imagine for a moment something
completely absurd
at some point in history a route
millennial migratory comes
artificially interrupted a road
which for centuries has been traveled by
whole populations simply stop
to exist we add to this story
another element of this absurdity
block occurs in fact at the apex of a
armed conflict that is forcing
precisely an entire population to emigrate
en masse to escape extermination
inevitable what the bureaucrats
because you bureaucrats it comes that they have
signed the closing order
what they had in mind in that
We do not know it right now
they thought that people arrived at the
border and turned around
come back or that families
found suddenly separated not
they did everything to get together with
any means available to them or
that anyway all these people
they accepted this in silence
decision without even moving the
their anger or their frustration
protest demonstrations this note
we’ll never know
and perhaps we will never understand one however
what is certain we know what it is
really happened
because this story is so absurd
a true story the spring of 2016
hungary serbia and macedonia decide
arbitrarily close theirs
boundaries in the face to the thousands of
people fleeing from Syria
interrupting the pall cannes in fact
routes the Balkan route
millennial linking europe of asia from
one day with another
tens of thousands of people remain
blocked in Greece that becomes a land
between middle- eastern and northern europe
that at that moment that already left the
islands had luck in quotes
find yourself already on the land on
land
start to scale along the borders
Greece’s interiors in the hope of
overcome the barbed wire and be able to do so
continue the journey
and it’s right here on the barbed wire
para greece from the fruit salad that
begins our story at tomorrow and
Sunday a tiny village of
border with a train station
dilapidated and lossy agricultural fields
an eye to a few tens of meters the
Greek border Macedonian and then again
fields and woods to the horizon by a
with each other this microscopic
border outpost becomes
a gigantic tent city where more than
15,000 people live in the hope of
to be able to cross the barbed wire that
separates them from friends and affections that only
until a few days before they were
managed to pass in this situation
of total immobility where time does not
never passes
you start laying the groundwork for
something new for a new project
a huge social laboratory in heaven
open which among other things attracts a
itself hundreds of people from all over the
world people who want to be a part
of the political project that is taking place
building up to the people who they are
curious or people who want
participate in its construction
among these people obviously there are
me too
beyond the large organizations
humanitarians who base their intervention
on practices of passive solidarity and
welfare and therefore not
returns dignity to people one
the big number plays a key role
of independent activists who live in
field and which engages in the construction
of different practices of active practices
that do not necessarily pass by one
material help but from the use of new ones
languages from the use of modalities
different operations that break down by one
time the imposed labels and even if
we want inflated by the media but
they put people at the center instead
I do not remember precisely in time
which all this started was night
he founds and found us in a large tent
the tent that was an office during the day
legal and at night was the
Our house is always discussed as
what to do the next day of how to wear
forward the dream we were building
to the domenico so often put at risk
from the tiredness from the lack of
trust and also by the authorities that do not
they agreed with our project e
they put us
stick in the boys because they do not
we make a radio, a radio, a radio
a radio a radio station but in
that makes sense a radio station
massive the antennas and repeaters the
let’s put in a tent
we turn it on we start to send to
domeni 6 domeni let’s radio tomorrow
let’s do radio domene we take some
activists take refugees
let’s take some volunteers as well
let’s say to send me it looks like a good one
idea
what do you think radio the chief dott
radja noborder initial own
transmissions in a refugee camp at 20
kilometers from tomorrow after that
the latter in the meantime had been
swept away by the fury of the bulldozers
police and with it also much of the
dream that we were building on his
indoor
ok, I agree that I will do it
a pirate radio inside a field
refugees is something rather bizarre and
apparently also quite useless
besides, none of us had ever had
relevant radio experiences in
so we did not know either what we did
we were doing
nor how we were also doing it
project of the kind in door with itself one
series of questions to which we were not
still give an answer for who we do it
this radio as we must listen to and
those who must listen to us, not knowing well
where do we start?
started with a whole antenna mounted
on a fishing rod transmitted on the
pirate frequency 90 500 in medium waves
a satellite dish pointed towards
the sky sent the transmission in
direct on the internet and then a huge one
speaker placed at the center of the field
the stillness disturbed overwhelmingly
publishes by sending for hours and hours
interviews interventions story but also
much too much unlistenable music a
volumes too high
only after I realized that it is
the union of these three different was
listening mode
build the radio as a device
different narrative and in that unique moment
the big speaker over that
disturbing people brought them closer to
radio allowed him to understand what
it was happening and allowed him to
approach and become curious of
break the ice
the pirate antenna as well as being
beautiful to see
among these fishing rod rules with the
welds that split every five
minutes
it gave a little the impression that this
radio perhaps of all of us and its dome
protective that was the range of action
which was then a few miles to the
truth separated us a little from that one
europe and from those criminal policies
from which we wanted to escape and then the
made to go live on the internet
built awareness in the
people that words at least those
they could cross those lines
imaginary that they had become
the signal was impassable
shot straight into the space then came back
back on earth, investing it all
reaching virtually all the
inhabitants of the planet
then not all the inhabitants of the planet
however, some were tuned
around the radio immediately one is born
community a community of people who
they want to be part of it that they want
participate in the construction of the
content transmission took place in
silo nun me but with shared methods
not exactly like a real one
editing the radio but something
similar and with the passing of time le
people started to find theirs
role within the radio was i
technicians there were speakers there were
translators there were DJs there were other DJs
there were mainly technical DJs I was
the others with all dj, however, all
together we build these
point to the radio microphones yes
dozens of people land every day
people who feel the need to
share something with the world and
they see an instrument in the radio
authentic to do it bring their own
their talents and their personality
art
suddenly the narration of the
migratory phenomenon becomes active
self-managed and absolutely pure
every time someone picks up
the microphone and speak the language yes
reverse changes change changes
continuously a lot of life battery swan
which ilike particular and because you
before crucis of and then disney yes a lot
thanks for that but just to the troubled
santa sofia gere microphone is open this
is free space express arabic in english
italy millions in italy the mario ed
of the saints which implies to the other that
thank you have all the lovers a bad
place extension and just me already formed
playstation
old station expression in Syria
breakdown compilation the mountains
destination in your imagination thanks e
any case and hearing these things that there
we realize the power of this
powerful tool for those who practice it
because he is forced to put himself to the
center and use only your own
voice and powerful for those who listen to it
for once he receives a point of view
different unique and much more human radian
border is dismantled in mid-June
when the police break in the field
order the eviction while you are refuge
they are deported against theirs
will in the military camps
activists we are all arrested
but that point at that point we have
understand what we want to do and we have
also learned how to do it now of one
border becomes a traveling project yes
move between Italy and the Middle East
and touches all those situations that in
some ways have to do with the
immigration phenomenon tells the stories
stories of the hopes of African migrants
who live in a state of slavery in the
south of our country or of those between
ventimiglia and como try to overcome the
always northern borders of our country e
when I can not they are not brought
right here in the city of taranto
tells about who paying yet another
traffickers managed to bring to the
his family in Berlin safe
tells about Palestinian refugees who
They live in Lebanon to escape the grip
Israeli or Mosul cords that
they live in huge refugee camps
Iraqis
in a totally natural process the
creating construction content
decentralized starts there is not one anymore
editing of the radio that takes i
vans part mounts the antennas transmits
or rather, what still leaves us
yet we want to do it
however there is also a platform one
open platform anyone willing
to continue this great work of
collective narrative from that May 30th
of June 2016 when we started
to transmit
and spent more than a year but no radio
border is still a living reality in
we have this year of transmissions
learned another way to tell them
migrations telling them through the
voice of their involuntary protagonists
we discovered that building one
active narration together with them and not
for them or with them along with them
we somehow manage to create one
firm point in their journey so much
more related material needs e
urgently we have also discovered that
let their voices travel through the
clouds is a way like any other
bring them closer to women and men
they are waiting for them
on the other side of these lines
imaginary that are the boundaries and until
there will be their voices there will be
some of us who will want and will be
willing to listen to them and transmit them ea
keep it and the invitation to do this is
open to all thanks
[Applause]
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