Monthly Archives: November 2011

[en] Protest against Trenitalia in Tiburtina station in Rome

The inauguration of the new TAV station Tiburtina took place in Rome Monday 28 November. Inside the station President Napolitano, CEO of trenitalia Moretti and many other VIPs; outside some hundreds of protesters, coming from different groups. There were the … Continue reading

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[en] Deconstructing the public image of Roberto Saviano

Roberto Saviano has become an international icon of Italian struggle against Mafias. His most famous book, Gomorrah, can be found in bookstores in almost every corner of the planet while the movie inspired by it brought to an international audience … Continue reading

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[en] Repression against occupations in Bologna

Bologna’s warm autumn has begun with three new occupations started on the 11.11 but local government promptly repressed two of them, clearing the protesters out of two the Sabin highschool and the Arcobaleno cinema. In the morning of the 15.11 … Continue reading

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[en] 11.11.11 protests in Bologna end with three occupations

The results of the 11.11.11 protest demonstrations in Bologna are something that the city had not seen in many years: three different new occupations now have born in the very centre of town, claiming for the right of the people … Continue reading

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[en] The No-F35 demonstation in Novara

Saturday 12 November a demonstration against the construction of F35 fighter bomber planes (technical description here http://www.nof35.org/doc/scheda%20tecnica.htm) in Cameri (a little town near Novara) took place in Novara. More than 2000 persons once more went into the streets around Novara … Continue reading

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[en] Living and acting the crisis: a linguistic [☺] perspective of the “global”

In the last months, the word “global” has assumed new meanings. Newspaper articles, comments and writings from everywhere describe as global most of the phenomena that the so called “west” is currently experiencing: financial crisis, indignation, occupy movements etc. From … Continue reading

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[en] No Coal Day

Saturday 29 was set as worldwide ‘No Coal Day’: demonstrations in many countries aimed to draw attention on the human and environmental health damages caused by coal-fired power stations. Italy decided to decommission its five nuclear power plants following a … Continue reading

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[en] Police repress student’s protest in Rome

The 3rd of November a students protest was planned in Rome. The demonstration has been named ‘Take the streets, take the future’ and opposed both Italian government measures against the crisis (which heavily involve public school) and the prohibition of … Continue reading

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