A-Infos (en) Italy, Anarres: Always on the move - Turin: showcase for tourists and city of weapons (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Thursday 28 November at 9 pm in Corso Palermo 46 Presentation of the 
booklet ---- Francesco Migliaccio and Maria Matteo will be in 
conversation ---- It was the capital of the car. Today Turin is crossed 
by two parallel transformative processes: the showcase city and the city 
of weapons. ---- The slow but inexorable escape of Fiat has decreed the 
decadence and impoverishment of the city. On the ruins of that history, 
the municipal administrations of the last twenty years have tried to 
build, with alternating success, "the showcase city for major events", a 
choice with devastating political and social consequences, because it is 
based on violent strategies of social control and exclusionary 
redevelopment interventions: an increasingly clear dynamic of 
gentrification. (...)

The urban transformation has affected both former industrial areas and 
neighborhoods significantly inhabited by a racialized and poor population.
The city government has chosen not to prepare tools to mitigate the 
social impact of the choices made, delegating their management to the 
police and the military. If anything, they fund "friendly" associations 
and cooperatives to transform poverty into exoticism for tourists, 
intercepting and finding complicity among the nascent immigrant 
bourgeoisie and in the dense clientelistic undergrowth of social 
associations and cooperatives. (...)

Today, Turin is one of the centers of the aerospace war industry. (...) 
The definitive decline of the automotive sector has triggered a process 
of reconversion that has been directed towards the war industry. (...)

Seventh in the world and fourth in Europe, with a turnover of over 16.4 
billion euros, 47,274 employees, the aerospace industry is a huge 
business of death.
A good part of the Italian aerospace companies are located in Piedmont. 
The production sectors are closely connected with the universities, 
first and foremost the Polytechnic, and other training sectors. (...)
The City of Aerospace, a center of excellence for the aerospace war 
industry promoted by the arms giant Leonardo and the Polytechnic 
Subalpine, will be built between Corso Francia and Corso Marche. (...)
The City of Aerospace is actively supported by the city government, the 
regional government and Confindustria.
The various business and political actors support the project by playing 
the blackmail card of employment, in an increasingly poor city, where 
making ends meet is even more difficult, where health, education, 
transportation are increasingly a privilege for those who can pay.
It is a perverse logic that sees the war industry as the engine that 
will make our city more prosperous. A war economy only produces more war.

Countering the birth of the new war hub in Turin is not merely ethical 
opposition to capitalist and imperialist wars, but also a necessary step 
to rethink urban space and those who live there, as a place of denial of 
the hierarchical dynamics underlying the opaque city of aerospace and 
the glittering showcase of major events. (...)

"Always on the move", the slogan coined by the Chiamparino 
administration for the 2006 Winter Olympics, which ended with abandoned 
facilities and debts, is the emblem of a city where, always on the move 
there are thousands of precarious workers always on the move to make 
ends meet.

The booklet, the second of the Anarres notebooks, was edited by the 
Antimilitarist Assembly and the Turin Anarchist Federation

The meetings, open to all interested parties, are every Tuesday at 8 pm 
in Corso Palermo 46.

https://www.anarresinfo.org/always-on-the-move-torino-vetrina-per-turisti-e-citta-delle-armi-2/
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