The Young Communists and Communists express their solidarity and proximity to the organizers and all the people affected by the latest color of Rototom act of censorship and restriction of freedom of expression.
The president of the cultural organizer of the festival is being investigated for having "facilitated the use of cannabis" (the mere fact that "the cultural influences of reggae" lead his audience to smoke), so the organizers were forced to move elsewhere, the Festival that, for the past 11 years, resided in Osoppo in the province of Udine.
The grounds, added to the continuous and perpetual criminalization made by the council of Friuli's center-right, create a dangerous precedent. It invokes Article 79 of Law "-Fini Giovanardi" to investigate the Sunsplash (a law, among other things, that created the humus of criminalization and repression that killed Stefano Cucchi and filled the prisons of drug users) : reggae, its culture and its place of expression and dissemination would encourage the use of sostanzestupefacenti. So
Only Italy and Friuli lose a major international festival of music and culture, driven by thousands of young people with an extraordinary participation of the migrant community, but this way comes forward a model of "control" of cultures, of true and its repression of what is considered "abnormal." For this reason we support and endorse the event on Friday at Udine in defense of all the social spaces of cultural criticism edalternativa, in defense of freedom of expression and for a serious revival of the struggle against drug prohibition and censorship.
We hope, finally, that the Sunsplash back soon in Italy and Friuli. Unprocessed Bob Marley!
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