dont shut your mouth

Hello everybody,
hope you fellow Colourlovers don't mind if I share informations about italian situation, I think even this is loving italy.

I know that outside of Italy people knows what's happening in this country, but it is also true that inside the country there are only a few - I mean one or two - newspapers talking about it, and tv is, more or less direcly, controlled by the prime minister or his crew.

Below there are, for example, some remarks about the infamous security package and relationship between Italy and Europe.

and here, for italian speaking, something about identification and expulsion centres in Italy.



love,
madda

Commission must be tough on Italy
30.07.2009 / 04:11 CET
Italy's breaches of fundamental human rights must no longer be tolerated.


It is welcome news that the European Commission is pressing Italy to provide it with full information on a new immigration law. But the headline of your article last week – “Commission questions Italy's immigration policy” (23-29 July) – runs the danger of suggesting that the European executive is doing all it can. That is not so.

Last autumn, the Commission noted that it would “wait and see” how Italy was implementing a range of measures designed to crack down on immigrants and Roma. Nine months have passed with little to show.

In the meantime, the situation is deteriorating, as your article made clear.

The ‘security package' that passed through the Italian parliament on 2 July makes entry without permission a crime, authorises local vigilante groups to patrol the streets and has already prompted some migrants to go without necessary healthcare, for fear that public-health officials may report them to the police.

In addition, Italy's new policy of intercepting migrants' boats and returning them to their country of origin without examining their situation would effectively eviscerate the right to asylum for people who the United Nations has warned are in need of international protection.

But we should also recall the broader background.

Since Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi swept to power in elections nearly 15 months ago, vicious speech, racist violence and immigrant sweeps have increased.

From Berlusconi on down, Italian politicians have publicly disparaged those who look different in a manner that has appeared to legitimise acts of discrimination and violence. The brunt of this has fallen upon the Roma, many of whom are Italian citizens, and immigrants.

In spring 2008, the prime minister promulgated a “declaration of state of emergency” defining the mere presence of “irregular third-country citizens and nomads” as justification for a series of extraordinary measures including fingerprinting and photographs of all affected persons, including children.

The climate of official hostility has been enabled by the prime minister's domination of the broadcasting sector, both through private ownership and public control.

In no other major European country does the government exercise such sway over the media.

This situation not only discourages dissent; it also manufactures public insecurity about crime and immigration out of all proportion to reality.

The number of asylum applicants in Italy is far lower than in Germany or the UK and statistics suggest Rome is safer than Amsterdam or Copenhagen; but you wouldn't know that watching Italian TV.

The Commission needs to make it clearer than it has to date that Italy's breaches of fundamental human rights will no longer be tolerated.



James A. Goldston

Open Society Justice Initiative

New York

somethig else:

spiegel

independent

people try to say it

mafia and democracy

Financial Times

Senti io di Inglese capisco poche cose, ma ti posso dire tocco con mano tutti i giorni il fatto che la nostra libertà viene limitata. Non sono per l'anarchia e credo che voglia il giusto equilibrio, ma in Italia stiamo asstistendo a fatti che si verificafano agli inizi '900 soecialmente sul posto di lavoro. Io combatto tutti i giorni, ma stiamo vivendo nella paura e in tutte le ditte i dipendentisi stanno adeguando ad una sorta di terrorismo psicologico. Sto toccando con mano la paura delle persone che lavorano come dipendenti in grandi gruppi industriali, ti dico solo che se dopo 50 anni di lotte sindacali siamo arrivati a questo cosa dobbiamo aspettarci?

baci Alessio

I had no idea that something this serious was going on there, a friend of mine went to Italy in June i think and he did mention that he was poorly treated there, thanks for posting this madda

Moving the migrant issue is no solution
30.07.2009 / 04:10 CET
Pushing the migrant situation to Libya does not solve the problem.

The European Commission's pressure on Italy to report on its forced – and reportedly brutal – return of migrants to Libya is welcome (“Commissione questions Italy's immigration policy”, 23-29 July). But the statement by Jacques Barrot, the Commission's vice-president, that these were isolated incidents unlikely to be repeated, because the Libya-Italy agreement will mean “fewer illegal migrants coming in”, is cause for concern.

Of equal concern is the comment by Gil Arias-Fernández, the deputy director of Frontex, the EU's border agency, that the Libya-Italy agreement has “had a positive impact...due to fewer departures”, even though “our agency does not have the ability to confirm if the right to request asylum as well as other human rights are being respected in Libya”.

While interdiction and deterrence off the coast of Libya may appear to have a positive impact on the EU's immigration problem, they hardly solve the problems faced by refugees and migrants.

Current Italian interdiction operations violate the right to seek asylum from persecution and leave both refugees and migrants in the hands of a government that routinely treats them deplorably.

I have interviewed scores of Africans in Italy and Malta who have arrived from Libya by boat and heard accounts of mistreatment by Libyan police and guards, indefinite lengths of detention in dirty and overcrowded jails and no real opportunity to seek protection. Libya has not signed the Refugee Convention and does not have a domestic asylum law.

Pushing the EU's migration problem out of sight, to Libya, does not make it go away or absolve Europeans of responsibility when their actions deny the right to seek asylum and subject people to inhuman and degrading treatment.

Bill Frelick

Refugee policy director, Human Rights Watch

Washington, DC

© 2009 European Voice. All rights reserved.

Concita de Gregorio conferma che le intercettazioni di cui parla Guzzanti sono esistite e circolate.

Concita de Gregorio confirms that the wiretap's transcriptions about which Guzzanti talks have been existing and circulating.

http://bit.ly/I78pV

Sulla mafia e la libertà di stampa

about mafia and freedom of the press

http://bit.ly/i9R9M

On italian prime minister
http://bit.ly/adrqq

cosa sono i centri di identificazione ed espulsione, come quello di Via Corelli a Milano

what are identification and expulsion centres like the one in Via Corelli, Milan

english: CIE

italiano: CIE

italiano: da Repubblica.it

It is so logic and elementary and yet there's a big need to say it.

E' così logico e elementare, eppure c'e molto bisogno di dirlo.

nytimes

commendable attitude, my dear. thanks for the invite!!

I can't believe it.. Sounds like some real V for Vendetta!!

@julee- thank YOU for joining dear :)

@Vibrance- you strike. V for Vendetta the true one = |

I was hoping the charges against B. would make him a bit smarter or at least calm his arrogance down. It doesn't seem so. I do hope the critical mass that wants a pure state is stronger than the old nationalists (which probably helped him to the status he has today?). But ususally the money/power/law is on the 'right' side of society. That's what I'm afraid of when I think about fairness in trials. I hope Italy will proove greatness here.