“BODIES, PLACES, BORDERS” – Three days against the exploitation of territories 26th, 27th, 28th of June - Le Fattizze, Salento

We have witnessed the upheaval of the territory in which we live under the violence of the
logic of the State and the Market: reduced to a dumping ground for the waste of major
European industry, depopulated by employment blackmail, distorted by energy and military
infrastructures, and now sold off on the tourism market. The fact that this is an old story,
and not only ours, does not lead us to consoling resignation; rather, it encourages us to seek
complicity across and beyond that limes inhabited by others like us.
We know that colonialism, repression, and exploitation can take very different forms and
intensities, even to the point of genocide and ecocide. But we also know that there is much
that unites us, because the border—made to divide—is still a place where one can also stand
face to face, in a dialogical stance.
Rootedness and a willingness to move have enabled the development of a capacity for
sharing that we would like to experience through the concrete reality of encounter. Over the
three days, talks and debates, presentations, and excursions to explore the surrounding area
will follow one another.
We will discuss about practices of struggle, but also about subsistence and resistance, forms
of organization and ways of understanding our existance in the present.
We will present an antimilitarist journal produced in Italy, which looks from an
internationalist perspective at practices of insubordination, defeatism and sabotage of the
war machine. In continuity with this theme, we will discuss the Mediterranean space as a
space of war, with particular reference to migration routes and the city of Taranto as an
outpost of military control.
We will talk about the land and the work that binds it to men and women in the past and
present of the territories we inhabit: the resistance of peasants through revolt against the
usurpation and expropriation of their means of subsistence; the condition of agricultural
labor today, under the pressure exerted by industry for large-scale distribution.
We will talk about tourism as an industry of profit extraction, comparing the different
realities of our territories and discussing the perspectives we are able to envision.
We will discuss the border as a place of possibility: a hinge that brings communities face to
face, as in the organization of “ecoregions” such as the pre-modern Occitan one, in which
the Western Alps were a fertile site of encounter. Also, the border as a place to be crossed, a
space of suspension and danger, where solidarity and organization are essential: we will
discuss this with a comrade active on the border between Poland and Belarus.
And further, the border as a space of communication and organization among margins—a
topic that will be introduced through the presentation of the collective work “Les peuples
veulent,” a small but illuminating book that, in some way, inspired and energized the
organization of this gathering.

LIST OF TOPICS:

Taranto, Violence of Capitalism and Military Colonialism
Introduction to the discussion sessions curated by some comrades from Taranto

Migration routes in the Mediterranean basin
curated by Daniele Ratti

Presentation of the Dossier “Made in Italy. For the Industry of Genocide”
curated by the Young Palestinian Youth Movement

Presentation of the book “Revolutions of Our Times”
Collective liberation and grassroots internationalism curated by Les Peuples Veulent

Presentation of the journal “Disfare”
Reopening spaces for actions against war curated by some comrades from the editorial team

The Dissected Alps: States, Borders, Resistences
Historical overview curated by Tabor Edizioni

Resistance and Struggles along Poland – Belarus Border
curated by Bez Collective

Di terra e di chi la lavora
Stories of the exploitation of labour and the land, curated by comrades from Salento, the editorial team of *Il movente* (Sicily) and the *Campagne in lotta* network

ALL THE SPEACHES ARE GONNA BE TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH

The three-day event will be hosted at the "Le Fattizze" (Nardò - LE) a fully equipped campsite, about 5 kilometers from the
Ionian Sea, entirely self-managed and self-funded. Therefore it would be helpful for us to have an idea of the the number of participants as soon as possible.
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