November 19, 2009 - Alex Zanotelli
I can not use another expression for those who voted for the privatization of water, and that used by Jesus in Luke's Gospel, against the rich: "Woe to you rich ....!" Damn those
who voted for the commodification of water.
We will continue to shout that water is life, water is sacred, the water is basic human right.
It 's the most crushing defeat of the policy. E 'stravittoria of the economic-financial potentates, the international lobby. And 'the victory of the policy of privatization, business, business.
is at the expense sis 'water', today the most precious asset of humanity, which will be increasingly scarce, both for climate change, and an increase in population. That the privatization of water is a choice that will be paid high price from the underprivileged classes of that country (bills by 30-40% more, at least), but mainly from the impoverished of the world. If today 50 million a year die from starvation and related diseases, 100 million will die of thirst tomorrow. Which of the three billion people living today with less than two dollars a day, will pay for water? "We are
for life, water is life, source of life. And we are sure that theirs is only a Pyrrhic victory. We urge everyone to turn this 'defeat' in a renewed commitment to the 'water for life, for democracy. We are confident that this parliamentary vote will be a "boomerang" for those who have voted.
Ours is an appeal before all citizens, all men and women of good will. We must start from below, from ordinary people, by the municipalities.
Thus, we ask:
CITIZENS
- of protest against the Ronchi Decree, by sending e-mail to their parliamentary
- create groups in defense of water as locally at the regional level;
- form themselves into cooperatives for the management of their water.
TO COMMON of
- hold councils single issue in defense of water;
- declare water as common good, 'no economic significance';
- make the choice of ' PUBLIC COMPANY SPECIAL .
THE NEW LAW DOES NOT PREVENT THE TOWNS CHOOSE THE PATH OF THE TOTAL PUBLIC COMPANY SPECIAL MUNICIPAL the so-called.
TO ATO
- ATO to 64 (optimal territorial areas), now assigned to Spa in total public capital to transform itself into special agencies, managed with the participation of citizens.
REGIONS
- to challenge the constitutionality of the new law as did the Puglia Region;
- pass laws on regional management public water.
TO TRADE UNIONS of
- rule on the privatization of water;
- mobilize and mobilize citizens against the commodification of water.
ITALIAN BISHOPS
- to proclaim water a basic human right in the wake of the recent encyclical of Benedict XVI, which speaks of 'access to water as a universal right of all human beings, without distinction or discrimination "(27);
- protest as CEI (Italian Episcopal Conference) against the Ronchi Decree.
COMMUNITY TO 'CHRISTIAN of
- inform their faithful on the water issue;
- organize in defense of water.
TO parties
- to express very clearly their position on the management of 'water
- to propose a parliamentary debate on the law of popular initiative against the privatization of water, signed by over 400,000 citizens.
Water is blue gold of the twenty-first century. Together air, water is the most precious asset of humanity. We want to cry now more than ever what we yelled in many squares and theaters in this country, " air and water are absolutely essential to the basic goods and the lives of all living beings from birth and become natural rights are untouchable-words of Archbishop Emeritus of Messina, G. Marra. The water belongs to everyone and no one can be allowed to appropriate it to draw illicit profit, and therefore requests that continue to be run exclusively by the municipalities organized in public companies, which have always been a duty to ensure their distribution to the lowest possible cost .
Note: If you want to join the letter Zanotelli write an email to:
beni_comuni@libero.it with the inscription: adhere.
SOURCE: http : / / www.peacelink.it/zanotelli/a/30657.html
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