Dear all,
I’m writing you as ESC Self-managed Atelier is under eviction: the Municipality
of Rome has placed a resolution in order to evict Esc and privatize all the
social spaces of the city.
I invite you to sign our call to support our project and defend a different
idea of the city. It is enough to reply to this email with your name and your
affiliation, and I will add it. Many thanks!
hugs
claudia
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Defend ESC, defend the city of commons and solidarity!
We find out with dismay that a provision of the management of the Municipality
of Rome calls for the eviction of the self-managed atelier ESC. We also
discover that dozens of other social centers and cultural associations are
facing this measure.
All this is a very serious mistake, that hits to the heart of the virtues that
still survive in the city of Rome, that has always stood out for an unequalled
proliferation of self management, mutualism, and independent cultural
production.
Esc has been active in the city of Rome for over 11 years. It is a crucial
experience of radical democracy and new welfare, mutualism and solidarity.
At ESC, migrants get free legal assistance and learn Italian; freelancers,
informal, and precarious workers organize new tools of unionism and
self-defense (Councils of Freelance and Precarious Workers): Esc is a place
where people who don't have rights gain them. The Free Metropolitan University
nurtures transnational critical thinking through seminars, publications, book
launches; every year we hold a festival of independent publishers, L/ivre, that
is crossed by thousands of people: Esc is an irreplaceable safeguard against
the continuous cuts to public education and university, and to the cultural
politics; a safeguard against the neoliberal twist of education and research.
Just like Esc, many self managed spaces and associations that, at a grass
roots level, organize the welfare that the policies of austerity have
destroyed, since the beginning of the great world depression.
A target for the commissioner management of the Capital, that is so “exuberant”
that it ratifies privatization of kindergartens, suppresses supplementary pay
and refunds for public employees, shuts down dog pounds; causes both small and
wide scale employment crisis in the services and third sector.
We ask, with determination, for the Commissioner Tronca to turn back, and to
call for an immediate suspension of the eviction. What he should do, instead,
is meet the many experiences of self management, the ethical and social riches
of a city where fragmentation and solitude are growing to prevail!
We are committed to the defense of Esc, from the very first moment. In doing
so, through this call, we foster to radically rethink the practices of
government of public wealth. To make democracy of the commons prevail, means to
recognize the many experiences that, de facto, nurture solidarity networks, new
mutualism, free cultural production.
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