#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Italy, FAI Rome & Lazio: Demonstration in Civitanova Marche (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Yesterday, Saturday 6 August, as a group Mikhail Bakunin - FAI Rome & Lazio,

within the Black Lives Matter Rome path and then the Italian Antiracist
Coordination, we participated in the national demonstration called in Civitanova
Marche in response to the murder of Alika Ogochukwu. ---- A very hot square and
not only from the climatic point of view, but also with a very varied and
extremely heterogeneous composition that saw the participation of about two
hundred people. The departure of the procession was scheduled for 2 pm but
already half an hour before the concentration square had warmed up, both for the
numerous interviews that the journalists were preparing to submit to the victim's
wife, to some members of the Nigerian community, to the trade unionist Aboubakar
Soumahoro and the lawyer of the Ogochukwu family, both for the various statements
that were gradually released, with an almost provocative attempt by a significant
component of the march to eliminate the racist theme from the demonstration. This
attitude has increased the already foreseeable internal tensions that exploded
when the Nigerian community decided both to leave without waiting for the arrival
of buses from various regions of Italy (which were carrying several militants of
the Antiracist Coordination) and to welcome an intervention by the mayor.
Fabrizio Ciarapica at the end of the procession.
This forcing led first to an animated discussion between the various components,
then to a physical split and finally to two processions with very different
thematic contents. Thus, while the first procession was characterized by the
presence of Alika's wife and the institutional intervention, the second (where we
were present), which started only when the first demonstration was practically
over and the mayor had gone away, it was characterized by a strong denunciation
of systemic and institutional racism, by a significant presence of racialized and
anti-racist people and by various anti-authoritarian interventions with an open
microphone.
The anti-racist interventions and slogans followed one another all the way up to
the arrival in front of the place where Alika was killed and from there new
coordinated fights were launched and an invitation to continue a unitary
anti-racist project.
We believe it was extremely important to participate because in addition to the
energy, emotion and strength it transmitted, various issues of cultural and
institutionalized racism were addressed, both at a territorial, national and
international level. There have been various testimonies from many parts of the
world and the clear and explicit participation in processes of self-organization
and coordination in an anti-racist path that reflects the work that, as a group,
we have been carrying out for some time.
With the hope of participating more and more in paths of liberation from the
dynamics of systemic racism and exploitation.
Mikhail Bakunin Group - FAI Rome & Lazio

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