A Castelvolturno many against the Camorra. From Castelvolturno to begin to rebuild the Left Di Raffaele Cimmino
* Adapted from the National Site
SD "The Camorra is a mountain of shit." Signaled by the phrase dry reproducing the ancient but still alive, and true, battle-cry of Peppino Impastato against the Mafia, was held at the initiative of the Democratic Left Castelvolturno against the Camorra. An initiative that expressed together, even an exhortation and a hope: "Let the blacks Camorra."
Castelvolturno, a frontier land riddled with fear and violence, where the state can at best be only enemy or stranger, and not an entity of which it is difficult to perceive the presence and powers. Even now, with the presence of soldiers in camouflage and guns leveled at intersections leading into town.
Here in the heart of the power system of Casale, where has unleashed ferocious violence of their focus groups, most recently by the brutal massacre that claimed the lives of six immigrants, the Democratic Left has wanted to show his closeness to Roberto Saviano and commitment to the rule of law and democracy in a land plagued by crime.
A commitment is not easy, which already produces in the morning the first reactions posters burned or defaced with slogans against vulgar Roberto Saviano in nearby Villa Literno.
Yet, as perhaps you do not expect, in the main square in front of City Hall Castelvolturno not see shadows, but people of flesh and blood, Sd militants, from Naples and the Campania region, and even thirty comrades arriving the Castelli Romani, but also ordinary citizens. And some provocative, yet that would prevent you from putting up posters announcing the event.
The room was soon full of the city council: no answer. The fear, not entirely unfounded, that a land mafia is off limits for a 'democratic initiative dissolves.
There are, and take their testimony, several local administrators in the area. There is a charge strong, vibrant, Rosalba Scafuro, councilor of Sd in Castelvolturno junta made a sign of intimidation in recent days, denouncing the Camorra pervasiveness of the system also made of a thousand streams of economic activities territory, with which it is almost impossible not to get in touch somehow. A system that conditions, imposed heavy taxes, pollutes the lives of people without it being possible to resist if you are not behind the presence of the state, of credible institutions, free of directors. The leader
Regional Sd, Tonino Scala, claims the battle against social exclusion, which moves in Campania by the defense of basic income to the budget cuts threatened by regional, as a fundamental moment of the fight against organized crime.
And yet, the Professor. Amato Lamberti, the regional management of Sd, a former president of the province of Naples, speaks of the myopia that leads to presume to combat the Camorra by sending military. More than a good system for contrast, the 'cultural expression of a large deficit and the underestimation of the inextricable link between crime and social decay. Paolo Beni, President of, remember instead the value of work as a guarantee of freedom and autonomy of people, real implementation of the principles of social solidarity as guaranteed by the Constitution and the Republican antidote to the forces of 'Anti-State.
Roberto Natale, president of FNSI, stirs emotion and a long applause when he recalls the figure of Giancarlo Siani, the morning paper fell under the lead of the Camorra in twenty-six, in 1985. Christmas says that Italy is the only Western country where there is a constant attack and violent crime against journalism and free information. An independent press, information that is not a vassal of political power to represent the true Natali garrison democratic powers against criminals. The President of FNSI still remember the anguished question of Rosaria Capacchione, the reporter writing the Morning Caserta, repeatedly threatened and lives under guard, who wonders why he was the only reporter present in court to follow the process of Casale, and processes that relate to current events such as those of Cogne or Perugia journalists are so many from not being able to physically enter classrooms: the sign of the distortion of the information system of this country, which manifests itself in the geography of ownership of media.
E 'Moni Ovadia to collect the consent of the wide audience when attacked, and denounce the instrumentality of racism and brutality, the true weapon of mass distraction in the hands of political reactionaries. Ovadia recalls the famous words of Goering: to get a good German peasant to the rifle must be convinced that a dangerous enemy threatens the borders. Similarly to paralyze the will of the opposition and the critical capacity is not more effective political device of racism. If it were not however, that racism has taken a heavy toll, and long, the Italians, not just those in the south. At the time of massive Italian emigration in the U.S., known Ovadia, Bossi and Borghezio also be passed to members of a non-white race, next to black, and therefore potentially dangerous. Ovadia conclude recalling the words of Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhöffer, with which he warned that what is given to the other and seems not to concern us may one day touch us closely. Closes
Claudio Fava. It 's a passionate speech on her, which commemorates the Battle of Peppino Impastato, who have challenged the young mob Cinisi, he, who was the son of a Mafioso. As a challenge the power of the Greek, the powerful Mafia family in Palermo, the young high school students Ciaculli openly invited them to leave their feud. The sense is that only a strong and democratic civil resistance, only a commitment without shadows of those who govern and those who make policy affecting the fight against crime. Shadows lengthen on the other hand a government that counts among its ranks Secretary Cosentino economy, indicated by collaborators of justice in close relations with the clan of the camorra.
The event concludes with the 'meeting between a delegation of SD, including himself Fava, Gloria Buffo and Arturo Scotto, and immigrants of the reception center and Castelvolturno with a speech by Jean René Bilong, who is a member of the National Council of Sd and Castelvolturno lives. Bilong, in the wake of the great events of 11 and 25 October and the election of Barack Obama's overflowing with the American presidential hopes the beginning of a new political phase in our country.
An important day, in short, which leads to hope and redemption in a land without light as it has been so far Castelvolturno and the Domitian coast. A day which reinforces the belief that the fight against organized crime remains a central and defining element also in the path to building a united and renewed subjectivity of the left.
* Sd Naples
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