IoApro: the protest of the myths shows that the only defeat is resignation

17 April 20213 years ago babelfish

More and more Italians are beginning to no longer accept closures, driving bans and all the known restrictions put in place in order to contain the pandemic. The measures devised by the previous government of Giuseppe Conte, and unfortunately re-launched almost in full, by the executive of Mario Draghi, are becoming more inadmissible every day. If a year ago the majority of the country understandably agreed to lock themselves up at home and close their businesses, because Covid fell as a completely unknown threat and trusted in an effort, even a hard one, to then be able to return to normal within a couple of months, today, the lockdown , as the only tool to beat the virus, is no longer tolerable. The imposition of house arrest has become extremely hateful because the citizen has realized that he is the only one to make sacrifices, while politics and the leaders of the nation have not done their part.

In the Conte era, negligence was almost total, but not even the arrival of Mario Draghi has so far brought about a positive turning point for Italy. Without going into the various cross-border models now, even if there is a lot to say and learn, let's observe how the main countries of the world have done and are taking many more steps than Italy to get out of the Covid nightmare. There are those who have closed more and others less, or those who have not closed at all, but where it has been chosen to limit people's daily lives, it has really been done to help economically the categories most affected by the anti- Covid restrictions. Massive investments have also been made in health facilities, home care and vaccines, to avoid overcrowding in hospitals and to make the lockdown as short as possible. In what was once defined as the Belpaese, none of this has been done, neither on the economy nor on that of health, and it is therefore not surprising that after a year, people, for so say, it doesn't fit anymore.

Indeed, it is surprising how Italians have so far been far too calm and obedient. The continuous mortification of right and freedom is an enormous damage, even psychological, for everyone, but in the mass of oppressed and depressed people, there are those who are more oppressed than others, because, in addition to not being able to move freely, they cannot even work and the future is cut off dramatically. We speak of course of the owners and employees of all those businesses that have been closed for months (restaurants, bars, gyms, hairdressers, beauty centers and others). After the hope, and then the disappointment, the exasperation of these categories has now come, since the exit from the tunnel is not yet seen. And many have begun to make themselves heard on social networks and to be seen in the squares, even in front of the Roman palaces of power.

They gave themselves a symbol and a denomination: IoApro . They went down to demonstrate in the streets of Rome and other important Italian cities, people who perhaps previously kept away from any gathering, political or category, but when the pot is overflowed, the most unexpected way is also chosen. The recent demonstrations of IoApro have seen a large participation and in the last Roman demonstration there would have been even more people, if some buses had not been blocked at the start. This was denounced by the organizers, and if it were all true, it would have been a bad signal from a liberticidal regime, but also the awareness, on the part of power, of a massive mobilization of many exasperated Italians, to be contained, therefore, in a one way or the other.

It goes without saying that the animators of IoApro have all the reasons in the world, and apparently their determination is not proving entirely useless. A delegation of protesters has already been received by members of the government, and the theme of reopening is once again central to the political debate. Even the "chiusurista" to the bitter end Roberto Speranza starts talking about a road map of reopening. Of course, between saying and doing there is the sea, but when the top realizes that the base is no longer willing to accept everything and can even get to disobey in a strong and widespread way, it is the same top that then try to adapt in some way. Being heard, abandoning the resigned silence, helps.

Of course, it is essential to attract the attention of the powerful with nonviolent civil disobedience, which is entirely legitimate in democracy, and never through violence. There was no lack of tensions with the police during the IoApro appointments, but it would be dishonest to liquidate that spontaneous movement, which arose out of the exasperation of small entrepreneurs and categories that keep Italy on its feet, as a fascist and extremist group. Some media, let alone if they could not hold back, have certainly tried to paint the protests of restaurateurs in negative, placing, for example, the emphasis on the participation of CasaPound , on the shaman de noantri and on paper bombs. For the avoidance of doubt, whoever was to operate that paper bomb, it is evident that he is an irresponsible idiot, however immediately condemned by the main speakers of the event, who also paraded through the streets of Rome handcuffed, just to highlight as much as possible their nonviolent intentions. Nor can we exclude the presence of infiltrators, who have come with the opposite interest to that of the organizers. If they then freely decide to join groups, so to speak, uncomfortable and unpopular, or singular characters such as the emulation of the shaman of Capitol Hill, they certainly cannot be kicked out.

Obviously, the mainstream media march on us as they did in the past, if we remember well, during the street demonstrations of the Italian right (MSI and to a large extent also An), in which the first to be interviewed or photographed was almost always a guy in black shirt. However, net of widespread disinformation, the substance of IoApro is that of the frustration and exasperation of many categories to which a stop has been imposed and no serious help has been paid. Men and women, fathers and mothers of families who risk never reopening. Instead of wasting time on CasaPound , our leading news media would have done a better service if they had been more concerned with those people in the square with tears in their eyes and those who have decided to humble themselves to their knees.

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