ITALY, NO-TAV protests: 50.000 fight against the police!
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Italy, Val di Susa, (Turino):
Heavilly resistance in the Val di Susa Valley against the planned tunnel for the TAV-high-speed train. Fascist-Style Police raids (1000 robocops have attacked 200 people, some asleep, among them: children and old people... 100s of injured people, some veryx seriously. This caused solidarity strikes at schools and at companies, and: on thursday 50.000 people managed to fight back against the police and to re-occupie the valley!
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http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/940542.php http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/940292_comment.php http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2005/12/32877.shtml http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2005/12/32891.shtml -------------------------------------------------------------
The people in the Val di Susa Region fight against the planned 54-km-long TAV-high-speed-train-tunnel because the work at the tunnel will set free uranium and asbest from inside the mountain.
The TAV will connect Lissabon (portugal) with Kiew (Ukraine) via Spain, France,.Italy, Austria and so on...
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When is it finished?
12.12.2005 06:25
Can't wait to ride this baby...
Seriously though, apart from the fact that this route is entirely fictional, do you expect people just to sit around at home and live off the land? Or are you happy with the skies being full of polluting aircraft and the roads rammed with polluting cars and lorries? High speed rail is a sensible and practical means of transport, or would you rather live between an airport and a motorway?
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@comment above:
12.12.2005 15:59
by the way: this fight is about autonomie and democracy - the people want to decide BY THEIR OWN when what and where something is built. they give a shit on governments´ decisions.
nick