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 Tuesday,
September 27. In the archaeological site of La Maddalena is the
silence of a long summer and autumn do not want to surrender. No
visitors to the Neolithic necropolis, no guys with the mattress
of sassisti, those who clamber over the boulders, the boulders.
The Museum is closed, transformed for months in camp for the
troops occupying the square of La Maddalena, who monitor nets and
jersey that close in a grip of the land under the highway.
Wherever rapier and barbed wire to strip, to mark the boundary of
the fort erected into a symbol of the arrogance of the state.
They crushed the grass, cut the trees, made the desert. Inside
are men under arms, police, policemen, financiers, forest Alpine.
Those Digos run car on the dirt and dust lifting curses. Longer
look to see who's who from the woods and the cabin of the No Tav
rebels, keeps an eye on the area, walks, counting tanks, keep the
movements of trucks. For the paths is not unusual to meet the
Cacciatori di Calabria, an elite corp, specialized in raids on
the Sila and Aspromonte. They carry a long knife in a sheath on
his back, often running with the ski mask to avoid recognition.
When you stop someone photographing, the frisk, sometimes seize
gloves, helmets, gas masks, all stuff that there is no law which
prohibits purchase and bring with you. In recent months a lot of
people who had never seen has become familiar with their gas
masks. One evening a lady very nicely showed me the mask I just
bought one of those that cover the whole face, with a large
enclosure for filters. He invited me to try to see if you could
wear with glasses. Stuff out of this world but not in Susa
Valley: here speaking of masks, gas, nets cut is normal
resistance. You do not need emphasis: you must do and do it. Not
you can not go, not the destruction can afford. It is no longer
just a matter of environment for a long time has become the
challenge of those who fight for the public interest against the
arrogance of someone who wants to impose by force a useless,
dangerous, expensive construction.
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Barricade
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They want to scare us
The game on the high speed line between Turin and Lyon became
heavier each day. At stake is an entire system, a system
developed and oiled for years, friends of friends to ensure to
the right and left, a safe and legal plunder. The high-speed
lines built in our country have been the backbone of the
post-Tangentopoli: an elegant and simple way to dodge all the
obstacles, without the risk that a pushy judge put in trouble the
whole clique of cronies. Laws target sites of strategic interest,
general contractors were some of the tools used to cement a safe
system of drainage of public money for very private purposes. A
system that works because it is good to all, there is a niche for
everyone at the table. A system that no one can afford to blow. A
system that the movement against Lyon Turin has made transparent,
revealing the mechanisms, opening cracks, building a popular
resistance to which many look. Only the strength of a movement
that does not give in to the lobby prevents bipartisan TAV to
divide the pie of 22 billion euros. The government's strategy is
clear: to conceal the reasons for the No TAV fight, declining in
the category of public movement that does not regulate to the
sound of blows and gas. The stakes go far beyond the deal Tab On
the plate is the disciplining of a movement that has become a
point of reference for the many who are fighting to safeguard the
territory against the squandering of public money for very
private purposes. A movement with roots and radical, able to
govern themselves, hold, holding fast to its own challenge in
years. The TAV propaganda tried to criminalize and split the
movement. The best pens are dedicated to the company to invent
rifts between the No Tav among local inhabitants and subversive
coming from outside. The movement, despite the great diversity of
approaches and assessments, the sender was able to repel any
attempt to discriminate between good and evil, violent and
nonviolent. The police - as called for by the regional Bonino
since May, has no limits of engagement. Except, perhaps, to avoid
direct contact with the demonstrators. There are countless more
injured by tear gas shells, many bearing signs on the body of
shots fired at eye level on a regular basis. They want to be
afraid. Even if everyone in the face of armed police and arrogant
singing "Fear does not have the Susa Valley," the fear
is, and how if any. However, despite the heart in my mouth,
people always comes back on the trails, aware of risking health
and freedom. It comes and it goes again, day after day.
Newspapers write that under the pylons of the A32 is the site of
the Table in the three months of employment the only workers who
have seen have opened and placed on the fences, then disappeared.
The propaganda on the Tav leading work has been reduced to a
handful of money to companies Segusini, Italcoge and Martina, two
companies boiled and in the odor of 'Ndrangheta, which with
dubious race were assigned the work of building the site.
Meanwhile Italcoge is still failed. This afternoon in late
September suddenly a noise breaks the silence. We see a bulldozer
that runs between the networks, load a bit 'of land and move
about ten feet away, we are distant and do not understand why. We
will know then that RAI had just arrived to pick up the special
commissioner for the Turin Lyon, head of the observatory as well
as technical, Mario Virano, in place of the scam.
Among a garrison and an
action
In the same hour, in Paris, the Italian government and the
French, sign yet another agreement for cost sharing of the work
is international. Italy 57.9%, the rest to France. In the middle
of the tunnel-monster of 57 km between Susa and St. Jean de
Maurienne, that LTF, the general contractor work, defines a line
of plain-made mountain. The mountain is a giant of 3500 meters,
the Ambin, somewhere in the 50s the iron mines closed because the
workers were dying like flies. Much later you will understand
why: the Ambin was rich in uranium. Handle uranium is good for
health, so do children. Virano, architect devoted to political
undergrowth, was called by the government in the aftermath of the
revolt of 2005, when the popular uprising in the Susa Valley
forced Berlusconi to make a fast reverse. It was December 10:
Turin to Venaus the situation had become unmanageable. Wherever
barricades, roadblocks, people who are preparing to blow up the
Winter Olympics, which would begin in February 2010. The
constitution of the board of mediation and technical policy
allowed the government to take the time to try to break the front
of No TAV, blowing up the alliance between movement and local
institutions. A job in six years has done very little. Only a few
mayors have passed - indeed very timidly - on the front is the
word Table, after years of negotiations and Vaseline and then
return to arms. In spring, the European Commissioner Siim Kallas
to transport threatened to withdraw EU funds for the Torino Lyon
if the yard had not been opened. Thrown off the table
administrators No Tav, everything was fine. Except, of course, a
particularly annoying, but not negligible, as the wide popular
opposition, rooted in the firm decision to get in the way of
trying to block the start of work. It took a month and a half to
launch an attack to occupy the area. From 22 May, the day of the
first feeble attempt to place the fences, to June 27, when
hundreds and hundreds of men in the service state of disorder,
have raided the barricades that protected the Free Republic of
the La Maddalena. After the occupation was followed by months of
resistance, almost daily, with law enforcement initiatives,
information and protest. Among a garrison and an action, there
were meetings, meetings of committees, more or less formal
discussions between a pasta cooked in a cabin and a tour of the
vineyards. It discusses the future of the long fall that awaits
us, the choices to make. The government has carefully chosen the
place to launch an attack, a remote area, difficult to achieve,
where you can gassing in war and then tell the No Tav are
violent. Have been shown to have learned the lesson of 2005. Have
focused on gas and fences. A prosecutor's strict compliance
"Democratic" as Caselli took on the task of
distributing hundreds of complaints, dozens of papers, order
house searches and arrests. The government fears a revolt which
spread from Turin upper valley, fearing a repeat of the 2005
scenarios. If a barricade is located in each country, if the
blocks are multiplied, the situation becomes unmanageable. The
troops and the violence may not be enough anymore, because
dealing with social issues such as public business is easy, as
long as the dissent, however broad, is concentrated in the siege
to the fort of La Maddalena. At this time the risks are two: to
isolate La Maddalena in a siege on the military level, we can
only lose the illusion that you are only playing the game there.
Or who wants to blow the fight on a mere witness, delegating the
umpteenth box of the “commons” No TAV representation of
instances, No Debt, No incinerator ... Still a “movement of
movements” for today as ten years ago, to drown in molasses,
the social forum in the illusion that the system is reformed from
the bottom. Today the challenge is to get out the funnel which
has pushed the government, widening the conflict, by multiplying
the blocks, playing on the surprise, throwing playing cards of
wanted by Maroni and his. Some signals have already been there.
From Cacerolazos to the hotels to block the police station. Flush
out the troops from La Maddalena is possible. But not enough
sieges. It should be a little
'everywhere, disrupting the military and political apparatus
built by the government.
We have been hunted, but
we're still here
The grass in
the picnic area has grown back. Green, strong, invincible, which
hides the signs of Tracked on July 3 they roam up and down,
swallowing the last cs shells, poison gas fired dozens of times
against those who tried to challenge the occupation, to damage
the nets. The Jersey and barbed wire surround a stranglehold on
the lawn, the square, the tombs of the Neolithic. Behind, like
caged animals, the police move. Getting here every time makes the
heart sick: the memory of long days at the Free Republic, where a
new project between the barricade and the discussion on food,
shifts, we talked for long hours in the world today and we would
like. A community strong. Made of Susa and people from outside,
made of all those who know that freedom is not begging but you
take. We have been hunted, but we are still here. In this square
we saw play children and grandchildren, we remembered those who
have left us over the years, the flag with the train cross on the
coffin. People like Raoul, that one day he gave up his home in
Meana and moved to the presidium of Venaus: Before you put that
on a hut sleeping in a tent, every day you get up early to get
where he was a worker at Mirafiori. One you could not like him to
label, fled schemes. As the movement No Tav A beautiful chestnut
and strong is full of curls. We give away to the police and they
have paid off. One day we will return and those networks there
will be no more.
Maria Matteo
The darkness and the network
Wednesday,
August 31, in front of the gate that blocks access to the streets
of Havana. We are in the Susa Valley, in Chiomonte. Here
until 1713 he ran the boundary line between the Escarton Oulx and
the Duchy of Savoy. On the main road a stone reminiscent of the
Treaty of Utrecht, which marked the birth of the kingdom of
Sardinia and the end of the autonomy of Escarton Oulx, Pragelato
and Casteldefino. On the other side of the valley until a few
years ago there was the Tower of Holies, where the duty is paid.
It was destroyed by work on the highway. A few meters from the
ancient border in the months of May and June was erected
barricades that protected one of the Free Republic of the La
Maddalena. In the latter days of summer, the roar of the
guardrail struck by stones and sticks echoes through the valley,
witnessing a tenacious will to not give up, to continue the
resistance. Next to me there are two children between seven and
ten years. Canottierina blue stone in his hand and beat the
rhythm serious serious. It is not a game. Or maybe yes. It is the
only game worth playing, that of freedom, the dignity that will
not bend even before the military occupation. While the guardrail
play their music, so many van up the path opened by the No Tav in
the vineyards where it is grown Havana, poisoned by two months of
bombing cs gas, tear gas used to defend the besieged fort to Mary
Magdalene. The harvest is about to begin but the road is closed
by two strong gates manned day and night by armed men. Thus by
June 27, when troops attacked the barricades of the state, gas
fired, they whirl their sticks. Despite the summer holidays, the
fear of the gases that burn the throat and skin, despite the
complaints, the raids, the constant harassment of the occupation
troops, day after day, went on disruptive actions, protests, the
demonstrations. What follows is a chronicle of some of those fast
days.
Barricades
and lights
It all starts May
22. It will be for tonight. The tom-tom sounds of frantic
movement: wherever there are eyes and ears. You go to Chiomonte.
For a few hours chainsaws are making their music. On the road
from Enel leads the archaeological site of La Maddalena falling
trees, piling pieces of guardrail and old sleepers, some rock,
all that is needed to erect the barricade. Only a crescent moon
lights the hundreds of No Tav scattered in the woods, in the
short stretch of dirt road adjacent to the highway. Many shadows
cross solidarity between short gleam of torches. Around three in
the morning the highway is closed to vehicles and troops arrive
and Susa. The majority still remains in the gallery: a lot 'of
stones are poured on the lane, advise against going forward. A
good half hour of slogans, shouting, singing. Then he falls
silent. At about half past four police trucks and leave the
highway. That night did not pass. But we know that will be.
The
long wait
So many nights waiting for the
police attack on the Free Republic of the La Maddalena, many
nights with one eye open and one closed. With the fear that takes
and accelerates the heart, someone with a fear for their playful
and carefree teenage children from a barricade and a game of
cards. Others think age is not greener and ailments, and others
in the eye with a taste for challenge with the powerful who want
to steal and destroy. All were determined to resist. A firm foot.
Bugianen.
Barricades
mobile and nonsense of the press
From
May 24 to 30. We are in the woods of
the Val Clarea. The meeting point is the house built in masonry
construction in the area intended to TAV. The house, pulled up by
masons No TAV between autumn and winter, is situated on a land
bought with the campaign by No TAV "buy a front row seat."
The Free Republic of the La Maddalena is sinking down strong
roots in the earth that men want to destroy the state. Around the
garrison Clarea by the hour tends to multiply, the comings and
goings is continuous. There are those who brings food, those who
drink, those who work to strengthen the defenses. A lot of
people. Young and young and old. Different people in history,
political and social paths, way of dressing and speaking. Clarea
to blend the many differences that are the wealth of a movement,
which has neither the right time fathers or godfathers, a
movement that walks on its legs. The boys jump here and there,
enjoying the taste of adventure, including the tree house and the
shrine - abuse like everything here - pulled up along the path.
After the failed assault on 22 May the press went wild. The
stones thrown in the desert a highway, it closed for hours by the
forces of disorder, have increased from hour to hour. Before then
I had 200 become 700. The newspapers write about "attack on
workers, motorists and police." No one notices the
incongruity of the stones that do not hit anyone.
Thursday,
May 26 at the People's Assembly of
Bussoleno Versatile is one of those that remain in memory. The
theater is full of people: many are still standing, squat down,
crowd onto the stage, listening from outside listening. So many
souls, but clear ideas: the game is played on the mountains. Us
with the strength of our reasons, men fully armed state. Friday
27, meet politicians and businessmen, left and right, and speak
clearly. We will make the yard at all costs. The Regional
Minister Bonino says very clearly "" There is no limit
of engagement when it comes to actions that protect the safety of
citizens. We are on the side of law enforcement. "It is the
go-ahead for slaughter. on the night of May 30 and 29 seem that
good. the prefect warned the Mountain Community. the popular
response is loud and clear. hundreds and hundreds flock to the
call of No Tav. the field kitchen goes on all night , cranking
out pasta, salads, omelets, pastries, coffee, tea all night. we
do meetings, discussions, work in groups of people talk about
what lies ahead. the hours pass, the blue flashing do not break
the spell of the night. A long night. at dawn many go to work
yarns from the barricade.
In
the woods of the rebels
After
three weeks of the square of the garrison Magdalene has become a
comfortable place. Between the tent of "Free the Alps"
where every hour is a plate of pasta, a slice of hot coffee or a
toma and tables where you eat and discuss humanity is gathered in
solidarity. How often, looks wrinkled sleep intersect in the long
nights of vigil, including the square, the barricade of the
central and the highway. In recent weeks, the Free Republic of
Magdalene grew: daily meetings, films, debates, lectures of
teachers who leave the classroom in the woods of rebels.
Continuously discussing and confronting everything from pipe to
be welded to reinforce the defenses to the pasta for vegans, the
defense strategies of the small area free of the No Tav, the
discussion on the next few months of struggle. A long chatter
that is a sign of political passion and social habit of direct
participation, the fight for the long term.
Bullets
too-smart
Media
and politicians continue, day after day, to build the theorem of
the No Tav and violent extremists, useful to give the green light
to violent action of the government forces of disorder. Leading
the way in asking to send the army has deployed the majority of
Democrats in Piedmont. The bullets used in an envelope for the
honorable Democrats and Merlo Edwards sparked the uproar against
the No Tav, accused of being violent. Nothing new northwest. Each
time the fight came to TAV at a critical point arrived on time
envelopes stuffed with bullets. So precise that between Turin and
the No Tav Rocciamelone many think that such a punctuality is
more than suspicious. In twenty years of fighting violence speed
trains, the real one, that of one who breaks the heads and fire
principals have tasted only in 2005 in Venaus No Tav, in 2010
Coldimosso when there is a close call escaped the dead man and a
woman had to do months of hospital for the beating that he split
his face.
The
monster and the barricade
Sunday
26 / Monday 27 June.
Everyone knows
what to expect. When night begins to arrive from the desert at
dawn changing colors and locked the first means. There is an
eerie silence, a suspended calm. The giant bulldozer advances
alone on the highway: the guardrail approaches, hesitates, stops
in front of the barricades full of people, who proudly defy the
monster. On the highway, suddenly appears Turi. Barefoot running
towards the bulldozer, brandishing two heads of garlic. The cops
shoot, the plating, if you take him away. From all cry aloud to
the square barricade, some rhythmically beat the guard rail. It's
like the drawings Marcolino, who for years mark the walls and
piers of the motorway: a man in front of the monster and para,
about the people who resist. Advance and the bulldozers begin
giant with pliers to break up the barricades. The monster,
regardless of the people hanging precariously on the railings of
the fence, go ahead knock them down. Then the tear gas. A toxic
cloud and malignant sailing the blue of a morning clear. The gas
burns the skin, smothers, people recedes. The anger is so great.
The cops advance, flying stones, chairs, whatever happens. Many
take the path to Ramats chased by agents who continue to fire
gases. Climb out of breath with swollen eyes and for gas and
anger. You look at your face, you exchange greetings and many ask
"how are you? Need a hand? "And while you stretch a
bottle of water, a biscuit. The police denounce wounded 64, the
protesters have "officially" thirty. The marks of the
blows I see them one by one on their faces, arms and legs of
those who gather to Ramats exhausted.
The
assembly
On the evening of the
multipurpose room at Bussoleno is immediately packed: many are
left out, others had to cram each other in a bucket of sweat.
They all stood to applaud those who resisted. Sunday, July 3rd
was proclaimed a national demonstration. If you think you are
wrong and are scared of big.
The
day after
The state has taken
everything. The museum has become the bivouac for the Maroni
Cossacks, the road is trodden. Concrete, barbed wire, 800 men in
arms. Military occupation. Already in the early hours of Tuesday,
28 the No Tav have returned to the bridge over the Dora, where
there is now a military checkpoint that blocks and identifies the
people. A new garrison is being born in front of the checkpoint.
In the evening at Susa twenty thousand people participate in the
torchlight procession: The procession is a snake biting its own
tail. An unequivocal answer to those who say that the air is
changed, that people have changed their minds. The tents pitched
in the woods were torn and filled with excrement.
Around the nets
Sunday
3 July. The banner of the children who
opened the procession, the band playing, the banners, the
resistance of a thousand people of Italy that is mixed. Many
people with one big goal: to lay siege to the fort built at the
Madeleine from occupation troops. The procession winds for hours
Exilles along the highway and from there down to the piers in the
middle of the highway until the steel barrier and barbed wire
placed at the entrance of the climb to the Magdalene, shortly
after the hydroelectric plant. There is also the red and black
piece of social anarchists, that hundreds have responded to the
call for the event from all over Italy, dividing his time between
the parade and the siege from many paths. Who felt it was down to
the woods, others have chosen the way: but the day belongs to
everyone. The siege goes on for hours and hours from morning
until evening. The drop from the No Tav Ramats, appears
Giaglione, across the street of George. Even the Central, once
escaped the march where many have chosen to bring their children,
begins the pressure against the fences. At the end of the day
there will be many casualties, impossible to count them all,
because only the most serious go to the hospital, the others are
treated by doctors and nurses on No Tav site. Someone goes on in
the face with the marks of the blows received last week. Who
looks out to the networks are greeted by a dense CS tear gas, a
weapon of war, which has been banned from events elsewhere. The
shots are often devastating effects on people with direct. The
most seriously wounded were hit by tear gas fired at close range.
As if that were not enough police officers and police throw
stones: they shoot from behind the fence, throw them on the
protesters who are under the highway. Who can defend and shoot
you in turn stones. The battle is, but the resistance will not
let go. On Ramats fronts, and the Central Giaglione the No Tav
continue their siege for more than six hours. In a couple of
points the fence yields to pressure. The police still gassing:
the protesters but then retreat back to advance. The strength of
their arguments is more tenacious of the reasons of brute force.
Who falls in the hands of the troops of the State is insulted and
tortured. A policeman, he slipped and fell to the ground, is
abandoned by his comrades are to be the No Tav him back among
his. Four protesters were arrested and taken to the prison in
Turin. The next day the newspapers tell a different story,
repeating a script already written and worn for years: the litany
of peaceful people and bad black bloc, the opposition between the
peaceful residents and professionals from abroad. Politics and
politicians are finally breaking the illusion of movement,
splitting into good and bad, between peaceful and violent. They
are wrong. In the press conference the next day to Chiomonte be
said loud and clear: "we are the black bloc."
Cacerolazo
Friday,
July 15, Clarea Hut. A beautiful day
greets us from the morning. The band of "Turin & Belt
will be tough" comes in dribs and drabs: there are also a
couple of Fiat workers on strike. We are armed to the teeth:
whistles, pots and pans, a portable amp, three megaphones. On the
square waving the tricolor of the occupation troops. Flutters in
a cage surrounded by barbed wire, a metaphor of the real violence
of the state. At the hut we exchange cheese and fried pasta, ribs
and sandwiches. Then we go. We climb the fences and we stop a
little 'to play and beat the pots. The cage is filled immediately
Digos going up and down. Then we decided to climb: there is no
path, climb, already steep, is made difficult by barbed wire. But
in the end there is the reward we get in the way of Avanà placed
right outside the gate to close the final part of the road. They
are initiated by the instruments. Then we come back, passing
through the streets of Avanà, falling behind the Check Point.
Siege
Friday,
July 22. To the presidium of the
Central, after the bridge over the Dora, is the day of the
encirclement. Backpacks, lemons, bottles of water and Malox, gas
masks of all shapes sprout from every side. For a week the police
barricaded behind the two dams that close access to the streets
of Avanà, shoot tear gas that surround the No Tav siege to the
fort by the State to put on Magdalene occupied. Just typing a
more intense, cut a piece of the network to trigger retaliation
with water cannons and noxious gases. But the No Tav have a hard
head. Some go from Giaglione, they walk on the path No other TAV,
which connects the "central" with the area of the hut,
walking around the square occupied. The trail marker with a lot
of "No TAV" was opened, cleaned and scored in the
previous days. In every corner of the rhythmic beatings begin:
there are people on the road down the middle as on the one that
leads to the junction for the Ramats. On the track "No TAV"
hundreds of flashing lights: a snake that taps the mountain of
light shine. At the center, along the road and in the fort /
chicken on top, there are powerful lights that illuminate the day
barbed wire, container, part of the vineyards. The low-power and
arrogant occupant shatters the night, hiding the sky, as in a war
movie set. Giaglione side is lit a bonfire under the piers of the
motorway, while the group started from the middle reaches of the
cage. Men in uniform fire: a shower of tear gas descends on the
No Tav, flying stones and some paper bomb explodes. The police
decided once again to close the A32 between Susa and Oulx. From
the road that descends to the country Chiomonte and the roar of
the ever stronger blows up. All eyes are directed towards the
other side of the mountain from which rises a white thick smoke,
like a cauldron. Who is there, but away from the scrum looks
participation and affection. "But those who are they?"
Will be the police? "" No, No! ones do not leave the
chicken coop! "" Your daughter is there? You hear that?
"" No, better not, call you later. " I feel a
companion: "How are you? Are you all right? ""
Yes, now is fine: we were lost, but then I found the path. For
nearly tumbling down: Fortunately another friend caught me on the
fly. We have killed the gas. " A fireworks display the night
breaks.
From Kabul to Chiomonte: away the
alpini!
Saturday,
July 23, Clarea Hut. The No TAV
network "turin & Belt will be tough" have come
together for an anti-militarist day. The alpine Taurinense,
arrived in the last redoubt of the Magdalene, they stay away from
the nets. The government, after much dithering, decided to use
the army in the Susa Valley. After the war in Afghanistan, in
refugee camps in the peninsula or in the suburbs of our cities
are ready for Mary Magdalene. In the afternoon we go to the cages
for a noisy greeting to newcomers: necklaces of flowers, confetti
bombs, a banner reading "From Kabul to Chiomonte: Alpine
away." Attach to plastic and paper nets, where each write
your own message to the newcomers “Soldà drilling of the
bale!”," The people of the Alps Alpine attack ","
No to all wars. "Then the beating on the gate. A good half
hour and then you go. Along the fence with barbed wire have
closed the walkway that allowed up to the paved road, but we find
a way to get the same: to arrive on the streets of Avanà, open
up the banner and set off in procession toward the center. Half
way we encounter the police in riot gear, who explained by signs
that we can not go further. The arguments are crude but
unmistakable.
Alpini
of the people, gas, one seriously injured
Sunday,
July 24, the Central No Tav garrison.
The No TAV who made the mountain are many in Valsusa:
participated in the defense of Mary Magdalene, and are present at
the siege, real "alpini of the people." As a former
daring of World War I, who chose to oppose fascism, have decided
to stand against the military occupation of their valley.
Speeches, songs, and then the march on the path to the square
until the No Tav. On the other side of the cage are veterans of
Afghanistan, the guards of the CIE, mercenaries who have chosen
the profession of weapons. Like every night, in the garrison
there are meetings, chatting, children playing. The first of the
two gates that lock the streets of Avanà begins typing. A piece
of the gate is down. The reaction of the police is immediate:
they shoot hundreds of cartridges of CS gas, regardless of the
children, the elderly, the eating and drinking Sunday crowd. A No
TAV is approaching the gate to take some pictures: shoot him a
stick in the face breaking his nose and jaw, cutting off the lips
and palate.
Collaborators
Tuesday,
July 26, avenue Couvert, Susa. From
six in the morning about two hundred No TAV greet incoming and
outgoing transport of Italcoge, one of the companies from June 27
to cooperate with the forces of disorder in the state to build
the fort of La Maddalena. Slogans, flags, a cap on the gasoline
side, and then comes back. Over all a catchy chant that soon
becomes contagious. "Why, why, you call yourselves workers?
You are servants of the police and there never complained! "Sort
of a gauntlet where trucks and cars are forced to go without,
however, that there isn't a blockage of the departures. Those who
collaborate with the occupiers must find it hard.
Pots,
complaints and fogli di via
Wednesday,
August 3, Avigliana. At around 9 am
seventy No TAV can be found at the hotel Ninfa, one of the hotels
that have agreed to host the occupation troops. The No TAV is
fully armed with pots, lids, whistles, vuvuzuelas, bull's horn
and banner reading "on the occupation forces". Are
placed at the entrance and began to whistle and beat. A classic
Cacerolazo. Here come the cops. 16 No TAV are intercepted and
arrested by the state forces of disorder. All phones are loaded
on and taken to police headquarters. The 16 battipentole
dangerous are held by the police for the whole day. There frisk
them, entered with mug shots and fingerprinting. House searches
to look for weapons in the houses are made in the homes of three
of the detainees. In the houses were found the weapons used in
the morning: it seems that everyone had a robust arsenal of pots,
spoons and lids. All are charged with aggravated assault in the
competition. The icing on the cake on a sheet of rain. For three
French expulsion from Italy, for others, except one, the
prohibition to go in the towns of Avigliana, Susa, Gravesend,
Chiomonte, Giaglione Exilles.
Turi, the rope and the TGV
Presidium
of Chiomonte Gravel, August 4, 2011.
Nicola and Stefano are chained to the gate that locks the streets
of Avanà. Nicola has not eaten in 13 days, Stefano and Turi have
just begun. Nicola has also decided to make the fast water. The
three No TAV struggle against the militarization and worksheets
imposed on the police station in Turin to some activists. The
police threatened a charge, then decides to give up. In the
afternoon Turi sneaks past the gate, jump the fence and climbing
fast on a high dry pine in the middle. Here come the firemen, the
police shake. Turi has decided to implement a protest against the
blatant and violent military occupation. He wants to break the
silence on the fast No TGV, but above all he wants that force of
arms gives way to the reasons of the dialogue. Hard to imagine
that those who based their power on the legal monopoly of
violence will give way to moral force. A bet as difficult as it
is fascinating. Probably a utopia, however, that feeds the
imaginative force of a man in shorts, barefoot and helpless that
challenge, putting their lives at stake, the military apparatus
of the state. Turi sings, invites the military to return to their
homes, to abandon the uniform.
Condove,
20.15 hours. Some three hundred flags
armed No TAV are found in the marketplace. A short meeting and
then all to the station. The No TAV longer the flags and the TGV
stops.
On
horseback of an excavator
Tuesday,
August 16. They waited for the week of
ferragosto for the thrust to the nets. They arrive early in the
morning and forcibly evicted the three No Tav on hunger strike
chained at the entrance of the fort. The bulldozers arrive and
begin to place new poles for the fence. At the lodge there are
few people, but gradually they come other. At noon two activists
manage to overcome the police and climb on the arm of a large
excavator. Work will stop for a couple of hours, the two agree to
get down in exchange for the release of three No TAV detained in
the morning. In the evening another friend manages to get the
excavator, while others cut off the nets just placed. Only during
the night will end the fence. At sunset a hundred No TAV blocks
the road for about two hours down the motorway. Police respond by
flooding the area of gas Clarea hut, where a group of activists
are mounting a "tree camp", a camp-resistant on trees.
Night of siege
Friday,
September 9. The No TAV start
Giaglione and Chiomonte for a night of siege nets. Have not yet
arrived at the fence, which starts a barrage of tear gas. Who is
not protected must move away, others remain and try to take down
the nets. The police do a sortie outside and two No Tav activists
stopped a few meters the net is cut. The two girls, Nina and
Marianna, captured during the protest to the nets of the night of
September 9, they are arrested and held in custody by the
investigating magistrate, although both were uncensored. Nina, a
chiomontina mother of three children, had her backpack full of
bandages, gauze, first aid medicines. Volunteer nurse has always
been at the forefront to help the wounded, the intoxicated, the
blinded. Only after 10 days in jail will give the house arrest to
Nina, the requirement of residence in Marianna. At the hearing
will be present to support the request of the prosecution, the
Attorney General himself, Giancarlo Caselli. A long applause open
to the public assembly of Polyvalent Villarfocchiardo of 23
September. Is the greeting of the No Tav Nina and Marianna.
Maria Matteo
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anarchica
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