WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Anarres Info: Saturday 4 November: Anti-militarist demonstration (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 3.30 pm in via Roma 100 in front of the San Federico gallery,

headquarters of the Piedmont aerospace district, among the promoters of
the Aerospace and defense meetings, exhibition-market of the war
aerospace industry and of the new war center in Turin. ---- Let's
contest the city of weapons! ---- We protest the militaristic ceremony
of November 4th! ---- November 4th is Armed Forces Day. It is celebrated
on the day of "victory" in the First World War, a huge massacre to move
a border. ---- In Italy alone the deaths were 600,000. ---- November 4th
is Assassins' Day.
The uniform and the reason of state transform those who kill, occupy,
bomb into heroes.
The Meloni government wants to make it a public holiday, one more
opportunity to affirm the nationalist rhetoric and militaristic violence
which inspires the entire action of the executive.
The government uses identity rhetoric, "sacred" borders, the
glorification of war to justify enormous military spending, the sending
of weapons and Italy's direct involvement in military missions abroad,
from Ukraine to Africa .

Italy is at war.
The repression of migrants is now entrusted to the Ministry of War. They
range from measures against NGOs in the Mediterranean to the massacres
caused by the replacement of rescuers with the military, up to the
assignment to the Ministry of Defense of the construction of new CPRs in
military areas, considered part of the national security system.

Italy is at war.
Italian soldiers are engaged in 43 military missions abroad, 18 in
Africa, where they defend the interests of giants like ENI and move the
border further south to block people travelling.

Italy is at war.
Drones that manage intelligence for the Ukrainian army take off every
day from Italian, NATO and US military bases on Italian territory.

Italy is at war. A few steps from our homes, the weapons used in wars
everywhere are produced and tested. Italian troops use them in "peace"
missions abroad, Italian industries sell them to countries at war. These
weapons have killed millions of people, destroyed cities and villages,
irremediably poisoned entire territories.

Italy is at war. Every day someone dies because healthcare and
healthcare are being cut dramatically. The money intended for health,
education and local transport was spent to strengthen the military system.
A war economy produces more war. All the exploited and exploited will
pay the price.

Italy is at war. The military is increasingly present on the streets of
our cities, in the suburbs where the lines of the homeless, without
income and precarious workers grow longer. They serve to prevent and
repress any social insurgency, to silence anyone who rebels against an
increasingly ferocious social order.
Neighborhoods, schools, universities, squares, workplaces: no social
sphere is now safe from the rising militarist tide. The war being fought
in Ukraine has given a further and dramatic push towards global
rearmament with unpredictable outcomes. The war that recently exploded
again with enormous violence in Palestine risks further accelerating
this process.
Opposing war and militarism is an essential need.

November 4th is just one stage in a long November of struggle.

 From 28 to 30 November "Aerospace & defense meetings", an international
exhibition-market of the war aerospace industry, will be held at the
Oval in Turin.

The exhibition-market is reserved for professionals: factories in the
sector, governments and international organisations, members of the
armed forces, government representatives and contractor companies. The
last edition was attended by 600 companies, 1300 buyers, sellers and
representatives of 30 governments. The real fulcrum of the convention
are the bilateral meetings to forge cooperation and sales agreements: in
2021 there were over 7,500 of them.
Beehives of offices will be set up at the Oval, where commercial
agreements will be signed for weapons that destroy entire cities,
massacre civilians, poison lands and rivers. The aerospace industry
produces fighter-bombers, ballistic missiles, satellite control systems,
combat helicopters, armed drones for remote actions.
The Aerospace and defense meetings are a semi-clandestine, closed event,
where deadly games are played for millions of people everywhere.

Seventh in the world and fourth in Europe, with a turnover of over 16.4
billion euros, the aerospace industry is a huge business of death. In
Piedmont there are: Leonardo, Avio Aero, Collins Aerospace, Thales
Alenia Space, ALTEC and all related companies. They produce
fighter-bombers, ballistic missiles, satellite control systems, combat
helicopters, armed drones for remote action.
Italian weapons, with the public giant Leonardo at the forefront, are
present in all theaters of war.
On the occasion of the arms market, the foundation stone of the
Aerospace City will be laid, a new war center in the heart of Turin.

Saturday 18 November
Anti-militarist procession
2.30 pm Corso Giulio Cesare at the corner of Via Andreis

Tuesday 28 November
12 o'clock
Garrison at the Oval in via Matté Trucco 70

Against all armies for a world without borders!

Coordination against war and those who arm it

http://www.anarresinfo.org/4-novembre-nessuna-festa-per-un-massacro/
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