#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #SICILIA #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Sicilia Libertaria November 22: No Muos (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On Sunday, October 16, the NO MUOS Committee of Ragusa organized a propaganda

morning in Buccheri (SR) with the exhibition of the 50th anniversary of the
movement. The participation of the public in this small town never reached by
activists was good. The local comrades also roasted chestnuts in the square, thus
making a small sum to be allocated to the legal expenses of the movement. ---- On
the morning of October 17, a delegation from the No Muos Movement participated in
the sit-in protest against the military exercises in Punta Bianca (Ag). Here is
the press release issued today: ---- "In the Drasy polygon the exercises have
been taking place for more than 60 years, polluting the places with the spread of
heavy metals on land and at sea. Last March, after protests and complaints,
military exercises in the Punta Bianca area, which in the meantime had become a
nature reserve with the provision of establishment of the Sicilian Region last
June 23, were suspended. Then the announcement of the resumption starting from 17
October.

In addition, in all this period the necessary reclamations have not even been
carried out, nor the restoration of the damaged roads promised to the Mayor of
Agrigento as compensation for the military occupation.

Local associations such as Mareamico Delegazione Di Agrigento, Marevivo Sicily,
Legambiente Sicily together with the No Muos Movement and individual citizens of
the area then chose to demonstrate today at the entrance to the Punta Bianca Reserve.

The military did not show up and, it seems, that for the moment the resumption of
exercises is suspended. We will continue to keep our attention high so that the
area is never again occupied by the Italian and US armies for its war exercises
and to demand the reclamation and restoration of the roads damaged by them ".

Another delegation of the Movement was present on 23 October in Reggio Emilia, at
the Cucine del Popolo in Massenzatico, at the national meeting of the
Antimilitarist Assembly, where it reported on the current situation of the
struggle in Sicily. One of the central issues addressed was that of solidarity
with Ukrainian and Russian deserters, who find it difficult to leave their
countries as their borders have been closed. Initiatives are being set up in
various European countries with the aim of pushing for those who refuse to fight
for an army to be respected as an objector or left free to travel abroad. Another
theme was that of November 4, the day in which in many places the
anti-militarists will give rise to protests of the commemorative ceremonies of
the wars and the armed forces.

In Sicily, the Assembly of the Movement on October 15 launched a campaign to
challenge the militarist propaganda and patriotic rhetoric which will be the
subject of the students on the occasion of the anniversary of Italy's "victory"
in the first world carnage. The appeal circulated in schools states:

"The exaltation of the victory of the First World War, the first true generalized
imperialist conflict, responds to a nationalist and chauvinist rhetoric, which
wants to read Italy's intervention in the conflict as the completion of the
Risorgimento process. In reality, the Great War was the culmination of the
inter-imperialist tensions that had crossed all of Europe for decades; the
involvement of our country, masked by the desire to free territories with an
Italian majority, responded to the desire of Italian capitalism to participate in
the division of the imperialist booty, acquiring new territories, trade routes,
communication routes, outlets to the sea. Millions of workers were sent to
slaughter in the trenches to fight a war from which they had nothing to gain.

The economic interests that animated that conflict were the same that favored the
outbreak of the Second World War, and making a pindaric flight to the present
day, are the same ones that trigger proxy wars in this phase. Capitalism has now
reached its phase of maximum development, states are competing for the division
of the globe into spheres of influence, even at the cost of resorting to armed
conflicts. The ideological artifices used in the past to legitimize war are still
re-proposed today with the most varied pretexts: from the fight against
terrorism, to the distinction between the aggressor and the attacked country, to
"denazification". All elements designed specifically to camouflage the real
causes that push the capitalist states to make war with each other and appeal to
"National Unity" against the external enemy. "

"Every day in the places of knowledge we are bombarded by ideological operations
aimed at creating consensus around the involvement of our country in war. The
student movement has historically married anti-militarist and anti-imperialist
battles. Students of every generation have been protagonists of the mass
mobilizations against the war. It is our historical task to intervene even now,
in a phase in which the risk of a generalization of the conflict is very real. We
must guard the places of knowledge so that they are not infected by war
propaganda, or even involved in preparing for war, as is the case for many
universities in our country. There are dozens of universities that annually enter
into agreements with the military industry and with the military apparatuses of
the states. There are hundreds of projects involving students from schools and
military corps, as in the case of the convention signed last year by the Sicilian
USR with the Italian army to have PCTOs carried out in three large Sicilian
barracks. "

The Sicilian from Paternò Ignazio Maria Benito La Russa was elected president of
the Senate. La Russa is an old acquaintance of the NO MUOS Movement. In fact,
during the 4th Berlusconi government, from 8 May 2008 to 16 November 2011, he
held the position of defense minister, and as such ended up in the spotlight of
the Pentagon which, considering him a sincere and reliable friend, worked to
bring ahead of the interests of the United States within the Italian government,
also modifying some stances unwelcome by the White House.

Some background has also ended up in the Wikileaks cables, the ones that are
costing Assange extradition. From these it is clear how La Russa acted against
the national interest to favor Muos, the expansion of the Dal Molin base and
provided support to all the wars unleashed by the USA. In Sicily, in particular,
La Russa was asked to intercede with the Lombard governor to change his opinion
on the installation of the MUOS; our mission had a favorable outcome, and
Lombardo immediately changed his position by opening the door to the MUOStro.

Then the revelations caused a lot of uproar, someone even asked for the
resignation of La Russa but without results. Many have forgotten this
biographical passage from our recent career. We do not.

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