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After Libya ... the barbarians come, again

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We are a group of asylum seekers and refugees. We come from Guinea, Togo, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Eritrea, Afghanistan, from all over the world. Recently, we have eyes attached to the image of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya in flames. Some call this "wind of freedom" and we who are refugees in Italy we feel called into question.

growing anger with hope. The hope that this wind of freedom comes to us, higher and far more down the Maghreb countries awakened. Higher in Italy, where it says that we all live in a democracy. What democracy means? Likely to be an ambiguous word until you understand who the people today, and what can and can not decide.


An ambiguous word such as happiness and possibly freedom. Freedom for us is not an idea, do not follow its absolute non-existent. Rather, freedom is an experience, is something you do, always in flux. For us, that we escaped from dictatorial countries it has to do with the feeling of happiness, but when the streets of Italy we look around we see people happy. Rather we see the tired faces and fearful look at us - we, foreigners.

The thing that hurts most is the fear of the Italians, the people, not the politicians of all countries vulgar and corrupt. What seems to be not so much worried about the massacre in Libya, but the threat of another invasion. We ask you: from when Italians are afraid of those who fight for freedom? Since those who took to the streets to demonstrate, even if it means getting killed, is a potential criminal, a terrorist, a monster? When is a Libyan, a Tunisian and an Egyptian revolt against dictatorship becomes an illegal immigrant?

that the wind of freedom arrivals down hopefully in sub-Saharan Africa, from which many of us come from and from which they fled after the violence and loss of any kind.

Democracy is a political concept that to be true economy calls for a just and happy society. Otherwise there is no democracy. We do not trust at all to those who tell us that there is a clash of civilizations at the base of today's conflicts and that the problem is instill religious or Geddhafi therefore ol'integralismo Islam. We are a group of Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox Christians, atheists, and the problem between us, here and in our countries of origin, religion has never been. The religious question always hides the economic and legal domain.

The title of an article on the Republic of February 24 "the massacres of civilians unacceptable Geddhafi but remains" does the same play unmasked by Frantz Fanon more than fifty years ago during the French colonialism in Algeria. The French said no right-thinking people in the face of torture and bloodshed of the French in Algeria, but fell silent homage to De Gaulle when it came to Algeria said the French and the French property throughout the land and their lives in Algeria. Fanon, and us today, we answer: massacres and torture are not a scandal, nothing exceptional for a government structurally and bloodthirsty dictator. Just pity the poor dead bodies before shaking hands with those who kill them.

Today we are witnessing a real media war of numbers: the dead are a hundred, thousand, ten thousand. We will never know the truth of Libya through communications. Communications are the speaker of the powerful. France 24 talks each day of the civil war in Ivory Coast in Italy and all is silent. In Italy, however, you pass the hot potato of new asylum seekers in Libya, Libyan oil and gas and heat the homes of Italians and Berlusconi kisses the hand Geddhafi while Geddhafi construct new camps in the desert with the money of our president. Not to see them more like us than in Europe. We die in the Libyan desert.

Meanwhile in Italy the business resumed humanitarian force: Italy host country, the way to handle the various Brotherhoods the numbers of new capital that weighs over the heads of the survivors and the survivors Libyan bend to say thank you so much humanity paid the price of gold by the Ministry of Interior.

Last question for now: the military intervention of the UN, NATO, the United States or Europe in the rest of the world. Who judges whom? Who decides the good and the bad of the other? It 's a difficult issue. Also we have hoped in recent days that the United Nations to intervene in Ivory Coast while Gbabo for the second time in the history of torture and violent rake every night our friends in Abidjan.

Still, trying to be calm, we do not believe in military intervention, even if disguised as humanitarianism and peace. International politics always intervenes to defend itself. Spent in prisons and detention camps for believing in democracy, in spite of everything we do not ask or international operations or maneuvers over us. That action, as well as the interests of the strongest, not matte sudden humanity.

RAR Group

(Asylum Seekers and Refugees Roma)


v.ferla @ cittadinanzattiva.it

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Sustainability. A word that has a strange history.


The direction of our future

Yesterday was the sense of our future. We showed the right way to make a livable world in which we live. To preserve and protect. For the benefit of our living and our old age. But also for the benefit of our children and our grandchildren. He told us something about the development model to better safeguard the common goods that are threatened. Water, air, earth. Common goods. Goods that everyone can use. But that is easily spoiled. At risk from consumption. And then the world has been sustainable so far - and above all could be - one that takes into account the threats. Lives of major structural reforms in the economic, social and political. That affect our daily life, our lifestyles, our physical, social and cultural. The sustainable world is to play today to ensure that (also) to future generations to live a life worthy of the name.


The perimeter of the costs

Today sustainability is transfigured. Become the economic criterion that measures the extent of our law. The accounting system of limits which marks the perimeter of our legitimate expectations of protection. Who overcomes these economic parameters, becomes an intruder, a sbrego, a nuisance. It happens to patients suffering from chronic illnesses. The elderly no longer independent. To permanent disability and incurable. There is more money, Councillors say the health and economic ministers. Obviously, it's always the fault of their predecessors. Or that the national government tightens its belt. There is a strange season of austerity that strikes on consumption, but on fundamental rights. Like the right to health. And so the government off the fund for long-term care. The regions cut services. INPS pursued the disabled. The sick, the chronic, the elderly become an expense. Has been reduced to this sustainability.


Health is developing

course, ended the illusion that the state through general taxation, is able to provide everything for everyone.
In practice, after all, has never been the case. It 'just take note. But something more is going on. The health of citizens is not considered by the policy and the administration as a component of the development and prosperity of a nation. But like a scab from summarily let go. Thoughts are brief, short-sighted, who can not look away. Today as never vice versa is a strategic vision, selective thinking, modern governance and far-sighted, gathering the views of citizens. Their experience of the problems. Their expertise gained in the field. Their habit of assessing the quality of services. Their ability to find solutions and to direct spending.


Hospital or territory? The devices

political, bureaucratic and corporate are still holed up in hospitals and healthcare organizations. They have not yet taken up the challenge to the territory of the opening, the user, innovation. There are new challenges for regional health and social services: the increase of the elderly population, the impact of new technologies and ways of life, the burden of chronic diseases, increasing the flow of old and new migrations. Go to control public spending can be an opportunity to understand how and where to use resources productively: pharmacies that become territorial facilities, professional medical assisting people in their homes, general practitioners and nurses who rediscover human relationships directly with patients, society's responses spread into the country prevention activities to limit the impact of lifestyles on the health of all incorrect. The examples could continue.


Over 'powers' citizens

The key is the ability of citizens to increase control over their lives, institutions, the services, public policy makers. The catalog is easy. Individual skills, styles and living conditions. Capacity of communities to develop forms of self-defense. Organizational capacity of health systems can focusing once again on the needs of the patient, not the structures or operators. Participation of citizens in the definition of company financial statements and evaluating the quality of services.

Cittadinanzattiva He spoke in Verona, in a conference co-sponsored by the Lilly Foundation, which was attended by the Deputy Mayor for Health of the Veneto Region, Luke Cole. A rich and useful debate that will bear much fruit.

v.ferla @ cittadinanzattiva.it

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Article. 34 states: "The capable and deserving students, even if without financial resources, have the right to attain the highest levels of education." Eh!

And if you do not have the means? Then there is an article in our Constitution which is the most important of the entire Constitution, the more challenging for us who are in decline, but especially to you young people who have the future ahead of you.

says: "It is the responsibility of the Republic to remove those obstacles of an economic and social nature which constrain the freedom and equality of citizens, prevent the full development of the human person and the effective participation of all workers in the political, economic and social development of the country. "


task is to remove obstacles that impede the full development of the human person and then to work at all, give a fair wage to all, to school at all, allow all men the dignity of man.

Only when this is achieved, we can truly say that the formula contained in the first - "Italy is a democratic republic founded on work" - correspond to reality. Because until there is this possibility for each man to work and study and draw on their work safely with the means to live as a man, not only for our Republic will not be able to call based on the work, but can not be even call it a democracy in the Democratic where there is this de facto equality, where there is only an equality of right, is a purely formal democracy, not a democracy in which all citizens are enabled to truly compete in society, to bring the their best contribution, in which all spiritual forces of all citizens are made to contribute to this process, this continuous progress of society.

And then you understand from this that our Constitution is in part a reality, but only in part, is a reality.

In part it is still a program, an ideal, a hope, a commitment of a job to do.

How much work you have to be done! How much work lies before you!

has been rightly said that the constitutions of the controversy, in which articles of the constitution is always there, even if disguised by cold formulation of the rules, a polemic.

this controversy, usually, is a polemic against the past, against the recent past, the regime fell from which it came out of the new regime.

If you read the part of the Constitution which refers to the relations of civil and political rights of freedom, you constantly hear the argument against what was the situation before the Republic, when all of these freedoms, which are currently listed and solemnly reaffirmed were systematically disregarded.

Thus, controversy on the rights of man and citizen with the past.

But there is a part of our Constitution which is a polemic against the present, against the present society. Because when

art. 3 says, "It is the responsibility of the Republic to remove those obstacles of an economic and social obstacles to the full development of the human person recognizes that these obstacles there are in fact today and that we must remove them.

gives an opinion, the Constitution, a controversial opinion, an adverse opinion against the current social order, you have to change through this instrument of law, gradual transformation, which the Constitution has made available to Italian citizens.

But the Constitution is not a property which has defined a fixed point, it is a constitution that opens the way to the future.

not to say revolutionary, because for revolution in everyday language means something that subverts violently, but it is a renewed constitution, progressive, aiming at transformation of this society in which it is possible that, even when we have the freedom legal and policy are made useless by economic inequality and the inability of many citizens to be people and to realize that within them there is a flame spiritual, if it had grown into an economic compensation system, could also contribute to the progress of society.

So polemic against the present we live in and commitment to doing everything within us to transform this situation.

But you see, the Constitution is not a machine that once set in motion goes without saying.

The Constitution is a piece of paper and dropped it does not move.

Why should move every day in the fuel lose, you have to put in the commitment, spirit, the will to keep these promises, his responsibility. This is one of

offenses that are made to the Constitution is indifferent to politics, political indifference that is - not here, thankfully, in this audience, but often in large groups of young people - a disease of young people.

"Politics is an ugly thing," 'I care policy' when I make this speech, I am always reminded of that old little story, that someone you know, those two immigrants, two farmers, who cross the ocean on a rickety ship.

One of these farmers slept in the hold and the other was on the bridge and noticed that there was a large storm with high waves and the ship oscillated. So this farmer afraid to question a sailor: "But ... we are in danger?" And says this: "If he continues this sea, the ship sank in half an hour." Then he runs into the hold to awaken his companion and says, "Beppe, Beppe, Beppe, if it continues this sea, the ship sank in half an hour." What he says: "What do I care, it's not mine." This indifference to politics.

is so beautiful, it is so easy: there is freedom. We live under the freedom, there other things to do than care about politics. And I know too!

The world is so beautiful, there are many beautiful things to see and enjoy, as well as involved in politics.

Politics is not a pleasant thing. But freedom is like air: you realize what it's worth when it begins to fail, when you hear that sense of asphyxiation men of my generation have felt for twenty years, and I hope you, young people, you'll never hear, and I hope you will not find you never feel this sense of anxiety, because you hope you manage to create the conditions for this sense of anxiety do not have to prove anything, remembering that each day we must take care about freedom, giving its contribution to political life.

The Constitution, you see, is the statement written in these articles, from the literary point of view that are not beautiful, but it is the solemn affirmation of social solidarity, human solidarity, of common fate, that if he goes to the bottom, goes to fund all this ship.

is the paper of their own freedom, the paper for each of us the dignity of man.

I remember the first elections after the fall of fascism, June 2, 1946: 25 years from these people who had not enjoyed the civil and political liberties, the first time I went to the polls after a period of horrors - the chaos, civil war, struggles, wars, fires.

I remember - I was in Florence, the same has happened here - these lines of people covered before the sections [elections], disciplined and happy because they had the feeling of having found their own dignity, that given the vote, bring your own review for this help to create this review community, that we be masters of their own country, our country, our country, our land, we have our destiny, the destiny of our country.

So, you young people to the Constitution must give your spirit, your youth, bring it to life, like what you hear, put in the public spirit, civic awareness, to realize - this is one of the joys of life - to realize that everyone in the world is not just that we are more, that we are part of a whole, within the limits of Italy and the world.

Now, you see - I have little else to tell you - in this Constitution, do we hear the comment in the next conference is in all our history, our whole past.

All our pains, our tragedies, our glories are all resulted in these articles. And you know

mean, behind these articles you hear voices far.

When I read, in art. 2, "the fulfillment of the mandatory duties of political solidarity, economic and social, or when I read, in art. 11, "Italy repudiates war as an instrument of aggression against the freedom of other peoples ', the Italian nation in the midst of the other homelands, I say, but this is Mazzini, this is the voice of Mazzini, or when I read, in' art. 8, "all religious confessions are equally free before the law," but this is Cavour, or when I read, in art. 5, "the Republic one and indivisible, recognizes and promotes local autonomy," but this is Cattaneo, or when, art. 52, I read, about the armed forces, "the ordering of the armed forces on the democratic spirit of the Republic," army of people, but this is Garibaldi, and when I read, art. 27, "is not permitted the death penalty," but this, or students from Milan, and Beccaria. Large distant voices, big names away.

But there are also humble names, recent entries.

much blood and how much pain to get to this constitution!

Behind every article of this Constitution, or young, you have to see young people like you, who fell in battle, shot, hanged, tortured, starved to death in concentration camps, died in Russia, died in Africa, died on the streets of Milan, on the streets of Florence, who gave their lives for freedom and justice could be written on this card.

So when I told you that this is a dead paper, no, not a dead paper, this is a will, a will of a hundred thousand deaths.

If you want to go on pilgrimage to the birthplace of our Constitution, go to the partisans in the mountains where they fell, in prisons where they were imprisoned in camps where they were hanged. Wherever an Italian died to redeem the freedom and dignity, or young people go there, thinking, why they came to our Constitution.


From Speech to students in Milan (1955), by Piero Calamandrei


v.ferla @ cittadinanzattiva.it