Against Venetian Inquisition, a first victory
The President of the Province of Venice, Francesca Zaccariotto has distanced himself from the initiative Speranzon , the deputy provincial culture, with the support of a police union requires libraries and schools in the country to withdraw from their shelves the books of all authors (including sousissigné and a couple of hundred others) who signed an appeal for Cesare Battisti in 2004. The President keeps saying that it is a personal initiative and that the Province does not support it. This is a first victory by mobilizing on the net who has refused facile forms of online petition or the facebook group, but was characterized by a multiplicity of initiatives, mail self-reporting to Speranzon distribution of leaflets in libraries, to set in motion Publishers , librarians, fellow writers are not signatories, and all people concerned. Drafting Carmilla analysis very well whole affair, for those who read Italian. Anyway, this case both ridiculous (for its immediate practical effects) and very severe (for the type of practice tends to trivialize it) is not complete: it must achieve both certainty that no direct and indirect pressure being exerted on librarians and institutional consequences are drawn from this abuse of power. If you really want, I will translate a few passages later, the text of Carmilla, in the meantime, I return to my dear Tunisia, on which I try to write a few lines.
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