In a press release addressed to the Gazzetta di Milano, school fired teacher Davide Tutino announced his peaceful appeal against the latest liberticide decrees: |
The new government restrictions against citizens without a pass come into effect today February 1, but representatives of political and intellectual society, students and civil rights activists urge large scale book distribution centres to profess civil disobedience. The members of the Resistance are going to distribute a letter in front of libraries and bookstores of 10 cities in Italy (Milan, Turin, Belluno, Treviso, Legnano, Rescaldina, Castellanza, Rignano Flaminio, Rome, Naples) inviting cultural companies to rebel and disobey. Bookstores and libraries are urged not to become accomplices of the segregationist regime, that punishes political dissidents by depriving them of fundamental rights and freedoms, which are temporarily granted only to holders of a card. [Read more]. |
Avigdor Arikha, The Library, 1975. Courtesy of WikiArt.