A-Infos (en) Italy, anarres info: 2ND OF JULY. NO TO THE CITY OF WEAPONS! NO TO BORN IN TURIN! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Saturday 2 July at 4 pm ---- No to war and whoever arms it - No to the Aerospace 
City! No to NATO in Turin - day of information and struggle in via Roma 100 in 
front of the San Federico gallery, headquarters of the aerospace district of 
Piedmont ---- Turin is betting everything on the war industry to relaunch the 
economy. An economy of death. Turin is already one of the major centers of the 
aerospace war industry. There are 350 large and small companies with a turnover 
of around 7 billion euros. ---- Also in Turin, the construction of the City of 
Aerospace is about to start, a center of excellence for the aerospace war 
industry promoted by the arms giant Leonardo and the Subalpine Polytechnic. The 
City of Aerospace, which will rise between Corso Francia and Corso Marche, will 
host an innovation accelerator in the field of Defense, one of the nine European 
nodes of the Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (D.I.A.N.A), a 
NATO structure.
This project, which started in June 2021 in Brussels, is part of NATO's 
technological innovation programs for 2030. The task of the Turin hub will be to 
coordinate and manage, through tenders and funds made available by allied 
countries, the network of companies and Italian technology accelerators, to put 
them at the service of the Alliance's needs. Pending the construction of the 
Aerospace City, the innovation accelerator will be based at the OGR.
NATO invests a billion dollars in this project. A mountain of money that will be 
used to produce ever more sophisticated, ever more deadly technologies.
The war industry is the engine of all wars. The City of Aerospace and NATO's 
innovation accelerator are actively supported by the city government, the 
regional government and Confindustria.
They play the job blackmail card, in an increasingly poor city, where getting to 
the end of the month is increasingly difficult, where health, education, 
transport are increasingly a privilege for those who can pay.
The poor of our country, every time they go shopping, bring home less and less 
food, clothes, medicine, because the increase in the prices of energy and basic 
necessities is making our lives even more precarious. all.
In these months of war in Ukraine, thousands of people have been killed, tortured 
and raped, others have lost their homes and gone into exile. The Italian 
government has sent weapons to Ukraine, multiplied the number of soldiers 
employed on the borders with Ukraine and the Black Sea, increased war spending.
The spotlight on Ukraine must not distract us from the other 55 wars that 
bloodied the planet away from the spotlight of the media.
Italy is engaged in 40 military missions abroad, 18 of which in Africa, where the 
tricolor troops wage war on migrants and defend the interests of giants such as ENI.
Try to imagine how many schools, hospitals, nearby public transport could be 
financed if research and production were used for the life of all of us, for the 
cure instead of for the war.

Blocking the birth of a new pole of research, design and construction of war 
devices, preventing NATO from having its base in Turin is a concrete commitment 
against war. Against all wars.
The weapons that kill women, men and children in every corner of the planet are 
also built a stone's throw from our homes, a stone's throw from the garden where 
our boys and girls play.
A no is not enough to stop wars, rainbow flags are not enough: it is urgent to 
get in the way to shut down and reconvert the industries of death, to oppose the 
increase in military spending, to block the shipment of weapons to the war fronts.

Today we would all like to join the imperialist war between Russia and Ukraine. 
We are not there. We do not enlist either with NATO or with Russia. We reject 
patriotic rhetoric as an element of legitimation of states and their expansionist 
claims.
We stand alongside the people who die under bombs in Ukraine, we stand alongside 
those in Russia who suffer prison and repression for opposing the invasion of 
Ukraine.
We stand side by side with Ukrainian workers who are forced by a new law to work 
12 hours a day, while bosses can also defer wages. We are against the war economy 
here and everywhere.
We are alongside those who, everywhere, desert the war between states, which 
compete for imperial dominion over territories, resources, the lives of women, 
men and children.
We are against war and whoever arms it, starting with the gunsmith giant 
Leonardo, who does good business with everyone and is about to build the city of 
aerospace in Turin.
We want a world without borders, armies, oppression, exploitation and war.

Saturday 2 July at 4 pm - information and fight day in via Roma 100
in front of the entrance to Galleria San Federico, where the DAP - Piedmont 
Aerospace District is based

Coordination against war and whoever arms

https://www.anarresinfo.org/2-luglio-no-alla-citta-delle-armi-no-alla-nato-a-torino/
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