Vicenza: Vicenza
E 'come to sandpaper the appeal of the permanent garrison against the U.S. base at Dal Molin di Vicenza, for a national demonstration of protest on February 17.
The appeal was sent as a post to the article "say no to the Vicenza base," published some time ago.
publish the post below to make it more visible.
February 17: national demonstration in Vicenza
THE FUTURE IS IN OUR HANDS: DEFEND THE LAND FOR A FUTURE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF WAR
Presidio Permanente, Vicenza, 23 January 2007. After months
for governments and communities have bounce the responsibility of the decision, the National Executive has given the U.S. ultimatum: "the Government does not oppose the new U.S. base," Romano Prodi has ruled. After just two hours, thousands marched through the streets of Vicenza center cittadino.Chi thought he had ended the game had to think again, because Vicenza has moved, has invaded the streets, built the permanent garrison. Eight months of mobilizations, culminating with the great event of last Dec. 2 - when 30,000 people marched from the Ederle at Dal Molin, demonstrated the strong opposition of the population to the new military installation. But the Government, After repeatedly insisted on the centrality of the opinion of the local community, succumbed to the economic interests and militari.In this is seriously hampering the position of the City Administration that strong of consent given by the Berlusconi government in the operation, the first was hidden from the public project for three years and then snubbing the opposition of the population, approved during a Town Council armored and challenged, and finally denied the public the opportunity to express themselves through a referendum.
Despite all this success is something new Vicenza: Vicenza has not surrendered to the charges. In this way we found men and women, students and the elderly, workers and professionals, we have crossed in the mobilizations, we discussed with them at public meetings and conferences.
Together we have built the Presidio Permanente, a place crossed by thousands of people in a few days. Vicenza
not give up on charges.
Vicenza do not want a new military base at Dal Molin.
Vicenza has moved.
Thousands of people have occupied the platforms of the station just two hours after the press conference with Romano Prodi, and days following a series of initiatives, from the deans of students for the event at City Hall and the Prefecture, confirmed the determination of cittadini.La Our city has rediscovered the Community dimension popular and has reactivated the networks of solidarity and in other contexts - for example, ionic or Scanzano in Val di Susa - led to a devastating halt projects.
from all parts of Italy, we got a great solidarity, a warm support. Events and principals have taken place in these days in every corner of the country. Against a choice opposed by the local community wherever it occurs and is discussed.
Our journey is just beginning. Nothing has been concluded with the expression of opinion government. Citizens, associations and trade unions have decided to oppose, many parliamentarians are self-suspension.
Vicenza wants to stop this destruction, if necessary, following the invitation of many to play peacefully in their bodies.
We want to give a unified voice, peaceful and committed to this outrage.
Vicenza calls everyone to mobilize against the militarization of a city, against the construction of a base that will be built in less than two kilometers from the Palladian Basilica, will consume as much water as they need 30 thousand people, will cost taxpayers millions of euro (41% of the cost of maintaining U.S. military bases in our territory is covered by the Italian Government), will be the outpost for future guerre.Vicenza wants to build a great national event for February 17; we want to color our roads with the rainbow flags and those against Dal Molin, but also with those for the defense of common goods and land, labor and the dignity and quality of life. A plural and popular march, capable of aggregating the many sensitivities that in recent months have decided to fight the Dal Molin, because we believe that diversity is a treasure to be valued as the unit is a tool to search for this challenge. Politicians and party men who share the responsibility of local and national governments address the invitation to participate without their flags, we ask you a sign of respect towards the many women and many men these days they felt betrayed by the parties and institutions, we ask you, also, to enhance the choice of those, these days, chose to resign or auto-hang in protest. A protest that, we hope, will have further evidence if the Government would not pay its decisions.
We are against Dal Molin reasons for planning, environmental, social, but also because we repudiate war. Precisely for this reason we do not accept any shameful barter with the refinancing of the mission in Afghanistan.La our struggle has not been exhausted.
in Vicenza, February 17, against any new military base, declassified for the bilateral agreements that regulate the presence of the bases for the defend their land and commons, for real leadership of local communities and cittadini.Il future is in our hands: we defend the land for a future without war bases. On February 17, all in Vicenza!
manned against Dal Molin
For information and membership
nodalmolin@libero.it
Web www.altravicenza.it
Thursday, January 25, 2007
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call to action says NO to the U.S. base
(photo: the manifestation of the December 2, 2006 in Vicenza against the U.S. base)
A large military base to serve as a repository of resources, weapons and men ready to be used in the Middle East for future wars: this is the project of the Americans, who want to install in the area of \u200b\u200bthe airport Dal Molin di Vicenza base logistics 173esima aviation brigade-transported U.S.. In a
Americans throughout the area of \u200b\u200bthe "Dal Molin" which stands a short distance from the center of the Venetian town, is to become a military zone.
In that area will be secured by sixty tanks, 85 armored various types, 14 self-propelled mortars, heavy, spy planes, howitzers, rocket launchers etc positions. etc.. (The list is long). Buildings will be built to house about two thousand U.S. military will be allocated here and then all you need to make a military base there: supermarkets, bars, gyms, sports fields, to ensure that the base can live independently, like a piece of the United States in Italy, without having to get in touch with the local culture.
's so running the bases in fact: they are islands, where the Italian state has no sovereignty, (not for nothing called "military slavery"). The difference from those belonging to the Italian armed forces, however, is that the Americans are covered by military secret and there's no way even to the judiciary and the political world (let alone journalists) Italian know what goes on inside them.
The construction of the base in Vicenza is not a novelty for Italy in our country of American bases there are in fact dozens of them. Some are U.S. only, others belong to NATO. In the years of the Cold War had a strong utility for the U.S., because it allows them room-to amass weapons and soldiers a few hundred kilometers from the USSR, and it is known that our country had a high strategic value because it lies midway between what was blocking NATO and what was the Soviet bloc.
E 'was discovered in recent years that many U.S. bases in Italy served as a "hiding place" for men engaged in special missions intelligence, as was the training Glade. (All this came out only in the early 1990, ie after the collapse of the USSR).
The history of Italy has been deeply influenced by the Americans since the Second World War to the fall of the USSR and also thanks to the presence of these bases on our territory, which allowed greater control and action of the secret service in alliance with Italian characters.
We fought the Cold War is like that.
But today, with the Cold War long over, why the Americans still interested in our area?
The fact is that Americans are currently engaged in the "war on terror" aimed at "destroying" terrorism. For President Bush and his administration are no "rogue states", countries that are dangerous for the West, which should be controlled even in the military. Bush calls it a "war for freedom," but many people have serious doubts about this reasoning and find the real reason instead of these "preventive wars" in the interest of Americans to control parts of the world rich in natural resources such as oil and gas. Economic reasons in short.
American bases located in Italy, therefore, serve (and have already served) as a launching pad advanced for future military actions in the Middle East, which is much longer and will be a "hot zone".
I say that because they have already served only three years ago, the war in Iraq, hundreds of tanks left by the largest Italian American bases aboard freight trains and then embarked on naval vessels.
Perhaps someone still remembers the rail blocks that some anti-militarist groups made at the time and now must respond to serious allegations. They are on trial, while those who bombed his seat on the seats of power.
The parade on December 2.
In our country, fortunately, there is a large proportion of people without has a liking to the wars, and a fortiori does not want its territory to be used to store weapons and as a launching pad for air laden with bombs and tanks.
Therefore rebels when decisions from above is that for months in Vicenza citizens are busy building committees, collecting signatures, making a work of grassroots information to say no to the base, and a few days ago , Dec. 2, there were 30,000 to express their dissent from all over the north-central Italy.
a great success for a city that has only 100,000 inhabitants, and a protest that was started from a few thousand people.
It 's a real shame, as well a severe form of misinformation that broadcasters have not spoken to 2 pm and that only a few newspapers the next day we told the Chronicle.
Sara, a student who was the second in Vicenza to parade along with those thirty thousand, tells Sandpaper " there was a lot of people, practically the whole city was in the square. In front of the Dal Molin airport, where it should rise to the base, the windows of all houses there was a white flag with the words "No Dal Molin". The parade was a lot of people in Milan, Trieste and Florence, also a lot of families with children. Among the slogans written on banners was more effective: "Italy is not the U.S.," and then the historic "via Italy from NATO NATO via Italy. Vicenza is working to do a lot, collecting signatures, organizing meetings in neighboring countries ... "
addition to declaring their abhorrence of war protesters justify their non arrival of the Americans with environmental issues, (l 'Impact of a base so large it would certainly be impressive for the area, with concrete, continuous movements of military forces), with the social question (to live within walking distance of a base filled with war materials and with over two thousand soldiers is not a trivial matter , and other incidents around Italy testify which can become a serious problem for the society that lives there).
As always there are those who dissociates himself from the protest. For the most part are a few traders or people in some way to profit from the arrival of the Yankees.
A demonstration of thirty thousand people is not a trivial matter, and one wonders what will the government now. Defence Minister Parisi and Foreign Affairs D'Alema, said in recent weeks that the project's base is "consistent with the defense policies of our country." But then you are more pronounced.
What is certain, however, go as he goes, is that Americans troveran-no in Vicenza and a tenacious resistance decided, resistance we have seen in recent months and years in Italy several times: there is a new way of doing politics in this country, which is no longer only under the banners of political parties, but that starts from individual citizens, meeting in committees and associations.
Many of these social struggles, "the 2000s", in Italy, have the character to be mobilization of citizens, local revolts, claiming the right to decide what should be done on the territory in which they live refusing decisions imposed from above, the central state.
It 's the case of Scanzano Jonico, Acerra, from Val di Susa, the Messina Bridge, battle against the privatization of water supplies ...
the latest news.
(photo: the manifestation of the December 2, 2006 in Vicenza against the U.S. base)
A large military base to serve as a repository of resources, weapons and men ready to be used in the Middle East for future wars: this is the project of the Americans, who want to install in the area of \u200b\u200bthe airport Dal Molin di Vicenza base logistics 173esima aviation brigade-transported U.S.. In a
Americans throughout the area of \u200b\u200bthe "Dal Molin" which stands a short distance from the center of the Venetian town, is to become a military zone.
In that area will be secured by sixty tanks, 85 armored various types, 14 self-propelled mortars, heavy, spy planes, howitzers, rocket launchers etc positions. etc.. (The list is long). Buildings will be built to house about two thousand U.S. military will be allocated here and then all you need to make a military base there: supermarkets, bars, gyms, sports fields, to ensure that the base can live independently, like a piece of the United States in Italy, without having to get in touch with the local culture.
's so running the bases in fact: they are islands, where the Italian state has no sovereignty, (not for nothing called "military slavery"). The difference from those belonging to the Italian armed forces, however, is that the Americans are covered by military secret and there's no way even to the judiciary and the political world (let alone journalists) Italian know what goes on inside them.
The construction of the base in Vicenza is not a novelty for Italy in our country of American bases there are in fact dozens of them. Some are U.S. only, others belong to NATO. In the years of the Cold War had a strong utility for the U.S., because it allows them room-to amass weapons and soldiers a few hundred kilometers from the USSR, and it is known that our country had a high strategic value because it lies midway between what was blocking NATO and what was the Soviet bloc.
E 'was discovered in recent years that many U.S. bases in Italy served as a "hiding place" for men engaged in special missions intelligence, as was the training Glade. (All this came out only in the early 1990, ie after the collapse of the USSR).
The history of Italy has been deeply influenced by the Americans since the Second World War to the fall of the USSR and also thanks to the presence of these bases on our territory, which allowed greater control and action of the secret service in alliance with Italian characters.
We fought the Cold War is like that.
But today, with the Cold War long over, why the Americans still interested in our area?
The fact is that Americans are currently engaged in the "war on terror" aimed at "destroying" terrorism. For President Bush and his administration are no "rogue states", countries that are dangerous for the West, which should be controlled even in the military. Bush calls it a "war for freedom," but many people have serious doubts about this reasoning and find the real reason instead of these "preventive wars" in the interest of Americans to control parts of the world rich in natural resources such as oil and gas. Economic reasons in short.
American bases located in Italy, therefore, serve (and have already served) as a launching pad advanced for future military actions in the Middle East, which is much longer and will be a "hot zone".
I say that because they have already served only three years ago, the war in Iraq, hundreds of tanks left by the largest Italian American bases aboard freight trains and then embarked on naval vessels.
Perhaps someone still remembers the rail blocks that some anti-militarist groups made at the time and now must respond to serious allegations. They are on trial, while those who bombed his seat on the seats of power.
The parade on December 2.
In our country, fortunately, there is a large proportion of people without has a liking to the wars, and a fortiori does not want its territory to be used to store weapons and as a launching pad for air laden with bombs and tanks.
Therefore rebels when decisions from above is that for months in Vicenza citizens are busy building committees, collecting signatures, making a work of grassroots information to say no to the base, and a few days ago , Dec. 2, there were 30,000 to express their dissent from all over the north-central Italy.
a great success for a city that has only 100,000 inhabitants, and a protest that was started from a few thousand people.
It 's a real shame, as well a severe form of misinformation that broadcasters have not spoken to 2 pm and that only a few newspapers the next day we told the Chronicle.
Sara, a student who was the second in Vicenza to parade along with those thirty thousand, tells Sandpaper " there was a lot of people, practically the whole city was in the square. In front of the Dal Molin airport, where it should rise to the base, the windows of all houses there was a white flag with the words "No Dal Molin". The parade was a lot of people in Milan, Trieste and Florence, also a lot of families with children. Among the slogans written on banners was more effective: "Italy is not the U.S.," and then the historic "via Italy from NATO NATO via Italy. Vicenza is working to do a lot, collecting signatures, organizing meetings in neighboring countries ... "
addition to declaring their abhorrence of war protesters justify their non arrival of the Americans with environmental issues, (l 'Impact of a base so large it would certainly be impressive for the area, with concrete, continuous movements of military forces), with the social question (to live within walking distance of a base filled with war materials and with over two thousand soldiers is not a trivial matter , and other incidents around Italy testify which can become a serious problem for the society that lives there).
As always there are those who dissociates himself from the protest. For the most part are a few traders or people in some way to profit from the arrival of the Yankees.
A demonstration of thirty thousand people is not a trivial matter, and one wonders what will the government now. Defence Minister Parisi and Foreign Affairs D'Alema, said in recent weeks that the project's base is "consistent with the defense policies of our country." But then you are more pronounced.
What is certain, however, go as he goes, is that Americans troveran-no in Vicenza and a tenacious resistance decided, resistance we have seen in recent months and years in Italy several times: there is a new way of doing politics in this country, which is no longer only under the banners of political parties, but that starts from individual citizens, meeting in committees and associations.
Many of these social struggles, "the 2000s", in Italy, have the character to be mobilization of citizens, local revolts, claiming the right to decide what should be done on the territory in which they live refusing decisions imposed from above, the central state.
It 's the case of Scanzano Jonico, Acerra, from Val di Susa, the Messina Bridge, battle against the privatization of water supplies ...
the latest news.
January 9, 2007. U.S. Ambassador Ronald Spogli, a visit to Vicenza, is strongly contested by several hundred protesters. His car was blocked, and police charged the demonstrators. One person was injured.
The ambassador was in Vicenza for a series of formal meetings, and probably test the waters in view of the possible construction of the base.
January 15, 2007. The majority in parliament is divided on the basis of Vicenza, Prodi takes time and does not say yes or no, while the various parties of the center-left coalition come different and opposing positions. The radical left (Communist Refoundation, the Italian communists and greens) are clearly against the construction of the U.S. base, and in fact have shared so far the protests have taken place in the Venetian town, but the most moderate of the coalition but is said to favor, stating that say no to the base would be an act of anti-American.
I wonder: is an act of anti-American to give up once again to be servants of the most powerful nation in the world, giving pieces of land for military action even share that?
http://www.repubblica.it/2007/ 01/sezioni/cronaca/base-nato-vicenza/base-nato-vicenza/base-nato-vicenza.html (the events of recent days)
(Lor . Pas)
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