ISBN : 2747512975
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND NEW CHALLENGES TO REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. A PERSPECTIVE FROM ITALY"
Donatella Della Porta
1he internatiaIaJ Fair of the Biote:h, TeBw, takes plaoe in Gemt in May 2000.
Betroe:n fioe and ten thousttnd dmmstrators, belonging to as many as 400 NGOs, 00-
ardinates in the sptrial umbrella argpnization MobiliTebio, ronwge at Gema to protest
against the initiatioe :/ran the traditionalemirantrmtal ~ to the ro-oJB"atioes
of the equit:alie amrne1oe, firm the anti vivisezionistsof the LA V to the''pwpk of the
EL'oeS" (uho lioe in ab:rndontd villages in the Apennines Mountains), from the)WIh of
the sa:iaJoenters to thewluntoers of the lay and CatJxiit: 7bird 5'"tor,fromthe t:tnarrhists
to the trade unionists, firm the fiminists to the JkKiJists, firm the Goems to the
Ommunists of Rifandazione. Also dtJegmions of the ptT11ioe5 and canmunes Ùk1J
dtdartd themrRJoes "al1titmnS'i!nr" are present