A valley of terrorists - Maddalena, the compressor and the
No Tav, Our opponents know the value of symbols. (it) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
The day after the anniversary of the storming of Venaus, 9 December 2013 No Tav four were
arrested on charges of bombing the purposes of terrorism, for an action to sabotage the
construction site on May 14 last year. On that occasion it was damaged compressor, soon
repaired and resold. A charge that has taken away their lives, their suffering, the
struggles Chiara, Claudio, Matthew and Nicholas. A few months later it was the turn of
Francis, Graziano and Lucio. ---- The big story of democracy melts like snow in the sun,
whenever someone takes seriously the core axiological which claims to build, whenever
freedom, solidarity, equality are understood and practiced in their constitutive, radical
otherness with a social order based on domination, inequality, exploitation, competition
more fierce.
Real democracy admits dissent, provided opinion remains ineffectual, mere exercise of
eloquence, simple word game. If dissent becomes active, if you do direct action if the
risk of blowing up the rules of a game ferocious democracy unfolds as a discourse of power
that re-takes on a whole absolutism of royalty. Absolute, because free from any
constraint, because it denies legitimacy to any other word. For every order you break the
current one.
He does it with the lightness of someone who knows that the illusion of democracy is
strong enough to cover like a blanket of dark clouds a device that closes deal with any
opposition that is not suited to the role of mere witness.
In recent years we have witnessed the gradual incrudirsi repression, without even the need
to make special laws: it was enough to use in a special way those who are there.
The charge of terrorism was disproved in the Assize Court and again in the Supreme Court,
but the prosecutor did not give up. The appeals process against Chiara, Claudio Mattia and
Nicolò Attorney General Marcello Maddalena continues to support it.
The process of the compressor is only the tip of the iceberg, because there are hundreds
of trials and sentences against the No Tav.
June 27, 2014 were disclosed the reasons for the judgment of the Supreme Court.
The judges said there would be a "disproportion" between what happened in the night of May
14, the shipyard and the presumption that such a measure might actually induce the state
to back down , canceling the project of Turin Lyon.
On the court ruling that gave a blow to the prosecutor in Turin.
And 'likely that the scaffolding accusatory No Tav against the seven accused of terrorism
does not hold even on appeal.
But the game is still open.
Weapons fielded by the prosecution are sharp and insidious, because anyone who opposes
concrete terms to the decision of the Italian State or the European Union likely to run
the charge of terrorism.
One day on charges of terrorism could be applied to anyone who fights against the choices
are not shared, but with the seal of the royalty imposed by the Italian government.
In other words: if day or night, in a large or small, the action of the No Tav was such as
to induce the state to back down even to the Supreme Court would be the No Tav terrorists.
All terrorists, even those who are in the last row with the child in a wheelchair, even
those who walk with difficulty, even those who have courage, but only a heart that beats
strongly for the new world that would want.
'Important that the memory should not be moved: the No Tav have supported and endorsed the
practice of direct action against the construction companies and the collaborationist
blocks of roads and railways, the general strike, the great marches and sabotage.
Stop Tav, force the government to go back on a decision never shared by the local
population is the raison d'etre of the No Tav movement.
Every gesture, every event, every walk for everyone, not unlike the actions of the siege
of the yard, to boycott companies , sabotage of the media aimed at this purpose.
In the logic of the laws defining the crime of terrorism, much of the population is made
up Valsusina terrorists. And with them the many who, everywhere, have shared motivations
and paths.
The thousands of people who made it ungovernable Val Susa in December 2005 were "terrorists".
This time there were no arrests or charges serious: the reason It is easy.
The state gave up, waiting for a new opportunity. He surrendered because he feared that a
further showdown could be spreading the revolt over the mountains of Val Susa. The wave of
outrage at the violence against resistant Venaus was such as to lead to caution those who
also had right there made use of force. The word came to politics, continuation of war by
other means, a tool to prepare for a new war.
It is important that the memory of struggle accompany us in these years more and more
hard. Times have changed, the state wants to win to restore authority compromised, to
break up the concrete hope that everyone can choose their own lives.
The memory of yesterday for tomorrow's challenges
The December 8, 2005 was the culmination of the revolt against the HST. But even then it
was no longer a matter of trains. At stake was the freedom and dignity of those who
refused to tolerate the imposition by force of a choice not shared.
Nobody planned it happened. The first to be amazed were we. The barricades, the logs in
the road, blocking the roads were the answer to the military occupation.
The valley became ungovernable.
The memory resurfaces powerful.
It was the night between five and December 6, 2005, a cold night in a cold winter that was
announced. The sleep was broken by thousands of phone calls and text messages that warn
that the Venaus was attacked by the police. In a few minutes, among the thousands of
activists No Tav, circulated the news that a few hours after it bounced on the major
media: people beaten and bruised, the curtains and the cabin of the pro-site demolished,
an elder in a serious condition.
The long resistance of the No Tav culminated in the week of barricades in Venaus arrived
at a turning point: the government had decided the use of force to evict those who, in the
snow, surrounded the area of the former site Sitaf and occupied the land for expropriation
for the construction of the tunnel geognostic of 10 km. The tunnel was an act of war to a
population over 15 years was fighting a useless, costly, devastating the environment and
the territory.
They slept that night in a matter of: laced boots began in the middle of streets and
highways, blocked trains, went on strike from work, facing the police that he moved as
troops of occupation along the lower Val Susa.
Two days after a large popular march set out from Susa at a time of Venaus: the police
distributed a bit 'of the beatings crossroads of Passengers, where unfolds the road that
leads to the village of Val Cenischia, but no one stopped. Along the rough paths and icy,
after passing the block, he walked around the police and went down to the yard. The Orange
network was down, police fired tear gas to disperse the wind, then, with his tail between
his legs left.
The word came back to politics, the continuation, by more subtle means, the war.
They were huge interests at stake: from Soon it would leave the tent and Olympic sponsors
do not pay a performance with barricades and blockades. Despite the withdrawal of the
troops of the State people he was determined to continue the resistance, blocking the
streets again, to stop the Olympics.
Thousands and thousands of people in those days learned the taste to decide first,
practicing the policy to down, offsetting the institutional mediation. All this was scary,
because incrinava the very legitimacy of the institutions. Of all the institutions. So the
way out provided by the Government was received on the fly by administrators Susa.
The table on the Table was born the day after the resumption of Venaus: Administrators
were called in Rome to open the negotiations.
For some it was an opportunity for a political new career, the government took his time,
hoping that the movement sfaldasse, accepting a new project, also sponsored by the local
institutions.
Am I wrong accounts. The turncoat, the ambiguous and the lukewarm among the auditors have
not weakened the movement, which has continued to express its opposition to the work in
the years of truce. Who did not agree on the institutional tables and compromise, it has
not changed the sense of a struggle that has always played on the trails and not between
barricades paper.
Between 2010 and 2011 the truce ended. The word came to arms. The government imposed by
force the opening of the construction site for the tunnel geognostic Chiomonte. That
tunnel was to be finished in December 2015, but is only half right. The area has become a
militarized fort, the paths are crossed by armed men. The night lighting is impressive.
That yard the emblem of the will to bend by force a movement that has never surrendered, a
movement that has never accepted being reduced to a mere witness of the massacre.
From the days of the Free Republic of the Maddalena, through the siege of July 3, there
was the day when the No Tav have not struggled against state violence.
Even the workings of politics has never failed. The Minister of Infrastructure is opening
a table to discuss compensation.
In the Newspeak of politics compensations will have a new name, but it does not change.
The No Tav mayors who will sit at that table you save face, the government presents a face
dialogue, maybe throw a bunch of money on the table, provided that you do not discuss
train. The first meeting of that table was carefully set in the aftermath of the event in
Venaus Susa national movement promoted by 8 December.
A movement that you never surrendered to state violence, too often not been able to give
up the security blanket , a mayor "friend" on the tables of the town.
The illusion of the delegation
The enemy harder to deal with is the illusion of the delegation. The delegation who
sabotages, who keeps alive a garrison, who drowns between cards to highlight the textures
that underlie the big deal. The worst form of proxy is the institutional one, that
rilegittima machine who will retain the right to decide for us, who will play his game to
a table where the house always wins. Who takes the dealer always takes everything. First
our freedom.
The election fever that has crossed several times the Val Susa has absorbed enormous
energy, taking away the everyday struggle. Someone took home the result, others have
placed some No Tav on the opposition benches.
The fever has infected even the most radical members, divided between those who threw
himself headlong and those who have left to do, keeping silent.
A balancing act , of realpolitick that had always been in the background, in the ambiguity
of the formal separation between committees and civic lists, including committees and
parties, it emerged with arrogance on the surface.
The clash between the old left that, in the name of realism, has signed pacts as opposed
to the mandate and populism executioner, who waves the flag of direct democracy, but
reduces it to a farce telematics, he offered a sad stage in many good people, that the
practice of participation have managed on many occasions make it true.
These are difficult times.
The device disciplinary fielded by the government and the judiciary was divided on several
floors, groped to unravel the deep tissue of the movement, insinuating their fear, making
it clear that there are no shadow areas, safe havens, which all They are being targeted.
The repressive action far from dividing the movement has reinforced solidarity in action,
in supporting prisoners, convicted. But he dug in deep. Have not scratched the
convictions, however, it has enlarged the gap between those who do and those who applaud,
re-opening the way for paths and institutional delegation.
Yet. Yet the ingredients to make another are there: we have gained over many years of
direct action, horizontal comparison, construction of shared decision-making paths. The
committees, deans, popular assemblies, the same camping alluded to a possibility, that of
self-government. Subtraction dall'istituito the No Tav movement has practiced over many
years of struggle provides the bricks and mortar needed to give substance to the places
and opportunities to exchange ideas, share and practice that achieve real autonomy from
the brutality inherent in every institution claim to represent us, deciding for us,
affirming a notion of the common good that we subtract the choice about our future.
The only reality that matters is that concrete utopia - although in a few brief moments -
we were able to accomplish. All of us carry in our hearts, in living memory of our
movement Venaus and Mary Magdalene. Free Rebubbliche, true libertarian communes, where the
hierarchy is broken by life once more.
Live at the time of the plague
Val Susa in the state shows itself in its rawest form, without pretense.
The reason of state is the key that explains and justifies the pivot on which rests the
public discourse. The narrative of the various governments deny space to any form of dissent.
It could not be otherwise. The ideas that cross the No Tav movement have become dangerous
when governments have understood that there was no room for mediation, a population not
susceptible of repentance, would continue to get in the way.
The revolt twenty Val Susa is for the State a test of their ability to maintain control
over the territory, stopping the infection that has affected much of the peninsula.
The State is not enough to win. Must close the game forever, spread salt on the ruins,
condemning the losers in an exemplary manner.
The interplay between war and politics is total. The internal war is not the mere
continuation of politics by other means, a momentary break the usual rules of mediation,
the war is the normal horizon. In war or you win or lose: the prisoners applies martial
law, the law of the times of war.
At stake is not just a train, no longer a mere matter of business. At stake there is an
idea of political and social relations that should be deleted, negated, criminalized.
The state knows that in Val Susa dangerous wind blows, a wind of subversion and revolt.
Mind you. The state is not afraid of those who, at night, with courage, enters the yard
and burn a compressor. The State knows, however, that around the few that there are
sabotaging an entire valley.
An important but not decisive.
The real game, that play knowing you can win, you are holding the right cards, the
strength in his legs to run , the belief in the head to make it, you play elsewhere, in
another way.
The bet, a bet that involves each of us, those in the front row, who a little further back
is to make the entire territory ungovernable, through paths subtraction confrontational
dall'istituito who built the narrative that propels so many people every year in this
corner of northwest.
It will take time, it will take especially the courage to believe possible.
On December 8, 2015 will be much more than the anniversary of a victorious uprising. It
will be an opportunity to put in place the necessary political force to block and
frustrate the games of institutional policy.
Ten years after that December the No Tav movement is still fighting against the imposition
of the new high-speed line. A hard struggle, marked by arrests, trials, sentences,
beatings and tear gas. A popular struggle marked by the strength of those who know that
their future does not delegate, who, then as now only direct action, no proxies, no steps
back, can create the conditions to stop the mad rush once again, of who puts profits in
the life and liberty of all.
It 'time to stop believing in fairy tales, in Santa Claus bringing gifts.
They told us that the movement is a table with three legs, the mayors, the popular
movement and technicians.
On December 8, is a good opportunity to remember that the tables serve to stand still and
sitting people. To win needed good legs. It takes two. Those men and women who stand firm
on their own.
A simple truth that we learned in that distant December, as we descended on icy paths to
become protagonists of a story that we never tire of telling yet.
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