Magliana
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The Magliana (Italian pronunciation:
The neighborhood is confined by the Tiber on the east and
In the center of Magliana there are two main areas of congregation: Piazza Fabrizio De Andre and the Mercato Magliana (Magliana Market). The Piazza Fabrizio De Andre is consistently filled with people; in the morning the older generation can be seen sitting on the many benches or strolling through. In the afternoon through early evening it is usually filled with more than 60 children playing on the playground equipment. The Mercato Magliana is open in the morning and early afternoon and offers a wide variety of goods at discount prices.
History
Magliana began as an informal settlement taken over by
Community activism
Magliana was historically an underserved community that has fought to receive fair treatment from city and
Another area of activism in Magliana concerned evictions. Many of Magliana's residents were unprivileged during the 1970s. Landlords would demand unmanageable rents from residents even though apartments were sometimes not connected to water and telephone lines. Residents organized to halt evictions by developing strong networks and informing each other of pending evictions, and on the day of the intended evictions, they would telephone one another when the police entered the neighborhoods and residents would gather in the streets, and physically prevent police from entering the neighborhood. As a result of the activism, fewer evictions occurred in Magliana over time.
Though the amount of activist activity in Magliana has decreased since the 1970s, there is still a significant amount of community organizing. There are squatter settlements in Magliana which house people who, for whatever reason, are not able to obtain housing. They are primarily run by communist and socialist organizations.
On the more organised end of the spectrum, the
See also
- Banda della Magliana
- Administrative subdivision of Rome
- Roma, Italy
References
- ^ (Paese Sera, 1979