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from the "manifesto" of January 18, 2008 - article by Stefano Milani

A Wisdom in military posture

University patrolled by police and the police. Students protest outside but remain

lacked only the barbed wire and a sign to warn of the "impassable limit." For the rest it was all there. There were riot police to patrol every opening. There were armored vehicles with the engine running ready to load. There were helicopters to control all from above. But above all, there was an air tight, a surreal atmosphere. It had been years that you could not see the wisdom in this way militarized. I suppose there never has been, not even looking at '77. Why even the Pope has reversed itself and declined academic, for the first university in the capital has not changed anything. It had to be reinforced and was reinforced. As planned. So: you enter just by showing your student card and proof of identity. Students are surprised, even those who simply asked to go to attend classes or take examinations. Nothing, "available from the top, they say laconic agents. It 's the last minute wild card out from the deck of the rector Renato Guarini. A "retaliatory beautiful and good" according to the student movement in response to the 'humiliation' of papale.Ma even for those who refuse to cross the threshold of the university scenario remains unchanged. In the streets inside the citadel a web of barriers limiting the movement of panic a few students in the area and defines an area of \u200b\u200bsecurity behind and in front of the rectory, around the statue of Minerva. I am 11 and in the Great Hall Mussi and Veltroni are committed to Secularism and know about. Outside, next to the Faculty of Law, several dozen young activists of Action, the student organization close to the National Alliance, chanting slogans Ratzinger. Will the only ones allowed inside the university choirs. For everyone who disagrees with the official ceremony is outside. Face to face with police in riot gear deployed in defense of you do not know what. "Terrorists" and "bloody," as defined them as much press these days, guilty of having prevented the pope to inaugurate the academic year. Blocked the entrance of Via De Lollis for "reasons of public order." They are the collective and the university network for self-training, organizers of the protest, which were also added to the Cobas (with Piero Bernocchi in the head), the No Vat, Red Megaphone, community centers and committees of struggle for the home. There is also a member of the PRC Francesco Caruso, who obtained permission to go and talk to Guarini to request the opening of the gates. All, however, students of Wisdom and not. "The decision of the police," he says hastily the Magnificent. 'E' as required by the rector, "the lie to the Commissioner of tragicomic polizia.In this context, everything remains static. And students are left out, with their songs and their banners of dissent. "Gagging criticism kills the university," they yell. "What happened today is a very serious," says George Sestili coordination Collective, because "to enter the members only of Wisdom is a place that is closed to the public. Had also joined the protest associations and organizations who have come from other universities. So it impossible for people to express their disagreement, one thing has never seen even in the darkest years of our history. "But the rector is a deaf ear and remains firm on his positions. "I refused to discuss the reasons for extremists who try to incite hatred of disorder and no ideal and constructive suggestion," says late in the evening and only when inside and outside the university, will be returned to the granting calma.Unica , a short march around campus. Always under the watchful eye of law enforcement and the time needed to get out only by one thereby removing Mussi and Veltroni unpleasant situations. But there's all the same. Only back in the early afternoon calm. A Piazzale Aldo Moro re-open the gates and students can then be inserted within the town without any control and leaving the card in his pocket. Just as the guys in that group, after the "Frocessione" on the streets of San Lorenzo, were able to revise the statue of Minerva to the cry of 'we recover the university. "

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Luis Sepulveda solidarity with the students of La Sapienza

The Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda, author novels as "The Old Man Who Read Love Stories" and "Patagonia Express", has supported the protests of students and professors of the University 'La Sapienza Rome against the Pope's visit, writing from Gijon (city of Asturias, in Spain), a Chilean article published in "Le monde diplomatique. The article can be read in their original language at this address:
http://www.lemondediplomatique.cl/Eppur-si-muove.html

Here is the translation from English:


yet it moves (in Italian in the text)

We know that older people have mental regression that take them, sometimes, to happier times, full and intense
of their lives. Something similar must have happened to Ratzinger when he said that at the time of Galileo, the church was more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. Sometimes
back to the happy years inquisitor during which raged, for example, against the advocates of liberation theology, that the mere exercise of reason that said to put next to the poor.
Or, worse yet, it is possible that his mental regressions bring back the days of the Hitler Youth when he accepted the right of Catholicism and took for the good fairy tale on which the Nazis, "by God to the king, the king the people and the people to the Führer. "

The University of Rome, in a 'perfect demonstration of force that can and should be civil and secular society, has forced the Vatican to terminate a Papal visit inexplicable, because if there is a place in the world which must remain free from lies, dogma and superstition, this is the University.
[...] The
example of what has happened in Rome should pave the way for a series of answers to questions that are in the air for a long time but which, or electoral calculations or lower his head for a politically correct , do not express aloud.
Some of these questions to which there can be no answer "until we can tolerate hordes of superstitious the dignity of women by attacking the clinics where abortion is practiced with diligence and make the exercise of legal right?
And until we allow a miserable with her skirt allow you to compare homosexuality with pedophilia?
And as long as we tolerate that the clergy describes itself champion of human rights and assert that secularism, the essence of democracy, puts them in danger? "
We can not grant authority and we can not give you much listening, when it comes to sex, persons who have renounced it and see it only as a reproductive function.
We can not allow human rights are invoked by those who not only closed their eyes when they were violated, but opened them very good to see the evil they were criminals, and to secure from them a reward in exchange of silence.
This made the Catholic Church in Franco's Spain, this did Pius XII during the Nazi era, so did the Catholic Church blesses the bombing in Vietnam, this was the behavior of the Catholic Church in Argentina, where he performed before and during the torturers " purifying mission "in secret prisons.

By her example, the 'University of Rome tells us that the defense of the state and non-denominational lay back d be an urgent task, because secularism is the last thing left to preserve this erie of achievements that are called Rights Rights and Freedoms.
The steady weakening of the state, due to globalization and the consequent politicization of the economy is yielding functions (so you do privatization) ultinazionali to companies that do not tolerate neither moral nor ethical, because their only purpose is profit, and leaves the company ndifesa in hand with superstition. It is no coincidence the delirium of Ratzinger in despising the reason for Galileo. And it was not even the videoconferencing ua participation in the first act of the election campaign of the English right, arties by the bishops. Nothing that makes the Catholic church, on this gigantic multinational headquarters in the Vatican, including banks, including Mafia connections, is random, and certainly does not obey divine aspirations.

The clergy know that the deepening freedoms of society, the achievement of civil rights, education
growth based on values \u200b\u200band not on folkloric traditions, as the fruit gives companies itelligenti, curious, able to accept the future as a collective challenge and not as a fatality. Ratzinger and the Vatican will be able to order the young University of Rome (already did the cowardly Prodi in his own way), women who abort exercising their right to be master of his own body, the guys who study citizenship education the judges who marry each other same-sex, scientists doing research with stem cells, but it is clear that, just as Galileo said: moves yet.

Luis Sepúlveda
Gijón, 16 de enero de 2008

(translation by L. Pasqualini)