Again, I had to replace the inverted commas, because this blog will not tolerate them. To these, indicate that for most of the direct speech, I have replaced (however) these'...'. When I quoted excerpts from newspaper articles I have marked or whole with quotes "...". In this way, I tried to preserve the maximum integrity of the entire script.
casually walked down a hallway of the University, when a poster by the great title, "What hope for Haiti?" Drew my attention. At first, I was tempted to leave without further reading, as if seized by an intuition, but then I succumbed to curiosity.
Of the twenty-three lines that make up the artifact, only the first two make explicit reference to the incident but vague. There followed two others, who inform us of the mood of the writer (Henceforth, I will turn to him alone) and increasingly on trust, those who accept the document. At this point, the essence of the manifesto becomes clear and with it the principal executor. An application (a term, this, that is an echo of obsessive fundamental importance, so existential for some students, unless the act to which the term refers) in bold letters: "What is the meaning of what happened? Why should they be there again so bad and so much suffering? ". Down quickly look to see this: Communion and Liberation University - Abruzzo .
"A highlight - he continues - as our hearts hurt so much sorrow tell powerfully, is the largest volunteer who now came from all parts of the world [...] ".
Humbly, I can not give a logical sense, but not figurative or vulgar in this sentence, which follows the application, as the original. The survival instinct that has driven on a global scale (in this case, the adjective of course refer only to the rich and civilized as they say, that perhaps the West and some countries of the East, most of inhabitants of the world even knows of the event, and if they knew and wanted to help, can only sigh, saying: "This is the nature ... ") for the immediate relief of the Haitian people would have" highlighted "the suffering of the bleeding heart of the writer or, worse, indifferent to the ability to not hurt my heart because of the pain?
Despite everything that is said to reduce the value of the contribution of foreign countries in Haiti takes just one excerpt from an article in LaRepubblica (for now just an excerpt): "'We were sent to this school just this morning,' said Jose Castillo (the English team by red and yellow helmets, nda), 'even if we in Haiti since Wednesday. The first day we were taken into a police station, claiming that they must have orders precise about us, sent us the second day in a neighborhood of villas. He was dead, buried under the rubble, a friend of the president of Haiti and the Swedish Ambassador: We have made an unnecessary work for hours, while a few miles away we could still save many lives. We're here from dawn but now we can find only corpses'. "
Just above, I deliberately spoke of survival instinct, which is not necessarily reflective, to resize a bit 'in the philanthropic leadership, at least in name, the Christian charity too often wrongly appropriated, is a different matter On the pragmatic level ...
The central part of the manifesto: "We But realize that the impulse benevolent, just and humane way, it can not be maintained without a broader horizon of its commitment, the commitment to allow himself to endure despite the difficulties and not to go out tomorrow in the indifference of the many things each 'must do'. Being a Christian means to have met a good story that, despite all our misunderstandings before the evil, we can be sure that there is a good thing for everyone, life, death and suffering have meaning. "
Why the writer wanted to show the reader the phrase "wider horizon of commitment"? What the heck does that mean? In addition, You can also read your story saccharine, but not to risk reducing it to pure escapist reading and integration with the criticism of reality.
Towards the end of it. "The only proper setting to sustain the impact and the wound that evoke images of newspapers and television, in fact, is that life has a task, which enables us to participate in the reconstruction of Haiti, raising to live each day, wherever we are witnessing in our daily lives that there is a good plan on us and on our lives, that life has a meaning, a meaning.. " For the writer, the moral of this whole sad story is this: Life is also evil have a purpose, "a task". We removed the weight from the stomach ...
Despite the attempt sedative, even alienating the words above the newspapers describe a different story. Some excerpts: "With the growing anger and desperation thousands of people trying to escape from Port-au-Prince in what is described as a mass exodus by increasing proportions: 'The streets are smell of death. We're not getting any help and our children can not live like animals, 'says a woman who tried to leave the capital with her husband and four children. Convoys of cars fleeing the violence committed by marauding gangs armed with machetes, the historical weapon the infamous Tonton Macoutes , stones and knives. They take away everything they can from the shops and houses: clothes, toys, bags as has happened in downtown Port-au-Prince. And the airport has formed a crowd that he hopes to be able to board a plane to escape to hell because of their passports (Corriere della Sera ). "
" A U.S. helicopter was able to bring a few food rations center the Haitian capital, but has threatened to cause casualties among the hungry crowd that has been unleashed, even pulling out knives and machetes, to try to get hold of some 'food. They said witnesses. The helicopter, reportedly threw a dozen small boxes in the stadium. Each box contained a dozen food rations. Then the helicopter has broken down, throwing into disarray on Tuesday night by people who are waiting for help. 'I thought you were really helping us - he said a dejected man who sleeps in the stadium with the family since the earthquake -. Instead you have not even laid in earth '. People suffer particularly because of the lack of water and anger is also growing because the international aid arriving by dropper, the disaster of the streets, the danger of violence and looting [...] ( LaRepubblica ). "
"Not only that, the earthquake has caused the collapse of the prison in the city and now there is a concern for the consequences that will have the freedom to return in about 6 000 prisoners, many of whom were sentenced to life imprisonment for serious crimes, fled after the guards, following shocks, were gone and had left the prison without supervision. The lack of security is a major source of concern for international teams and rescue teams as well as the residents of Port-au-Prince: also aid operations to the population could be under conditions of very low safety. 'All the criminals of the city are now around in the streets - a police officer said in testimony given by Age -. Rob people and is a drama '. (Corriere della Sera ) "
" many, many deaths, with an impressive rate, at three-four minutes crossing the entrance to the hotel. Nearby, on the sidewalks, there are some abandoned and some corpses charred, still smoking. A scene of horror, made more gruesome by the total indifference of the people, by now accustomed to death, who walks among the dead, just trying to avoid them. Others continue to eat with our eyes away what little food they have managed to collect during the day a handful of boiled rice and a few pieces of chicken. "
" It's an emergency without end, with the government latita, aid arriving in a chaotic way, where the strong prevail over the weak and helpless on the most violent. There is hardly police the dirt roads that climb the hills, the few currencies that are seen do not inspire confidence with their grim faces and a way to do that does not help. 'Down there on the day we are our children', Ventrice desperate screams of a woman and mother while still a child, cursing the government, "les Americains," the aid that never arrive. 'It's four days to ask for help, we hear them crying down there, but none has arrived, but yesterday morning appeared a UN jeep. But they left because they had the tools'. "
"In many districts the people has exacerbated the assault to the few shops open, the attack in a poor neighborhood of a thousand people turned into a series of uncontrollable violence. The hospitals that work can be counted on fingers, just outside the military in battle trying to curb the disorder, but doctors are sometimes forced to interrupt their work to the assaults of people exasperated. Around a clinic was shot and crime is mixed in the crowd, by imposing the law of the jungle. Water, food and medicine are worth a fortune today in Haiti, the aid is free, but those who appropriate it not for a sudden need the black market, often in front of a police compliant when not conniving. ( LaRepubblica ) "The Unit
From:" 'About 60 percent of the Haitian population is under 25 years-says-Blacks need everything, food, medicine and other basic necessities. But also to collection centers where they can assist, pending reunification with relatives, not to fall into the hands of criminals, and be helped to overcome the psychological trauma of the earthquake. The teenagers are likely to be victims of violence, sex and more, much more than before. We must make sure that does not happen '. "
The most important message, which deserved the three quarters of all the work, was compressed in a generic sentence (in bold!). "For aid : Tuesday from 10.00 will set up a fundraising banquet. "I'm holding for now by what you see is your mercy seems naïve and even propaganda, until I receive the answers to some legitimate questions:
- What do you think it is useful to make a donation? It would make sense, I do not mean reasonable, indicate which products can not be accepted: yogurt, while tasty to the palate, it was ruined in a short time, as well as having a fragile container, snacks, sweets and the like are not exactly ideal for the same reason, the same way the sausage is not cooked for New Years ol'insaccato grandmother, perhaps even drugs can not be accepted, for obvious reasons. The canned food is the best choice ... It will be obvious, but enough to attend a banquet to raise money for any food or be denied.
- After selecting the goods, where (the place) I find your banquet?
- Finally, if I can give you the best I could find, how do you send the material you collect? I hope that the writer has forgotten this important information in the rush to write this gift of God, or who otherwise would be a fool for he did not think. On golden wings of the Holy Spirit do not think it will come, if we consider that for now the traffic Island Air is seriously embarrassed: "'We need international aid, but the problem is the co-ordination', recalling how in one day 74 aircraft have arrived from many countries, congestion, or as an air-French hospital was unable to land, prompting the protest, then returned, the government in Paris. "(Unit and LaRepubblica ). Besides the fact that "[...] the airport, in the hands of American soldiers, now working at full capacity but it is they who decide the priorities, and this has caused friction with Brazilian and French Alps after a cargo has been denied permission to land. They have the above the planes 'official' than the U.S., UN and government organizations, coordinated by a local government that does not know what to do and adds ignorance incompetence. The air cargo arriving at the rate of ninety per day, but aid trucks leave for the official buildings, water distribution, food and medicine is a slow, whole areas of the capital have not yet been reached. Incompetence which penalizes the NGOs, the volunteers who come from all over the world fully equipped and are subjected to long waits, to unnecessary harassment, while all around tens of thousands of people begging for water and bandages for the elderly and children. Yesterday morning was emblematic. Along the trail airport, the Marines deployed with machine guns in their arms, for hours they arrived cargo of Air Force. Help? No, only men of the security services, police in Philadelphia with the blue uniforms, special forces in camouflage. All wait for the arrival of Hillary Clinton, first announced by noon, then postponed due to an unexpected stop of the Secretary of State in Puerto Rico. Security issues are necessary but that clash with what is happening across the street, where a row mileage waiting their turn to have some 'bread from the' kitchen crews' made to get here by the government of the neighboring Dominican Republic. Thousands throw squabbling to get the food that is launched from helicopters. "In this regard, please direct the heads of state, so that they stay at home, focusing and concentrating all the help they can just give needy. Are unbearable to view the ranks of soldiers used only to ensure the safety of those who are curious tourists in all respects of the macabre: they could give their orders from all over the world and at any time, without risking life and face. But do ut des ...
- Precisely, talk of "funds", then collect money to donate, then, to charity? If not, apply the same concerns outlined above, that should be clarified.
without leaving too much off topic, it is enlightening Foreign Minister Frattini's proposal: 'Let our availability from now to cancel Haiti's debt to Italy, there are 40 million euro'. It took an epic disaster, hundreds of thousands of deaths and who knows what repercussions in the future to propose - without doing so directly - the cancellation of 40 million € miserissimi: already Lorenzo Cherubini, aka Jovanotti, had advanced a similar proposal, causing nothing more than screaming at his concerts and ballets.
Could someone address the same criticism that I now turn to the writer: you're exploiting a painful event for other purposes. In one respect, you would have some reason to do so, hypothetical Criticón. You may pursue us to ask: What do you suggest? At that point I'd be forced on the defensive and says, 'If you can not actually, in essence, help, Avoid shaking hysterically or pretend to be helped, at least to say crap (including me, if it is the case). In this case, leave those responsible. We ask that each state rather than face (!) Everything in its power, not what can do: vestiamolo publicly with the dress of the benefactor, a force for pulling the sleeves. For us, it would be more humane to stop and look at the images we offer and think about what is not in our power to regain that intimacy (That is proximity, but never full identity) with their own limits. Evoking a common image today, let us not turn warm and loud applause to die; respect it in silence, no longer the word, to think '.
I could continue writing my personal reasons, but I imagine that the authority placing more reasonable to the words (unfortunately, when it should not) and I am anything but an authority, then take back some newspaper article or comment that fully expresses my thought.
Adriano Sofri wrote on LaRepubblica , dated 09/04/2009: "Falling walls, and let us see how. It was not in the covenant, there 'was a casting, there' cameras were ready. They came much later, everything came much later. Those who have had time to escape They then told: 'No shoes, no cell phones ...'. They were right, the shoes were always the first thing in the wars. Mobile phones have become the first in the pacific. The walls have collapsed, and we saw a 'true humanity. Not that the 'other is not true, the casting of perennial and cameras, but this is an' else. Just think about the meaning of a word as "brother" here and there. This is fraternal. Leads us to make a speech on the state of 'spirit of the Italians. While the moon went towards the full moon, the last nights, it was thought to who, to 'come out of the tents or bivouac, where he saw the sky shine on its ruins. Earthquakes take their faith to some, in others reinforced. I is not mad 'I neither regret it, but I remember my mother praying, and I look at the screen people sitting in a circle outside the tent praying, and praying with them, if I were asked to do so. But for those who do not have the comfort ol 'illusion of religion, we Leopardi. The sun Foscolo, shine until the human disasters. But we especially Leopardi. We have the moon. We know that the bad guys are crooks and cement our business, but that nature is distracted stepmother, and too far above the our forces, and therefore that our nature, "this meeting / joint planning to be, / Because it is the truth, and orderly at first it / 's human company / All allies himself esteems / Men, and embraces all / By true love, handing / Validate and ready and waiting for succor ... " Have you heard some news, the old lady from her bed told the broken legs of his piano and the desecration of his books off the shelves and precipitated his life hijacked at sunset? Items usually unknown to the tv, suddenly submerged, and emerged a bothersome microphone to show an 'other Italy. It happens every time. If they are remembered in many, in these days of Ginestra. Moreover, our contemporary Pompeii, happy with the deserts, the most avid of the broom, do not make it back into the crater of Vesuvius that volcanologists auscultate unheeded. Poetry is the most powerful civil religion, this is good for children to learn by heart, to be able rirecitare old age, like a prayer, the night outside a tent: "What dost thou moon in the sky ..." . Italians give their best in 'emergency, they say. It is said by some to congratulate him, by others to deplore, regret for a normal country that knows how to live outside the fever of the worst and the best. But perhaps we should add today that the 'emergency and its abuses are confronted with a state of the world on which the bell is rung already for the third time. If it were true that we, and humans in general - because what is true for us is largely true for others - were able to give the best in the midst of a disaster and an alarm, well, that's where we are, although still not enough to make us feel close com 'is. It means that, the conversion 'label' policy or private habits. In the days of L 'Aquila has been removed from' Antarctic iceberg 'as big as Jamaica', wrote the sidebars: and we went to check how big Jamaica, hoping to find the smallest possible. And the war, and wars? Let me tell you something. People at L 'Aquila, and yet most of those who came there from outside, they said: 'It was like war', 'Like a carpet bombing'. Someone commented that the earthquake is more frightening than the war, the bombing. In Italy the people who have experienced war are many, but they become less and less. Someone went to see her around the world. There was no need to go away: for example, just yesterday, half an 'hour flight from' Abruzzo. I do not know if you face more fear an earthquake or bombing, the men merely emulate nature, even in my terror. And the earth shakes under the bombs too. I know that 'war' means that a hundred cities at the same time as L 'Aquila are destroyed as L 'Aquila. Thinking and thinking hard to bear, right? In the days of the earthquake happened that Obama, in the square of Prague Castle, find the courage to mention nuclear disarmament. A reckless, rather, because the earth is a huge arsenal of nuclear war and proliferation that is not forbidden to grow, and the words of Obama had just been mocked by the North Korean missile launch half-serious (jokes that can do much harm, though) and India and Pakistan play in turn with that fire, el 'Iran ... Here: are our everyday metaphors, the tsunami, war, earthquake. Then there are real wars, real earthquakes, tsunamis true. You can not imagine living in a permanent mobilization from time of war or earthquake, who has the good fortune to be provisionally saved. Life demands its rights. But you can not even pretend that there is a 'normal' life without traffic jams and Big Brother, except pause - no traffic jams, Big Brother - where the rubble spilling over. And politics? Politics Campa, vivacchia, or fat, long on detail or true emergencies in half, then completely false. It faces, instructs, removes, struts, he jokes about even. The serious policy has to be measured by the 'universal emergency, and does not need to invent new tools to detect radon predictor: just put the' s ear on the ground, and hear the 'echo of what has already happened. PS We love children and dogs, no? We are pleased that the children love their dogs. We know that dogs, when not perverted by bad teachers, they love children. We had a heavy heart for children and dogs of Dubrovnik, we had the heavy heart for children and dogs dell 'Aquila. Specimens were two lessons. "
Today, we worry so much of their death, but few are worried about their life, past or before the present. They just before the abuses of French colonialism, then a period of dictatorship, and today, violence in the American market that has destroyed local agriculture with its intensive technology and low cost. Maybe violence is the worst. A man who earns less than $ 5 a day in those places is a privilege. Always the rampant violence of armed gangs that kill indigenous, plunder, rape. The blue helmets who use food as a sedative during times of tension, as when the owner moves the ball before the eyes of the dog excited. The local children who eat "pancake" of clay that fills your stomach, but are by no nutrients. And so on ...
Moni Ovadia in blogs that care about Unit writes: "The apocalyptic proportions of the immense tragedy that has struck mercilessly the island of Haiti and its people will leave you breathless, dismayed. An impotent rage attacks us at the terrible injustice of a nature that hits the top of its brutality, the helpless suffering of the poorest of the vanquished. From our deepest fibers lies a rebellion to the idea that someone might be tempted to rely upon the reasons for the ineffable transcendent. An earthquake of this intensity may precautions antisimiche overwhelm even the richest countries, but for the poor who consume their lives in the tragedy of a life without dignity and justice, the violence of the land that shakes like a mad buffalo violence is a double because it illuminates even the ruthless brutality of the men of power that require its Similar despair, poverty and subjugation. The tragedy caused by nature indifferent to human suffering caused an immediate reaction of solidarity for the victims, a solidarity immediate widespread calls for even the most distracted a calling to be compassionate and generous. The identification with the suffering is unavoidable, because if it is true that nature prefers the last stepmother, also knows the first hit, knows no class privileges. "He concludes:" What is frustrating is that much pain before there is the same identification with the horror of death by hunger and thirst of millions of kids who are relentlessly repeated punctually every year, perhaps because the tragedy is not caused by the cynicism of nature but by the ferocity of men who worship the god of privilege who never fail to fulfill themselves through the gray mass perceptual disorder: piety in front of the "spectacle" of the earthquake, indifference to the extermination caused oozing by the powerful. "
I want to conclude with an article published yesterday on Massimo Fini Done: A couple of years ago in Rome, in the populous district of Porta Pia , a janitor who was cleaning the windows on the fourth floor of a building lost his balance and fell on the pavement, dead. The people walking around this corpse or casually stepped over him, tending well not dirtying their shoes. Last week I passed on via Fabio Filzi in Milan, a street full of shops and people. A man had been poured on the ground, his head in the Basello the sidewalk and the street. The people walked, looked and pulled straight. I did too. Hurry. But after fifty yards I stopped. 'But I'm mad, indifferent to everything, inhuman, just because I missed an appointment that I would?'. I went back and retraced my steps I bent man. It was in a drunken coma alcohol. As he fell right in front of a department store, a Upim seems to me, I asked the security guard who was stationed in front if he had called an ambulance. 'No' said. 'The Call'. 'It is not my business'. 'As is his business? It is the task of everyone '. 'It's just drunk'. 'But I do not see that is wrong?'. Meanwhile, since I had stopped and was leaning on man had formed a small crowd of onlookers. But he did nothing, was there just to enjoy the little show out of order. When tragedies happen like that of Haiti or the Italians are more than ready to dip into their wallet. Vespa told last night that only through his program had collected four million euro. And once again, for the much more distant Haiti, the Italians have been driven by rapid generosity. Is there a link between these seemingly contradictory behavior? Yes Man has a limited capacity to feel emotion, to suffer for others, solidarity. Can not do it for the world. Instead the TV global forces him to this exercise. At one time, because we did not see anything, we care very little about an earthquake in Haiti, as terrifying. In a good play 50s Buonanotte Bettina, Walter Chiari asked: 'If you push a button and a Chinese man dies in China I actually killed someone?'. The distance mattered. Today the TV has lifted this distance. But to us of an earthquake in Haiti still does not import anything. However, since, unlike Walter Chiari, who saw the Chinese killed in China, we feel guilty for this indifference, we rush to send money. But this mitridatizzazione emotions, which makes us the continuing stress of the media, eventually also affect our neighbor, who we really are and actually help, or for which we could try a genuine compassion. I lived for a dozen years between Italy and Switzerland (I had a girlfriend who lived in Lugano) and I noticed that the Swiss are tireless, even more than the Italians, in the off checks for any disaster that happens anywhere in the world. During the period when there was an Italian immigrant, one day, picked up a Kalashnikov and made out of a sudden, you're in Switzerland (with the satisfaction of the underground Italian community in Lugano). What is the motive? He lived in Switzerland for twenty years and had failed to make a single friend in Switzerland. Modernity has abolished distance. We are in contact, via TV or Internet, with the world. With everyone and anyone. We all know but not the next-door neighbor. Spread our emotions for the whole world terraqueous but then when we are not able to reserve it to close, the real "next", which is the one who can touch and that, as noted by the psychologist Jung Luigi Zoja in a splendid book, has disappeared from our lives ("The death of neighbor," Einaudi). "
conclude definitively with what seems to me a good news as well as a beautiful lesson in civilization to Italy with regurgitation racist. "The Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said on Wednesday it would promote the 'return' of the Haitian people in Africa, offering land to the descendants of slaves after the terrible earthquake that hit the island Tuesday Caribbean. In an interview with France Info radio , Wade said that 'the recurrence of natural disasters prompts me to propose a radical solution: ... create in Africa, with Africans and the African Union (AU) a place where Haitians can go back '... 'With a single trip' or 'multi-trip'. 'Not have chosen them - said Wade - to go to that island and would not be the first time that former slaves or their descendants to return to Africa. It happened in Liberia, where former slaves were integrated with the local population and formed the nation of Liberia ... It is our duty to recognize their right to return to the land of their ancestors'. According to the spokesman of the President of Senegal, Mamadou Bamba, Senegal was ready to offer land to the Haitians. 'If they are only a few people - said Bamba - offer them a roof and a piece of land. If they come in bulk, we will give them an entire region '. (Corriere della Sera ) "
They offer shelter, hospitality.
Lorenzo Nicolai
NB I take full responsibility for what I wrote: I have not officially expressed position of the association differences, even unofficially. If any player (both also associated) will refrain from my position, I invite him to do so in the comments, perhaps leaving at least the name and the reasons therefor. If, on the contrary, you want to add anything else, correct or just sign up, do it in the same way.
PS On, 19/01/2010 Today, more leaflets were distributed, the same as that taken into question, with the addition of the coordinates of which he complained absence. Someone has read what I wrote? I doubt it. The ways of reason are endless ...
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