Like the Social Centres in Copenhagen, Bologna and Salerno, "BRUNO" has also been evicted; meanwhile "Pedro" in Padova is fighting for resistance.
On the 21 st of March several units of the Police and the Carabinieri obeying the orders of the centre-left mayor governing Trento city evicted our Social Centre. The authorities aimed to eradicate a community initiative that has been a unique public area for many local people to learn and support each other over the last five months. This is another example of a community eviction that holds its roots in local fights for social spaces, one of the many that has been going on over the past years.
We believe that social spaces are not only made by physical walls, but they are also places in where the growth of political participation is formed, opportunities for alternative lifestyles and places of innovation and the construction of new social relations.
Everywhere Social Centres represent the prototypes of the "Other City", the city of welcome and inclusion, the city of rights, dignity and new citizenship. A Social Centre represents the place of transit for those who are seeking freedom beyond the enclosures of migrants’ detection centres, beyond the schemes of society and family that "plaster" relationships and love. A Social Centre represents the melting pot of struggles and dreams, the forge of radicalism and new ways of fighting, a machine that is self-managing and self-producing. Bruno eviction must not have only a local meaning; it must become the symbol of the frontal attack that all the social spaces and movements are undergoing in Italy and Europe.
Currently under attack are not only the physical spaces that are chronically under the threat of eviction – but also the movement’s autonomy through the instrumental decline of the terms “violence - non-violence” and the perverse usage of the concept of “legality”.
By confronting this attack we reaffirm our right to resist, not only as the means of the right to self-defence or to claim democracy’s spaces, but most importantly the right to defend projects that benefit and serve the community already in existence. We want the 21st of April to be an important day of mobilization and fighting to affirm with great determination the movements’ autonomy, represented for us by the bear “Bruno” that travels free throughout the Italian and the European territory, independently managing its time, its life and its dreams. A brown (Bruno in Italian) bear that we must protect from the threat of arms by those who want to destroy its freedom.
We want the 21st of April to be a unique massive roar, rising up throughout the day and night to claim back the rights for social spaces to exist by all members of the communities of Trento and the whole of Italy.
HANDS OFF FREE SPACES!!!
“GUAI A CHI CI TOCCA!” – Trento 21 st of April 2007
To sign the appeal or to communicate the participation to the demonstration of the 21st April send an email to csabruno@gmail.com or call at +393476762467 (Silvia).
I have every right to be angry. Where’s my Ungdosmhus?
