Saturday November 17th: in the first 'Social disobedience day against the war' students, migrants, workers, unemployed and activists from the social centres protested against the military, economic and social war thoughout the country.

Students occupied schools and universities in Rome, Milan, Trieste, Torino, Ancona, Macerata, Belluno-Feltre, Rimini, Venezia and Jesi. In Taranto, the port from which an Italian military contingent will sail to Afghanistan, students occupied the local Education Office.

In Naples, Caserta and Rome buildings have been squatted to support the struggles of migrants and refugees and to establish 'Civil society municipalties' and 'Civil disobedience workshops'.

In Treviso, a rich town in the North-East, the 'disobedients' have occupied a government building recently refurbished but kept empty for over a year. The building will become an autonomous community centre and it will be run by a hundred migrant workers who had been evicted from two squatted buildings a few days ago.

In Cosenza 2000 people including immigrants and members of the Roma community took the streets in a demo against the war organised by the Cosenza Social Forum.

In Genova, the disobedients occupied the local manufacturer association.

In Bologna the Controverso collective squatted a bank property to set up its office. In the morning the traffic was blocked in two points by groups of envorimentalists protesting against the pollution while in a square in the town centre people with sound systems reclaimed their streets.

In the border town of Gorizia, where every day hundreds of clandestine immigrants try to enter fortress Europe from Slovenia , a thousand people attended a demonstration organised by the No-Border Social Forum.

Banks deeply involved in the arms trade, arms producers, and corporations with a bad enviromental record were targeted by protesters in Palermo, Venice, Milan and Turin.

After two successfull weekends in a row "... the Berlusconi government and its supporters from the belligerent left know it: the civil society will disobey their decisions on the war adventure and the bombing of social and workers rights. Today has begun a widespread insurgency that creates consensus and will not stop" (www.disobbedienti.org).

More info: Indymedia Italy