Anti-nuclear Camp in Lecce — Italy

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Italy – Lec­ce

20 – 23 AUGUST IN SALENTO, NUCLEAR CLIMATE CAMP

In the con­text of the social and envi­ron­men­tal resis­tance, typ­i­cal of the pop­u­lar strug­gles in Italy, a series of expe­ri­ences, sub­jec­tiv­i­ties and col­lec­tiv­i­ties emerged in the Autumn of 2008 in oppo­si­tion to the gov­ern­ment project to restart the Civ­il Nuclear pro­gramme.

Although a decade of grass­rots strug­gles and the ref­er­en­dum of 1987 led to the clos­ing of pow­er sta­tions and the nuclear pro­gramme, on 2th july 2009 the Cam­era (ital­ian par­lia­ment) approved the “DDL Svilup­po-pac­chet­to anti­crisi” that con­tains the reopen­ing of nuclear pow­er sta­tions. In the next 6 months, the gov­ern­ment will announce the sites, declared of “strate­gic-mil­i­tary inter­est”, in order to avoid clash­es with Local Author­i­ties: a open dec­la­ra­tion of war against the pop­u­la­tion!

After one year of meet­ings and pub­lic ini­tia­tives, that gave birth to the Nation­al Anti-Nuclear Coor­di­na­tion health-envi­ron­ment-ener­gy , the Pugliese Coor­di­na­tion is orga­niz­ing a resis­tance camp, in August in Salen­to, con­vivial days of “pizzi­ca” folk music and ded­i­ca­tion to the cause. The Pugliese Coor­di­na­tion was set up in 1985 to fight nuclear instal­la­tions in Puglia, and oth­er parts of Italy. Already, even before Cer­nobyl, in 1985, the move­ment was reject­ing the nuclear in Puglia.

The resis­tance camp will take place from 20th to 23rd of August in the “Masse­ria Fat­tezze”, 2km away from Ionio sea/Cesareo sea­port: this peri­od also sees the “Notte del­la Taran­ta”, that takes place in var­i­ous parts of Salen­to, fin­ish­ing the 22th of August in Melpig­nano.
We have choosen this site, a well know cul­tur­al ref­er­ence in Salen­to, because it wont cost to you to enter, but it will cost 5 euros per day and there’s a kitchen that will cook tipi­cal salen­tine food.

The resis­tance camp will basi­cal­ly focus on nuclear ener­gy and fos­sil-fuels, but will be also dis­cuss oth­er issues on the autum­nal polit­i­cal agen­da: the cri­sis, pre­ca­ri­ety and incomes, racism, “major-works” from the TAV to the Bridge over the Straits, from motor­ways to drilling, from incin­er­a­tors to regas­si­fi­ca­tors, so all that kind of things that are the con­ti­nu­ity of a mod­el that has left only death and destruc­tion over the ter­ri­to­ries.

The camp will also focus on the Inter­na­tion­al sit­u­a­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly on the lib­er­a­tion strug­gle in Pales­tine, Kur­dis­tan, Nige­ria.

The gen­er­al pro­gramme is:

Thurs­day 20th August
6:00pm Intro­duc­tion to the camp, and about cur­rent sit­u­a­tions
7:30pm Inter­na­tion­al overview

Fri­day 21th August
6:00pm Cri­sis: Work, pre­ca­ri­ety, income
7:30pm Com­mon goods – region­al ener­gy plan

Sat­ur­day 22nd August
6:00pm Anti-nuclear assem­bly and ener­gy choic­es

Sun­day 23rd August
6:00pm “Field-trip” on the nuclear select­ed site, in Ave­trana
9:00pm Par­ty with Salen­tine music

Pugliese Coor­di­na­tion / Nation­al Anti-Nuclear Coor­di­na­tion health-envi­ron­ment-ener­gy

boboaprile@tiscali.it
tel. 0039368582406