Today the water is returned to mobilize people in all regions. He did so after having collected more than 1.4 million signatures - including 11,000 in Trentino - the highest result ever achieved in the history of our country's referendum. Nearly a half million signatures collected are an extraordinary form of democratic participation and a clear signal to policy.
However a part of the "Ronchi Decree" comes into effect at the end of this year. An affront to the will of the people, who strongly is saying "no" to privatization of services idirci.
Trento A candlelight vigil is a great game from Via Belenzani in the city of Trento at 17.00. All together - Committees Trent Water common good, committees in defense of the territory - including "no incinerator" and "No Tav" - students, mothers, children, citizens and representatives of political parties and trade unions - have illuminated the streets of Trent with a torchlight procession that symbolically touched and encircled the most beautiful fountain in the center. Students from the Faculty of Sociology party workers have dropped a banner from the civic tower of the Cathedral ("We have a thirst for knowledge is not privatized, and finally reached the concentration camps. Together, united in defense of our common assets, combined to demonstrate civil society's attention to the health, rights, democracy.
interventions during the procession asked the provincial government's withdrawal "proposal Gilmozzi" opening a real dialogue with citizens on issues as fundamental as water management and preservation of our beautiful area with public works projects and harmfulness. In Trentino
half of water services is provided through the Civil SpA in mixed public-private or entirely public capital. Privatization that now wants to grow and put a strain on the controlled management by the citizens. Intention already formalized in two articles of the bill "Budget 2011" by calling "proposal Gilmozzi" regulatory intervention, which was established with the motivation to confirm propaganda - to meet state standards in 2009 - the many municipal managers in business and the only company operating in special in Trentino (which are already protected by current legislation special autonomy), but that in essence legitimizes those rules state that pretends to oppose it will collect the push to privatize, indirectly defines the local public services as services of general economic interest, subtracts funds to management from the bottom, states that even in this province in the SpA joint private shareholder must hold at least 40% of the share capital and thus eliminates the historical bond of 1993 that here in this type of SpA should be guaranteed "dominant influence on the local public.
in Trento, as throughout Italy, protesters also reiterated:
- first, the "moratorium" on the timing of the Ronchi Decree and the abolition of the Regional Area Authority until there has been the pronouncement referendum. In fact, the Ronchi Decree provides that, in several cases by the end of 2010, and in the majority at the end of 2011, the company completely owned by the public will have to enter private shareholders to the extent of at least 40% of capital that do not will lose water service concessions. The Area Authority, however, are suppressed by 1 January 2011 with the idea of \u200b\u200bshifting the decisions at other levels, to the provincial or even regional level to take ownership of management to the auditors claim that the autonomy of local authorities on management of water services.
- Italian citizens are called to the referendum vote in 2011, however, even if there are early elections, if necessary, as happened before the referendum on nuclear power, through specific legislation.
The parade has also said that while the Summit is being Cancun on climate change and that this date was chosen to emphasize that the battle for public water is connected to the initiative of international social movements because the ecological crisis the world is faced with a new idea of \u200b\u200bsocial and environmental justice, by refusing the idea of \u200b\u200btreating the water to any goods.
Well, today was placed in Trento in Italy as in many places a big question and an affirmation of the democratic right of citizens to decide on the fate of a shared life as water.
And this defense of the rights we be a great closeness with students who are mobilizing because knowledge and training will not be delivered to the logic of the market and the labor movement that in recent months has indicated that the work is not reduced to a commodity, pure variable of the global financial and production decisions. All of them together with the only language we speak of democracy and human rights and imagine a future together subtracted from profit.
Our 3 referendums are part of the commitment of those who, like us, work and struggle to build the alternative, to realize a new idea of \u200b\u200bsociety.
V Building other mobilizations:
www.acquabenecomune.org/raccoltafirme/
www.globalproject.info/it/in_movimento/Acqua-in-movimento/6670