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


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