[Marxism] The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Premiering next week at the IFC Theater in New York and elsewhere, the 
documentary film “The  Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio.com” begins with 
this introduction:

     The making of this film diary began shortly after September 11th 
when the Italian Prime Minister spoke of “inferior civilizations.” It 
was completed in 2006, a few months after a Minister appeared on TV with 
a shirt depicting an anti-Muslim cartoon, and the Senate president 
declared that we must defend ourselves from “half-breeds”.

While many on the Italian left chose to oppose the “war on terror” and 
the concomitant xenophobia by organizing rallies and demonstrations, 
Mario Tronco, a keyboard player for the group Avion Travel, was inspired 
to organize an orchestra made up of recent immigrants to the Esquilino 
neighborhood in Rome. As the film begins, we learn that Esquilino had 
begun to become more and more ethnically diverse, much to the chagrin of 
native Italians who regularly took to the streets to demand “Italy for 
the Italians”, etc.

full: 
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/the-orchestra-of-piazza-vittorio/

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