G8 2009 Italy: "We have grown up but the future is still ours! See you in L'Aquila"

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from the Self Organized University Collective, Naples, Italy: updated 3 July 2009:

We have grown up but the future is still ours... See you in L'Aquila

8 years have gone by since 2001 Genoa G8 summit. Some of us were there, some of us were little more than kids.

But no-one has forgotten those three hundred thousand people come from all over the world to demonstrate for a better possible world, for freedom from the slavery of profit, for justice and peace.

No one has forgotten the murder of Carlo, the massacre of thousands of protesters, the tortures in Bolzaneto, the high school Diaz turned into a slaughterhouse, nor the sadism of the guards.

The abuse of power being absolved, the comrades unfairly persecuted and condemned.

8 years have been long and many things have changed. The political world wide agenda, that we almost succeeded in snatching from Capital's secretaries, has started again to sign the same appointments of war, exploitation, slavery, hunger, destruction of the planet, “war on terrorism”.

Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, the open veins of Latin America, of Asia, Africa, banlieue and our suburbs, of the many south surrounding us: the blood of billions of people spilling for no reason, day by day, for the richness of few, for the ignorance and indifference of too many.

We have changed too, a little more weaker, a little more uncertain, a little more scared perhaps.

But also more mature, aware that our struggle it's going to be long, always more persuaded that if this other world is not possible- the socialism- it's gonna be the barbarism.

Adults by now, we don't deny our childhood, we watch the faces of our enemies and we know they are the same as in Genoa. We know they've become more violent, more aggressive. That they are dangerous because now, worse than ever, they don't know what they're doing.

2009 G8 is back to Italy, back in times of crisis, when GDP in the west has a showy minus sign.

The unemployment is increasing and there seems to be no way out. It's back in a country socially and culturally devastated with the lowest salaries in Europe, a political system that is stuck, the information controlled, a country made mean by a war between poor, racism, sexism, homophobia, hatred for anyone different from us.

G8 comes to Abruzzo, a territory which has paid with blood those very same logics of profit, speculation, corruption, that rules capitalism all over the world; a territory that in the last few months has been experimenting new forms of control and militarization.

The government has tried everything to discourage us from being there. It has subdivided the summit in many, too many, meetings. Hard to follow for those who have to study, work, think of everyday survival. Impossible to contest for those who have already to defend their own jobs.

Yet the movement has been strong. We have demonstrated in Rome against the demolition of welfare; in Siracusa against the devastation of the environment, in Turin for a university not submitted to private interests; in Rome again, against a “security” that means expulsions of migrant people, strategy of fear and repression of struggles.

At last in Lecce, when the ministers of economy have met to decide to give more money to the banks and pass off their failures as a saving recipe.

It's time to put together what's been torn apart. It's time we meet, we all have to be there.

We can't let the ones who are speculating above a tragedy such as the earthquake, have the last word, turning people into votes, making their dirty affairs while the reconstruction delays to 2033. The “bigs” are going to parade before an abandoned and destroyed population. In front of the cameras telling us that everything is fine. We know that's not true and we have to scream it out loud.

They said we wouldn't have the heart to be there. But we always have the heart to be on the side of those who are struggling and suffering. In those days we are going to be shaking the streets. We are going to be part of the national march on the 10th of July, to bring out our reasons, those of the oppressed and fighting populations. To show that we have not bended, to ruin their parade.

We have grown up but the future is still ours! See you in L'Aquila

Self Organized University Collective
Naples Italy

Collettivo Autorganizzato Universitario – Napoli
http://cau.noblogs.org

[original article]

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Action in Italy against the G8 Summit 2009

Taken from various sources. Please help to complete, correct and update. Always check
other sites. See http://g8.italy.indymedia.org and www.globalproject.info. More links on www.gipfelsoli.org.

Ticker: http://g8.italy.indymedia.org/ticker

L’Aquila

• 5th July Projections, poetry, actions and demonstration for social reconstruction: Memory, truth and justice
  From midnight till 3:32 [bus from Pescara, infoline: 340-3701978 / 085-61106]
• 7th July Forum for social reconstruction
• 8th July “We won`t go!” – Rallye of comitees in the centre against the hippocrit catwalk of G8
• 10th July Countrywide demonstration against G8

Turin

• 7th July Infopoint and demonstration

Pescara

• 7th July (11am) Goletta Green initiative against the security decree and in solidarity with migrants, titled “Abruzzo is a sea port, we do not reject”,

  Arrival of a delegation of 20 citizens from all over the world

• 7th July (12am) Citizens assembly against security decree

Sulmona

• 8th July (afternoon) Forum “Environmental disasters and development, how to save the future of Appennino”.
• 9th July (afternoon) Guided tour at dumpsides and contaminated sites, agit prop action on "water and commons)

Sardinia

• 2nd – 4th July No G8 in bikes
• 3rd -5th July G8? No thanks, Gsott8!
• 7th – 8th July FORUM Cuntra su G8 Sassari

Vicenza

• 4th July NoDalMolin: Actionday of independence of Vicenza [how to go: Bus from Campobasso, Pescara e L’Aquila, infoline: 340-3701978 / 085-61106]

Rome

• 7th July Actionday welcoming the G8 (see VVV)
• 8th/ 9th July Diffused actions
• 9th July Rallye in front of detention and identification centre Ponte Galeria

Naples

• 4th July Cycling NoG8 in solidarity with the population of Abruzzi

Ancona

• 9th July Actionday without borders, demonstration

Various cities

• July 8th Initiatives across all cities, to draw a “Map of the crisis” through which territories, communities and social organizations in resistance from Rome, through Naples, Genoa, Padua, Bologna, Milan, Ancona, Palermo and all the others, express its indignation against the crisis, the living, the insecurity, unemployment, environmental devastation, the commercialization of common goods, the militarization

Other countries

Germany

• July 4th Demonstration in Berlin Quake G8 – We are your crisis
• July 10th Demonstration in Bilbao
• July 11th Demonstration in Freiburg Overcome capitalism!

Source: http://abruzzo.indymedia.org/article/6692 and other sources

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Some links

(mostly italian; hopefully not so many missing)

* altrog8 www.altrog8.org
* Bury the G8! www.radicaleyes.it
* Collettivo Autorganizzato Universitario – Napoli http://cau.noblogs.org
* Contra a su g8 http://contraasug8.altervista.org
* Contro il G8 agricoltura www.assemblea.gelohc.com
* Contro il G8 dell’università a Palermo http://palermocontrog8.blogspot.com
* EduFactory http://www.edu-factory.org
* G8 2009 Berlin http://g809.blogsport.de
* G8 Università Torino www.notremonti.org
* Gipfelsoli www.gipfelsoli.org
* Global Project www.globalproject.info
* Gsotto www.gsotto.org
* Indymedia Abruzzo http://abruzzo.indymedia.org
* Indymedia Piemont http://piemonte.indymedia.org
* infoaut.org www.infoaut.org
* krisismaps.info http://www.krisismaps.info/map
* La notte biancha http://nottebiancainonda.blogspot.com/
* Melting Pot www.meltingpot.org
* Milano 23|05|09 http://www.dachepartestare.org
* No G8 Lecce http://www.nog8lecce.org/home
* No G8 Rome http://nog8roma.wordpress.com
* No G8 Sicilia http://www.nog8sicilia.org
* Onda No G8 http://ondanog8.blogspot.com
* Osservatorio Informazione G8 2009
* http://g82009.splinder.com
* www.g82009.altervista.org
* Rappresentanze Sindicali http://sardegna.rdbcub.it
* Red-Net http://www.red-net.it
* Rete Anarchica Antimilitarista www.reteantimilitarista.info
* Rete di coordinamento L’Aquila http://www.3e32.com
* Rete Catanese http://retecatanesecontroilg8.blogspot.com
* Rifondazione Sardegna http://rifondazionelibera.blogspot.com
* rosso vivo www.rossovivo.net
* Sardigna Ruja http://sardignaruja.altervista.org
* sardinien.com http://www.sardinien.com/blog/labels/g8.cfm
* towardsG8 www.towardsg8-2009.org/events
* Studenti Medi http://studentimedicontroilg8universitario.myblog.it
* TURIN SHERWOOD CAMP ’09 www.sherwoodcamp.net
* Uniriot www.uniriot.org
* Verso il g8 di torino! http://corsari-milano.noblogs.org
* zig.it http://www.zic.it

Find more information, posters, links on http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/L_Aquila_2009

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