[Nettime-nl] Fwd: [New post] Italy: You Cannot Arrest a Generation (Petition)

["A.Andreas" <a.andreas@nictoglobe.com>]

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> From: chtodelat news <no-reply@wordpress.com>
> Date: 17 December 2010 22:44:00 CET
> To: a.andreas@nictoglobe.com
> Subject: [New post] Italy: You Cannot Arrest a Generation (Petition)

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> Italy: You Cannot Arrest a Generation (Petition)
> hecksinductionhour | December 17, 2010 at 9:43 pm | Tags:  
> Berlusconi, December 14 protests, Italian police state, Italy,  
> neoliberalism, precarious workers, repression of activists |  
> Categories: activism, open letters, manifestos, appeals, political  
> repression, protests, student movements | URL: http://wp.me/pbH8F-MC
> Please sign and circulate:
>
> http://www.petitiononline.com/edu2010/petition.html
>
> http://www.edu-factory.org/wp/petition-you-cannot-arrest-a-generation/
>
> Call in solidarity with the students and precarious workers arrested  
> the 14th of December in Italy
>
> The 14th of December was another great moment of struggles in Italy.  
> One hundred thousand high school and university students, precarious  
> researchers and workers from all over Italy demonstrated in Rome on  
> the day in which it seemed a vote of no confidence would be passed  
> on the Berlusconi government. Berlusconi and the right saved  
> themselves, but in the streets of Rome and many other Italian cities  
> the movement expressed its mistrust of the government.
>
> The response of the government was a huge repression: people were  
> charged and beaten in the squares, and dozens of students and  
> precarious workers were arrested. There is only one accusation: they  
> resist the cuts to schools and university, to education and  
> research, they speak up against the theft of their future, against  
> precariousness and the lack of guarantees for their future. This is  
> a resistance of a generation of students and precarious workers, in  
> Italy as well as in Europe and all around the world.
>
> We express our indignation in face of this act for people who have  
> simply demonstrated their dissent. We affirm that we are on the side  
> of freedom of thought and freedom to demonstrate dissent. We think  
> that it is not acceptable to manage every protest as a police  
> problem. We affirm that the university is a space of freedom,  
> confrontation and the production of knowledge. We demand the  
> immediate release of the students and precarious workers who have  
> been arrested.
>
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