Our appeal comes to you from the heart of Southern Italy, from a vast area located on the border between Puglia and Lucania, at a unique moment in history when approximately half the world's population lives in a climate of war, whether open or creeping, in which millions of people are condemned to live oppressed, in conditions of poverty and extreme suffering. ---- Wars, in fact, are increasingly shaping the destructive capabilities of conflict in a militaristic sense, with the use of ever more sophisticated technologies placed at the service of global capitalism, responsible for environmental destruction and civilian massacres, to the point of committing, amid the indifference or complicity of so-called democratic governments, actual genocide.
Our appeal comes to you from a land devoted to peace yet still forced to host war exercises, through a widespread and diversified presence of the Armed Forces on land, sea, and air: from the military airport of Amendola to those of Gioia del Colle, Galatina, and Brindisi, to the military port of Taranto; from the numerous military easements located throughout Puglia to the shooting ranges in the Alta Murgia National Park.Our appeal comes to you from a historical and environmental landscape of inestimable value, yet still continually plundered and devastated by powerful interests and widespread illegality, by indifference and institutional responsibility. Seventeen areas have been identified as suitable (sic!) for the construction of a single national repository for nuclear waste, while the current government fears the absurd intention of building new nuclear power plants...
Our appeal seeks to reconnect with the many protest initiatives of yesterday and today, and aims to consolidate the wealth of experience gained within a rich and diverse movement: from the Gravina-Altamura marches to Scanzano Ionico; from the protection of a landscape of stones and centuries-old olive trees to the rejection of wars and military bases in the area, to the defense of the Adriatic and Ionian coasts from the onslaught of concrete and dangerous forms of pollution and degradation.
We address all the women and men committed to defending the quality of life and work from the blind and irreversible attacks of the powerful and the crafty; to those who practice grassroots politics and aim to implement concrete and lasting projects for the benefit of the community.
We address those who oppose old and new forms of colonialism that, with brutality and a mockery of every right, appropriate social wealth and global energy sources.
We address the women and men who fight against barbed wire borders and who reject any form of criminalization against those forced to leave their homelands to escape death or hunger.
We address that archipelago of diverse sensibilities that, united, has achieved significant successes that, however, remain provisional today. This is the case of the Alta Murgia National Park, established over twenty years ago but which has not grown as we hoped. Faced with these and other open questions, both large and small, we feel the need to create another decisive moment of discussion, to socialize and strengthen projects and experiences, and to firmly represent them to the institutions that govern our territories.
Participating in the Gravina-Altamura March on October 24, 2026, means reuniting what power divides: peace, the environment, jobs, freedom of movement, and territorial self-determination. To reaffirm our opposition to all wars and any form of absurd rearmament, in accordance with Article 11 of the Constitution.
From the bottom up, together, for a South that is neither a military rearguard nor a landfill, but a space for peace, solidarity, and resistance.
Promoting Committee
March 2026
Gravina - Altamura
https://umanitanova.org/territori-resistenti-in-marcia-contro-guerra-e-sfruttamento-ambientale/
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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