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Links to i Centri Sociali
Birthplace of Hip Hop Italiano!
- Tactical Media Crew — The Movimento Antagonista's Web presence, covering pirate radio stations, radical syndicalism, the feminist movement, prisoners, news from Chiapas, "Kill a Multi," etc. The site has the most complete listing of i centri sociali on line, many with their own homepages. In Italian, with sections in English, French, and Spanish.
- Isole nella Rete (Islands on the Net) was created to "open a visible space on the Net that promotes the issues concerning the self-controled squats, the 'antagonistic' left, the anarchist movement, collaborative endeavors, and alternative cultural production." You can read the latest listserver postings about i centri and subscribe to the listserver.
- Freedom Press International's online English coverage of the Italian left offers a good introduction to i centri with Steve Wright's 1996 piece Anarchy in Action? and a 1997 article on the police closing in Mestre (VE).
Here are links to two of the better known and established centri:
Occupied on May 1, 1986, Forte Presentino is the oldest lasting centro in Italy's capital and one of Roma's more culturally-involved squats. With its own recording studio, the "Fort" established a sophisticated distribution network for self-produced recordings. It was home to one of Italy's first Hip Hop bands, Onda Rossa Posse. The centro maintains its pirate radio station Radio Onda Rossa.
Occupied in 1975, Milano's Leoncavallo is the grand daddy of the Italian centro movement. The cultural center was located in via Leoncavallo 22 for 18 years until the police closed down (sgombero) the transformed factory. The reincarnated centro at via Salomone 71 was closed down after seven months. The centro's members set up a new space at its present location at via Watteau 7, on the city's periphery. Despite attacks by neo-fascist and Legisti vandals in 1995, the 25 year old centro continues its struggle for workers' rights, housing issues, pro-marihuana, etc. The centro was home to the now defunct Leoncavallo Posse and it continues to sponsor cultural and musical events.
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