There will be faces from yesterday and today. The bright silver of the composed hair of the women of Orgosolo, the rebellious faces of the young women of Saccargia. Taken by the hand, not only ideally. The former sign, the latter wriggle. All animated by that conscience that seemed dormant, re-exploded with endless lines of citizens without dogmas willing to sign, in the middle of August, the Pratobello law, that of the Sardinian People. Not only articles and rules, but a collective awareness of the most important value of this land, its Landscape. The identity one, made of rugged mountains and sinuous hills, of Nuragic fortresses and thousand-year history.
1969-2024
The bond with the events of 1969 is a bond that grows stronger day after day in the summer of 2024, in the era of the speculative energy assault on the Island of Sardinia. In the years of what was a failed Renaissance, in the lands of Pratobello, the State militias and the people of Orgosolo meet face to face. The former want to occupy those territories in the name of new military servitude, the latter do not even want to hear of giving up their pastures to the weapons of Rome. They challenge each other for days, looking into each other's eyes. Some are even loaded onto gray-green trucks, but patience is granite. They do not move, the women, the young people, the children. Tenacity and resistance do the rest. In the Palaces of the Capital someone suggests: better to retreat, better to let it go. So it will be.
Consciousness
Fifty-five years later, the actions have changed, the meanings and objectives have strengthened, but the spirit is once again that of Pratobello: a peaceful, popular struggle for the government of the territory without state impositions. The first stop on this long march is Saccargia. The horizon is that of the great Basilica, between Codrongianus and Ploaghe, the one that a group of oilmen converted to the wind would like to deface with gigantic wind turbines from two hundred meters high. The gathering is a sort of “free party”, a Sardinian “woodstock”, for the defense of Sardinia. It is June 15 when buses from every corner of the island converge on that proscenium to shout the first real collective , against the speculative attack on Sardinia.
