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's time to take to the streets

Carry welcome this beautiful letter sent to The Republic Walter Veltroni

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Dear Editor, now living the country is among the most dramatic that Italy has ever known. The feeling of chalking of the minimum rules of civilized life, the arrogance of those in power, the de-legitimization of intolerable national prestige abroad is accompanied by a dangerous feeling of helplessness and distrust of citizens.

A world is ending, a world that lasted seventeen years, that has upset the country without introducing a single modernization. Political life has been trapped in an abnormal negative dialectic whole. Only here deployments and experience of government are consumed only "against" blocking the country to know what is its right to know: reforms, modernization, new pages for social justice and collective rights. Only the first Prodi government, with the aim of the euro, managed to mobilize the consciences and give the country a feeling of being projected to reach a collective goal. That world is ending, but does not end. It is indeed clinging to institutions that try to bend once more meanly personal reasons. To the point to stake the fate of Italy. Cynicism, from "poisoners of wells."

Today, Italy is a country tired, exhausted, nauseated. And the crisis is knocking violently at the doors of families find children trapped in the trap of insecurity, workers in layoffs, small business owners crushed by bureaucracy and

credit crunch, talents with a suitcase. And, in all, a new fear for the Italians. The fear of the future. And the feeling that politics is not the solution, but one of the factors of the crisis. There is a risk that you face the road frustration that often generates radicalization desperate. We must avoid it all together. Trying to make this devastating crisis is over, giving space to the healthy energies of the country. At this time many voters who voted for the center feel a deep discomfort although struggling to find a credible alternative.

But now is the time not to divide the future. But do not give strength to anger but to hope. It is time that this country should make its voice heard. The country is doing, the country that has talent, the country which is struggling, the country of decent people, who are these opinions and feelings regardless of their cultural, civil, political. There is a better than Italy, which dominates public life. Not another Italy, but the nation wide real or part of it. I know that the last story we tell of how they arrived in depth the failure of Berlusconi. But I do not accept the resignation of those who say now that the country is lost. Not so. There are enormous energy. Instead, it is politics, closed in on itself, unable to express themselves and weigh them.

So I think, to accelerate the transition, it is worth entering the field in the subjectivity of citizens. As is already happening with the collection of signatures, and appeals entered on the network. Go into the field before they win or resignation radicalization. Out of this deadlock sick, this is inconclusive quarrelsomeness a perceived need by the whole country. So while Berlusconi is meeting with his rail against the magistrates to launch another campaign of hate and I believe that it opens a space big and important to send a new message and strong. It would be nice if all political opposition, the trade unions and business, media and associations of voluntary, individual citizens by promoting a day of civil commitment in the name of Italy who believe in democracy, in the rules, the value of work and enterprise, which would only have a dynamic country, where there is pluralism, a sense of the state and mutual respect. Another

Italy, compared to today's violent and inane. A country can. It would be nice if in the same day, at the same time, in all the eight thousand Italian municipalities, without exception, people came together in the central square, to say "turn the page, find Italy." An event calendar, non-partisan. No flags, no meetings that I can share. A great celebration of Italian democracy, in which the protagonist is self-organization calendar. When done by a live community of citizens. Occasions on which a voter also disappointed by the center can be found. It would be the biggest event in Italian history. In which would activate play a leading role. Do not hold the bus to go to Rome or Milan to hear a speech. But to live in the smallest or the largest Italian piazza outrage and hope. If

in Pieve di Soligo or Mazara del Vallo, in those wonderful places that are the squares of Italian towns, they find themselves, how can millions of people, would also be the most beautiful way to celebrate the hundred and fifty years of this great country . And make it clear to all Italians who divides and sows hatred and who unites and leads to hope. And I am sure that the physical locations, thousands of virtual squares. "Italy in the square," as they called the wonderful book by Mario Isnenghi, changed the destiny of the nation. We show that there is an Italy that he just wanted to turn the page. We show that after the time of Berlusconi and the time of the Italians. Who want to live their future in a united community, not in a saloon brawler.

Walter Veltroni

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" shown that there is an Italy that he wants only to turn the page.
We show that after the time of Berlusconi and the time of the Italians. "

It 's the time of the Italians: those who have not made drugs from television, which did not fall of Berlusconi slaves, but also those who want to wake up from this stupor that twenty years from Italy to prevent be a great country like it should be!

Secretary

Fabio Lamon