Snap-shots on the move. From Genoa to Hamburg and no way back

Dear all,

Below you can find the link to our latest editorial with some reflections on the Hamburg protests and the next steps of our transnational political initiative.

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Roberta, Precarious disConnections

Snap-shots on the move. From Genoa to Hamburg and no way back

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Genoa, July 2001, big mass demonstrations and riots against a G8 that claims to represent a sort of world government of globalization. The first demonstration is the migrants’ one, opened by a banner claiming freedom of movement, freedom without borders. A boy gets killed. And this cannot be forgotten. Thousands of people do not accept the simulacrum of a globalized democracy. Hamburg, July 2017, big mass demonstrations and riots against a G20 that registers the impossibility of a political government of globalization. A banner invokes the end of the war against migrants. Too many activists are still in prison. And this cannot be forgotten either. The globalization of capital has crashed every possible world political mediation. Hamburg, July 2017, the city went on strike even when it did not demonstrate and even where it did not raise up. It struck in the neighborhoods, by refusing the logics of modular repression, of arrests as a practice of massively keeping file on people, of punitive detentions. It struck against those who wanted to make of Hamburg something that it is not, but it should have been: the shiny showcase that hides the almost unsurmountable difficulties of a political government of globalization. Three snap-shots of our story that must be given back to the movement of which they are part. We could ask ourselves without nostalgia what has changed between 2001 and today…Read more

http://www.connessioniprecarie.org/2017/07/31/snap-shots-on-the-move-from-genoa-to-hamburg-and-no-way-back/