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voice on the other face of Italy: Maurizio Cevenini door Italo Calvino

"There was a country that is holding about the abuse. Not that lacked the laws, nor that the political system was not based on principles that everyone more or less said to share. But this system , divided into a number of power centers , immense financial resources needed (he needed it because when you get used to having a lot of money you are no longer able to conceive of life otherwise) and these could only have been unlawfully, that is, asked to whom he had in return for illegal favors. That is, who could give money in exchange for favors, usually already had this money by favors received previously, so it was an economic system in some way move and not without its harmony .

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From time to time, when we least expected, a court decided to enforce the laws, causing small earthquakes in some center of power and even arrests of people who had hitherto considered their reasons for unpunished . In those cases, the feeling dominant rather than the satisfaction of the rematch of justice, was the suspicion that it was a showdown a power center against another power center.

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They could therefore be said to be universally happy, the people of that country, it was not for a still large group of citizens that it was not known what role : The honest .

were, them, honest not for some special reason (they could not rely on broad principles, neither patriotic nor social nor religious , who no longer had ongoing); were honest habit of mind, conditioning the character, nervous tic. I mean they could not help it if were so, if things were that their hearts were not directly measurable in money, if their head always work according to those prohibiting the mechanisms that link income to work, the estimation of merit, satisfaction appropriate to the satisfaction of other people.

In this country of people who felt always with a clear conscience, were the only honest people to become more scruples, to ask every time what they should do. know what to do morality to others, indignant, preaching the virtues are things that receive the approval of all too easily, in good or in bad faith.

Power is not found it quite interesting to dream for yourself (or at least the power that was interested in the other), no illusions that in other countries there were the same flaws, even if kept hidden, not hoped for a better society because they knew that the worst is increasingly likely.

had to resign themselves to extinction? No, their consolation was to think that, as in the margin of all companies had perpetuated a thousand times controsocietà of marauders, pickpocket, petty thieves and gabbamondo a controsocietà who had never had any claim to be "the" society, but only to survive in the folds of the dominant society and affirm their way of life in spite of the principles consecrated, and this gave of himself (at least not when viewed too closely) a clear picture, happy and vital, so the honest controsocietà perhaps she could persist for centuries, alongside the current costume, which no other claim to live their diversity, to feel different from everything else, and so maybe he would come to mean something essential for everyone to be an image of something that words they do not know say, something that has not been said and still do not know what is. "

(Italo Calvino - "the conscience")

This song, along with many others, is one of the valuable contributions and read aloud by the participants at the meeting " Let's voice on the other face of Italy" , a time of sharing and reflection to express their disagreement with the government, organized the line Piazza Re Enzo MPs from the Democratic Party on February 7, Sandra Zampa, Donald Lenzi and Rita Ghedini.

"initiative to say loud and clear to the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi - says Sandra Zampa- that most Italians do not think like him and no longer feels' represented "(USA Today).

Read by Maurizio Cevenini , Regional Director of the Democratic Party and former candidate in the primary text of the great Italian author offered a vivid perspective on the top and an imperfect society, current, modern, on a company that many, from the main Italian opposition party, struggling to improve.

Sitting around a table and citizens of Bologna have heard and said many witnesses, some more 'scholarly', other historical dramatically, others more tales of war , guerrilla resistance, of years that today there are more but that have indelibly stamped their mark on the lives of all. Three hours of short readings, by Dacia Maraini in Seneca, former senior worker to Pericles. A sort of non-stop marathon, then, examples and evidence.

witnesses chosen and told to call "the theme of democracy, legality, ethics and constitutional values" . Three minutes is the time assigned to each contribution by the organizers, three minutes to express their point of view of Italy that now is suffering the severe damage of bad government, three minutes to say enough, things have change.

A meeting premise, then, a sort of pre-appointment at the turn of the event to be held Sunday, February 13 , " when women take to the streets to voice their indignation , "write the shank, Lenzi and Ghedini. And many have participated, from Maurizio Cevenini, with the song of Italo Calvino, the Chairman of the Victims of Ustica Daria Bonfietti to Gianluca Borghi, Director GVC at Fosca Prodi, many other people and historical figures of the center, who filled more than three hours in the square and colonnades.

To see the images in high definition Click on the link: they have been posted on Flickr, the album "On the streets of Bologna"