Disobbedienti

The Disobbedienti emerged from the Tute Bianche during the demonstrations against the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001 The Tute Bianche were the whiteclad Italian activists who used their bodies protected by foam rubber tires helmets gas masks and homemade shields in direct acts and demonstrations as weapons of civil disobedience The Tute Bianche first appeared in Italy in 1994 in the midst of a social setting in which the mass laborer who had played a central role in the 1970s in production and in labor struggles was gradually replaced in the transition to precarious postFordist means of production Disobbedienti thematizes the Disobbedientis origins political bases and forms of direct action on the basis of conversations with seven members of the movement