Bastille Europa
Datum: 01.02.2002
autorIn:Die Ungehorsamen
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Ende Jänner besetzten italienische Ya Basta!-AktivistInnen ein Lager in Bologna, in dem "papierlose" MigrantInnen und Flüchtlinge vor ihrer Abschiedung interniert werden sollten. Die AktivistInnen machten weite Teile des Abschiebegefängnisses unbrauchbar. In einer Erklärung argumentieren sie die Notwendigkeit und die Vorbildwirkung ihrer Aktion. (English version)
There are gestures whose impact lasts for a long time, gestures that mark the beginning of something or the passage to a new phase of conflicts, gestures made by people who are fully conscious of their values. In the morning of January 25th, 2002, we made such a gesture. We invaded a concentration camp and dismantled it piece by piece. That prison was ready to contain hundreds of human beings whose only "fault" is being "without papers".
The Center of Temporary Permanence of Bologna was disassembled and made unusable. A group of about a hundred people, European citizens, chose to disobey an unjust law, a law that regards as "illegal" the human beings who were born outside this continent as soon as they lose their jobs, ie as soon as they are no longer exploitable for the profit of European entrepreneurs. This law denies freedom of circulation and sets up ethnic camps for people awaiting forced "repatriation", people whose countries have been devastated by poverty and war.
The people who took action against the CTP in via Mattei, Bologna, asserted their right to disobey in peaceful ways a notion of legality which violates human rights and fosters barbarity by drawing distinctions between "first class" and "second class" citizens. This inhuman and unconstitutional legality was countered by the grassroots legality of the civil society, indeed, of its remnants. It was this collective consciousness that produced the radical gesture.
We acted unmasked, in broad daylight, in front of cameras and policemen. We did not harm any sentient being. We will face any political or penal consequence of what we did.
When the forces of order summoned us to surrender and give them our ID, we came out of the iron cages, hands up. Everybody was visible, recognizable and unprotected. The police charged us in cold blood. Their brutality reminded us of the Genoa days, July 20th and 21st, 2001. It was a merely punitive attack on unarmed people, an attack that caused injuries to a dozen people, including some members of the Parliament of the Republic. As a result, twenty-one Disobedients were busted and identified by the police.
We call on the civil society.
We ask you not to leave us by ourselves in this struggle for humanity. We ask you to join us and oppose this state of permanent war, creeping discrimination and utter brutality, to oppose those who want to throw into ethnic jails, both metaphorical and real, people who are escaping from misery and bombs.
We ask you to acknowledge that gesture of disobedience as an important, little step towards the recovery of equality, freedom, dignity and justice. It is worth trying even for us, the "first class" inmates of the Bastille Europe. Another world is not only possible: it is necessary.
The Disobedients
(The Disobedients /Die Ungehorsamen ist die Selbstbezeichnung des italienischen Ya Basta!-Netzwerks, das aus den autonomen Zentren/Centi Sociali kommend die Aktionsform der tute bianche/Weiße Overalls entwickelt hat.
Kontakt: yabasta@tin.it, yabasta_bo@topica.com, tpo@ecn.org.)
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