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Migrants demo in Napoli

April 25th, 2009 ·

while  in   Napoli  i   was  very  close   to  the   demonstration  in Castelvolturno,  which i  couldn’t  attend because  of  my feet  still injured and tight timings of  my trip, still i’ve gathered around some materials about it and heard from people.

it went  peaceful, mostly populated  by immigrants (lots  of Africans) and  a  few  italians  from  the  autonomous  social  center  squatter movements documenting it, also on the napolitan pirate TV “insu^tv”
mainstream  media gave ZERO  news about  it, despite  the fact  we are talking about  thousands of  immigrants demonstrating on  the streets, something that never really happened before why   demonstrating? tons  of  reasons: people  dying  weekly on  boats trying to  reach Lampedusa,  people beaten up  and burned  by fascists under  the bridges of  all Italy,  fascism uprising  everywhere… and
most  importantly in Castelvolturno  where 6  Africans were  killed by local  Camorra (Casalesi  clan)  as a  territorial  marking for  mafia activities, full story in english here:
http://www.stranitalia.com/

Pablo has  uploaded some  nice photos of  the demonstration, one year after   the  massacre,   on  his   profile  among   the   recent  ones

http://www.flickr.com/photos/17674815@N07/

this is the italian call for the demonstration

in case you  like to interview people and have more  text let me know, my friend Macedonio is real active on the Castelvolturno case greets from Austria,  on my way back to .NL,  quite shocked by several things i’ve  seen in  Italy, becoming an  extreme laboratory  where to observe the european crisis of values….

ciao

Gepetto

Tags: action · africa · Italy · migrant · news · squat

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