They plan to parade in 40 cities. From North to South to shout loud and clear their protest against the deaths caused by the alternation between school and work. The Italy of students is mobilizing with processions, banners and demonstrative gestures to finally make their voices heard. Their “no” is also addressed to a school system that no longer works for them. young people protest against PCTOs (paths for transversal skills), the alternation between school and work, especially after the death of Lorenzo Parelli and Giuseppe Lenoci during their internship, and against the second written test at high school. The demonstrations scheduled today are led by independent movements, more radical than student organizations, in Rome there is “La Lupa” in the lead.
Parades and garrisons are planned in over 40 cities. Numerous schools have been occupied in Turin in recent days. Some organizations are calling for the resignation of the Minister of Education Bianchi and the Minister of the Interior Lamorgese. Meanwhile, next Monday the students will be auditioned in the Culture Commission in the Chamber.
Red paint in front of the Democratic Party in Naples
Three students spilled red paint on themselves in front of the regional headquarters of the Pd of Campania in via Santa Brigida in Naples. The protest during the flash mob promoted by “Campani self-organized students” and “Potere al Popolo ex opg”. A banner was displayed with the words «C’at excise» («You killed us», ed.) And «Your hands are dirty with our blood». The students shouted into the megaphone the reasons for the initiative referring to the two boys who died during the internships for the alternation between school and work. “We are here because the Democratic Party, author of the law on the” Good school “has his hands dirty with the blood of the two boys, Lorenzo and Giuseppe,” say the spokespersons of the initiative. The three demonstrators, dressed as workers, stripped off their fake work clothes and poured red paint on their bodies, “a symbol of the deaths of Lorenzo and Giuseppe, the two young people who died during the school-work alternation and the internship” , the activists explain in a statement. “The Democratic Party – the organizers argue – is primarily responsible for the deaths of Lorenzo and Giuseppe”. «The school-work alternation uses young students as a free workforce, to the detriment of any safety regulations. This is not our idea of school. Particularly in a moment of emergency like this, the school must be an instrument of social and cultural growth, and not an opportunity for exploitation. In a country where in 2021 there were 1,400 deaths at work, the state should invest in safety and not in creating further precariousness. The fake tears and indignation on the part of those responsible are not enough, we want the immediate abolition of school-work alternation and concrete investments in education and school building “, conclude the activists of Campani self-organized students, Power to the People and social center Ex Opg busy Je So ‘Pazzo.
The parade
The demonstration of the students took to the streets in Naples today against the reform of the ‘Good School’ and in memory of the two boys who died in recent days while doing internships as part of the school-work alternation project. The event was organized by the Kaos Coordination, the Union of Naples Students, autonomous Neapolitan Students and the Flegrei Student Coordination. The procession started from Piazza Garibaldi and headed for the headquarters of the regional school office. Lots of banners and signs commemorating Lorenzo and Giuseppe. The banner that says ‘Against your school model’ opens the procession. In Piazza Students of Naples and also many who arrived from the Phlegraean area and from the province. The boys parade shouting “Giuseppe and Lorenzo are alive and fighting with us. Our ideas will never die”. The procession is preceded by the police. (