Tag Archive for 'democracy'
Freedom web alert U.S.: a law to obscure Internet
President Obama will be given the power to turn off the Internet for at least four months without any control of Congress if the Senate approves the infamous bill on 'switch killer "of the Internet, which was approved yesterday by a key Senate committee and Now go to the plenary. The law of protection of cyberspace as a strategic national resource, which is pushed strongly by Senator Joe Lieberman, would give absolute power in the hands of the federal government uses to close the network and block all incoming traffic to the Internet by some countries as part of a declared national emergency.
At Genoa by sea, to stop the sinking-Italy
We are a group of Italian / and living in Barcelona. With friends (not only Italian) we seriously worried about what happens in Italy. Certainly the crisis is here too, but the feeling is that the situation in our country is special, especially on the cultural, human, relational. Racism grows as arrogance, bullying, repression, the brothels, machismo, widespread mafia culture, the lack of answers to the world of work, more junior and more precarious.
Revelli: how to heal Italy, mesmerized by TV
A nation of slaves, without rules and institutions in the process of extinction. A social desert, a language of plastic ours, imposed by television. Marco Revelli sociologist calls "an act of secession ethics and aesthetics even before politics , "to puncture the bubble of media that we avvvolge: need a" great refusal of this logic of the story and the technique of language, to sing out choir, far from "great circus set up by the great magician, Silvio Berlusconi , Veltroni and then imitated by members.
Water battle: no bills to inflate the profits
Before Prodi, now Berlusconi : everyone wants to privatize water, public good. One setback in three steps: water services that can be managed by limited companies, private or mixed, winning bids, with the Ronchi decree procedure now considered "normal." And with a crucial detail: the 7 percent tariff will remunerate in law, capital: entrepreneurs facilitated, with profits guaranteed by law. 'Without a referendum shots this commodification of water, which is a common good, "announces Mark Bersani, the Forum for Water Movement, launched the petition on April 24.
War on lies, Google does not save us
The dominant narrative of Italian society is false. Radically false. It is what is the mainstream, is part of the "background noise" that millions of people are forced to listen and see. It is a narrative that describes us an Italy Berlusconi a majority, already hopelessly subjugated. It is a narrative that has been masterfully produced by the dominant system, in the form of 'elected by the people. " But that was accepted without even groped to fight it, the so-called opposition.
Erri De Luca, video: Tav, political committees and business
Here is a population that is not to be invaded by these huge and unnecessary work. And when there is this popular will, this made the unanimous concurrence of all people, of all the components can not be imposed. The age of the feudal lords over, subjects no longer exist: here are citizens. This consolidation has taken place here, this compaction of a community. Which is fighting for its independence, but also for their health. So here was the case this example of community, solidarity and unanimity. Here is the case. And this is the reason that makes me say here, will not pass. Not everyone was doing, to pass.
And if the Italian comedy plunges into tragedy?
Alberto Sordi is you. " This slogan was popularized in recent days the official website of the late actor, the national Albertone for more than half a century has embodied the form of the average, not to be taken strictly never seriously. Are we, really, Alberto Sordi. Forced to listen on Radio Vatican, the person responsible for Legal Affairs of the Italian bishops Bishop Domenico Mogavero, trivial words that say it is forbidden in the TV where there is censorship of programs inconvenient for the duration of the campaign: "Changing the rules of game while the game is running is a highly improper act "
Giulietto Church coup risk, Napolitano threatened?
One account. If the information given are true, the "Morning" in Naples, Bruno Vespa (that person being informed of the facts, one day someone may question) the president of the republic was threatened coup by the head of government in power if he had not accepted his condition (it will be understood that all these positions, from now on should be written with all lower case, for obvious reasons of propriety). We know that the head of state has yielded to blackmail, did not defend the Constitution (this is still writing with a capital letter) and signed a very serious performance.
Erri De Luca: the valley of Susa will stop Tav
"The era of the feudal lords over, subjects no longer exist: here are citizens." Word Erri De Luca, writer and mountaineer, March 7 guest Valsusa Filmfest and in the afternoon, visiting the "garrison" No-Tav of St. Anthony, in the valley of Susa, which is opposed for years with great tenacity the proposed high speed train between Turin and Lyon. "This is the reason that makes me say here, will not pass. Not everyone was doing, to pass. " De Luca sure. Civil resistance in the valley of Susa at the end will win the day against all: strong powers, economics, politics and big media that monopolize 's information .
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Lerner: lists, who tramples on democracy relies on the rules
There is no doubt that the exclusion of Roberto Formigoni competition for the presidency of the Lombardy Region (though the lead for almost twenty years!) Is an offense for the democracy , and the same applies to the PDL lesclusione by the college for Roman elections in Lazio. But the fact that these amateurs (copyright Bossi) believe they can ignore the official documents and rules which must underlie any normal citizen instead, that for them the law should apply only when it suits (you are also fines amnesty for posting abusive) that Barino in the collection of signatures, is not itself a vulnus to democracy ?
Iran arrested the director Panahi, Golden Lion in Venice
The Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who won the Golden Lion in Venice and one of the most critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was arrested on the evening of 1 March in Tehran with his wife and daughter from agents of security services. Panahi and his family had been arrested for the first time July 30, 2009 (and then released after several hours) while taking part in the commemoration of Neda Aqa-Soltan, the girl who became a symbol Green Wave. Subsequently, the director was unable to appear in film festivals in Mumbai in October and Berlin last month.
Santoro not to gag, pirate-edition Annozero
"We will have an episode of" Annozero "March 25, the eve of elections. I do not know where or how. In the square, on the Internet, but we will. " Michele Santoro reacts so confirmed the cancellation of talks by regional newspaper to a month. The conductor "Annozero" back in the trenches for freedom of the press, but this time not alone: there will be next to him the journalists' union, John Floris of Ballarò, "the commentator of the center Gianluigi Comparison (" The Last word "RaiDue) and even Bruno Vespa, who also accuses Santoro have created the climate that now leads to starvation suspension" election "of four programs Rai.
