They will throw themselves into the water by swimming in the canalsand to be more visible and colorful they will have inflatable ducks, flamingos and floating swansmutes and mats, everything they can find. Saturday 28 June, date – presumed – of the final festival of Bezos-Sánchez weddingthe activists of “No Space for Bezos” they are very prepared and foot in the calls, by boat and – precisely – swimming – they will do everything to block the access of the guests to the Great school of Mercywhich together with the Cini Foundation On 27, he should host the celebrations. But why do they protest? For many reasons, from not wanting to see their city – that of citizens – rented as if it were a themed park, to the opposition towards the “model of exploitation that Bezos embodies” for which, precisely “there is no space”.
The group of “No Space for Bezos” It is from the initiative of the Venice Social Center Morion Laboratory to whom different city realities have joined, such as the group of Social assembly for the hometheLargethe Adlcobas who has a dispute against Amazon’s working condition, i Student collectivethe ecological group EXINTION REBELLIONsome Venetian neighborhood committees against tourism and the NO COMMITTE NO NAVI. «The most beautiful thing about this protest path is the participation of many people not framed in some groups and many young people, that is, that citizenship that Venice wants to expel and that instead keeps it alive», He comments Tommaso Cacciarispokesman for the no great ships movement, which here told us about the reasons that push them to act, and how they will act.
Why does “No Space for Bezos” be born and the protests against the marriage of the magnate in Venice?
«For many reasons. Certainly there is to consider the question of the use of the city, or how Venice is seen not as a place of citizens, but as a large themed park. Whether it is a “luxury” or “non -luxury” themed park for us, it changes little for us: that the city is the background of hordes of boys who come to the bachelorette party from every corner of Veneto, or that it is the location for the billionaires of Bezos’s wedding, Venice is perceived in all respects as a playground, a choreography, which, moreover, is nothing more than the vision that is the basis of politics in the last twenty years. Even the entrance ticket goes in this direction: it has not regulated the tourist flows, it has only imposed the idea that to go to a city you pay a ticket. But in which other city in the world is you paying a ticket to enter? You pay to go to the museum, for the theater, for the themed park in fact, but not for a city. The truth is that in this vision, which is the vision of the mayor, there is no room for citizens: for him the inhabitants can all go to live in Mestre and the city must be used to make money. According to the estimates of a few years ago we have 32 million tourists per year, or an average of 184 thousand per day, against 48 thousand residents! ».
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So one aspect is the city managed as a thematic park, then …
“Then there is the unprecedented arrogance of Jeff Bezos. Five large yachts, perhaps nine, who occupy every water space in the city, from Riva degli Schiavoni to the Navy, in which guests will not even sleep, because they will sleep in luxury hotels. It is the arrogance of those who arrive and occupy the city, book the hotels, book the taxi. All the taxis of a cooperative are booked at 180 euros per hour to be available 15 hours a day, just to stay there, tied to the pole, casomai served, yet the taxi is a service that also use residents for emergencies. Then the locations: the Lido, the island of San Giorgio, the Mercy, the Madonna dell’Orto, who knows what other secret places that we will discover gradually … has taken everything. It is an invasion that has not had any precedents and with which Bezos sends the message to the world that rented Venice, and this is unbearable. Because it is for this attitude that Venice loses its status as a city, of civitas».
And again?
“It’s Jeff Bezos is Jeff Bezos. He is not an actor, he has a heavy political role, he is the one who has concretely determined the re -election of Trump to the White House. Bezos are changed the grammar of power: the policies of the globe are determined by this new feudal techno of which he is part that unites a very high level of technological value with feudal mechanisms where democracy is lost, in which there is the king, the feudal lord and the vassal, no longer governance. This marriage in his aesthetic speaks of a show of power: here we have reached the marriage of the emperor, to the sovereign who comes to ban on a place that deals with a property, but it is a city. It is like in the Middle Ages, moreover he likes the Middle Ages because Amazon’s porters pay for them as then, at the piece, at 800 deliveries a day, and if it rains or if they pierce a rubber it is their problem, they will work until night! Other than the right of workers … In addition there is also another theme: we on June 25th at dawn will go to the Judecca to defend from the eviction a lady who can no longer afford to pay the rent, a lady who cleanse in a cooperative that works for hotels and Airbnb and takes 5.70 per hour, while he comes here to throw millions. It is insulting. When here in the city they say that “Bring the sghei“I wonder who brings this money to them? Perhaps to the owner of the hotels who are the ones who pay 5.70 per hour the lady of cleaning, and who in all probability are not even Venetians, but it is of international groups. Of course it is obvious, some money will be there, in every banquet of the sovereign some bones always falls, it is part of the exercise of the royalty, and someone who clashes under the table is always there, but it is another.
What will you do?
«There will be surprises in the days before, always colorful, communicative, peaceful. And then there will be the manifestation of June 28th at Mercy with five different events to block access to guests: we will be on foot, with boats and we will throw ourselves in water with the inflatable ducks, liferies, swans, diver’s wetsuits … The choice of mercy is another insult to the city: the mayor is postponed to trial in an investigation where this place has the part of the lion, they could have been all more elegant. Avoid choosing it. For us, however, it has an advantage: Mercy is surrounded by very small channels that we will block more easily, perhaps we will not be able to stop the arrival of the billionaires, but we will certainly force them to look at the city and the citizens “.
What do you want it to happen?
«We have already won as far as we are concerned, because we are talking to newspapers all over the world, including the Washington Post – which is by Jeff Bezos -. The fact that Jeff Bezos use our city and that we used Jeff Bezos to talk about the problems of our city is a satisfaction. With the protest of the 28 we can do it even more: the next day we will not only talk about the changes of the dress of the future wife, but of this city and citizens of this city ».
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Source: Vanity Fair
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