Milan: Social center Cox18 re-occupied!
Good news from Milan: the evicted social center Cox18 a.k.a. Conchetta has been re-occupied. After being violently evicted by cops, people have been campaigning to take their social center back. It seems they’ve had quite notable international guests in their events too: a week ago they organized a discussion with Amiri Baraka and Boots Riley (The Coup)!
This is from a message written by a Milanese activist:
it was a great emotional experience of exultation and defiance: we took it back, and they’ll never take it from us again. fascist vice-mayor decorato has suffered its first defeat in more than a decade of power: he, the serial hater of gypsies, muslims, prostitutes, autonomists, graffiti writers was humbled by the crew of cox pirates that has rocked the once proletarian neighborhood of ticinese since the 80s. last night in conchetta, it was like being re-born, as every city activist, those born in the 60s, 70s, 80s, was there happy to be free again, and vowing to defeat securitarianism once for all in milano and europe.
See their blog: http://cox18.noblogs.org/