Turin, Askatasuna delivers the employed property to the Municipality

TORINO – The Social Center Freedom He handed over to the Municipality the property he occupied. Tomorrow will take place Tomorrow at the headquarters of the Department of Municipalities the technical table of co-design for the property of Corso Regina Margherita 47, of ownership of the city of Turin and intended for activities for the community.

The spontaneous group of citizens and towns will participate in the table Proponents of the project, approved by the city council with resolution of 30 January last, and the officials of the municipal administration competent of the peripheral transformations sectors, common goods, Urban regeneration, heritage, culture and youth policies.

The table starts after the report of Delivery of the property this morning. They will start in parallel also the necessary investigations of the structural technicians in charge of an expert report on the conditions of the property.

We have Wait a few days before taking a floor in front of the resolution on the Askatasuna issued by the Municipality of Turin. Let me say, the reactions broken down to which we attended made us laugh under and above the moustache.

We seem to have understood that to collect signatures against askatasuna e For legality, Augusta Montaruli will go, the one sentenced for Pecurated for buying Swarovski bags and luxury dinners with money from the region. Congratulations! Someone a little more awake than her in Party made her understand that, to go and ask for around Askatasuna, the town's right could end up in the air. But We understand that for those who live in politics since he was 16, reality Outside the buildings it may appear a little faded. It seems to us to have understood that there are those who dream of a police station inside the social center. See the level of rovate of the liver reached due to us from those same police unions applauding the killers of Federico Aldrovandi is yet another medal. We then saw four pilgrims with banners against Aska in front of Palazzo di Città in an oceanic manifestation that would not have blocked a not scooter. Finally, we saw a prosecutor in the ball try to intervene in extremis with yet another synchronized precautionary measures with the wishes of the city right. Fleas on the back of one reality that animates their nightmares for almost 40 years. Since the meaning of ridiculous missing these court jesters, it's up to us to be serious and Try to explain what we are and what this “exit represents for us from above".

We do not demand that it makes consent, we understand that many do not go down, we understand that this is incomprehensible to the prosecutor but we start From a fact: many young people have approached and continue to approach the reality of the Askatasuna Social Center. Not for obscure manipulations of a group of violent vicious, as they would like Make the Quaesturini delusions believe, but because the askatasuna feels a respond to a need that goes beyond the property of Corso Regina 47. The need for a common dream, the desire to build a power collective far from the hypocrisy of institutional policy but capable to weigh on the city. It is from this need that a reality was born that, As we have seen in these days, it has grown to become obsession of the right and bad awareness of a left that too much he often abdicated the role of representing his part, that of oppressed. In a world where resignation and individualism reigns we are people with the ball to do politics. In a world to do politics It means getting paid we understand that to do politics you have to pay. Energy, time and also, sometimes, freedom. Why the History of the peoples who fight gives us back the fact that legality does not always coincides with social justice and that serves to fight to do prevailing rights, even the fundamental ones, on the interests of part.

Since we committed the unforgivable sin of giving legs and continuity to the protests in Val di Susa, the state has decided to do pay a very high price to dozens of militants. In about ten years The suspects were over 200, perhaps the highest number for a political collective since the 1970s. This against a level of all in all conflict extremely contained both with respect to history of our country is compared to what we see elsewhere in Europe. But On the other hand, there is little to complain: if there is a laughter it is increasingly difficult swim free. Many, sometimes just teenagers, have served Prison prison, many long house arrest. The processes yes they are resolved for the most part in nothing done, convictions "Bagatellari" or even acquittals. But this cares little, why The intent has always been only to weaken the old and scare the young. Many have continued, however, incredibly, to join to a project that, without many menate, tries to put themselves at the service of the social conflict. Police Headquarters therefore open a second front, the one to try to disarticulate the link between askatasuna and the city, With levels of infamy of primati guinness. If the bad model e Violent does not work, let's try to pass them by Ras and Magnaccia. There Digos comes to chase those who passed off crack in front of the school Elementary of Vanchiglia to snatch a complaint against the boys of the social center that would have dared to pull them a kick in the ass. Traces a violent husband kicked out of a housing employment for Ask him to identify the bad guys who would put him on the door. AND Getting culminating up to the attempted operation "subversive association" of 2022. The model was to be that of the employed kindergarten of via Alessandria: associative crime, eviction and demolition of the building. However, there is a hitch, "the subversive association" is not signed by Gip and, to save part of the theorem, the Review Court pulls Outside the hat the crime of "criminal association", the eviction goes upstream. Therefore the third front opens, that of attrition administrative. Interventions of the firefighters, seals, mezzucci, attempt to pass a recreational space in which no one has ever Taken a lira for disco. The goal is one, remove the ground under the feet to a reality that does not bend and does not break, e The evident sought -after epilogue.

In this context it seemed fundamental to us to resume The initiative. Politically relaunch to get out of the corner in which i our opponents would have liked to keep us. We never had problems with the fact that institutions recognize the value of how much made from below (the after -school, the children's parties, the music, the gym, cinema), indeed. CSA Murazzi himself was granted by the Municipality back in 1989 after a series of occupations, evictions and mobilizations. And from then on, it seems to us that everything can be attributed, except that they have been indulgent with the Turin -left center, from the employment of the DS headquarters to protest against the arrest of Ocalan back in 1999. Following, the harsh disputes against the left of war that bombed Belgrade and the raid in the center social in mode that anticipated what happened to the diaz of Genoa. The story is long ... and it comes until Friday's operation last with about ten new restrictions and prohibitions of residence for Very young companions and companions.

The important thing for us is how we get to what it can be, a Second of the contexts, a useful, useless or deleterious passage. The action politics is shaped upside down by the need to be recognized From the institutions? Worse, you get recognized to try to get A place in the sun for some heads or capes? Or it is built patiently a rooting until a busy space becomes a Reference point essential for the city? Having said that, for We the social center has always been a means and not an end. If for some reason, strictly politicalist, this path in the future should be raised, the fact that it is already evident for one does not change Great slice of Turin. From the children of the kindergarten in via Balbo who come to celebrate the birthday with their friends inside Aska, up to boys who came from the Turin province to dance on the notes of the Tecno nobody waited for a piece of paper to find out that askatasuna is Already a common good of the city.

We specify a couple of points, to dissipate any doubt and remove A few crickets for the head. We are more than available to invest the our energies to improve the safety of the building and guarantee a greater usability and facilitate access. Because we are convinced, together with many others, that the center has now become a common heritage that goes beyond the political collective that has taken care of it until today, ensuring the performance of many activities for the city. Our commitment in this sense, however, does not mean in any way to abdicate bonds that we built with the Vanchiglia neighborhood and our commitment politician in the area. We were there for this neighborhood when it was a desert of services. We were there when the administrations have started a process to transform it into the "table", releasing licenses to the right and missing. We were there when we wanted militarize the neighborhood to repress a nightlife moved there of strength from the wicked choices made at Palazzo di Città. Here we are states to give outdoor activities to the children of the neighborhood during the pandemic when the families were left alone by institutions. We understand that for politicians who think with deadlines electoral at 4 or 5 years are secondary dynamics, but for us who We shaped Vanchiglia's life and were shaped by it, They are central things. As far as we are concerned, we are at the beginning of a path, everything can still happen: it is an unexplored ground for us but We practice it with the same determination and partiality with which from decades are a living part of the struggles in the area, in the city, in the valley and Wherever it will be necessary to mobilize.

So it is, it seems to us

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Turin repression laboratory is a recurring frame and a reality that those who protest in the city live on the skin. The choice of askatasuna e of the Municipality to undertake a path of dialogue and experiment New, such as the common good and co-design, breaks it.

Leaving glimpse another possible city. And specific: city, because the deliberates on the common good is to be read not as a resolution of a public order problem, but as an idea of a living territory, where the conflict is not neutralized and the participation enhanced. A Another model of democracy. Utopia? The sterilization of a Radical alternative experience?

Mind you. It won't be a Easy route, it stands on a thin balance of balance. On the side of askatasuna, there is the maintenance of a strong radicality in the context of a frame shared with the Municipality; by the institutions, there is the comparison with a political project and a protest that hit e restless. But this is the complexity of a conflicting democracy, it is the indicator of his good state of health. It is a signal countercurrent compared to the image of a democracy that does not tolerate the strikes, which represses eco-activism, which expels thought divergent, as well as an atrophilic democracy.

It's a "antagonist" experimentation, to resume provocatively a label used in a disqualifying and generalizing sense, Compared to the prevailing model: repressive, approval and passiveizing.

Between The most evident connotations of Turin "repression laboratory", yes reports judicial activism attentive to all possible violations law, civil, criminal, administrative, experienced on belonging to the No Tav movement and applied to those who act the conflict social. It affects Reading on the Prosecutor's website that the pool of magistrates who habitually deals with the crimes inherent in the protest is colored under the item «terrorism and subversion of the order democratic". Dissent and protest, far from being ascribable to terrorism (the attempts in this regard were cassated by the same judiciary) are not subversive of the democratic order but element essential of democracy. The concept of a presumed order is Far from a horizon that implies pluralism and discussion.

Certain, The fulfillment of crimes must be pursued, but the criminal liability is staff. Reasonableness and proportionality must be the parameter To determine incriminating cases, precautionary measures and penalties, How, even more so, the prevention measures adopted by the Quaestor, Fascist retailed, of a lot (and more than) dubious legitimacy constitutional. And then there is the violent behavior of the forces of the order in protests. I think about May 1st, where the will to prevent entry into the square at the social broken produces clashes now "classics" (only in 2023 avoid, thanks to an intense dialogue quote), to manganelli on anti -fascist students at university, But the discussion can extend to the evictions of employed buildings or to the Resistance to evictions.

Turin is a laboratory, but the trend is Global: repressing, dissuading, intimidating the protest. It is a part of the world that in the face of unsustainable inequalities, to the effects of a increasingly violent competitiveness, it is armored.

Turin that look beyond the stigmatization of social centers as a lair of illegality and recognizes value to the autorganization of social activities e cultural, to participation from below, indicates another path possible, that - incidentally - it is in the sign of the Constitution. And the attempt to grasp the potential of a category, the "good common », as a way to rethink the public good as" of citizens ", without anesthetizing the divergence, even radical, which ensures the plural dynamism, vitality, the possibility of transformation, of the democracy.

It will be up to the political forces in the field to ensure that this is a different way to maintain "the strength of total criticism" (Pasolini) without slipping into a "comfortable, smooth, reasonable, reasonable Democratic non-libertà "(Marcuse).

It is a small step, the deliberates and not eviction, which refers to the great clash on the way understand democracy: democracy as a control tool e power management or democracy against power, in the sign of one effective social and political emancipation?