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Blicero Saturday, July 21, 2001. It 's night. The marches and clashes that have turned the city of Genoa are over and people return home tired and tested by the barrel, from racing, tear gas, police violence, fear, feeling that would happen all it all happened, but that can happen more. Not many remain, primarily in major centers: Piazzale Kennedy, the Carlini stadium, schools Diaz and Pascoli, where the communication activities and advocacy still trembles. For the rest of thousands of people in stations and on highways. Most people think that now everything is finished, all that adrenaline is giving way to an infinite weariness. And just when the darkness is at its maximum intensity, when the collective eyes of the world are closing to move to the next show, here is that the lights come back on at full intensity.
squads of uniformed people fall on the two schools where the headquarters of the GSF, indymedia, radio gap, many alternative media and independent, the headquarters of the Genoa Legal Forum and a couple of hundred people who just want to sleep before leaving home. Within a moment, smashing doors and gates and burst into two schools: the media center and try to destroy materials to plug your ears and eyes movements, on the school they just want revenge. They want compensation, we would say in other contexts, the frustration felt in these days when the insurgency has shown them how much power they hold and defend is not worth anything, how fragile and ethereal. The uprising has made them angry, and surprised them by surprise, he humiliated them. And like a wounded animal and armed reacted in the only way they know: they have prepared, organized and launched a simple, violent, break, beat, blame the victims. Weak with the strong, strong with the weak. As always. And then a beautiful firmetta an arrest report sets out the fact that the operation was legitimate and necessary and justified. Unfortunately, yet again, in those days, they hurt the calculations: the eruption lasted longer than expected, there's the media and parliamentarians around the world realize the operation and function of its crude. Despite this for many months, think the state will cover them. Despite this there comes a process. That lasts for years. The process ended November 13, 2008: all those who organized the infamous operation were acquitted; all those who participated as the last wheel of the cart, who has beaten because he was given a free hand, those who have brought two Molotov cocktails at a school where there were none to pass it to the victims of inhuman violence have been condemned and all victims have received some coins for not complain too much.
This is the story. The events of the G8 summit in Genoa have much to teach anyone who wants to give even a moment's attention. The books do not tell that. The books will remain vague when it goes well, or will ignore the biggest revolt since the sixties and seventies in Italy and perhaps beyond. But the people who were there do not forget. And the anger we experience today in the face of this ruling must not deceive us, must be transformed into deeds, words, memories, objects. I personally never believed it to end differently from this: justice is an intrinsic mechanism to power, and can not afford to condemn those who translate it into operational facts every day. The judges, policemen, politicians, leaders, entrepreneurs are on one side. We, the poor, the subordinates, the exploited, the weak are the other. This is the great truth of Genoa, and is also the truth that most of all in this age try to be hidden. Is not the same, there are some parts to be taken. To live means to be partisan. And sometimes when takes a part, is lost, even though it was the right part. When I learned of the decision - even after four years because of their presence in court during the last three months are not able to be present - one of the first things that came to mind was the Morning Star, Wu Ming 4. As I have written elsewhere, this book is about right in Genoa and one that has left us, what has meaning for all of us who were there and we lived. At the end of the book, as at the end of all that was Genoa, we just have the courage to believe that something could still happen, that the revolt will continue to exist as an option but as a reality. The ruling ends the matter Diaz, a story so self-evident that it is hard to believe how brazen is justified by the legal loopholes after being justified political inaction, must become our morning star: the light that everyone knows and no one can deny that, but the distance between us makes it clear that only action and fight to change things around us. If we can learn this, then these years of work and words have not been a quixotic joust with windmills a lot bigger than us.
with his friends and companions who followed Genoa with me day after day we wrote that we do not have remorse for what happened in Genoa, that what happened in those days gave us courage and we addressed the meaning of the words dignity and freedom. Today is the day for many of regret in one way or another, but not for me. Regret means not doing what you thought was right and necessary. We can not have it. Because we expect so much more. Still many things can happen in the sky and below Venus, and a lot of anger ready to explode from under the ashes. Until there are more stories to tell, to remember or vivere.Ognuno of us can demolish a brick Courthouse in Genoa. Each of us can still fight and be a partisan.
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