Vanja Zanko
> On 18.01.2016., at 16:53, claudia bernardi <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > *** > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > oberlist mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
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