This song is a consequence of police brutality experienced by one of us during the infamous international G8 demo in Genova 2001.
"Teargas was everywhere, people were trying to escape in any possible direction while cops were beating whoever was on their way.
I was dressed in black and my face was covered and for this reason they had no mercy for me. They, about 6-8 cops, pushed me on the ground between one of their vans and a wall, in this way no one could see the following few minutes of intense violence. I got kicked everywhere and every time I felt their boots hitting me I thought it could have been the one killing me. I survived. Covered in blood, surrounded by other people badly injured I was brought to hospital where for three days I was feeded only by tea because doctor suspected some internal damage due to the aggression. At the same time since I was considered as prisoner police came to harass me every day and night, kicking my bed when I was sleeping, insulting me when I was awake. After the hospital it was one week in Alessandria jailhouse where also a lot of political prisoners from the 70s and 80s were and some are still imprisoned. Eventually I got out from jail but I was still charged of rioting, resistance, devastation and so on, for this reason for the following years I had to face a trial from which, in the end, I got out with no consequences due to lack of evidence. All this happened just one week after police visited the Anarchist workshop in La Spezia were I was active and my house too: they were looking for explosives and weapons but it wasn't the first time since it happened already for the first time in 1996 when I turned 18 and I was suspected to be part of a "terrorist anarchist group" active in Italy in those years and again the same happened again in 1999 with police searching my house for explosives as a preventive operation against anarchist terrorism.
One year before I was charged for aggression to a police officer during a protest run by students in a squatted school in Carrara. All this not to show any anarchist c.v. but to underline the importance of all the anarchists who arranged benefit gigs to cover all the expenses for the lawyers and all those who showed solidarity giving me strength to face all this shit. I still stand here, doing and sharing my things whereas those blue cops, those judges and jail guards, well, they will be forgotten and no one will ever miss them"
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