A-Infos (en) Sicilia Libertaria: NO MUOS - Free Gaza and Palestine (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On 16 December the municipal library of Niscemi was crowded with 
activists, ordinary citizens and representatives of the Tunisian 
community who had come to attend the Movement's conference on "Sicily at 
war? Ukraine, Palestine... we are all involved". ---- A Tunisian girl 
began by reading a text in solidarity with the population of Gaza, then 
it was up to Antonio Mazzeo (interview recorded the day before) to draw 
the picture of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and in particular 
the involvement of Italy and Sicily, starting from the Sigonella base, a 
bridgehead for sending weapons and ammunition to Israel and from MUOS, 
which, as always, coordinates and manages the war missions of the USA 
and their allies. Ukraine and Palestine are the terrain in which two 
peoples are crushed with Western complicity, both by directly taking 
part in the conflict with intelligence and weapons, and with 
technological support. Mazzeo's speech was full of details, allowing us 
to take note of the fact that these conflicts, and the massacre of the 
people of Gaza and the West Bank, are facts that concern us very closely.

It was therefore up to Claudio Tamagnini, present in the West Bank in 
the first month of the current conflict as part of an international 
solidarity project, to go into detail and tell as a witness the 
violence, intimidation, bans, expropriations of land and homes, to which 
the Palestinian proletariat is subjected on a daily basis by fascist 
settlers and army troops. An intervention with historical openings to 
remind those present of the origins of Zionism, its development and the 
current events that we all know.

Antonella Santarelli then described the questionnaire-investigation on 
the condition of women in Niscemi that the Movement is carrying out; a 
rich debate has therefore developed which has made it possible to 
dissect other facets of the war issue: from the interference of the 
state of Israel itself in the Italian university and research world, to 
the boycott of Israeli products as a form of struggle, to the economic 
interests in the sea at off the coast of Gaza. An overview was also 
drawn of the eviction of the occupied student residence in Catania (see 
the article to the side) and of the self-managed counseling centre.

Five days after the Movement's initiative, Niscemi woke up to police 
sirens; this time the NO MUOS activists were not in the sights, but the 
city mafia gang, dedicated to extortion, drug dealing and the control of 
economic and commercial activities. Among the 29 arrested, on charges 
ranging from the attempted murder of an entrepreneur who had refused to 
pay protection money to the possession of weapons, there are well-known 
and less well-known names from the Cosa Nostra families of Niscemo, 
among which the owners of Piazza Calcestruzzi company, known in our 
environment for having been the company awarded the contract for some of 
the MUOS construction works; the same one who, deprived of the 
anti-mafia certificate, continued work on the US base under the 
protection of the police, who beat, stopped, arrested and reported the 
activists who tried to prevent the workers from entering the 
construction site with road blocks. We have always denounced the 
interests of the mafia in the construction of the MUOS, and its role in 
intimidating the population, so that the construction of the military 
base could take place in complete tranquility. For the record, among 
those arrested there is also a former policeman.

As we write these notes, an important garrison is underway in Palermo at 
the headquarters of Leonardo SpA, once again to denounce its role as an 
outpost of death, as an arms dealer and as an accomplice in all the 
conflicts that have bloodied the planet. The demonstration, organized by 
the Anti-War Assembly, with the adhesion of the NO MUOS Movement, 
intends to once again reiterate full solidarity with the Palestinian 
people. Leonardo's Palermo headquarters was the subject of a sit-in 
during the regional demonstration on 21 October. Thanks to that 
initiative, the inhabitants of the populous Guadagna neighborhood were 
able to learn about the military purposes of the production of that plant.

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