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thomas e laura

$La locuzione fatti del G8 di Genova è comunemente utilizzata per riferirsi agli episodi di violenza che hanno avuto luogo a Genova da giovedì 19 luglio a domenica 22 luglio 2001, in concomitanza con la riunione del G8, e in particolare agli scontri tra le forze dell\'ordine e i manifestanti che contestavano il vertice. Gli avvenimenti di quei giorni costituiscono una delle pagine più dolorose della recente storia di Genova e, più in generale, italiana. In occasione della riunione dei governanti dei maggiori paesi industrializzati, i movimenti no-global e le associazioni pacifiste diedero vita a manifestazioni di dissenso poi sfociate in gravi tumulti di piazza con scontri le cui proporzioni ed effetti non si erano mai verificate nei decenni precedenti in Italia, e che culminarono con la morte del manifestante Carlo Giuliani. Nei sei anni successivi ci sono state alcune condanne in sede civile nei confronti dello Stato Italiano per abusi e violenze commessi dalle forze dell\'ordine. In sede penale sono stati aperti diversi procedimenti contro manifestanti e contro alcuni esponenti delle forze dell\'ordine per abusi compiuti durante la manifestazione. Circa 250 di questi procedimenti (originati da denunce nei confronti di esponenti delle forze dell\'ordine per lesioni) sono stati archiviati per l\'impossibilità di identificare gli agenti responsabili; in molti di questi casi, la magistratura ha però ritenuto effettivamente avvenuti i reati contestati.$ 2001 G8

London Roller Girls

Workers of La Scala Laboratories

FREEOPERA

Militarization in Eritrea

KICKBOXING

VIKINGS OF THE ALPS

$The European Parliament is the directly elected body of the EU. It has recently been object of debate and dispute for several reasons, and amongst them the absurdity of the double meeting places and enormous costs that this moving from one place to the next has meant. Every three weeks all the offices, objects and documents belonging to the members of Parliament, all 750 of them including the presidency. Trucks are loaded and unloaded from Brussels to Strasbourg 10 times per year to enable the parliamentarians and all the staff following them to sit at the monthly session in France. The sense of this very expensive operation has been often disputed by MEP and various commissions, but when the dispute comes to the vote in the parliament itself, no change is implemented. Each year the activities of the Parliament cycle between committee weeks where reports are discussed in committees and inter-parliamentary delegations meet, political group weeks for members to discuss work within their political groups and session weeks where members spend 3½ days in Strasbourg for part-sessions. Speakers in the European Parliament are entitled to speak in any of the EU\'s 27 official languages, and this is another recurring object of debate, as all the staff used for simultaneous translation amounts to enormous costs of the EU, and its citizens.$ EU Parliament Strasbourg

EU political and media theater

TUAREG OF MALI

$Financial districts have been a recent annexes to modern cities in Europe and the world. Economics has been an integrated part of everyone\'s daily life and life span since the existence of Government and State, but as markets and production processes have become truly global and automated in every aspect so finance and “unreal” economics have stemmed out of reach. Financial markets have truly been the heavy weights of national economies and the actors of these markets, consulting companies and corporate investment firms, have detached themselves from their surrounding environments. This is probably why all main countries in the West or First World have all given spontaneous rise to financial districts. London is the most important centre of finance and banking in Europe, and has in fact two areas where finance and the stock markets breath and are established. The traditional area surrounding the Bank of England the Stock Exchange and a more recent neighbourhood especially built to host all the world\'s most powerful and influential financial and banking corporations, Canary Wharf. Everyone refers to these two areas as the City, as if no other part of London would represent it more. In these inner city\'s islands time is literally money and there is no other reason for people to be or go there if not to work in or in connection to the monolithic companies and banks of the City. In fact the glass buildings and impenetrable skyscrapers put the everyday City workers, who are like any other person, in a deeply contrast with what should be their environment. The contrast is overwhelming and natural as unnatural are these financial areas, which are only alive for money and creation of money in a form which is impalpable and virtual to most people. Economic gains from banking and financial instruments have proven to be virtual and borderline with reality and the real economy with the 2008 world economic crisis, where financial institutions can be said to have negatively influenced people\'s everyday life out of proportion. Financial districts in cities like London life a life of their own, which never stops. Their workers may have schedules and working hours, but the companies present in these environments never stop, following the markets 24 hours a day around the globe.$ TIME IS MONEY

LONDON ROLLERDERBY

CLARKENWELL LITTLE ITALY

CAGE FIGHTERS

$Behind anonymous doors and windows in East Berlin’s silent and deserted streets is where you’ll find women exercising the worlds eldest trade. Souls wishing to find a quick comfort away from the daily feeling of loneliness or frustration come to these apartments to warm themselves in the professional and distant bodies of these experienced ladies. We are far from street prostitution and racket, because the legalization of prostitution in Germany has seen the wide spreading of the trade to hundreds of private flats seemingly self governed by women and by figures old to the job, like the Puff Mutters. They are the ones who answer the phone and let you in from the street, who come to the door and welcome you in, assuring the clients can have the best 15 minutes, sometimes more and sometimes a lot less. They make sure the girls, who often rent a room out for 100 to 150 euro per day, can be safe with the client who chooses them or who come specifically for them. Although the atmosphere in the common room is cheerful as well as cynical, in the rooms and corridors, all is silent and intimate, and once in the room where I take the portraits the girls become embarrassed and almost fearful of the camera. They reveal a femininity and fragility which seems in contrast with their job, which faces man after man without the hint of hesitation and fear. Prostitution in Germany is legal and widespread. In 2003, the government changed the law in an effort to improve the legal situation of prostitutes. However, the social stigmatization of prostitutes persists, forcing most prostitutes to lead a double life. Studies in the early 1990s estimated that about 150,000 - 500,000 women and some men work as prostitutes in Germany. The prostitutes\' organization puts the number at 400,000, and this is the number typically quoted in the press today. Apartment prostitution. (Wohnungspuffs) There are many of these advertised in the newspapers. Sometime run by a single women, sometimes by a group of roommates and sometimes as safehouses for traffickers. Since 2001 prostitutes and brothels are allowed to advertise. Many newspapers carry daily ads for brothels and for women working out of apartments. Many have websites on the Internet. In addition, sex shops sell magazines specializing in advertisements of prostitutes.$ WOHNUNGS PUFFS

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