October 17 movement: how permanent mobilization is organised

The announcement of a permanent mobilization, videos of participants claiming to "redistribute wealth" and an email address to contact if you have been stopped by the police. These are some of the first contents published on the Instagram page by the 17 October Movement, the group born in the climate of protests that swept through various Italian cities and especially Milan, last weekend, Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 October.

In the profile description, the Movement presents itself with these words: "We are those from the squares. Those who see the only violence in the truncheon of the cops". Alongside the messages claiming responsibility, there is also an invitation to join the group's Telegram channel, indicated as a space to discuss and organize future appointments. Social media thus becomes a tool for coordinating initiatives and keeping the mobilization active even after the weekend demonstrations.

The first post published on the page contains a direct message: "The violent ones are you who denied us the future, now we're taking that future." The text continues by rejecting the accusations made against the protesters: "We reject all accusations against the sender. This system that kills us is violent." Words that reflect the communication line chosen by the Movement, which rejects the complaints about violence during the protests and attributes responsibility to the system against which it is mobilizing.

The Instagram profile is the manifesto through which the Movement announces its next initiatives. In a highlighted post, the cities involved in the permanent mobilization program are indicated: Milan, Bologna, Turin, Rome, Florence, Padua, Bari and Genoa. The meeting is every Saturday at 3pm, with the aim of giving continuity to the protests and keeping participation spaces active.

Among the first contents published there is also a video in which some young people, who took part in the looting of some shops in the center of Milan last weekend, hand over some of the stolen goods to a homeless man. The film is accompanied by the words "Proletarian expropriation, redistribution of wealth".