Genoa, dockers’ strike against the transit of weapons: “We do not want to be complicit in massacres, the law applies”
A membership of over 80% in the planned terminals of the port of Genoa dove the Usb base syndicate has its delegates and a block at the crossing of the Ethiopia Bridge, from the first light of dawn this morning, has disputed once again the boss transit of armaments from the Port of Genoa. “To move in this fight, today more than ever – he explains Josè Nivoi – it’s ethical responsibilities that we feel in fighting a military escalation, but also questions related to safety of a commercial and tourist port, a few meters from the town, which cannot be transformed into a military logistics hub “. In the past, when even the CGIL had raised the problem, it had been established that no more weapons are left loaded from the port, the problem remains tanks and missile systems that pass through the port of Genoa: “What we are witnessing is also an open violation of law 185 of 1990 – underlines the Genoese pacifist historian Norma Bertullacelli – also the result of the commitment of the anti-militarist, pacifist and non-violent movement of this city, which prohibits the export and transit of weapons towards war scenarios ”. While politics, at a local and national level, seems to be turning away from the other question, the archbishop of Genoa will ask the Port Authority for a timely verification of the destinations of the arms loads from the Genoese terminals. Marco Tascatogether with the Autonomous Collective of Port Workers, Agesci and various other acronyms of the pacifist and nonviolent world, which for this purpose, on Saturday at 3 pm, called a city procession from the cathedral of San Lorenzo to Palazzo San Giorgio.
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