{"article":{"id":8690,"heading":"Italy's Social Centers","author":"Alternative Press Review","created":"2001-07-18 03:10:36","modified":"2013-11-10 23:38:24","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:38:24","article":"

Italy's Cultural Underground Social Centers

by Adam Bregman











































<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.altpr.org\/","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Though it may be hard to imagine in America, in Italy, communists, anarchists, ravers, punks, hackers and artists have seized vast, abandoned factories, forts, boarded-up schools and churches and transformed them into cinemas, concert halls, bars, squats and art galleries. Far from being scabies-infested scum pits with gutter punks spray-painting the names of their favorite bands on the walls, Italy\u2019s social centers are among the country\u2019s most vital cultural institutions.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/07\/italy\\_s_s.txt","filesize":"12.3 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/07\/8690.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}