The top youtubes are,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SePiukY-UGc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzDoZaNQF8
maybe from here is better, http://www.casapounditalia.org/
As Italian speaker you know best. What is relevant and of interest and relevance. Any stuff about Casa Pound in English would be great. :)
Sorry if I am late but I hadn't time these days. I translated for you the first first video about Casa Pound. Here the text in English. Hope to have been useful. It was a long work :p
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Bravo Gigi, but you know, I hardly get satisfied and so I asked my Viky to give a look in a place that, er, you don't see every day: a social centre of the Right Wing. Yeah, they exist. Just watch here.
<<Nor Left nor Right, but Fascists>>.
Rome, borough Eur, 7:30 am. They are the guys of Casa Pound (litterary Pound's House). That's the name of the social centre they belong to. It is a right oriented occupied house and it lyes in the centre of the capital. Today they are coming here to protest against an evacuation made by the police. They are marching in order and silence, the Italian flag opens the parade. In their hands helmets and leather gloves.
If the guys of the Left-oriented centre will arrive they will come to blows.
Yes, altough when you say "occupation" you think to the Left, also the Right makes occupations. These are almost unknown, marginal occupations and medias follow them very little.
Gianluca, the leader, accompanies us to their base, in the heart of the Roman Chinatown, very close to Termini Station, the multiethnic borough par exellence. Here there is Casa Pound.
For these guys it is a symbol, a bulwark.
<<There are only Chineses and in the middle there's the Italian "Embassy", Casa Pound >>
Reporter Viky: <<Let's enter then>>
<<You are welcome!...... These are our spiritual, cultural and...er... religious points of reference. There is Tolkien, Mussolini, Ezra Pound obviously...>>
Viky<<And the Che?>>
<<Eh, Cheguevara is an interesting and revolutionary character, but...>>
Viky <<Is he here?>>
<<No, no, here he isn't. Here he is too... let's say too hackneyed>>.
We step to the first floor. The stairs are clean and waxed, paintings are on the walls.
Viky <<Ciao! Viky, nice to meet you!>>
CHORUS: Ciao!!
<<I live here with my girlfriend>>
<<I'm an informatic consultant>>
Viky: <<What's written here?>>
<<I care a fuck*>>
Viky: <<How do you consider yourself?>>
<<Fascist>>
<<Revolutionary>>.
The house is so called in honour of Ezra Pound, the American poet of '900.
Viky <<Why do you like him?>>
<<We like him becouse he had clear words against the market and againts usury>>.
There is a conference hall, an office...
Viky <<Is this your room, your meeting point?>>
<<Well, we call it the "Bivouac", from a Mussolini's motto: "we will make of this grey and unvoiced room a bivouac of handfuls">>
Viky<<What's on the fridge?>>
<<This is the Celtic Cross>>
Viky <<And this?>>
<<Captain Harlock, a all black pirate who steals the rich to give the poors, also a bit phylosophic>>.
For them the occupation is an occasion to steal the rich to give the poors, like the all-black-pirate.
<<It's an occupation with an housing purpose>>.
A 6 floors flat in which 18 families live. Rules are clear:
<<NO DRUGS, NO WEAPONS, NO PROSTITUION AND BEING ITALIAN>>
<<Becouse a State that doesn't care for FIRST about its citizens is a criminal>>.
The guys have a clear project that goes beyond the mere occupation.
<<It is called "social loan". It's a national project oriented to make regions build new houses to sell to non-owner families at the cost of construction>>.
Viky: <<And this is the cam that shoots the street in front of the hall?>>
<<This is here forward. There are other cams in other points under control>>
Viky: <<Why that?>>
<<Becouse we expect a sudden evacuation by the police>>.
Casa Pound is like a garrison: cams in front of the halls, turns of duty 24 hours per day.
Viky: <<Do you feel emarginated?>>
<<Yes but it is not a problem for me becouse if I am under pressure I give my best>>
<<Most of us don't live this "emargination" as a discrimination, rather like a superiority>>
Viky <<Have you even been inside a Left-oriented social centre?>>
<<I did once, but I immediately didn't like its environment. It's just that they lack of honour, at all.>>
Honour, brave, loyalty. Here and in the other meeting points of those guys live the ideas evicted from everywhere else.
Viky: <<This is the pub...>>
<<You're welcome>>
Viky<<How do you greet each others?>>
<<Well, we use the legionnaire's salute which basically is to tighten the forearm to each other. It's a symbol of brotherhood. To shake the hand is not enough for us >>.
At the demonstration at Eur we had seen a lot of these salutes.
Viky<<And these were the locals, behind these doors...?>>
Finally no crash happened today. The guys of the Left-oriented centres have not arrived. For the others their presence is a symbol to say that they are here the same: they delete the leftist writes that are appeared during the night becouse for them they have a strong meaning. And when they cannot do anything else, they go away, marching in silence.
*a Mussolini's motto