Sunday, October 31, 2010

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several years in Lucca hosts the most important Italian exhibition dedicated to comics, animation, games, video games and science fiction and fantasy imagery. This year, Wilma and I decided to take our children to visit and, finally, we show this in a long time we hear about. Just out of the station we are in the middle of a stream of people, cheerful, colorful and rather eccentric. I'm mostly teenage boys and young fans of Japanese manga, Marvel superheroes, the protagonists of video games or cartoons. Along the way we meet many dressed for the occasion. There are evil characters, with strange black coat and red squiggles, there are various Goku, Naruto, Yu-Gi-Oh. Do not miss the old glories like Mazinger, Grendizer and Daitan 3. There are plenty of strange characters with fake guns, swords and swords that seem to come out of the Middle Ages or the Norse sagas. And many half-naked girls with lace bodices and skirts, sexy heroines of Japanese anime. Fantastic! But I do not have cold? It looks like a real carnival prorpio. Wigs, heavy makeup, stage effects even macabre, contact lenses that are cat's eyes, or a vampire. We are confused, Wilma and me. Projected in a world that is totally foreign. It is incomprehensible. These strange and striking characters that appear in any other known to us are absolutely unknown. But Wilma finally see something that looks familiar, remember that the cartoons of our childhood. Finally! That boy with the straw hat that can not be Sampei, the small fisherman, says triumphantly. And instead you find that Rubber , the famous pirate with the power to stretch the One Piece. Famous! Certainly not for us. Before returning home, however, we end up meeting someone we know: Alice is with Cat and The Mad Hatter. looks like her, but I could not swear. The event is so great and large that we can not visit all the stands, nor to see the various exhibitions. I come home with the feeling that many things that escape me in this world today I have just opened up. And with the awareness of not having adequate means for understanding it. And, on reflection, perhaps not even have a great desire to do so.

Friday, October 29, 2010

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I do not want the book Berlusconi

Name: Wilma Last Name: Email Address Flintstone: wilma@flinstone.it Subject: I do not want the book "Two years of government." Text: With reference to the announcement of Prime Minister Berlusconi On.Silvio to send to every Italian family the book "Two years of government," I inform you that I do not wish to receive it, it is my right under the Decree of 30 June 2003, No. 196, Law regarding the protection of personal data, in this case, Article 7, paragraph 4b. I ask that you save on the expense, be made available Ministry of Education and / or the Ministry of Health.
Thank you for your attention Best regards.
SIGNATURE
Wilma Flintstone

Monday, October 18, 2010

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GENERAL STRIKE IN FRANCE

The event on Saturday of the FIOM was held quietly, without fighting without broken shop windows, burning cars, trucks overturned. A lot of people, armed only with whistles and flags, paraded peacefully through the streets of central Rome. Despite the weather, no time to spoil the party: only a few drops harmless, fearless to be a breeze fluttering the flags and to close, a beautiful sunset orange and auspicious. In fact, there were foreigners, such as immigrants Rosarno, the tomato pickers of farms in the south, Roma girls dancing on stage, non-EU workers to certain factories of the north east. But they were not infiltrated. But peaceful protesters came seeking work, rights, dignity and security. Just as the Italian workers of Eutelia, the workers of Melfi, the laid off of Vinyls, the school's precarious, the metalworkers Pomigliano. Impossible distinctions here, and we share brings us closer to one suffering. Insecurity, lack of safety, fear of unemployment for those who still have a job, find it difficult to for those who did not have ever had or has just lost. The parade is varied, colorful and noisy. But there is no violence. Even anger is contained. So it is clear that the violent are others. Violence is elsewhere. Violence is the indifference of policy unable to listen, understand, accept this suffering. Unable to give answers. Violence is the hostility that minimizes the Minister Sacconi and sided with the company. The violence is the caution of Bersani chooses not to be. The violence and darkness of the media. The violence is suspected in the Minister Maroni, who fears violence and fierce fighting. E 'in the subtle, allusive concern that there does appear everyone of dangerous terrorists. Violence is in the blackmail Marchionne exchanging work with the rights. It's unfortunate Bonanni into giving way to blackmail. Violence is the superficiality of the Minister Tremonti who promises to work safety as an unnecessary luxury that can no longer afford. That companies can not afford. Violence is oblivion of those who die at work, remember never, never regret. Violence is this lack of perspective, hope and future. And 'this resignation to the worst.
Violence is elsewhere. But it will not be exposed.
* What has the France which is dedicated to the title, you say? Has nothing to do, in fact. But our newscasts, so good at criticizing the Italian daily protests, to spend a lot of space for several days. Who knows ... Perhaps the protests of others are less afraid.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

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AN EMBRACE

Every morning, before arriving at the office, go with the teenager at school in a neighboring municipality. To avoid the traffic along a mountain road, and convenient alternative, although full of twists. I appreciate so start the day. I fill my eyes with green, enjoy the view of the city from above, I relax to watch the trees. Unfortunately, over the years, the man began his invasion wild here: impressive buildings arise suddenly, you parry before our eyes like children playing hide and seek and materialize, mocking, without warning. The existing houses expand, the boundary walls are getting longer, the trees are thinned to make room for cement. For several weeks, day after day helplessly witnessing the slow preparation of a large field. Is cleaned thoroughly. Ready to ride again. I tremble, looking at the metamorphosis, and I guess the rest. Every morning I throw my eyes to that lovely piece of green and the greeting, solidarity, empathy, consolation for what he already predicts will be. An absence of a few days, one morning, I faced with the most shocking and welcome surprises: the field is flooded with many small olive trees. An olive grove! They were preparing the ground for olive seedlings receive no higher than a child's first day of school. Smile of emotion! How beautiful. A painting by Monet. The hope comes over me, my thoughts are space ten thousand sunbeams. I feel good, like after a hug.

Friday, October 15, 2010

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WORKERS OF THE WORLD ...

This story of crisis I got bored. was not there before, it was just bad luck that brought doom, then in Europe but was not us, then had already passed, then there was a little bit but we were better than all the past, then we would have passed if it was not good for Greece, and Spain as well but we do not, then ....
now no longer says that the crisis there. They realized that the economic crisis provides a useful pretext for questioning those rights that workers have earned through years and years of labor struggles. Here is the thinly disguised blackmail: if you want to work you must accept these conditions. If not close, lay off, outsource the factory. And you stay out of work. Faced with this prospect honestly how can they refuse?
I have always believed that human history would follow a progressive course, that lead us toward better conditions, that modernity meant to be all better. So was the rest during the twentieth century. It seems however that today history has reversed the gear and is moving back towards the working conditions of exploitation, denial of rights, insecurity, of child safety, moral blackmail. It would have us believe that is inevitable. Why the Chinese are more productive and cost much less and so also the Romanians, Poles and who knows how many other workers in the world. And then they ask us to review our employment contracts, making them more flexible, adapt to the conditions imposed by the new model of economic development. Or close. This is the solution of Marchionne. Sacconi. Bonanno. And many other economists and politicians who have never worked on the assembly line. Bravo! That's why you gain so much. To find ingenious solutions like this. Who brutally imposed on the skin of others. Italian workers.
The violence there is in the cry of Bonanni who wants a hundred thousand, Pomigliano!
The sacrifice is permissible, in law, security, freedom of association, in the name of the job?
Here the agreement that Pomigliano Bonanni longs as miraculous
  • 8-hour shifts with a lunch break at the end of the round half an hour. ( chain working for 7 hours and a half consecutive !)
  • small breaks: three 10-minute (or pee or coffee, because there is no time for both);
  • mandatory overtime of 120 hours per year, extendable for production to 200 hours per year (less than 5 weeks per year ! )
  • training compulsory unpaid and transfers to the employee. More training although expensive for the employee will not lead to an increase in salary;
  • production is spread over six days a week, working until Saturday night.
  • possibility to dismiss an employee if the company does not comply with the Covenant.

of Fiat's commitment to invest millions in the production of the Panda, the contract does not say anything. Maybe just the word? It says instead that the company will resort to layoffs for two years during renovation of the plant.

Bravo Bonanni be proud of you!

And in the meantime the Ducati, to increase productivity, is preparing to remove the workers are traditionally granted 5 minutes to wash their hands (and not merely challenging task because of the oils used). 5 minutes!

However I'm not there! I'm convinced that rather than import us production models based on the exploitation it is necessary to export our way of giving dignity to work and security for workers. Our rights are at risk if you do not become the rights of all workers throughout the world.

How far there is to it!

I'm with FIOM and tomorrow I'll be square!