Monday, January 4, 2010

Pittsburgh Penguins Shorts

No Bridge: on some issues that concern us.

Louis Sturniolo

1. The year 2009 is gone with the death of Franco Nistico, a death that reveals, at the same time, the state of democracy in a country, Italy, in which the right to demonstrate is definitely crushed by the will of government play all on the level of public emergency situation and the climate and the nature of the policy of the great works for which the concentration prevails unproductive investment offer of services to citizens.

2. The year 2009 began with the re-launch the bridge over the Strait and, consequently, with the resumption of the protest against this hypothesis. That was not easy to track the conditions that led to tens of thousands of people march January 22, 2006 in Messina was quite predictable. In fact, it was even more difficult. The fear of not being able to reproduce that level of mobilization, having exhausted the long wave of anti-globalization movement which had provided ample availability of activists, the interpretation by some, the initiative of the Berlusconi government in terms of major works, all in an ad-effect were factors that have challenged the opportunity to enjoy again the size of "square".
The facts are then shown a willingness to be higher than what was expected by some. Although some journalists a bit 'provincial and little accustomed to treating the dynamics of the movement (as if to comment on a tennis match that was sent a stranger who is easier to point to your service on the opponent) has given guest by "slating" the eight events in August for the streets of Messina, Torre Faro of one in December and 19 December in Villa San Giovanni were very encouraging in terms of participation and mature in terms of content. The August 8, in fact, we had the most participation ever summer event in Messina, December 1 repeated the traditional numbers of Torre Faro on weekdays in winter and cooler in the evening on a platform featuring very politically , and December 19 has doubled the numbers of the largest demonstration so far no bridge took place in Calabria. It would have been enough that at least some of those who participated do not believe or even have rowed against it were a bit busy 'to get results even more significant. It should, finally, that the maturation of the contents on which were built events that have evolved from a plant essentially environmentalist / defensive one vertenziale / territorial.

3. The Network is No Bridge to the entity which operated the route of the protest. Born in 2005 as an aggregation of a temporary nature (such as a suffix which reported 2005) ended up being really stable (especially in front of the evaporator of the other pathways of aggregation). Founded as a network of organizations, the restart was redefined as a network of activists, with intent non rappresentativi, con la volontà, almeno negli intenti, di essere soggetto parziale, parte tra le parti. Nata, fondamentalmente, sulla sponda messinese è stata, in occasione della manifestazione del 19 dicembre, fatta propria dalla rete di attivisti calabrese, con una modalità che ha dato ragione della sua natura open source, non proprietaria.
L’avere abbandonato la dimensione di coalizione di organizzazioni ha dato alla Rete una maggiore stabilità (non dovendo dilungarsi in continue mediazioni, tipiche delle strutture a carattere rappresentativo), ma, allo stesso tempo, l’ha, soprattutto sulla sponda messinese (il lato calabrese, d’altronde, solo adesso potrà portare a verifica il percorso, essendo stati finora assorbiti dall’organizzazione del corteo del 19 dicembre) ridotta ai minimi termini dal punto di vista della disponibilità militante, restando questa (seppur, in assoluto, comunque, ridotta) a totale appannaggio delle organizzazioni (associazioni ambientaliste, partiti, sindacati). Non si è, in sostanza, formato un popolo del no ponte (come avviene invece per il No Tav o No Dal Molin). E’ rimasta la dinamica tradizionale di un ristretto numero di organizzatori (sempre più ristretto) che scommette ogni volta sulla riuscita del corteo.
Vanno, inoltre, aggiunti, tra gli aspetti negativi, le forti critiche che la Rete ha subito (tra l’otto agosto ed il prino dicembre) riguardo alla his alleged excessive politicization.
In short, the moment of his greatest recognition as a subject Motor mobilization (including the media level) the network is at its minimum of political and organizational strength.
You can not, from this point of view, that give back to the motion to be rechecked ways, shapes, styles and approaches. Hopefully, of course, that those who have maintained a comfortable attitude borderline assume responsibility to take a position and so that those who said they needed a transversal of the battle no bridge take charge of creating a real collective paths.

4. Finally, there remains the question of the interpretation of the operation Strait Bridge. And 'evident by now that there are at least two approaches are quite far apart: one that defines the bridge as a process of gradual transfer of resources from public to private and another that checks the approach of its constructability as artefacts crossing . It will be useful, in my view, a greater explanation of the various readings since these depend on different strategies in opposition to the Bridge. In one case, it will be necessary to give battle, and now, on every step of the way the executive (even if the media hype), the other is likely to be a more reliable and willing to dismantle the plane Technical governmental lies. I think it's nullifying or not the use of terms such as bluff, joke, hoax.
I think the bridge is not a bluff, lies the Bridge already far over our heads.

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