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[Marxism] The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio



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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