than the war's ones.
It's dedicated to the people that leave their countries, their
roots, to go and look for a better future, but find borders, walls
and racism: in Italy it is not strange to ear about a shame called
Cie - centers for the identification and deportation of immigrants -
a dull definition to hide what history already knows as lagers.
Our words, our hands, our emotions, our reasons trace the
revenge. It's a collective body that moves along the metropolis. We
turn upon who dispossess us of our life, the same speed that bring
us from a place of exploitation to another, from the uncertainty of
the present to the negation of a future.
Victory: the classical image, the two fingers signing a resistance
that will win. Because it's necessary to desire and pursue a real
and radical change. Victory we are looking for and power we are
struggle against are not birds of a feather.
We want the time they steal from us, the participation they prevent
us from, the voice they stifle, the richness they take away. What
move us is our necessity of new political, economic and social
choices, opposed to a crisis that will reproduce itself endlessly,
to recreate the capital and its dominion.
The kind of victory we are looking for is that of wresting a meter
more, of taking a full breath, of stating that a project of
liberation is feasible. It's the anticapitalist victory we are
trying to reproduce and support. Victories can be little but they
build a way. We are resolute in pursuing it.
This time, and many others again. It will be difficult to stop us.
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