Louis Sturniolo
On December over a thousand protesters, challenged the first real cold night of the year, marched through the streets of Torre Faro, the town that would be upset by the installation of the pier side of the Messina Strait Bridge, in order to submit resources intended for the mega public works are used for the safety of the area and to remember, two months after the tragic event, the deaths caused by landslides that have affected the countries of the area south of Messina. E 'Thus began the long December of the movement against the bridge.
The choice of the executive to confirm the aftermath of landslides, the construction of the bridge as a strategic objective and, indeed, set in December 23 the date of commencement of construction by editing a short stretch of railway line in front of the train station Cannitello-Villa San Giovanni has also been a spurt in pathways for the mobilization of the movement for many years now been fighting against the monster Strait. Thus, an intervention (what, exactly, should be starting December 23) in itself, obviously, not very significant from the point of view to the completion of the building of cross ends up taking a very considerable symbolic value as a function of how is played by the premier. For Berlusconi, and all the Ambaradan media which normally 'corollary to every initiative that will be the start of construction of the bridge over the Strait and will therefore be impossible to avoid the confrontation, challenge, as articulated and justified the arguments may appear in its true dimensions that define modification of that stretch of railway. For the prime minister that will be the foundation stone, this is the figure of that day for the media, this can only be for the movement, though, or his exclusion from the contest.
Moreover, the work of change for that stretch of railway open throughout the game works and side payments, now redefined in terms of operations ready (enough to make merit to the further Ciucci a Commissioner prior to the works of the Bridge), which are the real business of the moment. On these, in fact, are focusing on the desires of the business (more or less clean), politics, professional associations. Many are beginning to think that maybe the money will really come. And then the bridge becomes an opportunity to generate cash flows for branded bridge works (roads, bridges, harbors, a new station in the city center, the landfill in the hills of a city already fragile from the hydrogeological point of view, by some compensatory as a gift), works which become bi-partisan, for which the work, increasingly in the background, eventually vanish.
For these reasons, the month of December becomes one of those windows of opportunity Gianni Piazza, a sociologist and scholar of spatial movement, has described to us several times (the last time during the presentation of the book How global issues become local , published by Terrelibere.org, in the square outside the CPO Experia Catania violently evicted by the police) as particularly significant moments, in which occurs a process of thickening of the events and in which, somehow, will play a significant part of the future of the struggle, certainly the legitimacy of its continuation.
It is for these reasons that the presentation of the parade on 19 December, held at the Hall
struggle for the remediation of sites contaminated by the committees of the School of Precarious workers at Fiat's Termini Imerese in Messina committees of flood victims to come to these parties, trade unions and associations that have always been involved in protests and committees working on the themes of water, waste, power plant. Be noted, moreover, membership of the Region of Calabria, the Stretto di Messina SpA, which holds 2.6% stake and from which the Network
short, December 19 will be a day dedicated to the fight against the bridge and the environmental devastation. Already 9 am a huge soundsytem weblog Dubass wait demonstrators who gather at Piazza Valsesia, from where the procession will pass through the town and then villes Cannitello reach. Here, where they would like to raise the mast Calabrian
From the way the movement will come out this December will go well for the future of the battle.
Article published in the weekly paper .