Italy: austerity is violence on the bodies of women In Rome, activist women responded to the #occupypatriarchy call ut initiated by the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The group, composed of students,…
Italy NO TAV: more protests planned for December More initiatives and protests being planned by the Italian NO TAV movement against a high speed rail line being built in the Susa Valley …
Italy: Occupy Everywhere, Occupy Everything! November 17 …And here we go again! Italy’s streets were put under occupation once again today, as part of the …
Italy: From the occupied Faculty of Humanities, Bologna Fourth year of the crisis: the Autumn of The Struggles is building up. First the huge international…
Italy: The fall of the empire Last night a huge crowd gathered outside the Quirinale where Berlusconi was giving his resignation to President Napolitano. Berlusconi was…
(Italy) The militarisation of the Susa Valley: final act Berlusconi’s moribund government has finally managed to pass a decree – with the opposition’s…
Occupy Rome – one week after One week after the now (in)famous Roman 15th October that ended up on worldwide headlines as “the only protest of the Occupy movement that ended in violence and riots”, and here we all are reading and writing about it.
Occupy Rome 15 October 2011 A summary of yesterday’s events would be useless, as I’m pretty sure by now you’ve all read the big headlines about riots and clashes with the…
Italy: NO TAV and other news updates An update on the last few weeks in Italy - NO TAV protests (against a high-speed rail link being built through communities in northern Italy), Genoa 10 years after the G8, and more.
Italy: NO TAV press conference – “This is the people’s resistance” In the midst of the riot porn that can be found on the internet about the NO TAV protests of Sunday…
Italy: An introduction to the NO TAV movement A short summary of the NO TAV (No to the High Speed Train) movement, which is based in the Susa Valley in Piedmont and which opposes the creation…
Italy: civil war in Valsusa – Repression against NO TAV movement After a crowded torchlight march on the night between June 26th and 27th, the Free Republic of the…
