shooter on the bodies?
browned meat of the African sun
Samir holding hands with fellow always
and the sod removed from the bed of the river reborn mantagna
faded with the seasons and the earth equal
who lives in chains, but those arms
United
and 'a kiss in the night
wrapping paper carbon paper
rest
shooter on the bodies?
that naked into that cold river clean
dreams and set fires at night with sudden heat
actions
eyes are looking for peace work
shooter on the bodies?
border town faces the sea, which appears on the far
peaceful reflection on the faces
upset by hard work and the orange color of the Sun
shooter on the bodies?
mice and surprised by all the fuss
of holes in cardboard shacks and corrugated sheets
you find the evening wind, and many
filled with waste and scrap
shooter on the bodies?
four legs, maybe eight wounds
blood on the earth that gathers
brunette with tears
pine De Stasio
Amerigo Rivieccio
ROME - A Rosarno about two thousand workers, exploited and low-paid, housed in disused industrial premises in silos, took to the streets staging a protest vibrant, and sometimes even harsh. Bins overturned car on fire, damaged windows and vandalism have spotted a protest born in the wake of the emotional injury, by persons not yet identified By getting air gun and hunting pellets, two-country one of which is a political refugee from Togo with a regular residence permit.
other side of the fence over to the police charges and the arrest there were also gun shots fired by a citizen, from the terrace of the house, to disperse a group of immigrants who were concentrated in front of his home.
It do not seem to help loosen the tension of the statements by the former (the local government was disbanded in January 2008 for mafia infiltration) Councillor for Civil Protection Domenico Ventre: 'The immigrants who live in our town and are continuously assisted and helped their reaction to isolated and that the episode 'happened yesterday' totally disproportionate. We can not accept that these people devastate our country to foster a state of terror among the inhabitants. I hope that all this will end soon and that you understand that citizenship has the same rights of immigrants'.
In fact, the best help that can be provided to these workers - and in this special case could certainly talk about hairy welfarism - is the recognition of all those minimum rights that constitute the minimal medium on which to build a decent life, a contract, housing, health care.
It 's been over a century by the first great struggle of peasants and workers and it would seem that the only thing changed in that time both the skin color of those who bring forward the same claims.
The Observatory on 7 January 2009 VICTIMS OF EMIGRATION
Oranges love: reports from Rosarno among immigrant laborers
ROSARNO - Forced to live in abandoned warehouses, without light or water . Employees in black, by the day, for a wage that rarely exceeds 25 €. There are bins of oranges in the countryside between Rosarno Rizziconi and San Fernando in the province of Reggio Calabria. There are at least 2,000. They are all immigrants from Ghana, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Mali, Sudan. And almost all undocumented. It is a story that has lasted two decades. They arrive in December for the start of the collection of the Mandarins. And they go away in March, after the harvest of oranges. But this year the national media became aware of them. It happened last December 13, when hundreds of African migrants have marched to the center of Rosarno, smashing some bin in protest. The day before, two young Ivorian of 20 and 21 were wounded by the shots of a gun. Retaliation, according to investigators, after a robbery gone wrong. One month from the facts, we are back in Rosario. We visited the slums. We left at dawn on the squares where you look for work. And we found a very complex situation. Where the owners of orange groves are the children of the laborers who made the war of occupation of land after fascism. Where every Sunday a lady of 85 years prepares food to immigrants living in the old factory in the city. And where a group of lawyers is trying to help undocumented immigrants who are virtually all here.
Yet the contradictions remain. The housing crisis in the slums obtained in the two old factories to Rognetta and paper mill is obvious. Lack toilets, running water, electricity and heating. "Many people are sick here," said Saverio Bellizzi, project coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Rosario. Working conditions are harsh. But there is the illegal hiring of Puglia. Most farms are small producers. Which is directly in the square every morning to load four or five laborers they need for up to one week. And I'm not even slave traders. In a widespread underground economy, undeclared work here is the norm. And the pay of 25 to 28 euro for eight hours of work, not so far from the 32 euro contract negotiated by the Province of Reggio Calabria. Producers save especially on the contributions. An employee in good standing would cost about € 40 gross. But the citrus industry is in deep crisis. Clementines are still unable to sell at 28 cents a pound. But the price of oranges has dropped to 7 cents. Yet in the supermarkets you can buy more than one euro. Fault of the many steps of transformation. It's a sign - in a land of mafia - has blocked the development of cooperatives created in the past by small producers. So
exploitation - like a domino - has an impact on the last link in the chain: the workers. Taken without protection. Even in the case of the EU, who are hired, not to have problems with the Labour Inspectorate, but which are not always paid for the actual days of work. Not to mention the non-EU. Almost everyone without a residence permit. Almost all can not be regularized in the next ten years, having received an expulsion order with re-entry ban in Italy. So the problem seems to transcend Rosarno. There is in Italy an army of men illegal, forced underground by the mechanisms of immigration law, wandering from one country to another in the south. Following the season: tomatoes in Foggia, the oranges in Rosario, the first fruits in Caserta, the olives in Alcamo, the potatoes Cassibile. And they go so to plug the holes in the south of an agriculture that is increasingly in crisis. In that same south after World War II was distinguished by the hard struggles of the peasant land occupation movement.
