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The Chinatown Popular Gym brings sport to the streets as an antidote to eviction

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The Chinatown Popular Gym brings sport to the streets as an antidote to eviction

Thus begins the note from the Chinatown People’s Gym in view of the launch of the public initiative scheduled for Saturday 9 July: «Four years ago the doors of an abandoned INPS warehouse were opened. For four years, a popular gym has lived inside the walls of that warehouse, which guarantees hundreds of people sport and physical activity without economic, ethnic or gender discrimination. Now the INPS has decided to auction dozens of buildings in the Palestro District, threatening to evict the Chinatown Popular Gymnasium too ».

The gym

On the one hand a summary of what has been and on the other the concern of what may no longer be. For this reason, according to the managers of the space, it is essential to return to the midst of the people, of the neighborhood and beyond, to defend this idea of ​​sport for all. Practiced, not only in words, of course. “We also want to respond to this threat with the activities that we have been carrying out for years in our neighborhood, among our buildings, among our people, because we believe that the real weapon to an eventual eviction is the solidarity of the people who have lived and live daily the gym”.

Initiative

«For this – they launch the invitation from the Chinatown Popular Gym – Saturday 9 July we will be in Piazza Caduti della Resistenza with a day of popular sport and socializing. The program of the day includes, from 17.00 to 19.30 open training of all the disciplines proposed by the Gym with the musical accompaniment of DJ Niki Irie. Then from 19.30 to 22.00 buffet and music ». The first of a series of initiatives that aim not to lose the human heritage built up over the years, giving the opportunity to practice sport even to those who simply could not afford it or to whom, as in the case of some minors entrusted to social services , who have found an unexpected opportunity in sporting practice.

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