23 March 2006

Genoa for Us

Using information as a tool is something that the Centre Right is doing to an extent that is beyond every limit of decency and it is by now clear that the first, the very first reform after the elections has to be the regulation of the Radio and TV frequencies so as to avoid the arrival of a new fascism.
The American Government is warning its citizens of dangers associated with violent demonstration during the election campaign in Italy. In a year in some big American cities more people are killed than in the whole of Italy. Bush should think of his own citizens, and not engage in electoral propaganda for his mates in Italy.

Giuseppe Romano, Genoa’s Police Chief had the following to say in relation to the incidents in Genoa:
Journalist: “Who were the demonstrators?”
Giuseppe Romano: “Most were school children and university students. And then there was an anarchist or two, a few from the social centres, a few from the no-global movement.”
These are the left wing squads defined by Mr Berlusconi who had to avoid the whistles and the judgement of Italian citizens and so is now obliged to have his events inside buildings and to leave by the back door.

I’m publishing a great letter from, signor Franco Bellè, from Genoa.

Open letter to the President of the Council:

" Respected Cavaliere,
You came to Genoa and you didn’t find it comfortable, Genoa does not love you and you do not love Genoa, but perhaps you haven’t grasped the reason for this and I would like to explain this.
Here, the publicity doesn’t work much, we like things that are concrete, solid, that we can touch. We leave speeches to the others, we look at the facts and yours are not great. Our history speaks for us. We went all around the world when the rest of Europe was living in villages. We have been multicultural and multiethnic for 1000 years and our dialect has many Arabic words not because the Arabs ever dominated us but simply because we like them and we have adopted them.
We evaluate people for what they are and for what they do not according to their colour nor their religion. Here is where big industry was born with big capitalists, the ones of once upon a time, gentlemen who risked their own money, not the money of the shareholders and who at the end, perhaps, left their wealth to the city or founded hospitals. Here is where socialism was born, mutual societies, solidarity.
Genoa was the first to throw out the nazis, who signed a surrender only in this city. Here the MSI people, very different from the followers of Fini that are seen today, wanted to cause provocation and were not received well. We aren’t prejudiced. We put people to the test. We examine the facts and then we decide. And we have decided that we don’t like you. This is not for what you are but for what you do or do badly.
No one has organised an ambush or an attack, we simply wanted you to know that we don’t like you.”
Franco Bellè

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Society