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leaflets to promote concerts and initiatives in Rome: ex snia and torre maura. Websites of
the individual social centers.
for networking and web-mediated transmission of knowledge and political ac-
tion (e.g., net strikes) well ahead of institutional political actors. hack labs and
open source software have been supported since the early 1990s.
The Development of social Centers in Rome
after the 1970s, we usually distinguish three phases in the development of social
centers: a first wave of squatting between 1985 and 1989, a second phase of growth
which followed student protests against the proposed reform of the italian uni-
versity system that took place in 1990, a third phase after the anti-G8 demonstra-
tions in Genoa in 2001.
hai Visto Quinto (have You seen Quinto) was the first self-managed social
center to be created in Rome, in march 1986, located in an abandoned school
building in the prati fiscali neighborhood after a previous squatting attempt
in 1985 had proved unsuccessful. approximately fifteen social centers operated
between 1985 and 1989; two of those—forte prenestino (within an abandoned
fortress that covers 13 ha) in the Centocelle neighborhood and Ricomincio dal
faro (i start again from the lighthouse) within an abandoned movie theater in
trullo—are still active today. at the beginning, all the social centers were, more