AUT: n30 in Italy

["Giuliano" <acunzoli@xxxxxx>]

Hallo,

A first, partial report on n30 here around. Please, wait till tomorrow for
publication because we might get some more reports from Genoa, Turin,
Naples, Bologna, etc. -- which need to be translated.

PADUA

Friday 26

A peaceful demo in front of the GMO Exhibition "Bionova" -- attended by the
top managers of GMO companies -- was wildly attacked by the police, twice
(see my previous report on Nov. 26).

MILAN

Saturday 27

A large number of people from the anarchist/ Social Centers area joins a
grassroot trade union demonstration (not about n30) and gives it a strong
anti-globalization character, sensibilizing the workers at the demo about
the dangers of speculative "free" trade and about the "Valzer round" in
Seattle. The idea is quite successful, and workers and squatters are -- for
once -- again united against WTO.

Meanwhile, a group of "White Coveralls" (direct action group from the
zapatist/ social centers area) occupied the first and foremost McDonald's
in Milan, in piazza S. Babila, locking themselves on the building facade,
hanging enormous banners which denounced neoliberism and its effects and
distributing flyers to the amused passers-by in the irrealistic scenario
created by the music of the "Banda degli ottoni a scoppio", a squatter
music band playing popular music.

The action, undisturbed by the police, lasted a couple of hours and ended
when the grassroot trade union demo entered the San Babila square. Then, in
a sort of triumph, one representative of the White Coveralls spoke to the
demonstrants.

After that, the White Coveralls showed up in the city-wide meeting for the
closure of the prison camps for migrants, which was going on at the same
time, with a wide McDonald banner hanged upside down to symbolize the
non-food served by this multinational of rubbish food.

Monday 29

Students of the new University "La Bicocca" occupy the faculty of
"Biological Sciences" to protest against WTO and biotech food.

Tuesday 30

Permanent info tend in Largo Cairoli, a very central square, to inform the
citizens about WTO and the reasons of our protests against it -- but also
about the Narmada and Iloitz dams, the prison camps for migrants, etc.

The day ended up with a debate at the Social Center Leoncavallo with the
partecipation of Andres Barreda Marin, professor at the UNAM University in
Mexico City, which spoke about the influences of USA economy on
globalization and on the situation in Chiapas. The debate was attended by
about 150 peoples.

ROME

30 November

A group of White Coveralls occupied the HQ of the "National Committee for
Biosafety", hanging banners against GMOs and WTO. The action was promoted
by Social Centers and grassroot unions.

That's all for the moment, but hopefully tomorrow there will be more news.

Keep on trucking

Giuliano



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