“Venice is not one location to rent “. It is the message to Jeff Bezos, to the city and the world launched in recent days by Tommaso Cacciari, spokesperson of the no great ships committee and in the front row with the activists of “No Space for Bezos “resounded even stronger in the afternoon of Saturday 28 June on the occasion of the event “No bezos no war”.
Starting after 17:00 from the Santa Lucia station, the expected procession brought generations of students, Venetian citizens but also foreigners who have chosen Venice as their home, and also some politicians (Like Luana Zanella, deputy and group leader of Europe Verde), to show not only the already externalized opposition to those that are considered by many to be the most invasive and uncomfortable wedding of the decade, but also for accepting the lights on the international situation, on the bombings that devastate Gaza and on the latest moves on the Iranian front that Trump and powerful in the world are riskyly playing.
«Bezos’ wedding just as it was set up is the demonstration of the transformation into Disneyland of Venicein particular of the historic center »he explains to me Giacomo Cervo, 24 -year -old secretary of the Venetian Section of the Italian Leftamong the first participants who approach with the aim of making me tell the present the reasons that led them to participate in the procession. “There is a dispute of the Bezos model, the one according to which the work is exploitation and we contest that the city is rented to the Oligorca on duty».
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Mr.amazon is mostly described, with voice and on the many billboards that are agitated in the air together. There is one that immediately attracts my attention, which reports the writing No techno feudalism on the one hand e Kiss Yes, Bezos no On the other (reinterpretation of the classic make love don’t make war). Shakes him Hans-Peter Martin67 -year -old Austrian journalist, who has lived in Venice for five years and who has chosen to participate “because it is a special city and Mr. Bezos is in turn special, but in a negative way for the way he conceives the work, for his employees who – supports – work for low wages and for his company, Amazon, who is causing great problems for the environment».
It is not nice that Venice has chosen to show off He explains this Venetian by adoption, also emphasizing on another theme: the fact that Bezos collections of people through his own e-commerce. This topic, which will also be reported by other participants among the many motivations of the protest. I speak with one of the organizers next to Cacciari, Federica Tondello: “On the one hand there is a protest against the idea that this person can come here and can privatize a whole series of areas of the city»Referring to how the city administration is focusing a lot on these spectacular events at the expense of citizens. «We witnessed the closure of the calls, channels, creating great discomfort. The message we want to give is that Venice does not need this type of events. They say that he will bring a lot of money, in reality he will bring them to the pockets of the usual few, like the owners of hotels who do not even live here ».
Echo Sofia, who recently moved to Venice that specifies that citizens do not have it with the marriage in themselves “It is not a question of freedom of a person who has to marry, there is talk of a person who has an impact in the world”. A world in crisis that is the background to a luxurious wedding, according to the most a useless ostentation of the wealth that is space in a city that of space, however, for those who want to live it, offers less and less because of the dear rents, of the constant invasion of biting and escape tourists (perhaps more rooted and difficult problems to manage compared to the wedding between Ricconi).
The more I speak with those present, the more I have the feeling that The reasons for contesting are nothing more than the externalization of a malaise that has lasted for too longof which Mr.bezos is only the proverbial tip of theiceberg.
Cristina, owns a historic nautical bookcase That I have been attending for years and she, of Amazon parcels, does not want to see even the shadow. He does not withdraw them even for the neighbors if they ask her for a favor and today she has not been able to go down the calls but would have liked to show the dissent for this event. But also for many other events, such as the G7 of Justice held last year or some exclusive fashion shows that immobilize the city without bringing who knows what added value.
Thinks differently My friend Ritawhich in Venice designs and takes care of the gardens of some of the oldest and most prestigious houses: She, who distances himself from the protests even if the wedding also had an impact on his everyday life, tells me that honestly without Amazon he would not be able to work in the same way.
And it is not the only one, not even among those who challenge the heat of the end of June together with the procession directed to the Rialto bridge: Mrs. MariaVenetian, chose to participate to complain about the impediments created by this event but in the end He admits that she yes, on Amazon it buys us all right. «I use it because in Venice it is difficult to find some things, you are forced». Also to have to live, albeit only for three days, feeling hostage of those who take it away but on the other, perhaps, something gives it.
Source: Vanity Fair
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