PUBLISH THE LETTER OF ALEX Zanotelli alone explains all the blindness of those who still struggle to understand the value of water and made it a mere political exercise!
Naples, November 19, 2009
privatized water
"Damn you ...."
I can not use another expression for those who voted for the privatization of water, which was used by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, against the rich: "Woe to you rich ...."
Woe to those who voted for the commodification of water.
We will continue to cry che l’acqua è vita, l’acqua è sacra, l’acqua è diritto fondamentale umano.
E’ la più clamorosa sconfitta della politica. E’ la stravittoria dei potentati economico-finanziari, delle lobby internazionali. E’ la vittoria della politica delle privatizzazioni, degli affari, del business.
A farne le spese è ‘sorella acqua’, oggi il bene più prezioso dell’umanità, che andrà sempre più scarseggiando, sia per i cambiamenti climatici, sia per l’aumento demografico. Quella della privatizzazione dell’acqua è una scelta che sarà pagata a caro prezzo dalle classi deboli di questo paese( bollette del 30-40% in più, come minimum), 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. For this reason we ask everyone to turn this 'defeat' in a renewed commitment to water, for life, for democracy. We are confident that this parliamentary vote will be a "boomerang" for those who have voted.
Our first is an appeal to the people, to every man and woman of good will. We have to 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
-creating groups in defense of water as locally at the regional level;
-form themselves into cooperatives to manage their water.
municipalities to hold councils
-single issue in defense of water;
-state water common good, 'no economic significance';
-SPECIAL PUBLIC COMPANY make the right choice.
THE NEW LAW DOES NOT PREVENT THE TOWNS CHOOSE THE PATH OF THE TOTAL PUBLIC COMPANY SPECIAL, the so-called MUNICIPAL.
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
-challenging the constitutionality of the new law as did the Puglia Region;
-pass laws on regional governance of water.
-unions to decide on the privatization of water;
-mobilize and mobilize citizens against the commodification of water.
ITALIAN BISHOPS of
-proclaim water a basic human right in the wake of the recent encyclical of Benedict XVI, which speaks of the 'access 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-
to inform their faithful on the water issue;
- organize in defense of water.
parties to
- 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 with the air, water is the most precious humanity. We want to cry now more than ever what we yelled in many squares and theaters in this country: "The air and water are absolutely essential to the basic goods and the lives of all living beings from birth and become the natural rights Untouchables-words of Archbishop Emeritus of Messina, G. Mattock. The water belongs to everyone and no one can be allowed to appropriate it to derive illicit profit, and therefore requests that continue to be run exclusively by the municipalities organized into public companies, which have always been a duty to ensure their distribution to the lowest possible cost. "
Alex Zanotelli
privatized water
"Damn you ...."
I can not use another expression for those who voted for the privatization of water, which was used by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, against the rich: "Woe to you rich ...."
Woe to those who voted for the commodification of water.
We will continue to cry che l’acqua è vita, l’acqua è sacra, l’acqua è diritto fondamentale umano.
E’ la più clamorosa sconfitta della politica. E’ la stravittoria dei potentati economico-finanziari, delle lobby internazionali. E’ la vittoria della politica delle privatizzazioni, degli affari, del business.
A farne le spese è ‘sorella acqua’, oggi il bene più prezioso dell’umanità, che andrà sempre più scarseggiando, sia per i cambiamenti climatici, sia per l’aumento demografico. Quella della privatizzazione dell’acqua è una scelta che sarà pagata a caro prezzo dalle classi deboli di questo paese( bollette del 30-40% in più, come minimum), 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. For this reason we ask everyone to turn this 'defeat' in a renewed commitment to water, for life, for democracy. We are confident that this parliamentary vote will be a "boomerang" for those who have voted.
Our first is an appeal to the people, to every man and woman of good will. We have to 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
-creating groups in defense of water as locally at the regional level;
-form themselves into cooperatives to manage their water.
municipalities to hold councils
-single issue in defense of water;
-state water common good, 'no economic significance';
-SPECIAL PUBLIC COMPANY make the right choice.
THE NEW LAW DOES NOT PREVENT THE TOWNS CHOOSE THE PATH OF THE TOTAL PUBLIC COMPANY SPECIAL, the so-called MUNICIPAL.
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
-challenging the constitutionality of the new law as did the Puglia Region;
-pass laws on regional governance of water.
-unions to decide on the privatization of water;
-mobilize and mobilize citizens against the commodification of water.
ITALIAN BISHOPS of
-proclaim water a basic human right in the wake of the recent encyclical of Benedict XVI, which speaks of the 'access 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-
to inform their faithful on the water issue;
- organize in defense of water.
parties to
- 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 with the air, water is the most precious humanity. We want to cry now more than ever what we yelled in many squares and theaters in this country: "The air and water are absolutely essential to the basic goods and the lives of all living beings from birth and become the natural rights Untouchables-words of Archbishop Emeritus of Messina, G. Mattock. The water belongs to everyone and no one can be allowed to appropriate it to derive illicit profit, and therefore requests that continue to be run exclusively by the municipalities organized into public companies, which have always been a duty to ensure their distribution to the lowest possible cost. "
Alex Zanotelli
