#raid on armando diaz

[andasignificantbreakfast]

To raid that school, the Diaz barracks*, and to make up fake evidence were not...isolated, vi*lent...rude agents. No. Were the highest ranks of Italian P*lice. / You’re digging your heels in those Genoa facts. / Yes, yes, I’m really digging in them. / I understand you, Salvo. You feel betrayed by the institution you most trusted. / No. No, no, no. I don’t FEEL betrayed. I WAS betrayed. Like all those people in the Police enforcement who has always worked with greatest honesty. / ... / I never dreamt of use vi*lence even with the worst criminal. NEVER! I never dreamt of - oh, MAKE UP FAKE EVIDENCE! OOOH!

IL COMMISSARIO MONTALBANO 5.01 Giro di boa

*actually, “Diaz” was the name of the school, while the barracks was in Bolzaneto.

[leftistfeminista]

Film about the Fascist abuses in 2001 Italy

Treatment of prisoners at Bolzaneto

Prisoners at the temporary detention facility in Bolzaneto were forced to say "Viva il duce."[15] and sing fascist songs: "Un, due, tre. Viva Pinochet!" The 222 people who were held at Bolzaneto were treated to a regime later described by public prosecutors as torture. On arrival, they were marked with felt-tip crosses on each cheek, and many were forced to walk between two parallel lines of officers who kicked and beat them. Most were herded into large cells, holding up to 30 people. Here, they were forced to stand for long periods, facing the wall with their hands up high and their legs spread. Those who failed to hold the position were shouted at, slapped and beaten.[16] A prisoner with an artificial leg and, unable to hold the stress position, collapsed and was rewarded with two bursts of pepper spray in his face and, later, a particularly savage beating.

Prisoners who answered back were met with violence. One of them, Stefan Bauer, answered a question from a German-speaking guard and said he was from the European Union and he had the right to go where he wanted. He was hauled out, beaten, sprayed with pepper spray, stripped naked and put under a cold shower. His clothes were taken away and he was returned to the freezing cell wearing only a flimsy hospital gown.

The detainees were given few or no blankets, kept awake by guards, given little or no food and denied their statutory right to make phone calls and see a lawyer. They could hear crying and screaming from other cells. Police doctors at the facility also participated in the torture, using ritual humiliation, threats of rape and deprivation of water, food, sleep and medical care.[17] A prisoner named Richard Moth was given stitches in his head and legs without anaesthetics, which made the procedure painful.

Men and women with dreadlocks had their hair roughly cut off to the scalp. One detainee, Marco Bistacchia was taken to an office, stripped naked, made to get down on all fours and told to bark like a dog and to shout "Viva la polizia Italiana!" He was sobbing too much to obey. An unnamed officer told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that he had seen police officers urinating on prisoners and beating them for refusing to sing Faccetta Nera, a Mussolini-era fascist song.

Ester Percivati, a young Turkish woman, recalled guards calling her a whore as she was marched to the toilet, where a woman officer forced her head down into the bowl and a male jeered "Nice arse! Would you like a truncheon up it?" Several women reported threats of rape.[18] Finally, the police forced their captives to sign statements, waiving all their legal rights. One man, David Larroquelle, testified that he refused to sign the statements. Police broke three of his ribs for his disobedience.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.13

1002 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre. 1093 – Battle of Alnwick: in an English victory over the Scots, Malcolm III of Scotland, and his son Edward, are killed. 1160 – Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne. 1642 – First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London. 1715 – Jacobite rising in Scotland: Battle of Sheriffmuir: The forces of the Kingdom of Great Britain halt the Jacobite advance, although the action is inconclusive. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal. 1833 – Great Meteor Storm of 1833 1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism. 1851 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle. 1864 – American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Bull's Gap ends in a Union rout as Confederates under Major General John C. Breckinridge pursue them to Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. 1887 – Bloody Sunday clashes in central London. 1901 – The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster. 1914 – Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri. 1916 – World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription. 1917 – World War I: beginning of the First Battle of Monte Grappa (in Italy known as the "First Battle of the Piave"). The Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces, despite help from the German Alpenkorps and numerical superiority, will fail their offensive against the Italian Army now led by its new chief of staff Armando Diaz. 1918 – World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. 1922 – The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King. 1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. 1940 – Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre. 1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day. 1942 – World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign. 1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles. 1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas. 1954 – Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators. 1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery bus boycott. 1966 – In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu. 1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight 533 crashes into the Seto Inland Sea near Matsuyama Airport in Japan, killing 50 people. 1969 – Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death. 1970 – Bhola cyclone: A 240 km/h (150 mph) tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night. 1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport. 1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans. 1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people. 1985 – Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor. 1989 – Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father. 1990 – In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day. 1991 – The Republic of Karelia, an autonomous republic of Russia, is formed from the former Karelian ASSR. 1992 – The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented. 1993 – China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 crashes on approach to Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport in Ürümqi, China, killing 12 people. 1994 – In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union. 1995 – Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire. 1995 – A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility. 1995 – Nigeria Airways Flight 357 crashes at Kaduna International Airport in Kaduna, Nigeria, killing 11 people and injuring 66. 2000 – Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada. 2001 – War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States. 2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441. 2002 – During the Prestige oil spill, a storm bursts a tank of the oil tanker MV Prestige, which was not allowed to dock and sank on November 19, 2002, off the coast of Galicia, spilling 63,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil, more than the Exxon Valdez oil spill. 2012 – A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific. 2013 – Hawaii legalizes same-sex marriage. 2013 – 4 World Trade Center officially opens. 2015 – Islamic State operatives carry out a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, including suicide bombings, mass shootings and a hostage crisis. The terrorists kill 130 people, making it the deadliest attack in France since the Second World War.

[lovely-cri]

"The most serious suspension of democratic rights in a Western country since the Second World War" - Amnesty International

Genoa G8 events, Jul 2001

20 years ago in Italy.

We were right. Avevamo ragione noi.

[fedtothenight]

On the night of july 21st, 2001, the protesters against the g8 taking place in genova, italy, were spending the night inside the armando diaz school, when policemen raided the building. i won’t tell you what happened there, because you can google it. but amnesty international defined the raid as "the most serious human rights suspension in europe after world war ii.” if you this doesn’t happen outside of the usa, you are wrong. 

[photoproj-blog1]

Joel Sternfeld - “Treading on Kings”

“For me, ecology and equality of all peoples are the same subject. If you have a factory and employ thousands of people under the lowest conditions or you are dumping chemicals it's the same--you have no respect for life. The economy is ruling the world.”

I first found Sternfeld on artsy.net from the first photo in the series, which was part of his work taking photos documenting American life. Then, I found “Treading on Kings,” a body of work about protesting the G8 in Genova in 2001. The 27th G8 summit in Genova, Italy in 2001 is remembered as the peak of the worldwide antiglobalization movement and for human rights crimes against protestors.

“The most important reason for me to come to Genoa is to tell people on the radio what really happens here, because official media do not tell the truth.”

In Genova, Sternfeld, as a journalist, was shoved aside and told to leave by the cops. When he turned to leave, they started beating him badly. His lawyer told him not to report the carabinieri (Italian paramilitary police), because they could find him in his home and beat him or say he did something illegal to warrant the beating.

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 21 July 2001, Italian police in Genoa raided the Armando Diaz school and attacked the mostly sleeping protesters who were staying there. Dozens of people were brutally beaten, with three put in comas. The victims were then arrested and tortured by officers, who cut the hair off several detainees with knives, and forced people to sing fascist songs and say "Viva Pinochet". After years of campaigning, 15 police officers and doctors were sentenced to jail for their abuses, however none of them were actually punished as the convictions were wiped out by a statute of limitations. None of them was convicted for torture as torture is not technically a crime in Italy. While the police got off, protesters were still being jailed as they were not covered by the statute of limitations. Here is an article about the sentences at the time: https://ift.tt/2NCa4g2 Pictured: blood on the walls of the school https://ift.tt/2Ob30Ii

[iamshannonmcfarland]

‘‘ The police indiscriminately attacked the building's occupants, resulting in the arrest of 93 protesters; 61 were seriously injured and were taken to hospital, three of them were in a critical condition and one in a coma. ‘‘