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16 ottobre
2002 McWorkersDay Report  The McStrike went well. At least 300 people showed up: among them two unions, two squats, and one city councilman. It was front page in two leftist dailies and then became indymedia italy news of the day. Local and national TV was there. During the night many chains (Mc and otherwise) had been visited by the self-proclaimed Silicon Brothers. There were minor sabotages and major protests in front of MickeyDs also in Turin, Rome, Bologna, Padua, and other cities. I got to Duomo at 4:30 with fellow workers-activists from Auchan (a hypermarket chain). We had leaflets and posters in both English and Italian plus many giant slogans we plastered all over. Two members of the CreW were already inside the place disguised as consumers. They distributed union material and then were kicked out. But other people managed to get in before we completely blocked the place. Then a soundtruck came and the action got going. We pressed forward and blocked the street. Gaspare the union delegate fired last month from that McD made a speech. I did, too. There were some pushes and shoves with the riot cops when we closed in the picket line. But nothing major. Then there were some kamikaze eggs that thought better crashing against the McD sign rather then growing up as McNuggets (we had a little situationist theater about it). Then we downloaded heavy-duty junk in front of the store ("they make trash out of our rights") and suspended a long chain in front of the store saying: STRIKE THE CHAINS. At 8pm we disbanded, while three of us of the CreW went to a union debate. The only problem was that during the night some agent provocateur threw a molotov cocktail against a McDonald, and so the press tried to associate the two events in their articles. Fuck'em. Resoconti dal mondo: http://www.geocities.com/globaldayofaction/ Leggi appello |
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