“Genoa 2001, were the days of fear” – Chronicle
Genoa 2001, The death of Carlo Giuliani, The clashes, The Black Block. Genoa 2001, the Diaz, Bolzaneto. Genoa 2001, the movement, the demonstrations, the debates, ‘Another world is possible’, the ideal attacks on neoliberalism, ideas. Genoa 2001, the trials, the convictions and, more than twenty years later, the relevance of those requests, the worsening of those problems, the need to make that ‘world possible’ absolutely ‘necessary’. This is the path taken by Lorenzo Guadagnucci, in recent days in Ficarolo, on the occasion of the presentation of the book ‘The eclipse of democracy’, written in four …
Genoa 2001, The death of Carlo Giuliani, The clashes, The Black Block. Genoa 2001, the Diaz, Bolzaneto. Genoa 2001, the movement, the demonstrations, the debates, ‘Another world is possible’, the ideal attacks on neoliberalism, ideas. Genoa 2001, the trials, the convictions and, more than twenty years later, the relevance of those requests, the worsening of those problems, the need to make that ‘world possible’ absolutely ‘necessary’. This is the path taken by Lorenzo Guadagnucci, in recent days in Ficarolo, on the occasion of the presentation of the book ‘The eclipse of democracy’, co-written with Vittorio Agnoletto. The initiative promoted by ‘Polesine Progressista’ with the support of the Anpi section. Solicited by the reflections of Giulia Michelini, professor of History and Philosophy, Lorenzo Guadagnucci, journalist of ‘Il Resto del Carlino’ and, despite himself, a direct witness of the violence suffered by 93 women and men within Diaz, brought to the attention of those present, through a journey back in time, between disappointments and hopes, trials and sentences, struggles and battles, silence, misdirection. “Because – says Michelini – ideas are dangerous, because talking and discussing ‘another possible world’ questioned the state of things and even today, more than twenty years after that experience, it seems that the only result it has been immunizing the world not from a dangerous virus but from ideas that are obviously much more dangerous than a virus. or they have so far prevented the reappearance of a movement capable of, as it is presented in the book, constitutes itself and reappears as a new subjectivity “. “In Genoa – Guadagnucci – there were many people who had no experience of political militancy behind them. It was a beginning, many young people but not young people who in Genoa also said they felt part of a great political movement. Finding themselves in such a great conflict, with the institutions, with the police forces, to feel physical fright because, as far as I know, no one, even passing through Diaz or Bolzaneto, has returned from Genoa calmly. Everyone was afraid. Whoever was in Genoa on 21 July is was shocked by what he saw, by the aggression, the fear of the police, the helicopters firing tear gas from above. I think it is equally important and serious that this preventive criminalization, which is basically what happened, you that you propose a political movement and I confront you by saying that you are a threat because this is how Genoa was prepared, with the expectation of violence from the demonstrators and an organic response ni zzativa adequate to that type of threat that was feared. It was thus possible to liquidate a package, the movement, its way of acting but also its ideas and proposals. “Genoa 2001, however you think about it, a dark moment for democracy.
Sandro Partesani
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