Another story ... Gela We are young Gela. Boys growing up during the war of Mafia, which had as main stage on the streets of our city. Roads where many of us grew up, living and seeing what was actually Gela. A city, remembering that long ago, reminds us of a Greek colony thriving culturally and historically rich. Looking at this, Gela seems to have lost the glaze that history had left. Every day we find a growing insecurity of life and of social relations increasingly difficult to live and understand. It tends more to a society based on the individual, without have the least chance of collectivize needs and problems. We live in an area where temporary work is a constant. A constant negative due to a lack of economic policies that had as goal to develop a concerted with the real needs of the city. We are faced with a paradoxical reality that on the one hand, we show how a multinational company ENI, which, as the law requires capitalist, has brought more harm than good, seeing in our area only from a resource drain, giving the illusion of progress, not followed by effective development. Second, we are faced with daily examples of hopelessness, leading to a family to sell their vital organs because can not go forward. In this circuit, the race to the piece of bread is the organized crime that comes out the winner. With mesate ensures that the mafia is the company with more revenue and more specialists. We believe that until the local problems will be treated as emergencies and there will be fighting for the policies of economic growth and social basis, as long as they are not prevented dirty applications, the problem remains unsolved Mafia Spa.
For this, you must also put an end to the dynamics of do-it-yourself "for a personal return. It is the duty of local politics to change the language, which to date has resulted in a Mechanism individualistic. We were spectators of applications based on the voting mechanism of exchange, not necessarily focused on logic mafia, but that they are structured for easy travel to the chair, relying on the precariousness of life. For too many years we have been told stories with happy endings. Story made of words such as legality, mafia and development. The reality is quite different. Compared with the proclamations launched during election campaigns, in our opinion, there has not been promised that the Renaissance. In cities, we find again the sense of indifference, detachment from everyday problems, which overshadows the common good.
We believe that politics should return to have the social role that lost over the years, restoring the role of the individual citizen to Actor and not single voter, called upon only in the time of voting. The policy should be expected to convey the needs of citizens, in comparison to the open public meetings. Regain that contact with the area that caused the loss of trust in institutions and the spread of indifference.
In contrast to the model went out of fashion until today, we see in a possible alternative sites. Laboratories social, political and cultural. The means by which to activate the community Gela, thus returning to a model of participatory democracy. As future citizens, we believe that the basis of the yards should be represented by our young people. We also believe that the yard as a place of confrontation, could fill that vote due to a lack of cultural socialization that we live in Gela. The opportunity that we are putting in front, could be the breakthrough against the walls that were placed over the years. Walls that have deprived us of expressing our qualities, and therefore, could not imagine a future in our city. We would like this project would take part in those who see Gela, as a common good.
Gela, 19 November 2010 at the meeting
"Gela common good"
meeting of the "Another Story"
