Don’t mess with our neutrons! The November 1995 bulletin of the European Counter-Information Network (ECN) is dedicated to the issue of nuclear tests carried out by the French government in Polynesia. The articles address the health consequences of radiation on the local population, the anti-nuclear protest held in Venice, and the campaign to boycott French products (original document in Italian).
On October 27, 1976, the CALUSCA3 Book Cooperative opened in Padua, at 14 Via Belzoni. It housed the bookstore of the same name and the COPDCON (Political Documentation and Counter-Information Center). For several decades, CALUSCA3 served as a hub for alternative communication and cultural production, outside the mainstream commercial distribution circuits. It offered magazines, books, and a wide range of self-produced materials from various cultural, social, and political groups in northeastern Italy and across the country. It was also a key meeting place for movements, fostering dialogue, research, and debate (original document in Italian).
On May 1st, 1976, the first occupation of the 15,000 square meters of the former AGIP site on Via Ticino took place…
Starting today, October 10th, our new website is live! Over the past few months, we’ve worked intensively to reach this milestone. We hope that, even though this is a first version still open to improvement,… The Open Memory Website Is Online
At the Sherwood Festival, the digital archive of Open Memory was presented along with a preview of the book Restless Papers. The Memory of Movements, featuring co-author Lorenzo Pezzica. “We are the history that transforms the present.” The banner behind the microphones already tells the story of what the Open Memory Study Center is and its purpose. Not a nostalgic look back, but a tool to preserve memory and guide us toward the future. On Tuesday, July 2, the Sherwood Festival hosted a double event focused on the memory of social movements: the unveiling of the Study Center’s latest achievement and the preview of the book Restless Papers (in Italian).
