The bridge is colonialism. ---- As a work functional exclusively to the
economic and political interests of the dominant classes of the North
and their local accomplices, the Strait Bridge represents a colonialist
operation. All the "theories" wasted in its support (take-off of the
economy, connecting Sicily to Europe, tens of thousands of jobs...) are
pure propaganda aimed at hiding the true aim of the operation: to
deceive the Sicilians and Calabrians, distribute economic resources to
the national elites and the industrial apparatuses involved, finance
politics, produce electoral consensus for Salvini and his circle. The
crossing of the Strait is only a pretext, but the price of this pretext
will be very expensive (and in part already is) for the populations
involved. The operation is colonialist because it aims to accentuate the
dependence of the two regions on the rich North, exacerbates their
subordination and widens the imbalance while simultaneously trying to
annihilate the southern masses, especially their capacity for rebellion.
The bridge is mafia..
Someone we don't like very much in one of his sermons said that this
bridge unites two gangs and not two coasts. The mafia's interest in the
Strait Bridge project is not new and has even entered into an
international investigation concerning the Sicilian-Canadian mafia. The
supporters of the work pretend not to know that there are no activities
in the Messina or Reggio area in the construction field that are not
influenced by the mafia or the 'Ndrangheta. By conditioned we mean both
infiltrated and directly traced back, through frontmen and money
laundering, to the families dominating the two provinces and the two
regions. Contracts, subcontracts, related industries, earthmoving,
transport, land under expropriation, all bear the mafia trademark; part
of the billions of the bridge will rain towards this system, also well
rooted in the business world in general, in that of politics and public
administration, in that of the media, even before the work sees the
light (if it ever sees it), since these are activities based on land,
the only ones that can be built in a handful of months..
The bridge is destruction. .
Environments, communities, lives, landscapes, ecological balances are
under attack by an arrogant and destructive liberalism, even before it
is constructive. The devastation that the construction sites will cause
to a vast territory which, from the center of Messina will extend over a
radius of tens of kilometers, will be irreversible; it will bury fields
and neighborhoods, beaches and waterways under mountains of concrete,
transforming one of the most important sites in the Strait area into a
cemetery of pylons, junctions, yards, shacks; its effects will hit the
Messina and Reggio area with a force greater than that of the 1908
earthquake.
The bridge is a distraction. .
This clumsy operation serves to distance the Sicilian-Calabrian
populations from the perception of their real problems, relegating them
to a subordinate function to the "great work"; if not worse, placing
their solution as an automatic consequence of the presence of the
Bridge, thus, by magic. Without the Bridge none of the primary needs of
the area will therefore be able to be satisfied. The narrative is not
only toxic, it is not only false, but it is blackmail. .
Oppose. .
Opposing the mafia, colonialism, capitalist devastation, the poison of
propaganda, means opposing the Strait Bridge. It means defending the
Sicilian and Calabrian territory, defending and reclaiming the Sicilian
insularity and the delicate geological and ecological balances of the
Strait area. It means defending the sea, the air, the land and the
health of the inhabitants. .
Opposing the Bridge is an anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist gesture;
is to demand - instead of the Bridge - immediate interventions to secure
the territory from seismic and geological risk, the latter accentuated
by climate change, drought, fires, depopulation of towns and
countryside, in turn at the origin of a spiral of unprecedented social
desertification; it is to demand infrastructures with low or no
environmental impact for the connections of the mountain villages, and
of the entire island with efficient and finally modern railways; require
the crossing of the Strait with a fleet of modern, fast ferry ships,
equipped to accommodate trains suitable for short and essential
maneuvers (projects that have existed for years in RFI's drawers but
deliberately blocked); demand radical interventions on water for the
countryside, cities and towns. All objectives capable of causing
virtuous cycles of social, employment and collective well-being
revitalisation, a brake on emigration, and opportunities for those who
have had to leave to return. .
The fight against the Bridge is yet another opportunity offered to
Sicilians to develop practices of movement autonomy, of push from below,
which is also an autonomist claim, an affirmation of the desire for
self-government of the territory, of independence understood as the
desire to overturn the colonialist logic through a process of liberation
capable of separating the interests of the people who suffer and suffer
every type of exploitation and humiliation, from those of the
bourgeoisie, mafia or "secular" who, in the territories concerned, or
from the heights of capitalist-colonialist domination, demand to be able
to continue to decide the fate of the popular masses and the urban and
social environments in which they live. .
This is a long process, to be addressed in synergy with the paths
initiated some time ago against the militarization of territories,
against the harmful effects of industrialization, against the
privatization of public water, against the transformation of Sicily into
an energy hub for multinationals and the rich areas of Northern Italy
and Europe, against the dismantling of healthcare and essential
services, against segregationist and murderous policies towards migrant
people. The unity of the many against for a common objective: building
the social revolution in Sicily and in the South day by day.
Pippo Gurrieri
https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
_________________________________________
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economic and political interests of the dominant classes of the North
and their local accomplices, the Strait Bridge represents a colonialist
operation. All the "theories" wasted in its support (take-off of the
economy, connecting Sicily to Europe, tens of thousands of jobs...) are
pure propaganda aimed at hiding the true aim of the operation: to
deceive the Sicilians and Calabrians, distribute economic resources to
the national elites and the industrial apparatuses involved, finance
politics, produce electoral consensus for Salvini and his circle. The
crossing of the Strait is only a pretext, but the price of this pretext
will be very expensive (and in part already is) for the populations
involved. The operation is colonialist because it aims to accentuate the
dependence of the two regions on the rich North, exacerbates their
subordination and widens the imbalance while simultaneously trying to
annihilate the southern masses, especially their capacity for rebellion.
The bridge is mafia..
Someone we don't like very much in one of his sermons said that this
bridge unites two gangs and not two coasts. The mafia's interest in the
Strait Bridge project is not new and has even entered into an
international investigation concerning the Sicilian-Canadian mafia. The
supporters of the work pretend not to know that there are no activities
in the Messina or Reggio area in the construction field that are not
influenced by the mafia or the 'Ndrangheta. By conditioned we mean both
infiltrated and directly traced back, through frontmen and money
laundering, to the families dominating the two provinces and the two
regions. Contracts, subcontracts, related industries, earthmoving,
transport, land under expropriation, all bear the mafia trademark; part
of the billions of the bridge will rain towards this system, also well
rooted in the business world in general, in that of politics and public
administration, in that of the media, even before the work sees the
light (if it ever sees it), since these are activities based on land,
the only ones that can be built in a handful of months..
The bridge is destruction. .
Environments, communities, lives, landscapes, ecological balances are
under attack by an arrogant and destructive liberalism, even before it
is constructive. The devastation that the construction sites will cause
to a vast territory which, from the center of Messina will extend over a
radius of tens of kilometers, will be irreversible; it will bury fields
and neighborhoods, beaches and waterways under mountains of concrete,
transforming one of the most important sites in the Strait area into a
cemetery of pylons, junctions, yards, shacks; its effects will hit the
Messina and Reggio area with a force greater than that of the 1908
earthquake.
The bridge is a distraction. .
This clumsy operation serves to distance the Sicilian-Calabrian
populations from the perception of their real problems, relegating them
to a subordinate function to the "great work"; if not worse, placing
their solution as an automatic consequence of the presence of the
Bridge, thus, by magic. Without the Bridge none of the primary needs of
the area will therefore be able to be satisfied. The narrative is not
only toxic, it is not only false, but it is blackmail. .
Oppose. .
Opposing the mafia, colonialism, capitalist devastation, the poison of
propaganda, means opposing the Strait Bridge. It means defending the
Sicilian and Calabrian territory, defending and reclaiming the Sicilian
insularity and the delicate geological and ecological balances of the
Strait area. It means defending the sea, the air, the land and the
health of the inhabitants. .
Opposing the Bridge is an anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist gesture;
is to demand - instead of the Bridge - immediate interventions to secure
the territory from seismic and geological risk, the latter accentuated
by climate change, drought, fires, depopulation of towns and
countryside, in turn at the origin of a spiral of unprecedented social
desertification; it is to demand infrastructures with low or no
environmental impact for the connections of the mountain villages, and
of the entire island with efficient and finally modern railways; require
the crossing of the Strait with a fleet of modern, fast ferry ships,
equipped to accommodate trains suitable for short and essential
maneuvers (projects that have existed for years in RFI's drawers but
deliberately blocked); demand radical interventions on water for the
countryside, cities and towns. All objectives capable of causing
virtuous cycles of social, employment and collective well-being
revitalisation, a brake on emigration, and opportunities for those who
have had to leave to return. .
The fight against the Bridge is yet another opportunity offered to
Sicilians to develop practices of movement autonomy, of push from below,
which is also an autonomist claim, an affirmation of the desire for
self-government of the territory, of independence understood as the
desire to overturn the colonialist logic through a process of liberation
capable of separating the interests of the people who suffer and suffer
every type of exploitation and humiliation, from those of the
bourgeoisie, mafia or "secular" who, in the territories concerned, or
from the heights of capitalist-colonialist domination, demand to be able
to continue to decide the fate of the popular masses and the urban and
social environments in which they live. .
This is a long process, to be addressed in synergy with the paths
initiated some time ago against the militarization of territories,
against the harmful effects of industrialization, against the
privatization of public water, against the transformation of Sicily into
an energy hub for multinationals and the rich areas of Northern Italy
and Europe, against the dismantling of healthcare and essential
services, against segregationist and murderous policies towards migrant
people. The unity of the many against for a common objective: building
the social revolution in Sicily and in the South day by day.
Pippo Gurrieri
https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
_________________________________________
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