Radio Alice

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Radio Alice was one of around 150 stations in Italy that saw themselves as free democratic and non-commercial radio stations and were organized in the Association of Democratic Broadcasters (FRED). The station saw itself as the medium of the autonomous movement in Bologna. According to plans that began in 1974, broadcasting began on February 9, 1976.

With the abolition of the state monopoly, a large number of independent broadcasters emerged in Italy, often with a political self-image. Alice's engineering and editing was done by a collective of 40 to 50 people, nobody was paid for their work. It was broadcast from 7:00 a.m. to midnight. The program often came about spontaneously, with few contributions being prefabricated. The only thing that was firmly planned and organized was a 45-minute news program at 1 a.m. There were no permanent speakers, no departments, advertising only for publishers. A wide variety of autonomous editorial teams were formed, broadcast for a few months, for example twice a week, and then disappeared again after a few months: groups of pupils, students, workers, feminists. In addition to commercial music, self-produced sessions were broadcast.

Alice broadcast until it was closed on March 12, 1977 by the communist mayor of Bologna for “calling for violence” and “ringleadership”. Many employees were arrested. On that day in Bologna the student Francesco Lorusso, who was organized with the operaist organization Lotta Continua , was killed by a carabiniere. Alice spread the news immediately, and after three hours there was a demonstration of several thousand people.

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  1. ↑ Luciano Capelli, Stefano Saviotti (ed.): Collective A / traverso: Alice is the devil. Practice of subversive communication. Radio Alice Bologna, Merve Verlag , Berlin 1977, p. 138.

literature

  • Luciano Capelli, Stefano Saviotti (eds.): Collective A / traverso: Alice is the devil. Practice of subversive communication. Radio Alice Bologna, foreword by Félix Guattari , Merve Verlag , Berlin 1977.
  • Concetto Vecchio: Ali di Piombo. Il 1977, trent'anni dopo . Rizzoli BUR , Milan 2007, p. 65-107 .