This
morning the activists of the Autonomous Social Center Movements of North
Eastern Italy have occupied the Turkish Consulate in Venice. The goal of
this direct action was to show once more, after the invasion of the
Biennale a few days ago, solidarity with the struggle for democracy of
the Turkish people.
This morning
the activists closed the consulate, took away the official sign, threw
some red paint on the walls of the building and left behinds a few
writings against Erdogan and in favor of the people that for the last
twenty days have been demonstrating in Gezi Park, in Istanbul and
allover the nation.
Using a
megaphone, the activists explained that "Gezi Park is everywhere, in
solidarity with those who are fihting in Turkey for freedom, for
defending the commons, for a real democracy within our Euromediterranean
political space. We really feel that the struggles in Turkey are
something to which we belong, like those against the ECB in Frankfut or
the Arab Springs: there is a wind blowing, that of a Euromediterranean
space of rights, freedom and income. Gezi Park is our home too.
The slogans and
the writings left by the demonstrators denounced the violence enployed
by Erdogan who decided to gas and to hurt the people in the streets,
turning the city into a big red zone protected by the police and the
water cannons.
"We are solidal
and complicit fot a free Turkey" the activists repeated and finally the
invited to multiply the actions in solidarity eith the turkish
struggles.
Gezi Park is Everywhere!
Gezy Park is everiwhere!