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2132016 ROAR Magazine
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Januar 18 2016
How to kill the demo thewater truggle in Ital
COMMON amp COOPRATION
The politic of water in Ital tarkl reveal the crii oflegitimac that i rocking government and compel uto ak how democrac can e regained
AUTHOR
AndreaMuehleach
O n Novemer 28 2015 wateractivit from the outhernItalian region of Campaniataged a maive protet in the
cit of Naple ome 5000 water activit andenvironmentalit trade unionit and
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 215
worker from Naplersquo water work proteteda recentl paed regional law that aim tocentralize water management and et thetage for water privatization
The demontration wa one in everal thatoccurred in the lat few ear Previoudemontration had een organized againt an(onl nominall) pulic water compan thatmanage water ervice in 76 Campanianmunicipalitie and that had made water priceoar and watershyhut off proliferate What watriking aout thi protet wa not onl thepreence of Naplersquo maor Luigi de Magitriut of more than thirt maor walkinghoulder to houlder with proteter Thelatter were part of a network of maor thathad een formed in 2013 to protetprivatization and to undercore theircommitment to the pulic and participatormanagement of water
One one the maor walked donningtheir green white and red maoral ahe andcarring anner emlazoned with municipalcoat of arm Potent mol of popularovereignt and elfshydetermination theeanner were eautifull emroidered withgolden crown mdash crown that mimic ancientcit wall and thu erve a reminder notonl of local overeignt ut of themunicipalitrsquo dut to protect and care for itUCRI LOGIN
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 315
425
citizen
Wh have protet involving maorproliferated in Ital in recent ear What dothe tell u aout law and democrac in anera of intene deshydemocratization Protetingmaor are a mptom of radical hift in thelandcape of political action and meaningThe provocativel poe the quetion of whorepreent the demo and how politic can tille crafted under condition where theparameter of political action have radicallcontracted and where the law itelf i anintrument of dipoeion
What proteting maor poit i a demooppoed to the privatized pulic propoedfrom aove thu pitting one moreldquoproximaterdquo part of the tate againt thoepart that man Italian conider to e ditantecaue eholden to the logic of market rule
The water movement thu offer inight notonl into the profound deshydemocratization ofthe Italian pulic phere ut alo into theremaining harpl circumcried pathwafor political action till availale from elowIt alo reveal a political philoopher Wendrown recentl put it that democrac i not apermanent achievement of the Wet It can infact e lot
AY FILM LOG
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
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RVOLUTION
In 2011 Italian rejected the privatization ofwater through a national referendum initiated one of the larget ocial coalition evereen in the countr Local water committeeunion lawer and the Catholic churchproteted not onl the compulivecompetitive tendering and privatization of allpulicl controlled local ervice includingwater uppl tem ut alo the 7 percentreturn of invetment legall guaranteed toprivate invetor oth had een ealedwithout pulic conultation the Italianparliamentrsquo 2009 Ronchi decree
In a hitoricall unprecedented move 27million Italian mdash 95 percent percent ofItalian who voted that da mdash rejected thecommodification of water and inited on iteing a ene comune (a common) that oughtto e governed democraticall and outide ofthe logic of profit
Not onl did an aolute majorit of Italianpeak out for water a a common Thereferendum alo made viile the will of thedemo peaking in union againt the emptnoie of marketization and commodification
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 515
the popular overeign ued the intrument ofthe referendum to catapult itelf onto thenational tage
All of thi happened at a momentcharacterized a maive governmentellout of aet tateshyowned companieincluding electricit ga railroadtelecommunication and highwa had eenold on the market liquidated or partiallprivatized 2008 Ital ranked econdworldwide after Great ritain in term of thevalue generated through privatized aet Itwa from within thi national context that thedemo with the help of orella acqua (ldquoiterwaterrdquo a Francican term man Italian ue toignal our human kinhip with water) pokeout to a enough
COUNTR-RVOLUTION
Four ear after the referendum it haecome clear that oth uropean and Italianpolitical elite have no intention of honoringit reult Thi i the cae even though Italianlaw precrie that arogative referendaecome law once paed Intead therevolution from elow wa met a countershyrevolution from aove mdash one that ha oughtto kill the demo and the powerful meage itconveed
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 615
Almot immediatel oth the uropeanCentral ank and the uropean Commiionurged Ital to full lieralize local pulicervice (including water) through largeshycaleprivatization oth ignored the reult of thereferendum that had haken Ital onl twomonth efore The Italian governmentreponded taking a National Authorit fornerg Ga and Water ervice (AG)with the calculation of water price Italianwater activit in turn proteted AGrsquocomplex mathematical formula arguing that itimpl reintroduced guaranteed profit forwater companie calculating the waterprice with an identical method ut uing newterminolog
The government further paed a lew ofemergenc law decree with almot noparliamentar input mdash a political cientitAdriano Cozzolino ha hown around 51ince 2008 of which around 24 ince 2011 mdashome of which directl impacted the future ofwater Framed within the wellshyknownneolieral trope of efficienc ut aloincreaingl of urgenc and emergenc theelaw and the velocit with which the haveeen paed how how the overtimulatedclimate of detshyfueled financial market cantranlate into a manic delirium of lawshymaking
Firt the erluconi government of the time
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 715
approved a law (Decree 1382011) whichreintroduced the privatization of local pulicervice including water mdash a law immediatelruled contitutionall illegitimate Italrsquoupreme Court ecaue it ignored the reultof the referendum More recentl and moreutl the Renzi government paed a erieof law that while not oliging localmunicipalitie to privatize intead created thefical and adminitrative condition thatachieve water privatization through differentmean
The National Forum for Water a Commonha argued that a 2015 tailit Law continuea trend egun the U tailit Pact ofalanced udget which wa applied to localgovernment after the referendum and whichin effect meant that auteritshytarvedmunicipalitie would not e ale to u ackprivate hare in water even if the wihed todo o Thi law further undercut reshymunicipalization oliging municipalitie toprioritize private management companie inthe allocation of pulic fund and incentivizing the elling of whatevermunicipal water hare till exit
Municipalitie that init on keeping theirwater pulic are oliged to et aide a um ofmone that equal that of plannedinvetment ever three ear mdash an aurd
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 815
demand in an age of auterit The law furtherforid that municipalitie ue profit madefrom the ale of hare to reshyacquire privatehare with the goal of reshymunicipalization
NOLIRAL AUTHORITARIANIM
There i more A 2014 Unlock Ital (loccaItalia) law inaugurated a round ofadminitrative reshycentralization that differtarkl from the local ldquofreedomrdquo unleahed neolieral reform 25 ear ago under theaegi of decentralization devolution anduidiarit Ital ha thu een the rie of ahighl authoritarian neolieral politicalculture when it come to the governance ofnatural reource etting the tage for a watergra on the part of the tate and it privateallie
A 1994 Law had promoted the decentralizedmanagement of water creating waterditrict (ATO) governed aemlie ofmaor Thee maor were reponile forthe planning and licening of waterconceion the management of uropeanfund and the appointment of memer of theoard of director and the preident of theATO ATO therefore had ome meaure ofdemocratic legitimac
Twent ear later locca Italia eek to
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 915
radicall contrain the role of maor InCampania the regional preident de Luca(officiall deemed unfit for pulic office Italrsquo parliamentar antishymafia commiion)jut paed a law that reduce the power ofATO grouping them under one ingleentit (nte Idrico Campano) that will takecontrol of all pring all trategic planningand all regional national and uropean fundand determine price a well a conceionWater activit fear that thi neolieralpolitical authoritarianim (ldquoThe region iacting like a little kingrdquo a I heard omeonetellingl put it) will e matched the rie oflarge water corporation that aim to competeon the gloal market
The Novemer demontration like thoe heldefore wa therefore a moment in whichmaor were ale to protet their lo of localovereignt There the lamented theimpending lo of their capacit to influencewater price top water hutshyoff or evendecide what kind of infratructural work iperformed in their territorie
With thi new authoritarianim come thepolice The onl large cit that ha reshymunicipalized and democratized it waterwork i Napoli AC (the Naple watercompan ldquoNapoli Water a Commonrdquo) utin the lat ten month alone Napoli AC wa
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1015
tematicall haraed from aove multipleviit the tax police the Internal Revenueervice the pulic proecutor and thenational antishycorruption authorit Yet not aingle accuation againt Napoli AC waproven in court and all charge of corruptionand financial mimanagement were dropped
TH RI OF RL MAYOR
One of the mot important legacie of thereferendum wa a legion of water committeethat remain all over the Italian territor andthat have acquired deep inight into theworking of neolieralization and theprocee of deshydemocratization that haveaccompanied it
In Campania the water committee ofCatellammare di taia Caalnuovo NoceraInferiore Nocera uperiore Roccapiemonteand man other repreent the remnant ofthe demo that continue to hold politicianaccountale often at the local level throughrecoure to maor mdash the mot ldquoproximaterdquorepreentative of the tate and the mot eailheld accountale ince the come from andlive within the communitie the repreent
Man maor have een an importantreource for the movement ince thereferendum The continue to e o a the
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1115
have pulicl walked with proteting citizenThi i wh the rie of proteting maor i oignificant and unuual their radicalization ia mptom in a od politic where democraci ick
Maor epeciall in maller town have ofcoure alwa een complex mediatoretween the power aove and preure fromelow ut in a context of intene deshydemocratization preure on maor haveuilt up and their role have increainglecome fraught with contradiction roughtto their knee auterit policie and thuunale to provide for their contituencie mdashan incapacit exacerated in theimpoverihed communitie of the Italianouth where infratructure and ervice exitin growing tate of utter direpair mdash maorare oth the tailshyend of a deshydemocratizedpolitical tem and political preure pointof lat reort for local citizen
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
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Make no mitake man maor were draggedkicking and creaming into upporting the reshymunicipalization of water ut that i precielthe point Thee are political repreentativewho can till e held accountale (and forcedor cajoled) into honoring the referendumThi i wh the ideshylining of maor i uch atraged It dipoee local communitie ofone of the few power till availale to themthat of holding their maor accountale
One wa that maor have ought to aerttheir overeignt i through the iuance ofordinance that top the water hutshyoffcurrentl rocking the countr (illegal inFrance and Great ritain water hutshyoff arelegal in Ital) ut a lew of recent deciion inregional adminitrative court in Lazio hometo Italrsquo capital Rome have ruled thatmaor do not have thi right mdash a devatatinglow to the little maneuvering pace left tomaor in truggle over water Activit fearthat thee ruling will have a cacading effecton the capacit of Italrsquo maor to provideeven the one mot crucial utance thathuman need to urvive water
The politic of water in Ital thu tarklreveal a ke crii of our time ndash the crii oflegitimac that i rocking government andthat force u to poe the quetion of wherepolitical overeignt and law and lawfulne
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1315
lie It compel u to ak how we have come toa point where democrac tand oppoed tothe econom and how democrac undertooda the rule of the people can e regained
MOR gt
Andrea Muehleach
Andrea Muehleach i a Profeor ofAnthropolog at the Univerit of Torontocurrentl conducting reearch on watertruggle in urope
John Potill Januar 19 2016
POPL amp POWR
Freedomtechnologit and thefuture of gloaljutice Franci OConnor emih Celik
Januar 16 2016
DUCATION amp MANCIPATION
Academic for Peaceldquoenemie of thetaterdquo in Turke
FURTHR RADING
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1415
ROAR Magazinei a project of theFoundation forAutonomouMedia
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TOPIC
order amp eondCapitalim amp CriiCitie amp CommunitieCommon ampCooperationducation ampmancipationnvironment ampcologDevelopment ampDependencImperialim ampInurgencieIntellectual ampIdeologMedia amp ManipulationPeople amp PowerRace amp Reitanceurveillance ampecurit
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aFilmlog
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ROAR i an independent journal of the radicalimagination providing graroot perpectivefrom the frontshyline of the gloal truggle forreal democrac
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
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Deigned ojan Kanižaj Developed Mario JankovićLegal tuff
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 215
worker from Naplersquo water work proteteda recentl paed regional law that aim tocentralize water management and et thetage for water privatization
The demontration wa one in everal thatoccurred in the lat few ear Previoudemontration had een organized againt an(onl nominall) pulic water compan thatmanage water ervice in 76 Campanianmunicipalitie and that had made water priceoar and watershyhut off proliferate What watriking aout thi protet wa not onl thepreence of Naplersquo maor Luigi de Magitriut of more than thirt maor walkinghoulder to houlder with proteter Thelatter were part of a network of maor thathad een formed in 2013 to protetprivatization and to undercore theircommitment to the pulic and participatormanagement of water
One one the maor walked donningtheir green white and red maoral ahe andcarring anner emlazoned with municipalcoat of arm Potent mol of popularovereignt and elfshydetermination theeanner were eautifull emroidered withgolden crown mdash crown that mimic ancientcit wall and thu erve a reminder notonl of local overeignt ut of themunicipalitrsquo dut to protect and care for itUCRI LOGIN
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 315
425
citizen
Wh have protet involving maorproliferated in Ital in recent ear What dothe tell u aout law and democrac in anera of intene deshydemocratization Protetingmaor are a mptom of radical hift in thelandcape of political action and meaningThe provocativel poe the quetion of whorepreent the demo and how politic can tille crafted under condition where theparameter of political action have radicallcontracted and where the law itelf i anintrument of dipoeion
What proteting maor poit i a demooppoed to the privatized pulic propoedfrom aove thu pitting one moreldquoproximaterdquo part of the tate againt thoepart that man Italian conider to e ditantecaue eholden to the logic of market rule
The water movement thu offer inight notonl into the profound deshydemocratization ofthe Italian pulic phere ut alo into theremaining harpl circumcried pathwafor political action till availale from elowIt alo reveal a political philoopher Wendrown recentl put it that democrac i not apermanent achievement of the Wet It can infact e lot
AY FILM LOG
MAGAZIN
Aout Dipla etting hop
UCRI
Alread a ucrier Login here
NOT NOW Join the movement
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 415
RVOLUTION
In 2011 Italian rejected the privatization ofwater through a national referendum initiated one of the larget ocial coalition evereen in the countr Local water committeeunion lawer and the Catholic churchproteted not onl the compulivecompetitive tendering and privatization of allpulicl controlled local ervice includingwater uppl tem ut alo the 7 percentreturn of invetment legall guaranteed toprivate invetor oth had een ealedwithout pulic conultation the Italianparliamentrsquo 2009 Ronchi decree
In a hitoricall unprecedented move 27million Italian mdash 95 percent percent ofItalian who voted that da mdash rejected thecommodification of water and inited on iteing a ene comune (a common) that oughtto e governed democraticall and outide ofthe logic of profit
Not onl did an aolute majorit of Italianpeak out for water a a common Thereferendum alo made viile the will of thedemo peaking in union againt the emptnoie of marketization and commodification
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 515
the popular overeign ued the intrument ofthe referendum to catapult itelf onto thenational tage
All of thi happened at a momentcharacterized a maive governmentellout of aet tateshyowned companieincluding electricit ga railroadtelecommunication and highwa had eenold on the market liquidated or partiallprivatized 2008 Ital ranked econdworldwide after Great ritain in term of thevalue generated through privatized aet Itwa from within thi national context that thedemo with the help of orella acqua (ldquoiterwaterrdquo a Francican term man Italian ue toignal our human kinhip with water) pokeout to a enough
COUNTR-RVOLUTION
Four ear after the referendum it haecome clear that oth uropean and Italianpolitical elite have no intention of honoringit reult Thi i the cae even though Italianlaw precrie that arogative referendaecome law once paed Intead therevolution from elow wa met a countershyrevolution from aove mdash one that ha oughtto kill the demo and the powerful meage itconveed
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 615
Almot immediatel oth the uropeanCentral ank and the uropean Commiionurged Ital to full lieralize local pulicervice (including water) through largeshycaleprivatization oth ignored the reult of thereferendum that had haken Ital onl twomonth efore The Italian governmentreponded taking a National Authorit fornerg Ga and Water ervice (AG)with the calculation of water price Italianwater activit in turn proteted AGrsquocomplex mathematical formula arguing that itimpl reintroduced guaranteed profit forwater companie calculating the waterprice with an identical method ut uing newterminolog
The government further paed a lew ofemergenc law decree with almot noparliamentar input mdash a political cientitAdriano Cozzolino ha hown around 51ince 2008 of which around 24 ince 2011 mdashome of which directl impacted the future ofwater Framed within the wellshyknownneolieral trope of efficienc ut aloincreaingl of urgenc and emergenc theelaw and the velocit with which the haveeen paed how how the overtimulatedclimate of detshyfueled financial market cantranlate into a manic delirium of lawshymaking
Firt the erluconi government of the time
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 715
approved a law (Decree 1382011) whichreintroduced the privatization of local pulicervice including water mdash a law immediatelruled contitutionall illegitimate Italrsquoupreme Court ecaue it ignored the reultof the referendum More recentl and moreutl the Renzi government paed a erieof law that while not oliging localmunicipalitie to privatize intead created thefical and adminitrative condition thatachieve water privatization through differentmean
The National Forum for Water a Commonha argued that a 2015 tailit Law continuea trend egun the U tailit Pact ofalanced udget which wa applied to localgovernment after the referendum and whichin effect meant that auteritshytarvedmunicipalitie would not e ale to u ackprivate hare in water even if the wihed todo o Thi law further undercut reshymunicipalization oliging municipalitie toprioritize private management companie inthe allocation of pulic fund and incentivizing the elling of whatevermunicipal water hare till exit
Municipalitie that init on keeping theirwater pulic are oliged to et aide a um ofmone that equal that of plannedinvetment ever three ear mdash an aurd
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 815
demand in an age of auterit The law furtherforid that municipalitie ue profit madefrom the ale of hare to reshyacquire privatehare with the goal of reshymunicipalization
NOLIRAL AUTHORITARIANIM
There i more A 2014 Unlock Ital (loccaItalia) law inaugurated a round ofadminitrative reshycentralization that differtarkl from the local ldquofreedomrdquo unleahed neolieral reform 25 ear ago under theaegi of decentralization devolution anduidiarit Ital ha thu een the rie of ahighl authoritarian neolieral politicalculture when it come to the governance ofnatural reource etting the tage for a watergra on the part of the tate and it privateallie
A 1994 Law had promoted the decentralizedmanagement of water creating waterditrict (ATO) governed aemlie ofmaor Thee maor were reponile forthe planning and licening of waterconceion the management of uropeanfund and the appointment of memer of theoard of director and the preident of theATO ATO therefore had ome meaure ofdemocratic legitimac
Twent ear later locca Italia eek to
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 915
radicall contrain the role of maor InCampania the regional preident de Luca(officiall deemed unfit for pulic office Italrsquo parliamentar antishymafia commiion)jut paed a law that reduce the power ofATO grouping them under one ingleentit (nte Idrico Campano) that will takecontrol of all pring all trategic planningand all regional national and uropean fundand determine price a well a conceionWater activit fear that thi neolieralpolitical authoritarianim (ldquoThe region iacting like a little kingrdquo a I heard omeonetellingl put it) will e matched the rie oflarge water corporation that aim to competeon the gloal market
The Novemer demontration like thoe heldefore wa therefore a moment in whichmaor were ale to protet their lo of localovereignt There the lamented theimpending lo of their capacit to influencewater price top water hutshyoff or evendecide what kind of infratructural work iperformed in their territorie
With thi new authoritarianim come thepolice The onl large cit that ha reshymunicipalized and democratized it waterwork i Napoli AC (the Naple watercompan ldquoNapoli Water a Commonrdquo) utin the lat ten month alone Napoli AC wa
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1015
tematicall haraed from aove multipleviit the tax police the Internal Revenueervice the pulic proecutor and thenational antishycorruption authorit Yet not aingle accuation againt Napoli AC waproven in court and all charge of corruptionand financial mimanagement were dropped
TH RI OF RL MAYOR
One of the mot important legacie of thereferendum wa a legion of water committeethat remain all over the Italian territor andthat have acquired deep inight into theworking of neolieralization and theprocee of deshydemocratization that haveaccompanied it
In Campania the water committee ofCatellammare di taia Caalnuovo NoceraInferiore Nocera uperiore Roccapiemonteand man other repreent the remnant ofthe demo that continue to hold politicianaccountale often at the local level throughrecoure to maor mdash the mot ldquoproximaterdquorepreentative of the tate and the mot eailheld accountale ince the come from andlive within the communitie the repreent
Man maor have een an importantreource for the movement ince thereferendum The continue to e o a the
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1115
have pulicl walked with proteting citizenThi i wh the rie of proteting maor i oignificant and unuual their radicalization ia mptom in a od politic where democraci ick
Maor epeciall in maller town have ofcoure alwa een complex mediatoretween the power aove and preure fromelow ut in a context of intene deshydemocratization preure on maor haveuilt up and their role have increainglecome fraught with contradiction roughtto their knee auterit policie and thuunale to provide for their contituencie mdashan incapacit exacerated in theimpoverihed communitie of the Italianouth where infratructure and ervice exitin growing tate of utter direpair mdash maorare oth the tailshyend of a deshydemocratizedpolitical tem and political preure pointof lat reort for local citizen
IGN UP FOR OUR
NWLTTR
The latet content
in our inox
UCRI DONAT
HLP UTAIN ROAR MAGAZIN
Print iue releaed quarterlYour eshymail
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1215
Make no mitake man maor were draggedkicking and creaming into upporting the reshymunicipalization of water ut that i precielthe point Thee are political repreentativewho can till e held accountale (and forcedor cajoled) into honoring the referendumThi i wh the ideshylining of maor i uch atraged It dipoee local communitie ofone of the few power till availale to themthat of holding their maor accountale
One wa that maor have ought to aerttheir overeignt i through the iuance ofordinance that top the water hutshyoffcurrentl rocking the countr (illegal inFrance and Great ritain water hutshyoff arelegal in Ital) ut a lew of recent deciion inregional adminitrative court in Lazio hometo Italrsquo capital Rome have ruled thatmaor do not have thi right mdash a devatatinglow to the little maneuvering pace left tomaor in truggle over water Activit fearthat thee ruling will have a cacading effecton the capacit of Italrsquo maor to provideeven the one mot crucial utance thathuman need to urvive water
The politic of water in Ital thu tarklreveal a ke crii of our time ndash the crii oflegitimac that i rocking government andthat force u to poe the quetion of wherepolitical overeignt and law and lawfulne
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1315
lie It compel u to ak how we have come toa point where democrac tand oppoed tothe econom and how democrac undertooda the rule of the people can e regained
MOR gt
Andrea Muehleach
Andrea Muehleach i a Profeor ofAnthropolog at the Univerit of Torontocurrentl conducting reearch on watertruggle in urope
John Potill Januar 19 2016
POPL amp POWR
Freedomtechnologit and thefuture of gloaljutice Franci OConnor emih Celik
Januar 16 2016
DUCATION amp MANCIPATION
Academic for Peaceldquoenemie of thetaterdquo in Turke
FURTHR RADING
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1415
ROAR Magazinei a project of theFoundation forAutonomouMedia
inforoarmagorg
ROAR
AuthorAoutContact
TOPIC
order amp eondCapitalim amp CriiCitie amp CommunitieCommon ampCooperationducation ampmancipationnvironment ampcologDevelopment ampDependencImperialim ampInurgencieIntellectual ampIdeologMedia amp ManipulationPeople amp PowerRace amp Reitanceurveillance ampecurit
W
aFilmlog
MAGAZIN
Iue
HLP
Acceiilititemap
TAK PART
Contriutehop
UCRI DONAT
CONNCT
IGN UP
UPPORT ROAR
ROAR i an independent journal of the radicalimagination providing graroot perpectivefrom the frontshyline of the gloal truggle forreal democrac
Your eshymail
All WrongReveredRead our repulicationpolic
0 uilding Power Read now Magazine mdash Iue 0
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1515
Deigned ojan Kanižaj Developed Mario JankovićLegal tuff
2132016 ROAR Magazine
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425
citizen
Wh have protet involving maorproliferated in Ital in recent ear What dothe tell u aout law and democrac in anera of intene deshydemocratization Protetingmaor are a mptom of radical hift in thelandcape of political action and meaningThe provocativel poe the quetion of whorepreent the demo and how politic can tille crafted under condition where theparameter of political action have radicallcontracted and where the law itelf i anintrument of dipoeion
What proteting maor poit i a demooppoed to the privatized pulic propoedfrom aove thu pitting one moreldquoproximaterdquo part of the tate againt thoepart that man Italian conider to e ditantecaue eholden to the logic of market rule
The water movement thu offer inight notonl into the profound deshydemocratization ofthe Italian pulic phere ut alo into theremaining harpl circumcried pathwafor political action till availale from elowIt alo reveal a political philoopher Wendrown recentl put it that democrac i not apermanent achievement of the Wet It can infact e lot
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RVOLUTION
In 2011 Italian rejected the privatization ofwater through a national referendum initiated one of the larget ocial coalition evereen in the countr Local water committeeunion lawer and the Catholic churchproteted not onl the compulivecompetitive tendering and privatization of allpulicl controlled local ervice includingwater uppl tem ut alo the 7 percentreturn of invetment legall guaranteed toprivate invetor oth had een ealedwithout pulic conultation the Italianparliamentrsquo 2009 Ronchi decree
In a hitoricall unprecedented move 27million Italian mdash 95 percent percent ofItalian who voted that da mdash rejected thecommodification of water and inited on iteing a ene comune (a common) that oughtto e governed democraticall and outide ofthe logic of profit
Not onl did an aolute majorit of Italianpeak out for water a a common Thereferendum alo made viile the will of thedemo peaking in union againt the emptnoie of marketization and commodification
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 515
the popular overeign ued the intrument ofthe referendum to catapult itelf onto thenational tage
All of thi happened at a momentcharacterized a maive governmentellout of aet tateshyowned companieincluding electricit ga railroadtelecommunication and highwa had eenold on the market liquidated or partiallprivatized 2008 Ital ranked econdworldwide after Great ritain in term of thevalue generated through privatized aet Itwa from within thi national context that thedemo with the help of orella acqua (ldquoiterwaterrdquo a Francican term man Italian ue toignal our human kinhip with water) pokeout to a enough
COUNTR-RVOLUTION
Four ear after the referendum it haecome clear that oth uropean and Italianpolitical elite have no intention of honoringit reult Thi i the cae even though Italianlaw precrie that arogative referendaecome law once paed Intead therevolution from elow wa met a countershyrevolution from aove mdash one that ha oughtto kill the demo and the powerful meage itconveed
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 615
Almot immediatel oth the uropeanCentral ank and the uropean Commiionurged Ital to full lieralize local pulicervice (including water) through largeshycaleprivatization oth ignored the reult of thereferendum that had haken Ital onl twomonth efore The Italian governmentreponded taking a National Authorit fornerg Ga and Water ervice (AG)with the calculation of water price Italianwater activit in turn proteted AGrsquocomplex mathematical formula arguing that itimpl reintroduced guaranteed profit forwater companie calculating the waterprice with an identical method ut uing newterminolog
The government further paed a lew ofemergenc law decree with almot noparliamentar input mdash a political cientitAdriano Cozzolino ha hown around 51ince 2008 of which around 24 ince 2011 mdashome of which directl impacted the future ofwater Framed within the wellshyknownneolieral trope of efficienc ut aloincreaingl of urgenc and emergenc theelaw and the velocit with which the haveeen paed how how the overtimulatedclimate of detshyfueled financial market cantranlate into a manic delirium of lawshymaking
Firt the erluconi government of the time
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 715
approved a law (Decree 1382011) whichreintroduced the privatization of local pulicervice including water mdash a law immediatelruled contitutionall illegitimate Italrsquoupreme Court ecaue it ignored the reultof the referendum More recentl and moreutl the Renzi government paed a erieof law that while not oliging localmunicipalitie to privatize intead created thefical and adminitrative condition thatachieve water privatization through differentmean
The National Forum for Water a Commonha argued that a 2015 tailit Law continuea trend egun the U tailit Pact ofalanced udget which wa applied to localgovernment after the referendum and whichin effect meant that auteritshytarvedmunicipalitie would not e ale to u ackprivate hare in water even if the wihed todo o Thi law further undercut reshymunicipalization oliging municipalitie toprioritize private management companie inthe allocation of pulic fund and incentivizing the elling of whatevermunicipal water hare till exit
Municipalitie that init on keeping theirwater pulic are oliged to et aide a um ofmone that equal that of plannedinvetment ever three ear mdash an aurd
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 815
demand in an age of auterit The law furtherforid that municipalitie ue profit madefrom the ale of hare to reshyacquire privatehare with the goal of reshymunicipalization
NOLIRAL AUTHORITARIANIM
There i more A 2014 Unlock Ital (loccaItalia) law inaugurated a round ofadminitrative reshycentralization that differtarkl from the local ldquofreedomrdquo unleahed neolieral reform 25 ear ago under theaegi of decentralization devolution anduidiarit Ital ha thu een the rie of ahighl authoritarian neolieral politicalculture when it come to the governance ofnatural reource etting the tage for a watergra on the part of the tate and it privateallie
A 1994 Law had promoted the decentralizedmanagement of water creating waterditrict (ATO) governed aemlie ofmaor Thee maor were reponile forthe planning and licening of waterconceion the management of uropeanfund and the appointment of memer of theoard of director and the preident of theATO ATO therefore had ome meaure ofdemocratic legitimac
Twent ear later locca Italia eek to
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radicall contrain the role of maor InCampania the regional preident de Luca(officiall deemed unfit for pulic office Italrsquo parliamentar antishymafia commiion)jut paed a law that reduce the power ofATO grouping them under one ingleentit (nte Idrico Campano) that will takecontrol of all pring all trategic planningand all regional national and uropean fundand determine price a well a conceionWater activit fear that thi neolieralpolitical authoritarianim (ldquoThe region iacting like a little kingrdquo a I heard omeonetellingl put it) will e matched the rie oflarge water corporation that aim to competeon the gloal market
The Novemer demontration like thoe heldefore wa therefore a moment in whichmaor were ale to protet their lo of localovereignt There the lamented theimpending lo of their capacit to influencewater price top water hutshyoff or evendecide what kind of infratructural work iperformed in their territorie
With thi new authoritarianim come thepolice The onl large cit that ha reshymunicipalized and democratized it waterwork i Napoli AC (the Naple watercompan ldquoNapoli Water a Commonrdquo) utin the lat ten month alone Napoli AC wa
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1015
tematicall haraed from aove multipleviit the tax police the Internal Revenueervice the pulic proecutor and thenational antishycorruption authorit Yet not aingle accuation againt Napoli AC waproven in court and all charge of corruptionand financial mimanagement were dropped
TH RI OF RL MAYOR
One of the mot important legacie of thereferendum wa a legion of water committeethat remain all over the Italian territor andthat have acquired deep inight into theworking of neolieralization and theprocee of deshydemocratization that haveaccompanied it
In Campania the water committee ofCatellammare di taia Caalnuovo NoceraInferiore Nocera uperiore Roccapiemonteand man other repreent the remnant ofthe demo that continue to hold politicianaccountale often at the local level throughrecoure to maor mdash the mot ldquoproximaterdquorepreentative of the tate and the mot eailheld accountale ince the come from andlive within the communitie the repreent
Man maor have een an importantreource for the movement ince thereferendum The continue to e o a the
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1115
have pulicl walked with proteting citizenThi i wh the rie of proteting maor i oignificant and unuual their radicalization ia mptom in a od politic where democraci ick
Maor epeciall in maller town have ofcoure alwa een complex mediatoretween the power aove and preure fromelow ut in a context of intene deshydemocratization preure on maor haveuilt up and their role have increainglecome fraught with contradiction roughtto their knee auterit policie and thuunale to provide for their contituencie mdashan incapacit exacerated in theimpoverihed communitie of the Italianouth where infratructure and ervice exitin growing tate of utter direpair mdash maorare oth the tailshyend of a deshydemocratizedpolitical tem and political preure pointof lat reort for local citizen
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Make no mitake man maor were draggedkicking and creaming into upporting the reshymunicipalization of water ut that i precielthe point Thee are political repreentativewho can till e held accountale (and forcedor cajoled) into honoring the referendumThi i wh the ideshylining of maor i uch atraged It dipoee local communitie ofone of the few power till availale to themthat of holding their maor accountale
One wa that maor have ought to aerttheir overeignt i through the iuance ofordinance that top the water hutshyoffcurrentl rocking the countr (illegal inFrance and Great ritain water hutshyoff arelegal in Ital) ut a lew of recent deciion inregional adminitrative court in Lazio hometo Italrsquo capital Rome have ruled thatmaor do not have thi right mdash a devatatinglow to the little maneuvering pace left tomaor in truggle over water Activit fearthat thee ruling will have a cacading effecton the capacit of Italrsquo maor to provideeven the one mot crucial utance thathuman need to urvive water
The politic of water in Ital thu tarklreveal a ke crii of our time ndash the crii oflegitimac that i rocking government andthat force u to poe the quetion of wherepolitical overeignt and law and lawfulne
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1315
lie It compel u to ak how we have come toa point where democrac tand oppoed tothe econom and how democrac undertooda the rule of the people can e regained
MOR gt
Andrea Muehleach
Andrea Muehleach i a Profeor ofAnthropolog at the Univerit of Torontocurrentl conducting reearch on watertruggle in urope
John Potill Januar 19 2016
POPL amp POWR
Freedomtechnologit and thefuture of gloaljutice Franci OConnor emih Celik
Januar 16 2016
DUCATION amp MANCIPATION
Academic for Peaceldquoenemie of thetaterdquo in Turke
FURTHR RADING
2132016 ROAR Magazine
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
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Deigned ojan Kanižaj Developed Mario JankovićLegal tuff
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 415
RVOLUTION
In 2011 Italian rejected the privatization ofwater through a national referendum initiated one of the larget ocial coalition evereen in the countr Local water committeeunion lawer and the Catholic churchproteted not onl the compulivecompetitive tendering and privatization of allpulicl controlled local ervice includingwater uppl tem ut alo the 7 percentreturn of invetment legall guaranteed toprivate invetor oth had een ealedwithout pulic conultation the Italianparliamentrsquo 2009 Ronchi decree
In a hitoricall unprecedented move 27million Italian mdash 95 percent percent ofItalian who voted that da mdash rejected thecommodification of water and inited on iteing a ene comune (a common) that oughtto e governed democraticall and outide ofthe logic of profit
Not onl did an aolute majorit of Italianpeak out for water a a common Thereferendum alo made viile the will of thedemo peaking in union againt the emptnoie of marketization and commodification
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 515
the popular overeign ued the intrument ofthe referendum to catapult itelf onto thenational tage
All of thi happened at a momentcharacterized a maive governmentellout of aet tateshyowned companieincluding electricit ga railroadtelecommunication and highwa had eenold on the market liquidated or partiallprivatized 2008 Ital ranked econdworldwide after Great ritain in term of thevalue generated through privatized aet Itwa from within thi national context that thedemo with the help of orella acqua (ldquoiterwaterrdquo a Francican term man Italian ue toignal our human kinhip with water) pokeout to a enough
COUNTR-RVOLUTION
Four ear after the referendum it haecome clear that oth uropean and Italianpolitical elite have no intention of honoringit reult Thi i the cae even though Italianlaw precrie that arogative referendaecome law once paed Intead therevolution from elow wa met a countershyrevolution from aove mdash one that ha oughtto kill the demo and the powerful meage itconveed
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 615
Almot immediatel oth the uropeanCentral ank and the uropean Commiionurged Ital to full lieralize local pulicervice (including water) through largeshycaleprivatization oth ignored the reult of thereferendum that had haken Ital onl twomonth efore The Italian governmentreponded taking a National Authorit fornerg Ga and Water ervice (AG)with the calculation of water price Italianwater activit in turn proteted AGrsquocomplex mathematical formula arguing that itimpl reintroduced guaranteed profit forwater companie calculating the waterprice with an identical method ut uing newterminolog
The government further paed a lew ofemergenc law decree with almot noparliamentar input mdash a political cientitAdriano Cozzolino ha hown around 51ince 2008 of which around 24 ince 2011 mdashome of which directl impacted the future ofwater Framed within the wellshyknownneolieral trope of efficienc ut aloincreaingl of urgenc and emergenc theelaw and the velocit with which the haveeen paed how how the overtimulatedclimate of detshyfueled financial market cantranlate into a manic delirium of lawshymaking
Firt the erluconi government of the time
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 715
approved a law (Decree 1382011) whichreintroduced the privatization of local pulicervice including water mdash a law immediatelruled contitutionall illegitimate Italrsquoupreme Court ecaue it ignored the reultof the referendum More recentl and moreutl the Renzi government paed a erieof law that while not oliging localmunicipalitie to privatize intead created thefical and adminitrative condition thatachieve water privatization through differentmean
The National Forum for Water a Commonha argued that a 2015 tailit Law continuea trend egun the U tailit Pact ofalanced udget which wa applied to localgovernment after the referendum and whichin effect meant that auteritshytarvedmunicipalitie would not e ale to u ackprivate hare in water even if the wihed todo o Thi law further undercut reshymunicipalization oliging municipalitie toprioritize private management companie inthe allocation of pulic fund and incentivizing the elling of whatevermunicipal water hare till exit
Municipalitie that init on keeping theirwater pulic are oliged to et aide a um ofmone that equal that of plannedinvetment ever three ear mdash an aurd
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 815
demand in an age of auterit The law furtherforid that municipalitie ue profit madefrom the ale of hare to reshyacquire privatehare with the goal of reshymunicipalization
NOLIRAL AUTHORITARIANIM
There i more A 2014 Unlock Ital (loccaItalia) law inaugurated a round ofadminitrative reshycentralization that differtarkl from the local ldquofreedomrdquo unleahed neolieral reform 25 ear ago under theaegi of decentralization devolution anduidiarit Ital ha thu een the rie of ahighl authoritarian neolieral politicalculture when it come to the governance ofnatural reource etting the tage for a watergra on the part of the tate and it privateallie
A 1994 Law had promoted the decentralizedmanagement of water creating waterditrict (ATO) governed aemlie ofmaor Thee maor were reponile forthe planning and licening of waterconceion the management of uropeanfund and the appointment of memer of theoard of director and the preident of theATO ATO therefore had ome meaure ofdemocratic legitimac
Twent ear later locca Italia eek to
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 915
radicall contrain the role of maor InCampania the regional preident de Luca(officiall deemed unfit for pulic office Italrsquo parliamentar antishymafia commiion)jut paed a law that reduce the power ofATO grouping them under one ingleentit (nte Idrico Campano) that will takecontrol of all pring all trategic planningand all regional national and uropean fundand determine price a well a conceionWater activit fear that thi neolieralpolitical authoritarianim (ldquoThe region iacting like a little kingrdquo a I heard omeonetellingl put it) will e matched the rie oflarge water corporation that aim to competeon the gloal market
The Novemer demontration like thoe heldefore wa therefore a moment in whichmaor were ale to protet their lo of localovereignt There the lamented theimpending lo of their capacit to influencewater price top water hutshyoff or evendecide what kind of infratructural work iperformed in their territorie
With thi new authoritarianim come thepolice The onl large cit that ha reshymunicipalized and democratized it waterwork i Napoli AC (the Naple watercompan ldquoNapoli Water a Commonrdquo) utin the lat ten month alone Napoli AC wa
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1015
tematicall haraed from aove multipleviit the tax police the Internal Revenueervice the pulic proecutor and thenational antishycorruption authorit Yet not aingle accuation againt Napoli AC waproven in court and all charge of corruptionand financial mimanagement were dropped
TH RI OF RL MAYOR
One of the mot important legacie of thereferendum wa a legion of water committeethat remain all over the Italian territor andthat have acquired deep inight into theworking of neolieralization and theprocee of deshydemocratization that haveaccompanied it
In Campania the water committee ofCatellammare di taia Caalnuovo NoceraInferiore Nocera uperiore Roccapiemonteand man other repreent the remnant ofthe demo that continue to hold politicianaccountale often at the local level throughrecoure to maor mdash the mot ldquoproximaterdquorepreentative of the tate and the mot eailheld accountale ince the come from andlive within the communitie the repreent
Man maor have een an importantreource for the movement ince thereferendum The continue to e o a the
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1115
have pulicl walked with proteting citizenThi i wh the rie of proteting maor i oignificant and unuual their radicalization ia mptom in a od politic where democraci ick
Maor epeciall in maller town have ofcoure alwa een complex mediatoretween the power aove and preure fromelow ut in a context of intene deshydemocratization preure on maor haveuilt up and their role have increainglecome fraught with contradiction roughtto their knee auterit policie and thuunale to provide for their contituencie mdashan incapacit exacerated in theimpoverihed communitie of the Italianouth where infratructure and ervice exitin growing tate of utter direpair mdash maorare oth the tailshyend of a deshydemocratizedpolitical tem and political preure pointof lat reort for local citizen
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
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Make no mitake man maor were draggedkicking and creaming into upporting the reshymunicipalization of water ut that i precielthe point Thee are political repreentativewho can till e held accountale (and forcedor cajoled) into honoring the referendumThi i wh the ideshylining of maor i uch atraged It dipoee local communitie ofone of the few power till availale to themthat of holding their maor accountale
One wa that maor have ought to aerttheir overeignt i through the iuance ofordinance that top the water hutshyoffcurrentl rocking the countr (illegal inFrance and Great ritain water hutshyoff arelegal in Ital) ut a lew of recent deciion inregional adminitrative court in Lazio hometo Italrsquo capital Rome have ruled thatmaor do not have thi right mdash a devatatinglow to the little maneuvering pace left tomaor in truggle over water Activit fearthat thee ruling will have a cacading effecton the capacit of Italrsquo maor to provideeven the one mot crucial utance thathuman need to urvive water
The politic of water in Ital thu tarklreveal a ke crii of our time ndash the crii oflegitimac that i rocking government andthat force u to poe the quetion of wherepolitical overeignt and law and lawfulne
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1315
lie It compel u to ak how we have come toa point where democrac tand oppoed tothe econom and how democrac undertooda the rule of the people can e regained
MOR gt
Andrea Muehleach
Andrea Muehleach i a Profeor ofAnthropolog at the Univerit of Torontocurrentl conducting reearch on watertruggle in urope
John Potill Januar 19 2016
POPL amp POWR
Freedomtechnologit and thefuture of gloaljutice Franci OConnor emih Celik
Januar 16 2016
DUCATION amp MANCIPATION
Academic for Peaceldquoenemie of thetaterdquo in Turke
FURTHR RADING
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1415
ROAR Magazinei a project of theFoundation forAutonomouMedia
inforoarmagorg
ROAR
AuthorAoutContact
TOPIC
order amp eondCapitalim amp CriiCitie amp CommunitieCommon ampCooperationducation ampmancipationnvironment ampcologDevelopment ampDependencImperialim ampInurgencieIntellectual ampIdeologMedia amp ManipulationPeople amp PowerRace amp Reitanceurveillance ampecurit
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aFilmlog
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ROAR i an independent journal of the radicalimagination providing graroot perpectivefrom the frontshyline of the gloal truggle forreal democrac
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1515
Deigned ojan Kanižaj Developed Mario JankovićLegal tuff
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 515
the popular overeign ued the intrument ofthe referendum to catapult itelf onto thenational tage
All of thi happened at a momentcharacterized a maive governmentellout of aet tateshyowned companieincluding electricit ga railroadtelecommunication and highwa had eenold on the market liquidated or partiallprivatized 2008 Ital ranked econdworldwide after Great ritain in term of thevalue generated through privatized aet Itwa from within thi national context that thedemo with the help of orella acqua (ldquoiterwaterrdquo a Francican term man Italian ue toignal our human kinhip with water) pokeout to a enough
COUNTR-RVOLUTION
Four ear after the referendum it haecome clear that oth uropean and Italianpolitical elite have no intention of honoringit reult Thi i the cae even though Italianlaw precrie that arogative referendaecome law once paed Intead therevolution from elow wa met a countershyrevolution from aove mdash one that ha oughtto kill the demo and the powerful meage itconveed
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 615
Almot immediatel oth the uropeanCentral ank and the uropean Commiionurged Ital to full lieralize local pulicervice (including water) through largeshycaleprivatization oth ignored the reult of thereferendum that had haken Ital onl twomonth efore The Italian governmentreponded taking a National Authorit fornerg Ga and Water ervice (AG)with the calculation of water price Italianwater activit in turn proteted AGrsquocomplex mathematical formula arguing that itimpl reintroduced guaranteed profit forwater companie calculating the waterprice with an identical method ut uing newterminolog
The government further paed a lew ofemergenc law decree with almot noparliamentar input mdash a political cientitAdriano Cozzolino ha hown around 51ince 2008 of which around 24 ince 2011 mdashome of which directl impacted the future ofwater Framed within the wellshyknownneolieral trope of efficienc ut aloincreaingl of urgenc and emergenc theelaw and the velocit with which the haveeen paed how how the overtimulatedclimate of detshyfueled financial market cantranlate into a manic delirium of lawshymaking
Firt the erluconi government of the time
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 715
approved a law (Decree 1382011) whichreintroduced the privatization of local pulicervice including water mdash a law immediatelruled contitutionall illegitimate Italrsquoupreme Court ecaue it ignored the reultof the referendum More recentl and moreutl the Renzi government paed a erieof law that while not oliging localmunicipalitie to privatize intead created thefical and adminitrative condition thatachieve water privatization through differentmean
The National Forum for Water a Commonha argued that a 2015 tailit Law continuea trend egun the U tailit Pact ofalanced udget which wa applied to localgovernment after the referendum and whichin effect meant that auteritshytarvedmunicipalitie would not e ale to u ackprivate hare in water even if the wihed todo o Thi law further undercut reshymunicipalization oliging municipalitie toprioritize private management companie inthe allocation of pulic fund and incentivizing the elling of whatevermunicipal water hare till exit
Municipalitie that init on keeping theirwater pulic are oliged to et aide a um ofmone that equal that of plannedinvetment ever three ear mdash an aurd
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 815
demand in an age of auterit The law furtherforid that municipalitie ue profit madefrom the ale of hare to reshyacquire privatehare with the goal of reshymunicipalization
NOLIRAL AUTHORITARIANIM
There i more A 2014 Unlock Ital (loccaItalia) law inaugurated a round ofadminitrative reshycentralization that differtarkl from the local ldquofreedomrdquo unleahed neolieral reform 25 ear ago under theaegi of decentralization devolution anduidiarit Ital ha thu een the rie of ahighl authoritarian neolieral politicalculture when it come to the governance ofnatural reource etting the tage for a watergra on the part of the tate and it privateallie
A 1994 Law had promoted the decentralizedmanagement of water creating waterditrict (ATO) governed aemlie ofmaor Thee maor were reponile forthe planning and licening of waterconceion the management of uropeanfund and the appointment of memer of theoard of director and the preident of theATO ATO therefore had ome meaure ofdemocratic legitimac
Twent ear later locca Italia eek to
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 915
radicall contrain the role of maor InCampania the regional preident de Luca(officiall deemed unfit for pulic office Italrsquo parliamentar antishymafia commiion)jut paed a law that reduce the power ofATO grouping them under one ingleentit (nte Idrico Campano) that will takecontrol of all pring all trategic planningand all regional national and uropean fundand determine price a well a conceionWater activit fear that thi neolieralpolitical authoritarianim (ldquoThe region iacting like a little kingrdquo a I heard omeonetellingl put it) will e matched the rie oflarge water corporation that aim to competeon the gloal market
The Novemer demontration like thoe heldefore wa therefore a moment in whichmaor were ale to protet their lo of localovereignt There the lamented theimpending lo of their capacit to influencewater price top water hutshyoff or evendecide what kind of infratructural work iperformed in their territorie
With thi new authoritarianim come thepolice The onl large cit that ha reshymunicipalized and democratized it waterwork i Napoli AC (the Naple watercompan ldquoNapoli Water a Commonrdquo) utin the lat ten month alone Napoli AC wa
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1015
tematicall haraed from aove multipleviit the tax police the Internal Revenueervice the pulic proecutor and thenational antishycorruption authorit Yet not aingle accuation againt Napoli AC waproven in court and all charge of corruptionand financial mimanagement were dropped
TH RI OF RL MAYOR
One of the mot important legacie of thereferendum wa a legion of water committeethat remain all over the Italian territor andthat have acquired deep inight into theworking of neolieralization and theprocee of deshydemocratization that haveaccompanied it
In Campania the water committee ofCatellammare di taia Caalnuovo NoceraInferiore Nocera uperiore Roccapiemonteand man other repreent the remnant ofthe demo that continue to hold politicianaccountale often at the local level throughrecoure to maor mdash the mot ldquoproximaterdquorepreentative of the tate and the mot eailheld accountale ince the come from andlive within the communitie the repreent
Man maor have een an importantreource for the movement ince thereferendum The continue to e o a the
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1115
have pulicl walked with proteting citizenThi i wh the rie of proteting maor i oignificant and unuual their radicalization ia mptom in a od politic where democraci ick
Maor epeciall in maller town have ofcoure alwa een complex mediatoretween the power aove and preure fromelow ut in a context of intene deshydemocratization preure on maor haveuilt up and their role have increainglecome fraught with contradiction roughtto their knee auterit policie and thuunale to provide for their contituencie mdashan incapacit exacerated in theimpoverihed communitie of the Italianouth where infratructure and ervice exitin growing tate of utter direpair mdash maorare oth the tailshyend of a deshydemocratizedpolitical tem and political preure pointof lat reort for local citizen
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Make no mitake man maor were draggedkicking and creaming into upporting the reshymunicipalization of water ut that i precielthe point Thee are political repreentativewho can till e held accountale (and forcedor cajoled) into honoring the referendumThi i wh the ideshylining of maor i uch atraged It dipoee local communitie ofone of the few power till availale to themthat of holding their maor accountale
One wa that maor have ought to aerttheir overeignt i through the iuance ofordinance that top the water hutshyoffcurrentl rocking the countr (illegal inFrance and Great ritain water hutshyoff arelegal in Ital) ut a lew of recent deciion inregional adminitrative court in Lazio hometo Italrsquo capital Rome have ruled thatmaor do not have thi right mdash a devatatinglow to the little maneuvering pace left tomaor in truggle over water Activit fearthat thee ruling will have a cacading effecton the capacit of Italrsquo maor to provideeven the one mot crucial utance thathuman need to urvive water
The politic of water in Ital thu tarklreveal a ke crii of our time ndash the crii oflegitimac that i rocking government andthat force u to poe the quetion of wherepolitical overeignt and law and lawfulne
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1315
lie It compel u to ak how we have come toa point where democrac tand oppoed tothe econom and how democrac undertooda the rule of the people can e regained
MOR gt
Andrea Muehleach
Andrea Muehleach i a Profeor ofAnthropolog at the Univerit of Torontocurrentl conducting reearch on watertruggle in urope
John Potill Januar 19 2016
POPL amp POWR
Freedomtechnologit and thefuture of gloaljutice Franci OConnor emih Celik
Januar 16 2016
DUCATION amp MANCIPATION
Academic for Peaceldquoenemie of thetaterdquo in Turke
FURTHR RADING
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1415
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TOPIC
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
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Almot immediatel oth the uropeanCentral ank and the uropean Commiionurged Ital to full lieralize local pulicervice (including water) through largeshycaleprivatization oth ignored the reult of thereferendum that had haken Ital onl twomonth efore The Italian governmentreponded taking a National Authorit fornerg Ga and Water ervice (AG)with the calculation of water price Italianwater activit in turn proteted AGrsquocomplex mathematical formula arguing that itimpl reintroduced guaranteed profit forwater companie calculating the waterprice with an identical method ut uing newterminolog
The government further paed a lew ofemergenc law decree with almot noparliamentar input mdash a political cientitAdriano Cozzolino ha hown around 51ince 2008 of which around 24 ince 2011 mdashome of which directl impacted the future ofwater Framed within the wellshyknownneolieral trope of efficienc ut aloincreaingl of urgenc and emergenc theelaw and the velocit with which the haveeen paed how how the overtimulatedclimate of detshyfueled financial market cantranlate into a manic delirium of lawshymaking
Firt the erluconi government of the time
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 715
approved a law (Decree 1382011) whichreintroduced the privatization of local pulicervice including water mdash a law immediatelruled contitutionall illegitimate Italrsquoupreme Court ecaue it ignored the reultof the referendum More recentl and moreutl the Renzi government paed a erieof law that while not oliging localmunicipalitie to privatize intead created thefical and adminitrative condition thatachieve water privatization through differentmean
The National Forum for Water a Commonha argued that a 2015 tailit Law continuea trend egun the U tailit Pact ofalanced udget which wa applied to localgovernment after the referendum and whichin effect meant that auteritshytarvedmunicipalitie would not e ale to u ackprivate hare in water even if the wihed todo o Thi law further undercut reshymunicipalization oliging municipalitie toprioritize private management companie inthe allocation of pulic fund and incentivizing the elling of whatevermunicipal water hare till exit
Municipalitie that init on keeping theirwater pulic are oliged to et aide a um ofmone that equal that of plannedinvetment ever three ear mdash an aurd
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 815
demand in an age of auterit The law furtherforid that municipalitie ue profit madefrom the ale of hare to reshyacquire privatehare with the goal of reshymunicipalization
NOLIRAL AUTHORITARIANIM
There i more A 2014 Unlock Ital (loccaItalia) law inaugurated a round ofadminitrative reshycentralization that differtarkl from the local ldquofreedomrdquo unleahed neolieral reform 25 ear ago under theaegi of decentralization devolution anduidiarit Ital ha thu een the rie of ahighl authoritarian neolieral politicalculture when it come to the governance ofnatural reource etting the tage for a watergra on the part of the tate and it privateallie
A 1994 Law had promoted the decentralizedmanagement of water creating waterditrict (ATO) governed aemlie ofmaor Thee maor were reponile forthe planning and licening of waterconceion the management of uropeanfund and the appointment of memer of theoard of director and the preident of theATO ATO therefore had ome meaure ofdemocratic legitimac
Twent ear later locca Italia eek to
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 915
radicall contrain the role of maor InCampania the regional preident de Luca(officiall deemed unfit for pulic office Italrsquo parliamentar antishymafia commiion)jut paed a law that reduce the power ofATO grouping them under one ingleentit (nte Idrico Campano) that will takecontrol of all pring all trategic planningand all regional national and uropean fundand determine price a well a conceionWater activit fear that thi neolieralpolitical authoritarianim (ldquoThe region iacting like a little kingrdquo a I heard omeonetellingl put it) will e matched the rie oflarge water corporation that aim to competeon the gloal market
The Novemer demontration like thoe heldefore wa therefore a moment in whichmaor were ale to protet their lo of localovereignt There the lamented theimpending lo of their capacit to influencewater price top water hutshyoff or evendecide what kind of infratructural work iperformed in their territorie
With thi new authoritarianim come thepolice The onl large cit that ha reshymunicipalized and democratized it waterwork i Napoli AC (the Naple watercompan ldquoNapoli Water a Commonrdquo) utin the lat ten month alone Napoli AC wa
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1015
tematicall haraed from aove multipleviit the tax police the Internal Revenueervice the pulic proecutor and thenational antishycorruption authorit Yet not aingle accuation againt Napoli AC waproven in court and all charge of corruptionand financial mimanagement were dropped
TH RI OF RL MAYOR
One of the mot important legacie of thereferendum wa a legion of water committeethat remain all over the Italian territor andthat have acquired deep inight into theworking of neolieralization and theprocee of deshydemocratization that haveaccompanied it
In Campania the water committee ofCatellammare di taia Caalnuovo NoceraInferiore Nocera uperiore Roccapiemonteand man other repreent the remnant ofthe demo that continue to hold politicianaccountale often at the local level throughrecoure to maor mdash the mot ldquoproximaterdquorepreentative of the tate and the mot eailheld accountale ince the come from andlive within the communitie the repreent
Man maor have een an importantreource for the movement ince thereferendum The continue to e o a the
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1115
have pulicl walked with proteting citizenThi i wh the rie of proteting maor i oignificant and unuual their radicalization ia mptom in a od politic where democraci ick
Maor epeciall in maller town have ofcoure alwa een complex mediatoretween the power aove and preure fromelow ut in a context of intene deshydemocratization preure on maor haveuilt up and their role have increainglecome fraught with contradiction roughtto their knee auterit policie and thuunale to provide for their contituencie mdashan incapacit exacerated in theimpoverihed communitie of the Italianouth where infratructure and ervice exitin growing tate of utter direpair mdash maorare oth the tailshyend of a deshydemocratizedpolitical tem and political preure pointof lat reort for local citizen
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
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Make no mitake man maor were draggedkicking and creaming into upporting the reshymunicipalization of water ut that i precielthe point Thee are political repreentativewho can till e held accountale (and forcedor cajoled) into honoring the referendumThi i wh the ideshylining of maor i uch atraged It dipoee local communitie ofone of the few power till availale to themthat of holding their maor accountale
One wa that maor have ought to aerttheir overeignt i through the iuance ofordinance that top the water hutshyoffcurrentl rocking the countr (illegal inFrance and Great ritain water hutshyoff arelegal in Ital) ut a lew of recent deciion inregional adminitrative court in Lazio hometo Italrsquo capital Rome have ruled thatmaor do not have thi right mdash a devatatinglow to the little maneuvering pace left tomaor in truggle over water Activit fearthat thee ruling will have a cacading effecton the capacit of Italrsquo maor to provideeven the one mot crucial utance thathuman need to urvive water
The politic of water in Ital thu tarklreveal a ke crii of our time ndash the crii oflegitimac that i rocking government andthat force u to poe the quetion of wherepolitical overeignt and law and lawfulne
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1315
lie It compel u to ak how we have come toa point where democrac tand oppoed tothe econom and how democrac undertooda the rule of the people can e regained
MOR gt
Andrea Muehleach
Andrea Muehleach i a Profeor ofAnthropolog at the Univerit of Torontocurrentl conducting reearch on watertruggle in urope
John Potill Januar 19 2016
POPL amp POWR
Freedomtechnologit and thefuture of gloaljutice Franci OConnor emih Celik
Januar 16 2016
DUCATION amp MANCIPATION
Academic for Peaceldquoenemie of thetaterdquo in Turke
FURTHR RADING
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1415
ROAR Magazinei a project of theFoundation forAutonomouMedia
inforoarmagorg
ROAR
AuthorAoutContact
TOPIC
order amp eondCapitalim amp CriiCitie amp CommunitieCommon ampCooperationducation ampmancipationnvironment ampcologDevelopment ampDependencImperialim ampInurgencieIntellectual ampIdeologMedia amp ManipulationPeople amp PowerRace amp Reitanceurveillance ampecurit
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aFilmlog
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ROAR i an independent journal of the radicalimagination providing graroot perpectivefrom the frontshyline of the gloal truggle forreal democrac
Your eshymail
All WrongReveredRead our repulicationpolic
0 uilding Power Read now Magazine mdash Iue 0
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1515
Deigned ojan Kanižaj Developed Mario JankovićLegal tuff
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 715
approved a law (Decree 1382011) whichreintroduced the privatization of local pulicervice including water mdash a law immediatelruled contitutionall illegitimate Italrsquoupreme Court ecaue it ignored the reultof the referendum More recentl and moreutl the Renzi government paed a erieof law that while not oliging localmunicipalitie to privatize intead created thefical and adminitrative condition thatachieve water privatization through differentmean
The National Forum for Water a Commonha argued that a 2015 tailit Law continuea trend egun the U tailit Pact ofalanced udget which wa applied to localgovernment after the referendum and whichin effect meant that auteritshytarvedmunicipalitie would not e ale to u ackprivate hare in water even if the wihed todo o Thi law further undercut reshymunicipalization oliging municipalitie toprioritize private management companie inthe allocation of pulic fund and incentivizing the elling of whatevermunicipal water hare till exit
Municipalitie that init on keeping theirwater pulic are oliged to et aide a um ofmone that equal that of plannedinvetment ever three ear mdash an aurd
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 815
demand in an age of auterit The law furtherforid that municipalitie ue profit madefrom the ale of hare to reshyacquire privatehare with the goal of reshymunicipalization
NOLIRAL AUTHORITARIANIM
There i more A 2014 Unlock Ital (loccaItalia) law inaugurated a round ofadminitrative reshycentralization that differtarkl from the local ldquofreedomrdquo unleahed neolieral reform 25 ear ago under theaegi of decentralization devolution anduidiarit Ital ha thu een the rie of ahighl authoritarian neolieral politicalculture when it come to the governance ofnatural reource etting the tage for a watergra on the part of the tate and it privateallie
A 1994 Law had promoted the decentralizedmanagement of water creating waterditrict (ATO) governed aemlie ofmaor Thee maor were reponile forthe planning and licening of waterconceion the management of uropeanfund and the appointment of memer of theoard of director and the preident of theATO ATO therefore had ome meaure ofdemocratic legitimac
Twent ear later locca Italia eek to
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 915
radicall contrain the role of maor InCampania the regional preident de Luca(officiall deemed unfit for pulic office Italrsquo parliamentar antishymafia commiion)jut paed a law that reduce the power ofATO grouping them under one ingleentit (nte Idrico Campano) that will takecontrol of all pring all trategic planningand all regional national and uropean fundand determine price a well a conceionWater activit fear that thi neolieralpolitical authoritarianim (ldquoThe region iacting like a little kingrdquo a I heard omeonetellingl put it) will e matched the rie oflarge water corporation that aim to competeon the gloal market
The Novemer demontration like thoe heldefore wa therefore a moment in whichmaor were ale to protet their lo of localovereignt There the lamented theimpending lo of their capacit to influencewater price top water hutshyoff or evendecide what kind of infratructural work iperformed in their territorie
With thi new authoritarianim come thepolice The onl large cit that ha reshymunicipalized and democratized it waterwork i Napoli AC (the Naple watercompan ldquoNapoli Water a Commonrdquo) utin the lat ten month alone Napoli AC wa
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1015
tematicall haraed from aove multipleviit the tax police the Internal Revenueervice the pulic proecutor and thenational antishycorruption authorit Yet not aingle accuation againt Napoli AC waproven in court and all charge of corruptionand financial mimanagement were dropped
TH RI OF RL MAYOR
One of the mot important legacie of thereferendum wa a legion of water committeethat remain all over the Italian territor andthat have acquired deep inight into theworking of neolieralization and theprocee of deshydemocratization that haveaccompanied it
In Campania the water committee ofCatellammare di taia Caalnuovo NoceraInferiore Nocera uperiore Roccapiemonteand man other repreent the remnant ofthe demo that continue to hold politicianaccountale often at the local level throughrecoure to maor mdash the mot ldquoproximaterdquorepreentative of the tate and the mot eailheld accountale ince the come from andlive within the communitie the repreent
Man maor have een an importantreource for the movement ince thereferendum The continue to e o a the
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1115
have pulicl walked with proteting citizenThi i wh the rie of proteting maor i oignificant and unuual their radicalization ia mptom in a od politic where democraci ick
Maor epeciall in maller town have ofcoure alwa een complex mediatoretween the power aove and preure fromelow ut in a context of intene deshydemocratization preure on maor haveuilt up and their role have increainglecome fraught with contradiction roughtto their knee auterit policie and thuunale to provide for their contituencie mdashan incapacit exacerated in theimpoverihed communitie of the Italianouth where infratructure and ervice exitin growing tate of utter direpair mdash maorare oth the tailshyend of a deshydemocratizedpolitical tem and political preure pointof lat reort for local citizen
IGN UP FOR OUR
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HLP UTAIN ROAR MAGAZIN
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1215
Make no mitake man maor were draggedkicking and creaming into upporting the reshymunicipalization of water ut that i precielthe point Thee are political repreentativewho can till e held accountale (and forcedor cajoled) into honoring the referendumThi i wh the ideshylining of maor i uch atraged It dipoee local communitie ofone of the few power till availale to themthat of holding their maor accountale
One wa that maor have ought to aerttheir overeignt i through the iuance ofordinance that top the water hutshyoffcurrentl rocking the countr (illegal inFrance and Great ritain water hutshyoff arelegal in Ital) ut a lew of recent deciion inregional adminitrative court in Lazio hometo Italrsquo capital Rome have ruled thatmaor do not have thi right mdash a devatatinglow to the little maneuvering pace left tomaor in truggle over water Activit fearthat thee ruling will have a cacading effecton the capacit of Italrsquo maor to provideeven the one mot crucial utance thathuman need to urvive water
The politic of water in Ital thu tarklreveal a ke crii of our time ndash the crii oflegitimac that i rocking government andthat force u to poe the quetion of wherepolitical overeignt and law and lawfulne
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1315
lie It compel u to ak how we have come toa point where democrac tand oppoed tothe econom and how democrac undertooda the rule of the people can e regained
MOR gt
Andrea Muehleach
Andrea Muehleach i a Profeor ofAnthropolog at the Univerit of Torontocurrentl conducting reearch on watertruggle in urope
John Potill Januar 19 2016
POPL amp POWR
Freedomtechnologit and thefuture of gloaljutice Franci OConnor emih Celik
Januar 16 2016
DUCATION amp MANCIPATION
Academic for Peaceldquoenemie of thetaterdquo in Turke
FURTHR RADING
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1415
ROAR Magazinei a project of theFoundation forAutonomouMedia
inforoarmagorg
ROAR
AuthorAoutContact
TOPIC
order amp eondCapitalim amp CriiCitie amp CommunitieCommon ampCooperationducation ampmancipationnvironment ampcologDevelopment ampDependencImperialim ampInurgencieIntellectual ampIdeologMedia amp ManipulationPeople amp PowerRace amp Reitanceurveillance ampecurit
W
aFilmlog
MAGAZIN
Iue
HLP
Acceiilititemap
TAK PART
Contriutehop
UCRI DONAT
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IGN UP
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ROAR i an independent journal of the radicalimagination providing graroot perpectivefrom the frontshyline of the gloal truggle forreal democrac
Your eshymail
All WrongReveredRead our repulicationpolic
0 uilding Power Read now Magazine mdash Iue 0
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1515
Deigned ojan Kanižaj Developed Mario JankovićLegal tuff
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 815
demand in an age of auterit The law furtherforid that municipalitie ue profit madefrom the ale of hare to reshyacquire privatehare with the goal of reshymunicipalization
NOLIRAL AUTHORITARIANIM
There i more A 2014 Unlock Ital (loccaItalia) law inaugurated a round ofadminitrative reshycentralization that differtarkl from the local ldquofreedomrdquo unleahed neolieral reform 25 ear ago under theaegi of decentralization devolution anduidiarit Ital ha thu een the rie of ahighl authoritarian neolieral politicalculture when it come to the governance ofnatural reource etting the tage for a watergra on the part of the tate and it privateallie
A 1994 Law had promoted the decentralizedmanagement of water creating waterditrict (ATO) governed aemlie ofmaor Thee maor were reponile forthe planning and licening of waterconceion the management of uropeanfund and the appointment of memer of theoard of director and the preident of theATO ATO therefore had ome meaure ofdemocratic legitimac
Twent ear later locca Italia eek to
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 915
radicall contrain the role of maor InCampania the regional preident de Luca(officiall deemed unfit for pulic office Italrsquo parliamentar antishymafia commiion)jut paed a law that reduce the power ofATO grouping them under one ingleentit (nte Idrico Campano) that will takecontrol of all pring all trategic planningand all regional national and uropean fundand determine price a well a conceionWater activit fear that thi neolieralpolitical authoritarianim (ldquoThe region iacting like a little kingrdquo a I heard omeonetellingl put it) will e matched the rie oflarge water corporation that aim to competeon the gloal market
The Novemer demontration like thoe heldefore wa therefore a moment in whichmaor were ale to protet their lo of localovereignt There the lamented theimpending lo of their capacit to influencewater price top water hutshyoff or evendecide what kind of infratructural work iperformed in their territorie
With thi new authoritarianim come thepolice The onl large cit that ha reshymunicipalized and democratized it waterwork i Napoli AC (the Naple watercompan ldquoNapoli Water a Commonrdquo) utin the lat ten month alone Napoli AC wa
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1015
tematicall haraed from aove multipleviit the tax police the Internal Revenueervice the pulic proecutor and thenational antishycorruption authorit Yet not aingle accuation againt Napoli AC waproven in court and all charge of corruptionand financial mimanagement were dropped
TH RI OF RL MAYOR
One of the mot important legacie of thereferendum wa a legion of water committeethat remain all over the Italian territor andthat have acquired deep inight into theworking of neolieralization and theprocee of deshydemocratization that haveaccompanied it
In Campania the water committee ofCatellammare di taia Caalnuovo NoceraInferiore Nocera uperiore Roccapiemonteand man other repreent the remnant ofthe demo that continue to hold politicianaccountale often at the local level throughrecoure to maor mdash the mot ldquoproximaterdquorepreentative of the tate and the mot eailheld accountale ince the come from andlive within the communitie the repreent
Man maor have een an importantreource for the movement ince thereferendum The continue to e o a the
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1115
have pulicl walked with proteting citizenThi i wh the rie of proteting maor i oignificant and unuual their radicalization ia mptom in a od politic where democraci ick
Maor epeciall in maller town have ofcoure alwa een complex mediatoretween the power aove and preure fromelow ut in a context of intene deshydemocratization preure on maor haveuilt up and their role have increainglecome fraught with contradiction roughtto their knee auterit policie and thuunale to provide for their contituencie mdashan incapacit exacerated in theimpoverihed communitie of the Italianouth where infratructure and ervice exitin growing tate of utter direpair mdash maorare oth the tailshyend of a deshydemocratizedpolitical tem and political preure pointof lat reort for local citizen
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Make no mitake man maor were draggedkicking and creaming into upporting the reshymunicipalization of water ut that i precielthe point Thee are political repreentativewho can till e held accountale (and forcedor cajoled) into honoring the referendumThi i wh the ideshylining of maor i uch atraged It dipoee local communitie ofone of the few power till availale to themthat of holding their maor accountale
One wa that maor have ought to aerttheir overeignt i through the iuance ofordinance that top the water hutshyoffcurrentl rocking the countr (illegal inFrance and Great ritain water hutshyoff arelegal in Ital) ut a lew of recent deciion inregional adminitrative court in Lazio hometo Italrsquo capital Rome have ruled thatmaor do not have thi right mdash a devatatinglow to the little maneuvering pace left tomaor in truggle over water Activit fearthat thee ruling will have a cacading effecton the capacit of Italrsquo maor to provideeven the one mot crucial utance thathuman need to urvive water
The politic of water in Ital thu tarklreveal a ke crii of our time ndash the crii oflegitimac that i rocking government andthat force u to poe the quetion of wherepolitical overeignt and law and lawfulne
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1315
lie It compel u to ak how we have come toa point where democrac tand oppoed tothe econom and how democrac undertooda the rule of the people can e regained
MOR gt
Andrea Muehleach
Andrea Muehleach i a Profeor ofAnthropolog at the Univerit of Torontocurrentl conducting reearch on watertruggle in urope
John Potill Januar 19 2016
POPL amp POWR
Freedomtechnologit and thefuture of gloaljutice Franci OConnor emih Celik
Januar 16 2016
DUCATION amp MANCIPATION
Academic for Peaceldquoenemie of thetaterdquo in Turke
FURTHR RADING
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radicall contrain the role of maor InCampania the regional preident de Luca(officiall deemed unfit for pulic office Italrsquo parliamentar antishymafia commiion)jut paed a law that reduce the power ofATO grouping them under one ingleentit (nte Idrico Campano) that will takecontrol of all pring all trategic planningand all regional national and uropean fundand determine price a well a conceionWater activit fear that thi neolieralpolitical authoritarianim (ldquoThe region iacting like a little kingrdquo a I heard omeonetellingl put it) will e matched the rie oflarge water corporation that aim to competeon the gloal market
The Novemer demontration like thoe heldefore wa therefore a moment in whichmaor were ale to protet their lo of localovereignt There the lamented theimpending lo of their capacit to influencewater price top water hutshyoff or evendecide what kind of infratructural work iperformed in their territorie
With thi new authoritarianim come thepolice The onl large cit that ha reshymunicipalized and democratized it waterwork i Napoli AC (the Naple watercompan ldquoNapoli Water a Commonrdquo) utin the lat ten month alone Napoli AC wa
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1015
tematicall haraed from aove multipleviit the tax police the Internal Revenueervice the pulic proecutor and thenational antishycorruption authorit Yet not aingle accuation againt Napoli AC waproven in court and all charge of corruptionand financial mimanagement were dropped
TH RI OF RL MAYOR
One of the mot important legacie of thereferendum wa a legion of water committeethat remain all over the Italian territor andthat have acquired deep inight into theworking of neolieralization and theprocee of deshydemocratization that haveaccompanied it
In Campania the water committee ofCatellammare di taia Caalnuovo NoceraInferiore Nocera uperiore Roccapiemonteand man other repreent the remnant ofthe demo that continue to hold politicianaccountale often at the local level throughrecoure to maor mdash the mot ldquoproximaterdquorepreentative of the tate and the mot eailheld accountale ince the come from andlive within the communitie the repreent
Man maor have een an importantreource for the movement ince thereferendum The continue to e o a the
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1115
have pulicl walked with proteting citizenThi i wh the rie of proteting maor i oignificant and unuual their radicalization ia mptom in a od politic where democraci ick
Maor epeciall in maller town have ofcoure alwa een complex mediatoretween the power aove and preure fromelow ut in a context of intene deshydemocratization preure on maor haveuilt up and their role have increainglecome fraught with contradiction roughtto their knee auterit policie and thuunale to provide for their contituencie mdashan incapacit exacerated in theimpoverihed communitie of the Italianouth where infratructure and ervice exitin growing tate of utter direpair mdash maorare oth the tailshyend of a deshydemocratizedpolitical tem and political preure pointof lat reort for local citizen
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
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Make no mitake man maor were draggedkicking and creaming into upporting the reshymunicipalization of water ut that i precielthe point Thee are political repreentativewho can till e held accountale (and forcedor cajoled) into honoring the referendumThi i wh the ideshylining of maor i uch atraged It dipoee local communitie ofone of the few power till availale to themthat of holding their maor accountale
One wa that maor have ought to aerttheir overeignt i through the iuance ofordinance that top the water hutshyoffcurrentl rocking the countr (illegal inFrance and Great ritain water hutshyoff arelegal in Ital) ut a lew of recent deciion inregional adminitrative court in Lazio hometo Italrsquo capital Rome have ruled thatmaor do not have thi right mdash a devatatinglow to the little maneuvering pace left tomaor in truggle over water Activit fearthat thee ruling will have a cacading effecton the capacit of Italrsquo maor to provideeven the one mot crucial utance thathuman need to urvive water
The politic of water in Ital thu tarklreveal a ke crii of our time ndash the crii oflegitimac that i rocking government andthat force u to poe the quetion of wherepolitical overeignt and law and lawfulne
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1315
lie It compel u to ak how we have come toa point where democrac tand oppoed tothe econom and how democrac undertooda the rule of the people can e regained
MOR gt
Andrea Muehleach
Andrea Muehleach i a Profeor ofAnthropolog at the Univerit of Torontocurrentl conducting reearch on watertruggle in urope
John Potill Januar 19 2016
POPL amp POWR
Freedomtechnologit and thefuture of gloaljutice Franci OConnor emih Celik
Januar 16 2016
DUCATION amp MANCIPATION
Academic for Peaceldquoenemie of thetaterdquo in Turke
FURTHR RADING
2132016 ROAR Magazine
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1015
tematicall haraed from aove multipleviit the tax police the Internal Revenueervice the pulic proecutor and thenational antishycorruption authorit Yet not aingle accuation againt Napoli AC waproven in court and all charge of corruptionand financial mimanagement were dropped
TH RI OF RL MAYOR
One of the mot important legacie of thereferendum wa a legion of water committeethat remain all over the Italian territor andthat have acquired deep inight into theworking of neolieralization and theprocee of deshydemocratization that haveaccompanied it
In Campania the water committee ofCatellammare di taia Caalnuovo NoceraInferiore Nocera uperiore Roccapiemonteand man other repreent the remnant ofthe demo that continue to hold politicianaccountale often at the local level throughrecoure to maor mdash the mot ldquoproximaterdquorepreentative of the tate and the mot eailheld accountale ince the come from andlive within the communitie the repreent
Man maor have een an importantreource for the movement ince thereferendum The continue to e o a the
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1115
have pulicl walked with proteting citizenThi i wh the rie of proteting maor i oignificant and unuual their radicalization ia mptom in a od politic where democraci ick
Maor epeciall in maller town have ofcoure alwa een complex mediatoretween the power aove and preure fromelow ut in a context of intene deshydemocratization preure on maor haveuilt up and their role have increainglecome fraught with contradiction roughtto their knee auterit policie and thuunale to provide for their contituencie mdashan incapacit exacerated in theimpoverihed communitie of the Italianouth where infratructure and ervice exitin growing tate of utter direpair mdash maorare oth the tailshyend of a deshydemocratizedpolitical tem and political preure pointof lat reort for local citizen
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
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Make no mitake man maor were draggedkicking and creaming into upporting the reshymunicipalization of water ut that i precielthe point Thee are political repreentativewho can till e held accountale (and forcedor cajoled) into honoring the referendumThi i wh the ideshylining of maor i uch atraged It dipoee local communitie ofone of the few power till availale to themthat of holding their maor accountale
One wa that maor have ought to aerttheir overeignt i through the iuance ofordinance that top the water hutshyoffcurrentl rocking the countr (illegal inFrance and Great ritain water hutshyoff arelegal in Ital) ut a lew of recent deciion inregional adminitrative court in Lazio hometo Italrsquo capital Rome have ruled thatmaor do not have thi right mdash a devatatinglow to the little maneuvering pace left tomaor in truggle over water Activit fearthat thee ruling will have a cacading effecton the capacit of Italrsquo maor to provideeven the one mot crucial utance thathuman need to urvive water
The politic of water in Ital thu tarklreveal a ke crii of our time ndash the crii oflegitimac that i rocking government andthat force u to poe the quetion of wherepolitical overeignt and law and lawfulne
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1315
lie It compel u to ak how we have come toa point where democrac tand oppoed tothe econom and how democrac undertooda the rule of the people can e regained
MOR gt
Andrea Muehleach
Andrea Muehleach i a Profeor ofAnthropolog at the Univerit of Torontocurrentl conducting reearch on watertruggle in urope
John Potill Januar 19 2016
POPL amp POWR
Freedomtechnologit and thefuture of gloaljutice Franci OConnor emih Celik
Januar 16 2016
DUCATION amp MANCIPATION
Academic for Peaceldquoenemie of thetaterdquo in Turke
FURTHR RADING
2132016 ROAR Magazine
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order amp eondCapitalim amp CriiCitie amp CommunitieCommon ampCooperationducation ampmancipationnvironment ampcologDevelopment ampDependencImperialim ampInurgencieIntellectual ampIdeologMedia amp ManipulationPeople amp PowerRace amp Reitanceurveillance ampecurit
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
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Deigned ojan Kanižaj Developed Mario JankovićLegal tuff
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1115
have pulicl walked with proteting citizenThi i wh the rie of proteting maor i oignificant and unuual their radicalization ia mptom in a od politic where democraci ick
Maor epeciall in maller town have ofcoure alwa een complex mediatoretween the power aove and preure fromelow ut in a context of intene deshydemocratization preure on maor haveuilt up and their role have increainglecome fraught with contradiction roughtto their knee auterit policie and thuunale to provide for their contituencie mdashan incapacit exacerated in theimpoverihed communitie of the Italianouth where infratructure and ervice exitin growing tate of utter direpair mdash maorare oth the tailshyend of a deshydemocratizedpolitical tem and political preure pointof lat reort for local citizen
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
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Make no mitake man maor were draggedkicking and creaming into upporting the reshymunicipalization of water ut that i precielthe point Thee are political repreentativewho can till e held accountale (and forcedor cajoled) into honoring the referendumThi i wh the ideshylining of maor i uch atraged It dipoee local communitie ofone of the few power till availale to themthat of holding their maor accountale
One wa that maor have ought to aerttheir overeignt i through the iuance ofordinance that top the water hutshyoffcurrentl rocking the countr (illegal inFrance and Great ritain water hutshyoff arelegal in Ital) ut a lew of recent deciion inregional adminitrative court in Lazio hometo Italrsquo capital Rome have ruled thatmaor do not have thi right mdash a devatatinglow to the little maneuvering pace left tomaor in truggle over water Activit fearthat thee ruling will have a cacading effecton the capacit of Italrsquo maor to provideeven the one mot crucial utance thathuman need to urvive water
The politic of water in Ital thu tarklreveal a ke crii of our time ndash the crii oflegitimac that i rocking government andthat force u to poe the quetion of wherepolitical overeignt and law and lawfulne
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1315
lie It compel u to ak how we have come toa point where democrac tand oppoed tothe econom and how democrac undertooda the rule of the people can e regained
MOR gt
Andrea Muehleach
Andrea Muehleach i a Profeor ofAnthropolog at the Univerit of Torontocurrentl conducting reearch on watertruggle in urope
John Potill Januar 19 2016
POPL amp POWR
Freedomtechnologit and thefuture of gloaljutice Franci OConnor emih Celik
Januar 16 2016
DUCATION amp MANCIPATION
Academic for Peaceldquoenemie of thetaterdquo in Turke
FURTHR RADING
2132016 ROAR Magazine
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order amp eondCapitalim amp CriiCitie amp CommunitieCommon ampCooperationducation ampmancipationnvironment ampcologDevelopment ampDependencImperialim ampInurgencieIntellectual ampIdeologMedia amp ManipulationPeople amp PowerRace amp Reitanceurveillance ampecurit
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2132016 ROAR Magazine
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Deigned ojan Kanižaj Developed Mario JankovićLegal tuff
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1215
Make no mitake man maor were draggedkicking and creaming into upporting the reshymunicipalization of water ut that i precielthe point Thee are political repreentativewho can till e held accountale (and forcedor cajoled) into honoring the referendumThi i wh the ideshylining of maor i uch atraged It dipoee local communitie ofone of the few power till availale to themthat of holding their maor accountale
One wa that maor have ought to aerttheir overeignt i through the iuance ofordinance that top the water hutshyoffcurrentl rocking the countr (illegal inFrance and Great ritain water hutshyoff arelegal in Ital) ut a lew of recent deciion inregional adminitrative court in Lazio hometo Italrsquo capital Rome have ruled thatmaor do not have thi right mdash a devatatinglow to the little maneuvering pace left tomaor in truggle over water Activit fearthat thee ruling will have a cacading effecton the capacit of Italrsquo maor to provideeven the one mot crucial utance thathuman need to urvive water
The politic of water in Ital thu tarklreveal a ke crii of our time ndash the crii oflegitimac that i rocking government andthat force u to poe the quetion of wherepolitical overeignt and law and lawfulne
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1315
lie It compel u to ak how we have come toa point where democrac tand oppoed tothe econom and how democrac undertooda the rule of the people can e regained
MOR gt
Andrea Muehleach
Andrea Muehleach i a Profeor ofAnthropolog at the Univerit of Torontocurrentl conducting reearch on watertruggle in urope
John Potill Januar 19 2016
POPL amp POWR
Freedomtechnologit and thefuture of gloaljutice Franci OConnor emih Celik
Januar 16 2016
DUCATION amp MANCIPATION
Academic for Peaceldquoenemie of thetaterdquo in Turke
FURTHR RADING
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1415
ROAR Magazinei a project of theFoundation forAutonomouMedia
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order amp eondCapitalim amp CriiCitie amp CommunitieCommon ampCooperationducation ampmancipationnvironment ampcologDevelopment ampDependencImperialim ampInurgencieIntellectual ampIdeologMedia amp ManipulationPeople amp PowerRace amp Reitanceurveillance ampecurit
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Deigned ojan Kanižaj Developed Mario JankovićLegal tuff
2132016 ROAR Magazine
httpsroarmagorgessayskillingshydemosshywatershystrugglesshyitaly 1315
lie It compel u to ak how we have come toa point where democrac tand oppoed tothe econom and how democrac undertooda the rule of the people can e regained
MOR gt
Andrea Muehleach
Andrea Muehleach i a Profeor ofAnthropolog at the Univerit of Torontocurrentl conducting reearch on watertruggle in urope
John Potill Januar 19 2016
POPL amp POWR
Freedomtechnologit and thefuture of gloaljutice Franci OConnor emih Celik
Januar 16 2016
DUCATION amp MANCIPATION
Academic for Peaceldquoenemie of thetaterdquo in Turke
FURTHR RADING
2132016 ROAR Magazine
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ROAR Magazinei a project of theFoundation forAutonomouMedia
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order amp eondCapitalim amp CriiCitie amp CommunitieCommon ampCooperationducation ampmancipationnvironment ampcologDevelopment ampDependencImperialim ampInurgencieIntellectual ampIdeologMedia amp ManipulationPeople amp PowerRace amp Reitanceurveillance ampecurit
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order amp eondCapitalim amp CriiCitie amp CommunitieCommon ampCooperationducation ampmancipationnvironment ampcologDevelopment ampDependencImperialim ampInurgencieIntellectual ampIdeologMedia amp ManipulationPeople amp PowerRace amp Reitanceurveillance ampecurit
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Deigned ojan Kanižaj Developed Mario JankovićLegal tuff