Supporters Of Dr.berstein 2010

Day 15 - What common thread that links equity, economy, immigration and solidarity

Yesterday in Festaunità Democratic went on stage the debate on health . Enriched by a large
panel of distinguished speakers and with the participation of a large and attentive audience, most of the operators, the debate has shown that it is felt that this issue , on the one hand, touches the daily life in its most delicate and, secondly, it calls into question the direct responsibility of regional and local institutions.

Terrace At Sea was instead met on the West PD for the usual "drink with ...", while the Riunda Nando by the Church presented the book "Inferno Bolzaneto" of the journalist Mario Portanova in the presence of the author. In the words of journalist and Nando have recovered the body of the days in July 2001, Genoa, and tragic for democracy because, as the documents in the process largely reported in the book, the most basic rights have been violated before the eyes of 'Europe and the world. " How was this possible? 'and' This is the question that has Nando repeated several times, but unanswered question that must always be repeated to keep alive the memory of an episode which, unfortunately, in the folds and in the silence of the barracks and storage of cells, is likely to persist even at the expense of those most vulnerable and less able to defend their rights.

In the evening the focus has shifted to development cooperation and the activities of fair trade . E 'was presented by the promoter Bruno Cordazzo the "Project Senegal, a project of international cooperation promoted by Coop Liguria. Thanks to it was built in Dakar a factory for the processing of catches That meets the stringent health standards required by European standards, but at the same time protects the rights of workers and the environment. Inaugurated in February, soon will supply all of the Consortium cooperative Coop Italy. The initiative is considered essential by the Government that the Senegalese government has included projects for poverty reduction.

But they are the words of the entrepreneur Senegalese Mamadou Sow , to give a measure of how popular is this posting: started six years ago, already employs more than 100 families , offering a perspective true for a community development and a response to the too often empty words on development in the West. to Africa do not need money - according to Mamadou Sow - but ideas, passion, know-how, the study of local reality and the creation of real jobs .

E 'was then the President Burlando to illustrate the' action of Liguria to the development of fair trade , activities in the region for the past 18 years and involving over 1000 volunteers and some salaried workers, both active in the many shops scattered throughout the territory of Liguria, and with an incessant series of information and awareness. Liguria, August 13, 2007 by Law No.32, has regulated the area of \u200b\u200bfair and supportive to dual purpose, first, to ensure consumers against products which prove to be disrespectful of international standards of fair and inclusive and, second, to provide support through funding specific activities that aim to develop this business. Promoting the use of products that meet the populations of countries of origin can not only be a good deed, sometimes it can also represent a savings to the consumer. This is the case of the Slow Food project Coffee Huehuetenango. Purchased directly from local producers in Guatemala, at a price of 2 to 4 times higher than that paid by the multinationals, are entrusted to the roasting to a cooperative of prisoners of Turin . Often, once released from prison, former inmates continue to work in cooperatives and avoid falling back into crime. Given that the final price on Italian banks are less than the competition, the purchase of Huehuetenango coffee is cheaper and doubly supportive - to the producers in developing countries and to former prisoners in Italy.

Therefore Liguria Region, namely the public, not so much on investing activity economic, but on values \u200b\u200bthat it carries out . A fil rouge - as he described Cordazzo - alloy equity and solidarity and focuses on a market economy which has no ultimate purpose and only the privatization of profits . This is a value in which to invest politically, cutting rents unjustified interim position to help the weak links in the chain - the producer and the consumer - while there are those, like the current government, shows an increasingly worrying trend to privatize profits and socialize losses .

Even stronger is the link between activities of fair trade and immigration the center of the debate 8 September introduced and moderated by Ross Ridella , who, like me, is a member of the Democratic Party provincial executive. As explained
Francesco Munari our first task is primarily understand what we expect of immigrants and what we give them in exchange , relinquishing any attitude of tolerance and forbearance of the "different" attitude instead - as pointed out by Milo Bertolotto - we see growing every day, fueled by pressures to marginalization. Steadily regresses In Italy rights culture, and then the integration. Place the center of the debate, the question of the vote to immigrants is important for the values \u200b\u200bthat this choice would be against those who work hard every day to allow this country to not decrease, supporting an aging population which, alone, has already conducted the 'Italy in the darkest of recessions. As argued Nando Dalla Chiesa: "On the question vote for immigrants Genoa City Council must be at the forefront, the theory of democracy is the basis of everything and it is remarkable that in Italy people do not pay taxes to vote, while those who the pay is prohibited. "

can take fingerprints and threaten expulsions, but until you erase the causes of it will not cease. Italians of this reality should be intimately aware, if only they had forgotten that until the economic boom of the '50s and '60s, our country was a spectator of the tragic exodus of despair. Therefore, efforts of a fair and inclusive, the Senegal project or to slow food, are the real answer to the problem: create development to make the migration from their country a free and informed choice and the only chance of redemption social, the last boat and sad the fight for survival .