Alex Zanotelli Comboni brother, for years engaged in fighting landfills and incinerators that the government would Campania to impose by military force, is expressed in these lines against such measures. It compares the smell of Naples to that of Korogocho. In Kenya.
father of Alex Zanotelli
father of Alex Zanotelli
This was the week that blew up the big lie waste in Naples. In July 2008, Berlusconi announced on TV that the tragedy of rubbish in Campania was resolved. In this week rubbish on the street (Naples and province), and the rebellion of people against Boscoreale Terzigno and discharges into the National Park of Vesuvius have deflated the 'ball' media.
seventeenth year of the first receivership, we must admit that we are in crisis waste. I lived firsthand the dramatic week that saw the imposition of another rebel Vesuvian towns dump their territory, the quarry Vitiello, which could contain 15 million tonnes of waste. This National Park of Vesuvius! The European Union itself has held that "an aberration." I've been Boscoreale (adjacent to the landfill), to bring my / our solidarity with the people that the previous night had been beaten by police with blood and the mayor who was on hunger strike. That peaceful civil resistance and had clashed with police who clubbed unarmed demonstrators with their hands raised.
These people humiliated and wounded, came as a balm Depalma the words of the bishop of Nola (Naples): "The church is in solidarity with the thousands of people these days just protest to defend their land and their lives . This protest is sacrosanct and is not influenced in any way, or arising from the presence Camorra. To say that the Camorra is behind the protest is only to create an alibi to hide the shortcomings or failures of the institutions. "
Late at night, we walked with so many people to the roundabout of Via Panoramica, countries where the citizens of Vesuvius (Boscoreale Boscotrecase and Terzigno) have set up a garrison. Accompanied us in this way a nauseating smell of the landfill, which reminded me of the unbearable stench of the landfill Korogocho (Nairobi-Kenya)!
is a stench that envelops all countries around Vesuvius and makes people sick. In the vicinity of the landfill, to welcome us there are riot police, armed to the teeth. Comparison with the police becomes tight. Some people scream, some cry, those who ask for explanations, some insults. "Caricatemi!" Screams a woman facing the police. "I'm here to be loaded! Lot for the life of my 6 children and 4 grandchildren. I want to live, not to die! I was operated on for cancer (show the wound!), I do not care about my life. I want my children and grandchildren live. Caricatemi. "
on the faces of people I read the anger, despair, helplessness. Around midnight, a friend whispers in my ear: "Do you expect to Terzigno, let's go." We put ourselves in the car. And the stench became our traveling companion! How is it possible - I wonder - that we are still grappling with the problem of waste? Had not been fully resolved by the Berlusconi government two years ago? Unfortunately in this country the lie becomes the truth! Really Falsehood is everywhere! The truth is otherwise! The Campania region has become the twenty years sversatoio national toxic waste, for an agreement between criminal industry in the Centre-North and the Camorra.
Organized crime did the dirty work to bury toxic waste in the Triangle of death in the land of fire and Casertano. Toxic waste produces dioxins which bombard especially pregnant women and infants: the consequences are cancer, leukemia, birth defects. Recently the Attorney of Santa Maria Capuavetere (Caserta) said that in that area there is a 80% increase of tumors at the national average. The disaster of toxic waste, we must add the ecological disaster of ordinary waste, which must be recognized as environmental crime, the result of political decisions that cover huge financial interests. It was the victory of the economic-financial potentates who have forced the policy to choose the path of landfills and incineration. The best example of this is the Decree 90 (2008) of the Berlusconi government, which requires the Campania, with military force, twelve megadiscariche four incinerators. If the four incinerators will not operate, Campania will have to import waste from Italy for the rest of them work (actually there is only one so far incinerator to Acerra, which could burn 600,000 tons a year, but only one of three lines of work that works). The new provincial governments (Cesar) and regional (Caldoro), confirmed the announcement for two incinerators in East Naples and Salerno, but they still provide a couple: one in Giugliano, dedicated to the famous ecoballe (seven million tons to piling Taverna del Re!) and another in Santa Maria La Fossa.
We know that incinerators produce dioxins and nanoparticles, and this in a territory already mined by the toxic waste. It is clear that you do not want the collection (it's a political choice!), Because if it were taken seriously (70%), there would be no need for incinerators. And all this is imposed by military force, the prohibition of dissent or resistance, on pain of prison. Once in Terzigno, too many people in the night to say no to the new landfill, to reveal the truth of things against the lie of 'or system. I ask everyone to join with other communities of resistance. How Chiaiano, where for years a hard core is resisting the landfill in the heart of Naples, 800 meters from the center of the city hospital. It is an incredible strength to Chiaiano who has never accepted the mortal wound inflicted on its territory. Equally incredible Vesuvius is the inventiveness of countries, particularly women. On September 26 the ladies volcanic '(as they define it) of Boscoreale occupy the three schools in the town. The same day, the mayors of Vesuvius, after meeting with the president of the province Cesaro, say: "We remain mayors and sleep here, we are in employment."
occupation that lasted until the following day, when the auditors receive the promise of a table scheduled for September 30 with Caldoro and Cesaro. "We are not prepared" - the mayors say - 'to sell off our health. " On September 30 national day of mourning in the four municipalities. Shuttered, empty schools, government offices closed funeral and posters on the walls: a symbolic gesture for the death of the Vesuvius National Park. On October 1st a march from Terzigno Boscoreale to get to the landfill. A march of solidarity with these people abandoned and humiliated. Just a system that crushes and kills. Marcio myself in the middle of the night, with lots of heavy duty Chiaiano, Plain, Naples ... It is only by joining together we will win. On October 3, the "volcanic mothers' accompanied by the mayors have started at six in the morning walk, to go to the shrine in Pompeii for the prayer to Our Lady. You was the bishop of Pompei, Carlo Liberati, to receive that very respectable mothers: "Mothers are worried" - cries the Bishop - "why do not want to see the environment contaminated water." And so we continue to walk without tiring, with these communities committed to defending life. And this is the place to be, alongside many brothers and sisters working against a system of death. "Being pro-life or death. Every day I see more clearly that this is the option to follow, "Romero said she loved walking with his people. "In this there is no neutrality possible. Or serve the life or we are accomplices of the death of many human humans. Here we reveal what our faith or believe in the God of life or use the name of God by serving his executioners to death. "
Alex Zanotelli
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