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Occupy Pisa: Via La Pergola evicted, the occupations continue!
In the meantime, a camp was being swiftly put up in the nearby Piazza Dante, while emergency meetings were being called. The camp is receiving an incredible amount of solidarity and interest by local residents, many of whom have attended the meetings and got involved in the project. Despite the eviction, it was decided to go ahead with all the initiatives and projects that had been planned for that day: the People’s University inauguration was moved to the Humanities Faculty of Pisa University, and saw the participation of university teachers, students, activists and local residents. At a public assembly held straight afterwards, people discussed different options to continue the struggle from the new base in Piazza Dante; other scheduled activities, such as the self-managed canteen, were moved to different places. A few days later, the Debt Advice team, that had been previously been based in the evicted building, decided to become mobile and started a tour around Pisa, stopping at symbolic places such as the local Employment Centre and the University canteen, to protest against the new government’s austerity measures. It would seem that the attempt to crush the Occupy Pisa experience has only made it stronger: phase 2 of the project is now on, in the streets! From Italy Calling: http://italycalling.wordpress.com |
PollThis summer will be called "The Summer of..."
A hundred general strikes
13%
Occupy harder, faster, better
12%
Effective organzing & praxis
12%
Four more years
30%
Total Anarchist Triumph!
33%
Total votes: 527
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Activist flash mobs are
Activist flash mobs are always lame, but my city has had some actual spontaneous flash mobs where black kids just go ham looting like such as a CVS.
Or, well, I shouldn't say they're spontaneous, I'm sure Some kind of organization/planning is involved, I'm just not privy to it...
Erm, thanks to whoever
Erm, thanks to whoever updated my post and added the picture, even though I have to confess I don't see the connection between it and my article...anyway...
I don't really care whether things sound "cool" or not any more, I've stopped caring about being cool a while ago. From what I've been reading and translating about Pisa, I think the really good thing of the mobilisations there is that it's gaining the support and involvement of "ordinary" people too, not just activist types. It's proper community organising, local residents are getting involved in the occupations and organising activities alongside activists.
Flash mobs are just a tactic, like many others. I don't think they bring about any long-term change either, if that's what you don't like about them, but it's good every now and then to take possession, even if briefly, of places that normally can only be accessed as users or visitors (such as the Council building, banks, or the Tower of Pisa in the students' protests last year).
Cheers,
Italy Calling
and what are the elephants
and what are the elephants most known for?