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April 30th
While I drink and eat
and breath the art around me I hear
the beating of drums and the sounds
of clarinets and pipes. I also hear
chanting, in Italian.
A group of anarchists
pass by demonstrating against the ravages
of big industry in the environment,
at least that's what I get out of their
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are from different parts of the world,
I can see that. This is a mixed group
of people that share common ideas. They
are very familiar to me because I grew
up surrounded by them. My parents were
very vocal in the sixties.
They still dress like
this, they still think the same things
and I agree in almost everything.
JJ is a bit like them
too. I feel at home in the middle of the
demonstration. Any of these people could
be sitting in my father's living room,
smoking pot, drinking wine, eating cheese
with baguettes and talking endlessly. |
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Some of
the guys are very, very cute. I like guys
with very long hair and with that intellectual
look in their eyes. I love to be part
of the long conversations.
To JJ it's just a lot
of rethoric because there are no easy
answers.
I'm sitting by the
fontana, writing this and thinking about
what just happened.
I was seeing two revolutions
at once, maybe three. The renaissance,
the student movements of the sixties and
the anarchist movement of today. |
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But I wonder
how would these people act if they were
in a city in South America where the police
don't just stand there looking at them
with a smile in their faces.
I was thinking of that
image of Margot in the front page of a
newspaper, looking down at an Indian woman
who was shot during a demonstration in
the Andes. Or the day I had to run down
a cobble stone street, escaping the tear
gas thrown at us.
This demonstration
is so lame in comparison. |
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The few
hours we had to visit Firenze are over.
We have to rush back to the train station
to take the train back to France. |
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