In Brescia, under a heavy rain, hundreds of students, refugees and homeless people marched through the city, throwing eggs at the provincial administration headquarters and squatting a building in the Carmine neighbourhood to provide a solution for the housing emergency affecting migrant people in particular. In Bologna, with the solidarity of the workers of the local transport company (which avoided the hapless trade union concurrent march), the students laid siege to the Province headquarters in response to the limitation of school assembly rights, clashing with the police rushed to defend the building. After withstanding three police charges and in contempt of the wounds, the students moved to occupy a key junction of Bolognas ring road and set up an assembly there. In Milan the Italian Google headquarters were invaded by scores of people donning the Guy Fawkes mask, in protest against the ICT company policies and its role in the NSA mass espionage program. Red V signs were painted on the companys offices walls and slogans against commoditization of social control and privacy violations, and in praise of the Anonymous worldwide network, were chanted. In Modena students denounced the post-2012 earthquake condition of abandoned public school buildings and the public transport steep prices, and occupied a school gym, in spite of provocations from political police. In Naples over 5000 people took the streets against the increasingly neoliberal character imposed on Italian high school education and the State-Mafia association inflicting great pain to the people of Campania region through indiscriminate and abetting proliferation of harmful waste (the so-called biocide). Violent police charges occurred in front of the Regional Environment Department, ending in the arrest of three students. The students answered by revamping their call for participation in tomorrows day of struggle against biocide, and to reclaim popular sovereignty over those territories. In Palermo 20.000 people participated in the students demonstration. University students permanently occupied an abandoned space close in the University area in order to install a selfmanaged library there. Families and homeless people occupied the Social Policies Regional Department, while No Muos activists against the US military radar project occupied the Environmental one. Clashes with the police ensued beneath the regional government palace, with the temporary arrest of a student. In Pisa and in Rome the high schoolers protested for the lack of students housing, a blunder partially answered by the occupation of houses in the previous days. In Turin the rage of the students was addressed once again to the local governing bodies, after the collapse of a school in the previous days; still, other targets were addressed: Monte dei Paschi bank (Italys third largest one) was pelted with eggs, and the local offices of the Minister of University and Research were assaulted by the students. In the end, all over the country the uprising! and siege! rallying cries of October 19 - echoed in these previous weeks of continuous social strike - boomed once again; projecting the student movement well over the pettier category claimances to address the most urgent ones and give a strong leverage to the next dates of mobilization, starting from tomorrow in Susa Valley and Campania and beyond.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 03:32:48 +0000
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