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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.

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(Asylum Seekers and Refugees Roma)


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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


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friend of the Constitution and the Constitution as school commons

There is an underlying frustration that links the events of March 12 this year. Founded as a day for the defense of the Constitution is gradually turning into a day of mobilization for the defense of public schools. Not by chance.

E 'for some time now that school is under strong attack in Italy, even when underground. The last time was in the order of the Chairman of the Council. And it was far underground ... the policies put in place by the government in recent years it takes a major nuisance in respect of an institution that certainly has many flaws and would certainly need structural reforms. But that remains a key asset for the development of our country. The school is experienced by this government only as an unbearable economic burden in times of reduced budgets. Or even as the place where we transmit values \u200b\u200bcontrary to those of families. But the values \u200b\u200btransmitted in the school are precisely the values \u200b\u200bof the Constitution. So it is no coincidence that March 12, originally designed as a day of defense of the Constitution, subject to vulgar attacks on too long, the day has become the pride of the public school.




The 'threat' of 'good'

Also because, soon after the utterances that triggered the general surprise and indignation, the prime minister raised the issue of 'bonus' families. Again, and at the highest level, the voucher is like waving the flag of freedom of choice. E 'line of subsidiarity in the negative, that which is defended by the state and calls for disengagement of solutions more or less profit, but, above all, in favor of corporate visions and exclusive. The bonus for the families for free choice of schools is a litmus test for understanding the real contents of the conflict.

In essence, the good school is not convincing because it redistributes resources down. For the same admission of representatives of the regional government of Lombardy, where it is normally adopted, the good school balances the social balance in favor of the less affluent. The voucher is normally assigned to those families who choose, thanks to higher income capacity, to have their children attend private schools of excellence. The good, therefore, serves to facilitate this choice, making it less burdensome expense for those who carry it out. But this would drain public resources that should otherwise be used to benefit the school service universal, and the 'deserving' and 'free media'.

In addition, the good is transformed into a form of assistance indirect private company that manages the school, pace of the constitutional provision which recognizes the freedom of private school but 'no cost to the state'. If this is spoken of subsidiarity subsidiarity is very strange, that is not asked the general objectives of human development, social and civil society builds a separate bodies, reproduces the established social hierarchies, escapes to the appeal of fairness.


Subsidiarity and commons

Subsidiarity inspired by our Constitution stands very different objectives. First, the promotion of community property. As readers of Labsus know, common goods are not subject to private appropriation and exclusive: either we are for all, or there are none. In this respect, on peace, environment, dignity, respect for fundamental rights there is no contradiction.
This concept, however, can be extended also to the institutions. Just think of the utilities at the municipal and provincial or structures that administer justice in the various regions of the country or regional health services. In all these cases, we speak of public institutions created with the specific aim of protecting the rights of citizens or to improve the quality of life and welfare conditions. The schools are certainly among these goods.



The school as a common good

There are thousands of examples of parents and students to participate responsibly in the life of their school, increasingly short of resources. There are parents who provide toilet paper to their children, making photocopies for the whole class, who repainted the walls worn by time or vandalized, making collections to meet the necessary expenditure. In many cases, are concerned with the maintenance of gyms or green areas. There are also students who verify and report the security structures which are often dilapidated. In a correct logic of subsidiarity, maybe we should reward these families, these parents, these students who take care of a good of all.

The other issue related to the promotion of the common good is the quality of teaching and service. That should be the highest possible, universal and accessible. Here it could be worth to debunk the myth of the weakness of public education against the alleged superiority of private schools. The official statistics and international surveys indicate that, in Italy, students of the private media have lower scores than public schools. Italy is one of the few cases where this happens: usually the opposite is true. This is already a sign of how mistreated the public school is still a key resource for Italy. And that would be self-injury depleted.


The North-South divide

problems, if any, are others. The most important is the gap between schools in the north-central and southern schools. A gap that poses the classic question of new accessibility, universality and appropriateness of the service. It can no longer be enough - it is clear - the traditional abstract answer for which the homogeneity of the programs of the Ministry ensures the homogeneity of the service. The discrepancy is resolved with new answers. Among these, for example, there are serious evaluation mechanisms that must prevdere the active point view of the users of the school.

But here we need more collaboration between teachers and leaders, too often resigned to the worst, or closed like a clam to fear change. The closures are not good corporate. And they offer the side of the detractors. In this sense, we must recognize that unions have often helped to maintain the status quo rather than accept - or expect - the news with courage and transformation. In this context, the assessment - even citizenship - the education services and the quality of teaching would be a useful exercise of subsidiarity and would improve the level of the Italian school.

Moreover, only with the evaluation (and Certainly, higher wages) can best attract new skills: how many graduates today that Italians really aspire to teach in public schools? How many are back in school, those who see only the last resort for work, when all other roads used did not lead to anything better?


A promise of change

To conclude: March 12 is an extraordinary opportunity to take a close link between the promotion of constitutional values \u200b\u200b(including, for example, the right to know and study and the right vision of subsidiarity) and the care of schools. The school is in the repertoire of practical goods common. Represents a field test of the principle of subsidiarity circular autonomous initiatives of citizens groups that meet and cooperate with government initiatives in achieving the goals that we have briefly described above.

On the other hand, remember that the Constitution is a sacred law, nor dead, but it is almost touching an action program for both individuals and institutions to achieve together. That's why you have to play this opportunity without unnecessary defensive logic. Only then will the events of March 12 will have really happened and can collect the right promise of change.

v.ferla @ cittadinanzattiva.it

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is now widely known story of the seven Trappist monks of the monastery of Thibhirine in Algeria, in 1996 were seized by an armed group, who qualified as Group islamisa armed, and subsequently murdered. The film by Xavier Beauvois, Des hommes et des Dieux [ Men of God] has been devoted to this tragedy (which still has a dark side) and many have been given this opportunity to further learn about them.

escapes, however, the general focus on another tragedy that is consumed during this period in southern Thailand, where Islamist insurgents, who wish to restore the ancient sultanate of Pattani, are waging a ruthless war against the Buddhist community, without the central government is able to put an end to this massacre. Consisting of 320,000 people in 2004, today the Buddhist community in the south has been reduced to less than 100000 and the NGO Human Rights Watch denounces 11,000 acts of violence, about 500 deaths, including 30 monks and 200 teachers, 8,000 wounded.

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swans and white swans blacks

The film ( Black Swan) is packed with meaning and can have many levels of interpretation. So much has already written (Cahiers du cinéma , Il Foglio , Corriere della Sera ...), some tracks have enough jokes: sex and adolescence, mothers obligations, the hardness of the lives of the dancers ... concentrated, so, my attention on one aspect, however, central, that is - in Jungian terms - the identification or integration of the personality or the realization of the whole man. "Whole person" is the man who has made or is going through the process of "individuation, integration of the different parts of his personality to achieve its entirety, with the "transformation of man, until then fragmented into a united whole and complete. As the totality of man, his "self", may inherently mean, this "self" is an image of life's purpose empirically produced spontaneously by the unconscious, beyond the desires and fears of consciousness. It is the purpose of the whole man, namely the creation of a whole and of his individuality, his will consenting or not. Driving force behind this process is the instinct that has to ensure that everything part of an individual life makes it an effective role, either with or without the consent of the person, whether they have or not have become aware of what is happening "( Works, XI, p. 440). Because the discovery process can take place is therefore necessary to accept that "part of personality that should supplement the conscious man to realize his completeness. First is a fragment of a minor [...] but at the same time, along with the fragment that could complement our consciousness, making it a whole, the unconscious is already present all the same, namely ' Homus totus Western alchemists 'real man ( chen-yen ) of the Chinese alchemists, the primordial being spherical inner man is the greatest, the' Anthropos that is akin to divinity. It is inevitable that this inner part is unconscious, for consciousness as a mere part of a man can not grasp the whole. But the whole man is always present, since the breakdown of the human phenomenon is an effect of consciousness, which is composed only of representations sovraliminari ( Works , XIV, p. 124 ff.) It should be noted that each dichotomous separation brings with it the possibility of integration and provides tools for possible inclusion.

is this integration that seeks to make the heroine Nina, who, in the scene ( Swan Lake) and in life, wants to express the white swan and black swan, bringing to light his Dark Half, bring the two sides of his personality. The Wholeness as an expression of the fullness of all aspects of the personality is the goal of existence, to be achieved through the fact and integration of opposites with a work in which each step requires discipline, sacrifice, perseverance, overcoming that Totality of the attributes that characterize the world over, through their "aggregation". "I can dominate an opposite only because, through the perception of both, I free thus arrive at the center . There just are no longer subjected to the opposite ( Works, XI, p. 476 ff.) When two opposites come together and arrive at a synthesis is the result of the acquisition of a higher level of existence.

In the film the "work" the protagonist's psychological overlaps professional work and manifests all the violence related to anxiety of perfection, combined with the conquest of excellence. The difficult task splits it instead of uniting it, so going through a psychotic phase and makes his final martyrdom in backstage . Director Aronofsky has gone from a kind of obsession: the quest for perfection. Perfect (from perfectum , part. Pass. surface from for , to the end, and facere , do, do, in turn, by complete , filling, from cum , intensive, and PLENUS , full) is not unlimited, but what is done completely, filling the measure, which did not need anything else, able to "arrest" the course of time and where you can stop. There are many possible levels of perfection so understanding and integration locating knows countless achievements, though often erroneously considered synonymous with excellence and perfection (examples: "It is finished" on the Cross, is the perfect tea ceremony Sen no Rikyu, the perfect act of Nureyev and the voice of Callas, the embrace of S. Francis, Perspective Borromini's Palazzo Spada and the shapes of monstrous buildings that the architect designed Boullée ...). The perfection of excellence has its martyrs (suicide note Sen no Rikyu, Borromini, Vatel, Mishima ... to name but a few of those in the fields, at different times and in different contexts, have expressed "distress" inherent in their being too long or too close to all, reminding us of the likelihood of achieving excellence in the "blink of the heart") Nina and dies saying "I was perfect," referring to his latest performance-only. But the completeness in the consciousness of martyrdom has a much larger value because even the mortifying experience of pain irredeemable, which is not exceeded in any given creativity and can in no "story" may find its "fulfillment" in its' only "perfection" accessible to those who lost everything and only in the consciousness of martyrdom, the extreme possibility of a building will be transformed into an independent, full of awe, through the "power loss" to the "power loss" : reaffirmation of subjectivity in the consciousness of oppression and affirmation of a value of "other" than the Law (of God, life, society ...).

On a balance of psychological-psychotherapeutic Finally, if the integration is carried out always and by all, the pursuit of excellence rather than obedience to daimon may be an expression of narcissism, absence of limits, immaturity and thus be not only foolish and destructive but in-conclusive, a form of hubris .

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Towards a European tax on financial transactions

The European Parliament meeting in plenary yesterday approved by a large majority (529 in favor and 127 against) a resolution which supports the introduction of a tax on financial transactions (TTF).

E 'of particular importance is the fact that Parliament has indicated that, in case you are unable to find a global consensus on this proposal, the EU should go it alone. According to the text of the resolution, the TTF must be taken''without delay''.
The resolution on the innovative financing instruments, prepared by the Parliamentary Podimata Greek Years (S & D, EL), is the contribution of Parliament to debate on how to generate new revenue, ensure a fair tax policy and the ability to maximize recovery of the levy.


According to the House, new financial instruments can make a "double dividend" on the one hand achieving important policy objectives, such as financial market stability and transparency, and increasing other revenue.
The resolution calls for the introduction of a tax on financial transactions (TTF) which would result in the coffers of the EU about € 200 billion each year and contribute to the reduction of speculative activities, making them more expensive and therefore less attractive. An amendment adopted from the Chamber Requests that, if it is not possible to introduce such a tax at a global level, the Union should still apply the TTF at the European level as a first step.

Moreover, the deputies who respond to claims that such a tax would have the effect of causing a shift in speculative transactions to other jurisdictions more favorable, saying that the EU could even reap the benefits as this would help to improve ' market efficiency.

The resolution calls for measures to reduce tax evasion and tax fraud, which is currently expected to amount to approximately € 250 billion per year. Finally, MEPs urge the EU and the G20 to pursue the goal of eliminating tax havens and tax secrecy.

The Italian campaign for the TTF ( www.zerozerocinque.it ) has long maintained the technical feasibility and the enormous benefits that this proposal would, though only introduced in the EU or the euro area. (For a brief statement of the arguments in favor of the introduction of the TTF in the euro area alone, see the deepening of the call published on the campaign website zerozerocinque: http://bit.ly/glvLwA )

The vote yesterday policy is a confirmation of the utmost importance to the many technical issues that support these arguments. A European TTF is also a sign of great strength for later introduction on a global scale.

The Italian government has so far argued that the tax could be implemented only on a global scale. Our country, especially in light of today's vote in Europe, is now called upon to do its part, and to follow the example of Germany, France and other European nations that have long strongly support the introduction of rapidly TTF, to curb the wild speculation and the Treasury Casino and generate resources for welfare, international cooperation, the fight against climate change.

The vote yesterday was particularly directed to the European Parliament a report on innovative financial mechanisms that had been presented in the relevant committees in recent months and who strongly support the need for a TTF on a global scale, or, if no consensus in Europe. It was also voted on a second report, presented by the French parliamentary Eva Joly and dedicated to the need to improve tax revenue, combat tax evasion and harmful tax practices. This second report cited the TTF in a very favorable, as a measure to curb speculative and purely financial transactions to generate income.

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Declaration of Women's Rights and Participation of the town

received directly from the Enlightenment and gladly publish

Man, you're capable of being right? It is a woman who asks the question, at least you do not deprive of this right. Tell me? Who gave you the supreme authority to oppress my sex? Your strength? Your talent? Observe the Creator in his wisdom, scroll to the nature in all its grandeur, of which you seem to want you to compare, and give me, if you dare, the example of this tyrannical power. Up to animals, consult the elements, study plants, finally throws a look at all the changes of matter organized, and give you the evidence when I offer you the means; search, investigate and distinguish, if you can, the sexes in 'administration of nature. Everywhere you'll find them confusing, everywhere they work together in a harmonious whole in this immortal masterpiece. Only man has bundled a principle of this exception. Bizarre, blind, bloated with science and degenerated in this century illuminated and sagacity, the most stupid ignorance, want to rule by a despot on sex that has all the intellectual faculties; claims to enjoy the revolution and claim their rights equality, to say nothing more.


Preamble

mothers, daughters, sisters, representatives of the nation, asking to be able to be in the National Assembly. Considering that ignorance, forgetfulness or contempt of women's rights are the causes of public misfortunes and the corruption of governments, have decided to exhibit, in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable and sacred woman, so that this declaration, constantly present to all members of society, constantly remind them of the their rights and duties, so that the acts of the power of women and those men of power, could be compared at any moment with the purposes of all political institutions, to be met to ensure that citizens' protests, now based on simple principles and understood, are increasingly turning to the maintenance of the Constitution, of good morals, and happiness of all. As a result, sex is superior in beauty that courage in the sufferings of motherhood, recognizes and declares, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following rights of women and citizenship.

Article I
Woman is born free and have the same rights. Social distinctions can only be based on the common.



Article II The purpose of every political association is the preservation of natural and inalienable rights of woman and man: these rights are liberty, property, safety, and especially resistance to oppression.

Article III
The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation, which is the meeting of women and men: no body, no individual may exercise the authority that is not explicitly derived.

Article IV
freedom and justice is to return everything that belongs to others, the pursuit of the natural rights of the woman has no bounds tyranny perpetuated the dispute between the man and these limits must be reformed by the laws the nature and reason.

Article V
The laws of nature and reason preventing any action harmful to society: all that is not prohibited by these laws, wise and divine, can not be prevented, and none can be obliged to do what they do not order.

Article VI
The law must be the expression of the general will, all the citizens must contribute personally or through their representatives, his training, they must be the same for everyone: All citizens and all citizens , being equal in the eyes, must be equally eligible to all dignities, public place and use them according to their ability, and without other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.

Article VII
No woman is excluded, it is accused, arrested and detained in cases determined by law. Women like men to obey strict law.

Article VIII
The law does not stipulate that strict penalties and obviously necessary, and no one can be punished except by a law established and promulgated before the offense and legally applied to women.

Article IX
all the rigor and practiced law for every woman pleaded guilty.

Article X
Nobody should be persecuted for his opinions, even fundamental, the woman has the right to ascend the scaffold, must also have the right to come to the rostrum, provided that her demonstrations do not disrupt the public order established by law.

Article XI
The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the most precious rights of women, because this freedom ensures the legitimacy of the fathers to their children. Any citizen may therefore speak freely, I am the mother of a child that belongs to you, without a cruel injury forced her to conceal the truth, unless the abuse of this freedom in cases determined by law.

Article XII
guarantee the rights of women and the town needs a special support, such security shall be established for the benefit of everyone, and not for the particular use of those to whom it is entrusted.

Article XIII
For the maintenance of the public force and for expenditures, contributions of women and men are equal, it will participate in all tasks at all strenuous activities, should therefore have its share in the distribution of posts, uses, and dignity of the office 's industry.

Article XIV
the citizens have the right to ascertain in person or through their representatives, the public need for the tax. The citizens can not accede to that condition of being admitted to the equal division, not only of worldly goods, but also in public administration, and to determine the amount, the tax base, tax collection and the duration.
Article XV

The mass of women, in payment of taxes coalesced with that of men, have the right to demand accountability at every public official of his administration.

Article XVI
Every society in which the guarantee of rights is not assured, nor the separation of powers is determined has no constitution, the constitution is void if the majority of the individuals who compose the nation, did not cooperate with its editors.

Article XVII
properties belonging to both sexes together or separate, they are each an inviolable and sacred, no one shall be deprived of nature as the true heritage, except when the need public, legally established, the demands to be clearly provided for a just and prior compensation.


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The Declaration of Women's Rights and Citizenship (title in French Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la Citoyenne) is a French legal text, which called for total assimilation of legal, political and social status of women , published in September 1791 by writer Olympe de Gouges on the model of the Declaration on the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789 proclaimed 26 August of that year. First document to invoke the statutory and legal equality of women compared to men, the Declaration of Women's Rights and the town was published in order to be submitted to National Assembly be adopted.


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an antidote to corruption

, we know. Corruption and fraud are rampant in Italy. This is confirmed by the report of the Court of Auditors at the end of February.
of that relationship affects not so much the analysis of the phenomenon (now unfortunately too well known), but the clarity with which the Court criticizes the package of measures recently announced by the Government: All measures contrary to those it would take to address corruption .

The measures announced by the government? The wrong
Court rejected the bill on wiretapping because, as the Attorney General Mario Ristuccia, "does not appear to be directed to a real fight against corruption." Conversely, the interceptions are "one of the most important investigative tools used to counter the phenomenon of corruption."
The Court also expressed doubts about proposals for a "short trial". Of course, there is a problem in Italy's slow processes. But the solution proposed by the Government, in fact, is not the efficiency and speed, but simply the interruption of the process. Indeed, as lawyers say, it is 'denial of justice', with all due respect for the rights of victims.

Cirielli mouth, even the law, which has halved the statute of limitations "with the result that many of its processes will become extinct just before the final ruling, although preceded by a conviction."

growing addiction and distrust
In this context, a decrease in complaints. A bit 'for progressive habituation to the widespread corruption, a little' for growing distrust of those public bodies that fail to protect their citizens from the political-administrative corruption.
Just think of the health sector, where the Court explained, occur "with surprising ease real episodes of ill repute with issues of mismanagement, sometimes aided by the lack of the control system.

work against corruption bodies (so far) useless
To this was added the complete uselessness of SAET: Service Anti-Corruption and Transparency, grounded in the Department of Public Administration in place of 'high commissioner against corruption, producing some modest survey, but has no ability to attack.
Brunetta and reform? a year from now will look in vain for the results. But as readers of this newsletter know, the Reform was in fact' defused, 'and the Civitate (Independent Commission for the transparency, integrity and evaluation) is not very independent, however, some inefficient.


four pillars: the role of citizens
Where again, then? "The fight against corruption must be primarily based on four pillars: 'ethics, transparency' s use of 'ICT, simplification, control," says the President of the Court of Auditors, Luigi Giampaolino.
are all ingredients for which the role of citizens will be crucial: they serve to boost public ethics, respect for institutions, attention to common goods after years of private law and corporate behavior on the part of the ruling classes. The actual transparency of government will play in the ability to really engage people, to hear her point of view, to account for their actions. Smooths and friendly procedures will mean more to safeguard the rights of individuals and limit the opacity and shadows where you hide the shortcuts and privileges. Finally, in terms of controls, the challenge will be the most innovative assessment: citizens must be able to assess the quality of services and administrative action, the performance of managers and public officials, the ability of government leaders of the political-administrative .
A program challenging, but possible. As long as you retain the knowledge that new threats may emerge. As noted by the prosecutor Ristuccia, decentralization of public expenditure contribute to "increase corruption when the proximity to local interests and lobby promotes an exchange of favors illegal harm to the community managed." A caveat to keep in mind in these days of approving the decrees on the municipal federalism.

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Revolt in North Africa, it is time to reform the law on citizenship

The revolution under way in North Africa opens unpredictable scenarios. Humanitarian emergency could soon touch our country, with the arrival of many refugees. The Italian government is unprepared. Spreads fear to create alarm and escape responsibility. How long? The debate
immigration in the coming months may yet run out - as is the case for years - the interplay between public policy and more or less benevolent assistance of the newcomers? There is a risk that you do not speak more than one theme emerging from omitted time, high time: the plight of many immigrants who already live and work in Italy for years. We can continue to pretend that these are not people like us?

Italian law based on the allocation of national citizenship, a sort of "family law" is a national heritage by blood or by marriage. it may be still the case? Citizenship should not be acquired for the free and independent choice of those who decide to live here in our country and is committed to their jobs, their economic activities, their civic initiatives in building a common home open, welcoming and inclusive?
citizenship, without rights, belonging and participation, is not only "affair of state." It is based on the recognition of the human person beyond his ties to a specific community. Arises from the concrete and active rights, beyond their formal title. Is anchored to the international regime of human rights.

The Italian Constitution is in the lead: incorporates the Universal Declaration human rights, and with this, the protection of rights that are well ahead of those related to national citizenship. Just think of the right to health which the immigrants have: our NHS is bound to protect, even if they are not Italian (I explain the decisions of the Constitutional Court). In short, the rights of personality, based on constitutional and universal citizenship, are extended to all. And between the rights of freedom for excellence, guaranteed to all by the European constitutional treaty, are just the "right of abode" and "freedom of movement."

In many cases, then, citizenship becomes "active". According to the principle constitutional subsidiarity, all citizens, individuals or groups including immigrants, can exercise their rights, take responsibility in public life, to contribute to social development and civil place of residence. Conversely, the key management in security-immigration bureaucracy which undergoes the torment those who ask for or renew a residence permit, the state of limbo in which they are convicted of second-generation immigrants (Italians in effect) are forms of violence free, beautiful and good, a negation of humanity and the rights of these people.

There is much to do, then. But the first step now, is reform the law on citizenship should be more accessible to many who now reside here for years and are now Italian, too. The second step is a series of integration policies that remove obstacles to human development of all citizens, without distinction of any kind, even of ethnicity (it is the duty of the Republic under Article 3 of the Constitution). Finally, based on the principle of subsidiarity written in 118, measures are needed to welcome and encourage 'all' those people, often immigrants, who carry out activities of general interest. Even so, you will build an Italy more united, friendly, European Union. It would be worth remember that the government in 2011 in this special that celebrates the European Year of Active Citizenship and the 150 anniversary of the unification of Italy.

taken from EARTH , daily ecologist, March 3, 2011 @

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Africian Spurred Tortise For Sale

First of March, the strike of migrant rights and common goods

again this year takes place the strike of migrants. The March First is a project of grassroots participation involved in the fight against racism and in defense of human rights. The initiative was established in November 2009 on the initiative of four women: Nelly Diop, Daimarely Quintero, Stephanie Ragusa, Seynabou Cristina Sebastiani. From now brought together Italian, immigrants, second generation: all united by the rejection of racism and cultural exclusion. The first initiative dates back to March 1 of 2010, when the movement organized a day of mobilization and strike aimed to help people understand how crucial the contribution of migrants to the estate and the functioning of our society and how important it is that old and new Italian strive together to defend the fundamental human rights, combating racism and overcome the opposition between "us" and "them".

Migrants and commons
The same commitment is raised today. While the struggle for democracy in North Africa, we can not accept the racist logic of the 'let's help at home. " The migration is often a way to change their living conditions. In addition, we must always remember that the contribution of migrants to the growth of our country is and will be crucial. Certainly, for economic reasons, as has been pointed out many times: the migrants, they produce a substantial proportion of GDP (11%), feed the state coffers through taxes and social security contributions, to make up for care work to the structural deficiencies of the Italian welfare . But also social and cultural reasons: they are in fact an active part in the construction of society and different: richer, more diverse, multicultural and able to look to the future. Without them, without children children of migrants and mixed couples, Italy would be poorer today. Above all, immigrants are a strong civil society to build a different, not just defend the rights, but respond to blackmail win new ones.
In short, the contribution of migrants in the construction of new public goods, including the future of Italy, is crucial.

An appeal for the rights
Last year, in response to unrest and violence in Rosarno, the March First Movement had organized a strike to demonstrate the importance of the work of 4.5 million immigrants in Italy. "Over 300 thousand people were mobilized to say no to racism, the law Bossi-Fini law, the security package, to Cie (Centers for identification and expulsion) and yes to a more just and multicultural society, "it said in the appeal. The situation today is different and perhaps more serious: "There was another Rosarno, but the effects of the crisis feel more and more and they primarily affect migrants in thousands at risk of losing their residence permit, in thousands that do not have the permission are listed as convicted criminals and illegal workers run by foremen. "

initiatives throughout Italy
Scheduled events and processions throughout Italy, Alto Adige to Sicily, to call attention to the trampled rights of migrants. "The issue of citizenship remains unresolved - even the organizers say - and hundreds of young people born or raised in Italy continue to be subject to a law that does not recognize their rights or citizenship." In the square, not just immigrants, but also many Italians: "This is not an ethnic strike. To carry on this struggle, and Italian migrants must move together against the blackmail, racism, exploitation. " Rome celebrates the day with a procession and shouted together, "we are all Libyans, we are all Egyptians, we are all Tunisians." This year, the initiative could only be dedicated to the courage from North African populations. In the Capital, the procession will move Tuesday to 16.30 from Piazzale Aldo Moro and will be shut down in the square Esquilino.

Close CIE
Protesters calling for the closure of Cie - the centers for the identification and deportation - the repeal of Bossi-Fini law (in particular, the link between employment contract and residence permit) and the crime of illegal immigration. With the strike, then, stress the need to move from "concept of jus sanguinis to jus soli as a milestone for the recognition of citizenship and a law guaranteeing the exercise of full citizenship to those born and raised in Italy." Labsus hosted on this theme various interventions with the aim of broadening the concept of citizenship to the exercise of rights recognized in the Charter of international and concrete participation of immigrants in the daily life of our country.

Revolutions and landings
The mobilization of this year can not focus its attention on what is happening in the other side of the Mediterranean. "The revolutions of the square signal an aspiration to freedom of migration that has one of its forms and that is leading to an expected increase of landings (never interrupted for more) on our shores: in front of the Italian answer to all this is proving hypocritical and inappropriate - accusation the First Committee in March - It evokes a non-existent 'state of emergency' only to avoid welcome people who are coming to our shores. " Is needed instead, according to protesters, to launch as soon as "an organic law and adequate for the protection of refugees and asylum seekers." In short, you should really listen to the wise words of the Head of State called on everyone - especially the government - to give warning and victimization in the name of the reception and the law.

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