(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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