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Without work, without anything
In Italy anyone who loses their job, loses everything. Whoever has a family to keep and from one day to the next finds themselves out on the streets has no social protection. They are expelled from the system. Paying taxes for twenty or thirty years gives them no rights. To be an Italian citizen gives no protection. The State is absent.The real problem is not due to the laws about precarious working but the lack of work.I have been told about a letter sent to Corrado Augias in his column "Lettere&Commenti" {Letters and Comments} and Im publishing a summary of it. It describes a situation that is common to tens of thousands of people who first lose their job and then lose hope. If any entrepreneur is listening, let them help this family.From the moment when my husband and I were spending a few days holiday with our ten year old daughter and we had to come back early because my husband suddenly lost his job, without any warning, our world fell about our ears. He had been in the...

State Information
No comment. Watch the video.One oclock news on the TV channel 2 (TG2), 19 September 2007Editorial with the TG2 director, Mauro Mazza.Text:We have heard it even just now, its going on with an exchange of insults, of serious accusations, of bad words. It is the Beppe Grillo phenomenon. It started with a colossal vaffa {short form of Vaffanculo} aimed in more than one direction, with more than one destination. Many have talked about neoqualunquismo, perhaps in an attempt to exorcise the danger. But what would happen if suddenly one day, a mad person, someone not well balanced, listening to those accusations against Tom, Dick or Harry, suddenly pulled the trigger? Once upon a time in Italy there were the so-called Bad Teachers who identified as an enemy a Police Chief, a journalist, a magistrate, and it happened, unfortunately that some person who was or was not mad, went out and pulled the trigger and sometimes killed. Today luckily, we no longer have Bad Teachers nor good ones.We...

A citizen witness
Daniele Pelliciardis witness statement should be projected onto the walls of Parliament. He is the son of two people who were tortured and killed at Gorgo al Monticano. Those who signed the law on the Great Pardon, should watch it and watch it over again. Daniele states that no one has contacted him, that he has sent a letter to Mastella without getting any reply. The law on the Great Pardon meant the crafty ones of finance, and the corrupt public administrators avoided prison. It was voted for by the Right and the Left in Parliament who got together to defend them. But it was Mastella who put it forward and he was the one to give it its final signature. He cant always blame the others. Rutelli and Palombelli for the aero plane, the Pope and Parliament for approving the Great Pardon. In his blog he said I was Pinocchio. He has written that the Great Pardon has nothing to do with the horrendous crime of Gorgo. Let him say that to Daniele Pelliciardi.Starting with this post,...

Proposals from the Citizens
Yesterday on "Porta a Porta", the President of the Council, by now defined even by the journalists as Valium-Prodi was speaking seated behind a giant screen showing my face. Crumbs, its as though the BBC were broadcasting Gordon Brown speaking to the nation while addressing Mr. Bean.Prodi attacked me. He said something that is qualunquista: Citizens are not better than the politicians. I believe he was talking about all citizens and all politicians. So basically we are a country without hope. Valium then went on, saying about me: Now let him change because from criticism the proposal must comeThis is when I got worried.In fact there are proposals: the proposals of the citizens who for months have been writing comments and sending emails to the blog. They are not mine. They are from Prodis employers.I personally handed them to Alzheimer-Prodi in Palazzo Chigi on 8 June 2006. I left him with a resignation letter to be used if he didnt take them into consideration. He assured...