text ( also published on n23 weekly paper June 26, 2009) contains a proposal relating to the theme of the G8 in L'Aquila, as I presented at the meeting on May 20, 2009 with representatives of parties and movements, which took place in L'Aquila in the tent of the City at the refugee camp of Collemaggio .
Abstract:
To effectively organize dissent against the G8 will be held in L'Aquila is essential to find the elements of convergence between the situation of a city postsismica and instances essentially altermondiste usually orient the style of protest in these events. Catalyze these two poles in a single event may be possible by means of integration within the accomunante theme of the politics of charity linked to the strategies of shock economy, namely the question of the mimetic function of solidarity with the minutes, unthinkable as a factor in masking the costs for large works of (in) social utility. If the policy of the charity can embody a center of a dispute within the proactive could be a viable discourse involving the issues of sustainability.
INTRODUCTION
As reported by the politicians who attended the meeting, is as of now clear within-party movement that protests do in L'Aquila post seismic implies a strong and honest awareness of particularly tragic situation. This raises the need to find the areas of sharing between protesters and residents, while at the swing positions movementists the proposed "soft" ARCI (do almost nothing and stay away from L'Aquila) to the more "hard" CSOA or the COBAS (organize strong protests in the territory).
In such a scenario has gained the conviction that it is necessary to advance dialogue with the associations and collectives Abruzzo, giving them a key role in coordinating the expression of dissent in order to avoid the emergence of tensions between the earthquake victims and demonstrators (which could be perceived as an external entity that the local expropriation of a right to the expression of the tremendous hardship that now haunts them.)
As pointed out by the Town Council President Carlo Benedetti, at this time of extreme need to support basic needs of life, in L'Aquila is a desperate climate of cooperation with the international powers that be. The primary concern is to understand how much money the city will come, when they arrive, how and where you redistribute, how to prevent infiltration underworld profiteering internal and external. In summary, the problem of the city is, after a collective tragedy which has undermined the sacrifices of generations and stands as a threat to the future, like going to the chimera of normality. In other words, consider that the concept of "normalcy" so detested by the cultures of the antagonism has become - in the here and now in this corner of the West made grotesquely upside down by local apocalypse - a form of desire that arises "no ifs, ands or buts."
Currently L'Aquila is a private capital of the region - in less than a minute - more than half its residential fabric of the historic center of all administrative and institutional centers, hospital, university; a corner of despair in the midst of the shaky world of opulence advanced to the promise of hanging back on top thanks to some € 3 billion to meet emergency needs and to approximately 5 billion euro in ventiquatt'anni (a pittance in relation as allocated to other earthquakes and damage the city, a promise in times acceptably long). Today in L'Aquila, the ordinary political divisions have dissolved into a single "party of the reconstruction," tied to the umbilical cord of Civil Defense, ubiquitous and crazy nurse, a schizophrenic who can consistently put together the loving support and the shot state, everything happens within the framework of a welfare emergency situations which can (with) merge love and control.
Obviously in this situation now seemed hard to find the links to match local needs and styles of protest (inter) national political events that usually accompany such as the G8.
MOTION
find a convergence between the factors of local discomfort and global instances of a challenge to the established order, in events like the G8, now reveal the elements of consistency, can be possible through the identification of issues that are able to catalyze in context of a unitary sense of these two scenarios seem very distant at the time. L'Aquila is now - the paradox of the exceptional nature of a catastrophic event - recourse to a kind of "global South". The earthquake has disrupted the local existential horizon, and now sets the standard by which to rise again. On April 6 Abruzzo L'Aquila was - forty seconds - the worst place in the world: one of the many places of our more or less precarious Western prosperity has become, in a sense, in Africa from which to rise. It is clear that in this context, the desperation of these days made the threat, over time, in hot weather, to degenerate into forms of collective frenzy.
Rebuilding the eagle concerns a matter of great public works, and here the charity is likely to result in more effective aid in a form of paternalistic propaganda of the established power. All of this happens, it must be said, in the framework of a national policy where the government, while promising figures for the reconstruction of about eight billion euro, has set up a bandwagon of popular solidarity - including scratch cards and television programs devoted to collection of retail offerings - saturated the public in an atmosphere of almsgiving in the long term can lead spacing. Meanwhile, the government keeps it warm for the bridge over the project close at least four billion euro, and, ashamed, while the average fat regime with the fashion show of 'commitment appropriations of € 13 billion in silence for base areas. Why not put that money in the silence that is required for emergency aid to the earthquake, and ask for donations of money airbases? The joy of Bruno Vespa for the two million euro grooming Italians with the sms while it seems to say "that's it! we have solved "the other hides works such as bridges and airfields on the close [1] . The school reminiscences shared by everyone remembers the warning via Manzoni's Don Ferrante his wife, who refers to this Gospel substance help you practice and in silence, otherwise it is propaganda. Once again it is difficult to distinguish the help from looting.
is in this sense it is considered feasible that a convergence of instances of protest by the common theme of antagonism toward the politics of charity, now apparent in the strategy that blends - in the middle of the litany of solidarity to the minute - the silent waste of public money into major public works of dubious social utility and ancillary secure than the actual needs of the masses. Emergency situations, such as those caused by natural disasters, in fact, lead to scenarios in which are viable strategies for and promote major investments fell from a background of shock economy, in which local people, paralyzed from the collective trauma and the need for help, they tend not to resist towards more direct interventions to help investors interested. The squandering of resources in the quiet work of little use against the needs of man is what is common in a broad sense, L'Aquila al'Africa today (just think of spending on armaments in the world, the canard of the missions to Mars in search water, and so on).
A level symbols of protest is also to be noted that a site of convergence between L'Aquila and antisystemic movements can be seen in the concept of "red zone": the red area is the margin of power to challenge the G8 in any place that provides a border and then a chance of ritualized rebellion pitched through the symbolism of the siege to a limit. The red zone is forbidden in some sense a taboo, the relegation of the vision of the "left" of the world. The red zone is now embodied in L'Aquila interdiction of the historic city center, closed military garrisons in every corner (the center is red zone " thus enshrining the police).
mockingly in the red zone where all the displaced persons camps Aquila can and are forced to access, is represented by the firm Sebach bathrooms, the ugly but necessary chemical processes (consisting of a rectangular plastic square meter, almost always in color - in fact - red) that have invaded the city and symbolizing the deprivation of basic needs, the end of the comfort, the necessity by which the charity becomes a charity, what was once a shortage becomes a luxury. Those cessetti plastic are the symbol of a strategy where the refugee camp becomes an instrument of control by reducing of a mass of desperate people (the containers would have allowed greater autonomy to the displaced, and therefore more likely to self-determination, this obviously would have allowed less opportunity to control by speculators)
If this is concerned I would see the horizon contestational issues related to sustainability (environmental, geological, economic, social) that can find a link proactive in the situation an opportunity for practicality Aquila: L'Aquila tomorrow should be a model city built on the value of social development, not on the interest economy of the looting in mimesis aid.
work because the system of antagonistic movements to the powers that be to acquire knowledge about the situation Aquila can be an opportunity to avoid manipulation that might affect the ethical nature of the protest just as the protesters would avoid the risk of being seen opinion national and global public nuisance as the rusting of the plates that reproduce selfish myopia in relation to the seriousness of real situations immediately. On the opposite side of these issues could possibly lead to protest the possibility of contextualizing beyond certain canvases of a dispute, which, if deficient in elements of news, pass too often in the public eye as mere moments of political folklore.
Personally correct this in the name of a civil right to the expression of political dissent, understood as the unavoidable need for the guarantee of democratic coexistence. At the same time I disagree immediately and firmly against any form of violent protest or otherwise not allowed.
L'Aquila, May 21, 2009
Antonello Ciccozzi
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