Italy, anarresinfo: Roma in Turin between evictions,
marches, occupations (it) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
They arrived at dawn. Men and women in arms, armored vehicles, helicopters, bulldozers. An
operation in a big way in what remains of the largest slums of Europe. ---- No one has
been warned. The men in uniform entered the barracks and ordered to leave, regardless of
frightened children, strong arrogance of those who believe themselves superior, full of
contempt for people that poverty marchia as inferior. ---- he men and women of the
municipal dog pound catch the dogs. An elderly woman shows us the booklet of his dog,
stolen and deported to the kennel. Men, women, in children worse than dogs. Few things are
saved while the cops take cylinders and discharge in the air. We breathe the gas and
racism, breathe the sour taste of indifference to those who can no longer light a tove,
for whom this night will have no place to sleep. The town offers a shelter for children
and mothers, nothing for men, elderly, disabled. They know that no one will agree to
separate. Everyone is afraid that the municipality steal their children.
Many times this threat was enough to quell the revolt, to control anger.
When the bulldozers start the riot pushes all in there, inhabitants and solidarity realized.
ut this time it's all over between anger and resignation. Who was cleared out and who
still has a cabin to sleep meets in assembly. Someone offers a hot coffee, the fog of
October melts on a sunny day. He decides to leave the field. The police blocked the
entrances , trying to prevent the move. But people will not let go. Eventually you go. The
appointment is the office nomadic way Bologna. All they come and soon is occupied . There
are about fifty people, who are no longer willing to bow their heads, who have decided to
fight . ut appears a banner "Home for all! No to evictions and evictions. " Here comes the
Digos and the riot. None resign. After over two hours of employment a new assembly decides
to go out in procession . It goes via Bologna, the head smaller, shouting "do not split
the field, we want our homes".
Two years ago there were over a thousand people to the field. A social powder keg that the
council Turin was skilled at defusing. Five million euro assigned to the expert hands of a
consortium of cooperatives and associations between promises and threats, illusions and
violence have turned the area into a pile of rubble.
The administration Fassino was to vacate all, relying on the complicity of the evicted
deluded by the mirage of a home that never arrived, dividing the submerged by the saved .
The end nodes have come home to roost.
The cooperative Valdocco, leader of the project "The City can", carried out by the City of
Turin, Prefecture, associations and cooperatives that have scores cake 5 millio i euros ,
announced in late September that the word would pass the bulldozers.
Actually the bulldozers "low intensity" have never stopped working in the slums,
dismantled piece by piece , after the violent eviction of hundred people on Feb. 26.
In the summer the city police, the army and the Red Cross have monitored attendance at the
camp, accompanying the bulldozers that felled the barracks who was deported "voluntarily"
in Romania with the lure of 300 Euros. In the last year many other barracks were torn
down, imposing to those who lived to "collaborate" to destruction, to demonstrate its will
to "overcome" the field.
These have got in return a studio at 250 Euros per month , as the 13 displaced families in
social housing to over Vigevano, owned by Ras attics George Molino, from which they will
be evicted in late November.
The families "deserving" in homes, others deported to Romania or evicted. As if the
"field" was a natural choice and not a necessity imposed by poverty, exploitation and
discrimination. Homeless people in which it is applied arbitrarily abel "nomads" to
justify the ghettoization.
The people who live (is) no cabins are immigrants from Romania in the last fifteen years.
Almost all of them are Roma, almost all lived in houses, but here they can not pay rent.
Building a cabin is not a choice but a necessity.
Later this year it will be over. Demolished slums, evictions, families on the street, the
five million euro absorbed by the associations involved in the "city as possible." In
addition to Valdocco, AIZO, Tierra del Fuego, Stranaidea, Free For All, Red Cross. The
City of Turin has set up the project to carry out an eviction "silent", otherwise
impractical with only the use of public force.
Two years after the start of the project, the goal is now clear to all: clear the field
rom unauthorized largest in Europe, without offering any alternative housing.
Those who, like the family of Aramis, in late September had tried to go back to the
barracks along the Stura, had faced policemen, who did not hesitate to use the stinging
spray, pull guns, give up his fists, immobilize the ground and arrested. But something is
moving . In May, hundreds of inhabitants of the slums Via Germagnano they have blocked yet
another racist march in Milan barrier.
On October 12 the residents of shacks along Stura Lazio and those of social housing in
course Vigevano took to the streets. They came from the slums of Lungo Stura Lazio, from
social housing to over Vigevano and other "temporary accommodation" which are threatened
with eviction. The march of struggle for the house, accompanied by Black Cat Red Cat and
solidarity, took the streets of downtown to tell the biggest scam of the "city as possible."
The pathetic attempt of infiltration in the procession by AIZO was strongly rejected by
their families under threat of eviction from social housing Corso Vigevano, managed by the
association. Maurice Brown , the exponent of Fratelli d'Itala was greeted with anger and
laughter, because the brave adviser anti-immigrants launched by the City flyers with bus
times by Romania in Turin ...
"No to the eviction of Roma. Brown shit " , this inscription will appear three days later
on the gate of the headquarters of "Brothers of Italy" in Via Rondissone.
Has spent time in the town, in front of the Prefecture and the RAI. Men, women and
children took the floor , telling their stories of homeless immigrants, the difficulty of
living by selling the best of bins, doing cleaning, minding our elderly. In every word
there was the sour taste of those who live wrapped in a cloak of widespread racism,
rooted, relentless, which suffocates you like a spider web . With dignity and courage,
their lives hidden and denied have become the stars of a multi-voice, a strong narrative.
The boys and girls have told of their desire to continue to attend the school , the fear
of eviction, deportation. Each has reiterated that the house is a need for all and all, as
well as health, education, freedom motion. They said clearly: the attempts of eviction and
eviction will find them on the barricades . If the only response of the City is the social
war , the procession of 12 October, employment office nomads and the subsequent march
showed that enough is enough, that people of the shacks is determined to take hold of
their own lives with strength and dignity. MM (an early version of this article will be
released in the next issue of the weekly Humanity Nova)
http://anarresinfo.noblogs.org/2015/10/21/rom-a-torino-tra-sgomberi-cortei-occupazioni/
