#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Italy, Gr. Anarc. Carlo Cafiero Bari: 40 years ago, 10-31 August 1982, Palagiano-Chiatona - Bosco Marinella (Taranto): ANARCHIST ANTINUCLEAR CAMPING (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Anarchist magazine first published the news of the initiative (P.F. Anarchist

magazine - year 12 no. 103 summer 1982) and then an account of the "Anarchist
Antinuclear Campsite" (Anarchist magazine - year 12 no. 106 December 1982-January
1983) which was held in Chiatona, near Taranto, in August '82, organized to
counter the decision of the regional government to impose an energy plan that
provided for the construction of a coal-fired power plant in S. Pietro Vernotico
and a nuclear power plant in Carovigno or Avetrana. ---- The report highlighted
the difficulties that the camp participants found in trying to establish contact
with the local population, to make them understand their refusal to nuclear
power, but also the positive aspects identified in the self-management experience
that the members of the camping went on for twenty days.

The campaign against the establishment of nuclear power plants in Puglia,
conducted in those years by the anti-nuclear movement and of which the Apulian
anarchist movement was a part, and, above all, the 'Chernobyl disaster' of 1986,
contributed to the success of the 1987 abrogative referendum. (it contained three
norms concerning nuclear power) promoted by the Radical Party.

"Report of the" Anarchist Antinuclear Campsite "(Anarchist magazine - year 12 nr.
106 December 1982-January 1983)

An anti-nuclear campground
by AA. VV.

At the end of the Anarchist Antinuclear Campsite, which was held in Chiatona,
near Palagiano (Taranto), last August, two documents were approved: one of a
general nature on the nuclear issue, with references to the Apulian situation,
which is it was published in the weekly Umanità Nova (N. 33 of 14.11.1982); and
another that we publish on these pages. This is the report of the camp, from
which emerge the "successes" and difficulties that the comrades who gave life to
the initiative went through. This document illustrates other paintings by Jad,
the anarchist committed against nuclear tests in Polynesia, which is mentioned in
the previous pages.

The decision to organize the camp was taken following various meetings between
the Apulian comrades on the theme of the fight against nuclear power and coal,
also considering the decisions of the regional government to impose an energy
plan that provides for the construction of a coal plant, whose land has already
been fenced and expropriated, in S. Pietro Vernotico (BR), in the locality of
Cerano, and of a nuclear power plant in Carovigno or Avetrana (more likely), and
the speed with which this project is attempted to pass. From the meetings with
the comrades the Apulian Anarchist Antinuclear Coordination arose, which
organized an Anarchist Antinuclear Campsite in Chiatona (TA), in the Marinella
Wood for the period 10-30 / 8/1982.
The purpose of the camp was to become a meeting point for libertarian comrades
scattered throughout the various Apulian centers, without contact between them;
to discuss the problem of energy choices in Puglia, in particular, and national
ones; to begin a discussion on the intervention in the territory on these problems.

 From a technical point of view, there were considerable difficulties, due both
to the short time in which the camp was organized, and to economic problems; much
of the difficulty was also due to the lack of experience that most of the
comrades had in this regard. There were also difficulties in obtaining the
various authorizations, some of which were granted only following our
mobilization. In any case, we had set ourselves up with a view to camping even if
we had not obtained them, and without taking into account any restrictions of any
kind; so it was done, since we were not allowed the possibility of pitching tents
in the woods, which, on the other hand, were quietly set up, wherever we wanted.
A big problem was the supply of water, which had been provided to us, following
our pressing requests, by the municipality of Palagiano. But every time our water
supply ran out, we were forced to go to the mayor as a delegation, and to leave
only with the full tank truck.

It was decided in the assembly to provide the campsite with electricity and
water, for the most basic needs, and to move in the most complete self-management
perspective, in the sense of deciding with the participants in the campsite the
type of organization to be given, both for the kitchen and maintenance, which for
political management. As for the economic problem, it was partly resolved with
free contributions from the comrades who organized the camp.

Part of the money needed was advanced by many comrades and later recovered both
through the contributions of the comrades who attended the campsite, and with the
sale of stickers, prints, balloons designed by us, again on the energy issue, and
posters. In practice, about 1,800,000 lire have been advanced, of which 600,000
not to be recovered, as a contribution from the Apulian companions, and the rest
recovered during the campsite.
Once the camp had begun and an initial moment of stasis had been overcome, the
technical and political management of the camp was discussed collectively, with
all the participants present. The assembly has always been the only
decision-making moment. It was therefore decided to organize volunteer daily
shifts for cooking and maintenance, each of three companions. The kitchen shift
took care of collecting contributions for shopping - every morning - of shopping
and cooking; the maintenance shift to provide mainly water and to clean up the
campsite as much as possible. It was also decided to hold a technical assembly
every day, which however was not always held; to organize assemblies on the theme
most strictly pertinent to the campsite and to organize a series of external
interventions in the surrounding villages.

Of course, there were difficulties, due both to the lack of practice of the
companions - for example, cooking for an average of 50 people - and to the
difficulty of each of us in putting into practice our ideas about a certainly
different coexistence, and better, than what we live every day, and on
self-management.
There were also some moments of tension, caused by the mutual incomprehension
between the companions and a group of young people from neighboring countries who
attended the camp. Deliberately, the relationship was resolved not through the
expulsion of these from the campsite, but by trying to establish a clear and
correct relationship, which effectively allowed to resolve both this situation
and other similar ones that occurred within the campsite.
One of the most important experiences was made following the decision to go to
make interventions outside the campsite, in neighboring villages. There has been
much discussion on the methods to be used to communicate correctly with people,
always keeping in mind the desire not to bully anyone, but trying to directly
involve others, and make them express freely. We brought an anti-nuclear exhibit
with us, and we talked with the people about what they read, making lots of
little groups with quite lively discussions; we made drawings on the ground in
the squares, also giving free rein to our creativity; we drew colored balloons
illustrating what nuclear or coal meant to us, and sometimes we involved the
local children who drew the balloons and explained to them to us and to others
why they did not want nuclear power. However, everything has not always gone
well, because in some countries we have experienced a climate of total lack of
communication, which however has prompted us to question our ways of intervening
and to look for others. However, it was very useful, as for many it was also the
first time they faced certain situations and the debate was very rich.

The Apulian comrades have decided to define this anti-nuclear camp as anarchist
for several reasons:
- out of a need to identify and resume the initiative as anarchists, in order to
also be a point of reference for all those comrades who did not know us, and who
did not know us, in order to be able to coordinate and organize a qualitatively
better intervention;
- so as not to be confused with the already existing "cauldron" anti-nuclear
committees, where everyone is present, from the autonomous to the Christian
Democrats. or worse missini, passing through the radicals, in which no
clarification of any kind is possible on the reasons for the no to nuclear power
or coal.
We knew, however, that perhaps we would involve fewer people, but we had chosen,
for this time, the need to clarify each other and get to know each other. In
short, we wanted to know if there were, in Puglia, other anarchist comrades who
wanted to see each other and work.
At the end of the camp the balance seemed very positive. Many of us are even
still euphoric to have discovered how many Apulian comrades there are, some of
them scattered in villages, which we would never have been able to contact otherwise.

During the camp there was a lot of discussion on coal and nuclear power,
clarifying ideas and reaching a fairly high level of debate, demonstrated by a
document that came out of these assemblies, which is intended to be a starting
point for a discussion and an anarchist intervention. on the energy issue.
For most of the comrades, the camping experience was more than positive, both for
the deepening of the more strictly anti-nuclear and coal-fired issue, but also
for everything else. that is, for the spontaneous and continuous mini-assemblies
that arose in the campsite, and in which very different topics were discussed,
interpersonal relationships, trade unionism, repression, struggles of '77 / '78
and so on, and which gave to many companions the starting point to meet again
after camping and start specific interventions; for the large number of
companions that each of us has known, including foreigners (French, Swiss,
Austrians, Germans) and with whom - with some language difficulties - we have had
exchanges of important experiences on very different realities; for the different
relationships that inevitably arise between comrades and which have given
everyone a considerable charge; and, last but not least, for the experience of
self-management that for twenty days, between ups and downs, we managed to carry
on, all together, with so many contradictions, but also with a great desire to
overcome them.
A negative note was the absence of other comrades from the north, from the
center, from the editorial offices, who we thought would come. On the one hand we
are convinced that many did not know in time to organize a visit, but this
explanation is not enough. We discussed it with the few comrades from the north
present and the answer was the non-involvement in problems that, from our point
of view, do not deserve to be underestimated, both because the national energy
plan continues to move forward almost without obstacles, although it does not
foresee only coal and nuclear power plants in Puglia, but also in the north and
in the center, both because it seems to us that engaging against nuclear power
also means making an anti-militarist choice and, more generally and overall,
against everything that is attempted to impose on us - and in many, too many
cases, we manage to impose ourselves - to continue to maintain a situation of
exploitation by the ruling classes. Also for this reason a camping site seemed
useful to us to discuss and involve also and above all the other anarchist comrades.

It is for these reasons that we would like to open the debate on the document
that came out of the campsite, which we consider only a starting point, without
anything definitive or dogmatic. "
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We are Anarchists because we want Freedom.
We are Communists because we want Solidarity and Equality.

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