Other than "censorship". With the excuse of black sardines Power to the People tries to take the square

Rome, Dec 16 – As we have already documented by analyzing the list of promoters, the movement of the sardines it's all but "spontaneous and nonpartisan". Now we can also say that the fish are not even inclusive and open to dialogue with minorities. After promptly withdrawing the invitation made publicly by Stephen Ogongo, one of the organizers of the Roman sardines, a CasaPound and marginalized the comrades of Power to the People from the squares of the fish shows, Mattia Santori prevented the black sardines to utter words during the demonstration in Piazza San Giovanni.

At the end of the intervention of the lider maximo of the "white sardines", a group of immigrants protested for their exclusion from the event, asking to go on stage set up in Piazza San Giovanni as agreed. After a few moments of tension and violent pushing, one of them takes the floor, but he is immediately censored by the lowering of the volume of the microphone and by the music spread at high volume.

Black sardines, an operation of Power to the People

After a few hours, the official release on Facebook of Power to the People, the creator of black sardines. Black sardines are an operation by Neapolitan left-wing extremists belonging to the former OPG and Power to the People (in the videos of Piazza San Giovanni you hear the Neapolitan accent of activists and immigrants), as confirmed by the "Giornale comunista online" Contropiano in this article. Here is a rather clear passage: "Yesterday, in Naples, a demonstration of migrants, organized with the former Opg and with Power to the People. A clever idea – that of calling themselves "black sardines" – to ride the cliches of these weeks and get out of the shadow of mainstream censorship. .

So behind the controversy over the black sardines that had to speak from the stage, there is the attempt of the social centers to "take the square". This is the statement of the black sardines, obviously immediately "re-launched" from Power to the People. "We arrived in the square in Rome this morning. So much the warmth of the people present, so many happy to see us because they feel that we want to build a New Italy together with them! When there were not yet we asked to intervene to explain the needs of black sardines. Because if it is true that the Sardines are all the same, they are of all colors, it is also true that there are those who find it difficult to take to the streets, who have no right to speak in this country, who do not have the documents … And they want to self-represent themselves, they are tired of someone talking for them! They told us that it was not possible to intervene from the stage because there was no time, in a 5-hour event! When the interventions started from the stage (interspersed with so much, a lot of music), we requested again to intervene, because it was absurd that the migrants could not intervene against Salvini on a square! At that point they accepted, putting us as the last intervention. Then Mattia Santori went on stage, who ignored us and said he would end the day. Moreover, in this intervention he said that the Security Decrees were only "rethought", and not repealed, despite the thousands of people in the square asking for more! At that point, Santori finished and they put the music. The ordering service of the event has struck and started pushing us to get away physically! And only at that point, after the people rightly protested with us, did they bring up the two spokesmen Abdel and Diakite, while under the stage they kept pushing us. As he spoke, Abdel disconnected the microphone. In Diakite they stopped talking ”.

It would therefore seem that the sardines wanted to purge the foreigners (and Power to the People) from the Roman square, perhaps because they can speak only of those previously well indoctrinated to the diktats of the movement. Once again the small fish, guided by the gray eminence Romano Prodi, they feel entitled to trample on the Italian Constitution, which is also carried as an anti-fascist trophy at every demonstration, denying the possibility of speaking to foreigners of whom they have become spokesmen, but to whom they prefer not to give direct representation in the squares.

Francesca Totolo