The Anarchist Space 19 July does not close ---- In 2025 the Anarchist
Group C. Cafiero FAI Rome will celebrate its octogenarian in Garbatella.In August 1945, a few months after the liberation from Nazi-fascism on
25 April, the foundation of the group was announced and its inauguration
in Garbatella took place during a conference of anti-fascist anarchists
dedicated to Carlo Cafiero. In that small cellar in via Vettor Fausto 3,
on lot 13 belonging to ATER Roma (formerly IACP), generations, groups,
collectives, associations, editorial offices of newspapers and
magazines, theater companies and musical groups, artists, poets have
passed, a microcosm in the heart of this neighborhood connected with the
self-managed and self-organized cultural and political experiences in
the struggles of the international anti-authoritarian movement in a
concrete perspective of freedom and solidarity from below in Italy and
in other parts of the world. In 2011 the Cafiero Group had the need to
expand in Garbatella with the Spazio Anarchico 19 Luglio, in via Rocco
da Cesinale 16, 18 at Lot 60 (ATER Rome), to give greater space and
voice to a popular library project dedicated to Fabio Iacopucci and
anarchist archive. The animator of this new initiative was Tommaso
Aversa (Rome 1953/ Rome 2024) from Garbatella known for his militancy in
the anarchist movement which lasted over fifty years and who died last
January. The Spazio Anarchico 19 Luglio was also shared for conventions,
conferences, book presentations, film screenings, for theatrical,
musical and cinematographic initiatives, the diffusion of libertarian
and anarchist press and publishing in different languages, solidarity
projects local and international, libertarian pedagogy workshops,
condominium meetings, art workshops, art exhibitions, gift and barter
markets, solidarity and trade union offices, interviews, etc. Until now
we have lived with the voluntary contribution of the participants and
the cultural events have been strictly self-organised with free
subscription and all operated free of charge. The labor and materials
were made available free of charge and cheaply for the ten-year
renovation and maintenance of the premises which had remained open and
abandoned in disrepair for around 25 years. In recent years, the Cafiero
archive and library project has finally taken shape and has been a place
of research open to the neighborhood, also frequented by scholars and
undergraduates. In addition to conserving books and documents belonging
to or donated to the Cafiero Group, the Spazio Anarchico 19 Luglio is
hosting in its library funds also belonging to more recently dated
private collections. The responsible regional body, urged for months to
agree to a regularization of the rent for this space, is currently
failing to take into consideration the documents requested in reference
to a commissioner resolution issued by itself in 2016. Therefore, the
new general management of the relevant institution, established in the
summer of 2023, has arranged that, on Wednesday 17 April 2024, a few
days after next 25 April, the anniversary of the liberation from
Nazi-fascism, the Anarchist Space 19 July and all that which this
contains, pertaining to and/or entrusted and/or preserved by the Gruppo
Anarchico Cafiero FAI Roma, is closed and by the public force.
We consider all this unacceptable and therefore invite all the entities
that support us, the associations, the collectives, the main streaming
media to mobilize, to spread this press release and above all to speak
up, inform, take a position on what is happening. For further
information you can contact us by writing to
cafierofairoma@inventati.org. We will send updates if necessary.
Finally we appeal to intervene on Wednesday 17 April 2024 starting from
7:00 in the morning at the Spazio Anarchico 19 Luglio in via Rocco da
Cesinale 16,18 (metro B Garbatella) where a demonstration and a press
conference will be held.
Anarchist Group C. Cafiero FAI Rome
cafierofairoma.wordpress.com
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The Anarchist Space 19 July is not closing!
The Anarchist Group C. Cafiero FAI Rome had the need to expand in
Garbatella with the Spazio Anarchico 19 Luglio (lot 60) in via Rocco da
Cesinale 16 auto, recovering a space of around one hundred square meters
left in decay for around 25 years.
In continuity with the activities of the Group, already present in the
neighborhood since 1945 in via Vettor Fausto 3 at lot 13, here we have
organized conferences, conferences, book presentations, screenings,
hosted groups, spread anarchist publishing, hosted theater companies and
musical groups, local and international solidarity projects, libertarian
pedagogy workshops, condominium assemblies, art workshops, art
exhibitions, gift and barter markets, solidarity and trade union
offices, we have hosted artists, poets, a microcosm in the heart of this
neighborhood connected with the self-managed and self-organized cultural
and political experiences in the struggles of the international
anti-authoritarian movement.
As is known today, cultural events are self-organized with free
subscription and all operated free of charge. The labor and materials
for the ten-year renovation and maintenance of the premises were made
available free of charge and at low cost.
In this place we have reactivated the Fabio Iacopucci popular archive
and library project, a research site open to the neighborhood also
frequented by scholars and undergraduates. Tommaso Aversa, an anarchist
comrade who died last January, was among the promoters of this project
and in addition to conserving books and documents belonging to or
donated to the Cafiero Group, the Spazio Anarchico 19 Luglio is hosting
in its library funds also belonging to private collections more recent
dating.
Over the last decade it has been necessary to activate an administrative
and legal process with the body that owns the property, an obstacle
course, which is also requiring us to make an extraordinary financial
commitment.
Therefore we open the campaign "The Anarchist Space 19 July does not
close" and we launch this first appeal for free and conscious
subscription to all solidarity entities and individuals to take action
and support us.
You can subscribe:
1. directly by participating in our initiatives that you will find
on the cafierofairoma.wordpress.com website
2. by bank transfer made out to Associazione Culturale 19 Luglio
IBAN IT630306909606100000403028
3. for other methods write to cafierofairoma@inventati.org
Anarchist Group C. Cafiero FAI Rome
cafierofairoma.wordpress.com
https://cafierofairoma.wordpress.com/
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