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Author: Patrice Riemens
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Subject: Re: [Bricolabs] Rome, October 15th 2011
And I just hear on the radio news that the Italian authorities have
launched yet another of their routine, massive 'round up the usual
suspects' drives against 'violent anarchist and extreme-left circles'...


On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 02:45:55PM +0200, Jaromil wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, F B wrote:
>
> > In italian historical contest I feel that black-block tactics are as
> > wrong as the mass pacific demonstration is futile. Colors, nice
> > youth in the sun look to "get the picture on the press" feels just
> > Societee du Spectacle. Same it goes for few euros of private
> > property on fire. And is too easy.
> >
> > A big, angry, compact demonstration, that can stand it's ground
> > towards the police aggression and has the courage to be angry and
> > ugly is what they fear. Let's keep focus and give them a little of
> > it.
>
> well put. unfortunately this is not what is happening and on the media
> as well on the streets the day after, the "violent protestors" are
> being lynced while even the "indignados" are taking positions against
> them. the whole movement is splitting against the fake issue of
> violence and as Fabi says the crucial discourse around the body looses
> focus. Peaceful people look like people without a body and everyone
> should look like them.
>
> this is a well trained rethoric and among other things it makes it
> even impossible to talk about what is happening, since every position
> gets flattened, those who will stand out will have their head chopped
> by anti-terror law measures which in Italy have now become the best
> argument to be discussed in parlament, where those hypocrits ministers
> can finally enact their unanimity condamning the people with a body.
>
> but they are not there to solve the problem.
> they are the very root of the problem.
>
> at the lookout for the manifestations of body, in the vast amount of
> coverage covering whatever can be covered (but hardly discovering)
> I've found this photo sequence of a girl under arrest, resisting and
> finally freed from the police by the crowd. this is how i like to
> think of bodies. liberation. http://ur1.ca/5f8jd
>
> ciao
>
>
> --
> jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org