(ANSA) – ROME, SEP 4 – A launch carrying Roman street artist Laika and Italian actress Anna Foglietta to the presentation of Laika’s new mural supporting the Global Sumud Flotilla for Gaza was stopped at the Lido in Venice Thursday and a pro-Palestinian banner and Palestinian flag seized.
Carabinieri paramilitary police stopped the launch with Laika and Foglietta aboard at Lido di Venezia, shortly before docking at the Excelsior Hotel.
They were presenting the female artist’s new work, “We Are Coming,” in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla.
On the launch, one of the young people on board was also displaying a Palestinian flag.
Law enforcement officers ordered everyone off the boat and seized both the artwork and the flag., as well as a pro-Pal banner.
“You either stand with the oppressed, or you’re complicit. Even silence is complicity,” said Laika, who in Barcelona painted her new work, Sumud (Arabic fir resilience, in this case in the face of displacement) on the Flotilla ships departing for Gaza.
It depicts a Palestinian woman pointing her finger, indicating the route, with a train of the Palestinian flag behind her.
For Foglietta, “art today is a peaceful and nonviolent act of support for the Flotilla.” Meanwhile, the ‘Social Centers’ (counter-cultural squats) of the Northeast have announced that if the Flotilla to Gaza “is stopped, we will blockade the port of Venice.” (ANSA).
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Carabinieri paramilitary police stopped the launch with Laika and Foglietta aboard at Lido di Venezia, shortly before docking at the Excelsior Hotel.
They were presenting the female artist’s new work, “We Are Coming,” in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla.
On the launch, one of the young people on board was also displaying a Palestinian flag.
Law enforcement officers ordered everyone off the boat and seized both the artwork and the flag., as well as a pro-Pal banner.
“You either stand with the oppressed, or you’re complicit. Even silence is complicity,” said Laika, who in Barcelona painted her new work, Sumud (Arabic fir resilience, in this case in the face of displacement) on the Flotilla ships departing for Gaza.
It depicts a Palestinian woman pointing her finger, indicating the route, with a train of the Palestinian flag behind her.
For Foglietta, “art today is a peaceful and nonviolent act of support for the Flotilla.” Meanwhile, the ‘Social Centers’ (counter-cultural squats) of the Northeast have announced that if the Flotilla to Gaza “is stopped, we will blockade the port of Venice.” (ANSA).
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