Thursday June 7th, 2007 21:02 The thousands forms of a global movement

The following text is by Marcello Tarì, Uninomade/Claims. You can also listen to the audio interview (in Italian).

The success of blockades comes from the movement’s intelligence and, specifically, to the new use of some former struggle practices. The most important used to be part of the so-called “castor” system, which managed to stop trains that carried nuclear waste.
Many tactics we used during past days to pass through police control and make them useless do come from such experience.
This fact is very important. Movement’s memory is not dead, it does not sit in history book. It on the other hand is a something that is continuously re-interrogated and re-invented according to actual contests.
Blockades of smash G8, together with June 2nd demonstration and what’s to happen next, form a mosaic of movement that keeps transforming itself.
There’s radical conflict, which June 2nd demonstration expressed. But there’s also is the Clown army with its fundamental role during blockades and there are all the different movement’s articulation as well.
Here in Rostock things are very “global” in the sense we are referring to. There’s much commons in the declined field of movements. The field leads to commons, shared dimensions, practises and objectives.
This is another important, perhaps fundamental, issue. We managed to assault the red zone’s lines and we did this through the synergic union of differences within movement’s networks. The union provoked an exceptional power.
This exceptional power can modify and lead all of us to the affirmation of substantial freedom, which anti G8 mobilisations mean to affirm.
The community that lives in Rostock’s, Reddelich’s and all others camping is capable of connections, of staying together without stupid ideological conflicts. This capacity is leading to the full confrontation of practises and objectives.
To be sincere we must also state the we everyday live G8 in our own metropolises through the system of control, though the development of capitalism, through the permanent condition of global war.
G8 is not an event. Powers of the earth wish to create a spectacular media event, which of course assume contestations as a part of it. The truth is that contestations continuously exceed the symbolic representation of powers.
In this sense international networks decide to point out that what we now want to move the spirit of Rostock and Reddelich in one of the most important capitals of the world: Berlin.
This is the political framework within which tomorrow in the evening we shall reclaim the city in Berlin through radical disobedience since everywhere else in Germany demos are forbidden.

Links:
The battle of Rostock
Logbook #3/4
Berlin, 29.30 May 2007/Logbook#2
Hamburg, 28.05.07/Logbook#1