mercoledì 30 novembre 2011
...trovare la forza...
...ho appena risentito un pezzo musicale per pianoforte- the way it is- presente su questo blog, ed ora scrivo, scrivo per distrarmi un po', per sfogarmi, per dimenticare, se possibile, gli ultimi avvenimenti occorsimi- mi sono ripromesso di non telefonare ad anima viva, no a T., tanto meno a C. e neppure alla mia amica G.- isolarmi, ecco ciò che devo fare e meditare sulle azioni da intraprendere, dopo questo turbinio di momenti felici ed atroci...questo mese di novembre, iniziato bene e finito malissimo, finalmente mi lascia, dando spazio ad un mese- dicembre in cui spero riuscirò a riportare la mia vita su un binario di normalità...il periodo nero, nonostante i miei tentativi di superarlo, non è ancora finito...
lunedì 28 novembre 2011
...the day after...
...una canzone per rilassarmi, senza dediche, all'inizio di un periodo di riflessione che, al momento, ignoro dove mi condurrà...
domenica 27 novembre 2011
...forse...
...forse, visto come vanno le cose, sarebbe meglio smettessi di scrivere su questo blog- essere felice un giorno per poi ripiombare il giorno dopo nella più nera disperazione ... forse sarebbe meglio...
venerdì 25 novembre 2011
... I need you tonight...
...stasera sei lì, nella tua nuova casa- tutta sola...ed io vorrei essere accanto a te... ma domani sera...comincia una nuova vita...
...da LeG...
LeG al lavoro nella nuova fase politica
Sabato 19 novembre i soci di LeG si sono ritrovati a Milano per l'assemblea annuale degli iscritti. E' stato rinnovato, come da statuto, il Consiglio di direzione, e la presidente ha fatto il punto sul lavoro dell'associazione in questa nuova fase storica, caratterizzata per quanto ci riguarda dalle due grandi manifestazioni e dalla mobilitazione per la nuova legge elettorale. Nella discussione generale c'è stata una forte convergenza sugli obiettivi del prossimo futuro all'indomani della fine del governo Berlusconi e del tentativo di Mario Monti di fare uscire il Paese dalla crisi economica.
In pochi giorni ci stiamo riabituando a vecchi paesaggi e a riti dimenticati, alla politica che non è spettacolo ma discussione, stiamo riacquistando uno status di normalità che è però solo apparente, perché restano le anomalie che continuano a compromettere il Paese. Se il sistema della corruzione è ancora così diffuso, come si pensa di costruire la fiducia dei cittadini in forze politiche che impongono sacrifici e sopravvivono di illegalità, conflitti di interessi, economia sommersa, corruzione, evasione fiscale? Il lavoro per la buona politica è ancora tutto da costruire. Il governo Monti ha davanti un lavoro immane, ricostruire la credibilità nelle istituzioni italiane e affrontare la crisi, con un Parlamento rimasto inalterato nella sua composizione, una difficile coabitazione istituzionale tra Pd, Pdl e centro. Da una parte l'ex maggioranza che subisce i contraccolpi dello strappo leghista, dall'altra il Partito democratico che fatica a trovare coesione, con il segretario sotto tiro per il caso Fassina e l'Udc sconquassato dalla questione morale.
Intanto il nostro circolo di Bruxelles racconta l'esperienza di Monti quando faceva il Commissario europeo, e di come nei cinque anni alla guida dell'organismo comunitario, è riuscito a guadagnarsi il rispetto internazionale.
Per uscire dall'emergenza non esistono ricette facili, occorrono analisi impietose e sforzi coraggiosi, indispensabili per non avvitarsi in una depressione simile a quella del '29, così Carlo De Benedetti in una Lectio magistralis, tenuta il 23 novembre all'università di Torino.
Tra gli argomenti affrontati nell'assemblea dei soci, le scuole di formazione politica (Perugia, sui temi della bioetica, prende il via sabato 26 novembre) cominciate ormai 6 anni fa, che proseguiranno anche nel 2012 con importanti novità collegate alla scuola estiva di Poppi e a quella di Pavia, che affronterà in due week end di febbraio il grande tema della crisi economica. Si rafforzano anche i progetti già avviati da molti circoli dell'insegnamento della Costituzione nelle scuole e l'assemblea ha deciso di dar vita a un coordinamento che seguirà i corsi e ne promuoverà di nuovi. A Torino è già partito il ciclo di lezioni, a illustrare i fondamenti della nostra Carta magistrati,avvocati, professori e giuristi.
Vi raccomandiamo di seguire sul sito il dibattito politico e le tantissime iniziative dei circoli in programmazione in tutta Italia.
Associazione Libertà e Giustizia
viale Col di Lana 12 - 20136 Milano MI
tel 0245491066 - fax 0245491067
info@libertaegiustizia.it - www.libertaegiustizia.it
Sabato 19 novembre i soci di LeG si sono ritrovati a Milano per l'assemblea annuale degli iscritti. E' stato rinnovato, come da statuto, il Consiglio di direzione, e la presidente ha fatto il punto sul lavoro dell'associazione in questa nuova fase storica, caratterizzata per quanto ci riguarda dalle due grandi manifestazioni e dalla mobilitazione per la nuova legge elettorale. Nella discussione generale c'è stata una forte convergenza sugli obiettivi del prossimo futuro all'indomani della fine del governo Berlusconi e del tentativo di Mario Monti di fare uscire il Paese dalla crisi economica.
In pochi giorni ci stiamo riabituando a vecchi paesaggi e a riti dimenticati, alla politica che non è spettacolo ma discussione, stiamo riacquistando uno status di normalità che è però solo apparente, perché restano le anomalie che continuano a compromettere il Paese. Se il sistema della corruzione è ancora così diffuso, come si pensa di costruire la fiducia dei cittadini in forze politiche che impongono sacrifici e sopravvivono di illegalità, conflitti di interessi, economia sommersa, corruzione, evasione fiscale? Il lavoro per la buona politica è ancora tutto da costruire. Il governo Monti ha davanti un lavoro immane, ricostruire la credibilità nelle istituzioni italiane e affrontare la crisi, con un Parlamento rimasto inalterato nella sua composizione, una difficile coabitazione istituzionale tra Pd, Pdl e centro. Da una parte l'ex maggioranza che subisce i contraccolpi dello strappo leghista, dall'altra il Partito democratico che fatica a trovare coesione, con il segretario sotto tiro per il caso Fassina e l'Udc sconquassato dalla questione morale.
Intanto il nostro circolo di Bruxelles racconta l'esperienza di Monti quando faceva il Commissario europeo, e di come nei cinque anni alla guida dell'organismo comunitario, è riuscito a guadagnarsi il rispetto internazionale.
Per uscire dall'emergenza non esistono ricette facili, occorrono analisi impietose e sforzi coraggiosi, indispensabili per non avvitarsi in una depressione simile a quella del '29, così Carlo De Benedetti in una Lectio magistralis, tenuta il 23 novembre all'università di Torino.
Tra gli argomenti affrontati nell'assemblea dei soci, le scuole di formazione politica (Perugia, sui temi della bioetica, prende il via sabato 26 novembre) cominciate ormai 6 anni fa, che proseguiranno anche nel 2012 con importanti novità collegate alla scuola estiva di Poppi e a quella di Pavia, che affronterà in due week end di febbraio il grande tema della crisi economica. Si rafforzano anche i progetti già avviati da molti circoli dell'insegnamento della Costituzione nelle scuole e l'assemblea ha deciso di dar vita a un coordinamento che seguirà i corsi e ne promuoverà di nuovi. A Torino è già partito il ciclo di lezioni, a illustrare i fondamenti della nostra Carta magistrati,avvocati, professori e giuristi.
Vi raccomandiamo di seguire sul sito il dibattito politico e le tantissime iniziative dei circoli in programmazione in tutta Italia.
Associazione Libertà e Giustizia
viale Col di Lana 12 - 20136 Milano MI
tel 0245491066 - fax 0245491067
info@libertaegiustizia.it - www.libertaegiustizia.it
mercoledì 23 novembre 2011
...from Michael Moore maillist...
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here? ...a proposal from Michael Moore
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Friends,
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and goals of the movement. It was attended by 40+ people and the discussion was both inspiring and invigorating. Here is what we ended up proposing as the movement's "vision statement" to the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street:
We Envision: [1] a truly free, democratic, and just society; [2] where we, the people, come together and solve our problems by consensus; [3] where people are encouraged to take personal and collective responsibility and participate in decision making; [4] where we learn to live in harmony and embrace principles of toleration and respect for diversity and the differing views of others; [5] where we secure the civil and human rights of all from violation by tyrannical forces and unjust governments; [6] where political and economic institutions work to benefit all, not just the privileged few; [7] where we provide full and free education to everyone, not merely to get jobs but to grow and flourish as human beings; [8] where we value human needs over monetary gain, to ensure decent standards of living without which effective democracy is impossible; [9] where we work together to protect the global environment to ensure that future generations will have safe and clean air, water and food supplies, and will be able to enjoy the beauty and bounty of nature that past generations have enjoyed.
The next step will be to develop a specific list of goals and demands. As one of the millions of people who are participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement, I would like to respectfully offer my suggestions of what we can all get behind now to wrestle the control of our country out of the hands of the 1% and place it squarely with the 99% majority.
Here is what I will propose to the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street:
10 Things We Want
A Proposal for Occupy Wall Street
Submitted by Michael Moore
1. Eradicate the Bush tax cuts for the rich and institute new taxes on the wealthiest Americans and on corporations, including a tax on all trading on Wall Street (where they currently pay 0%).
2. Assess a penalty tax on any corporation that moves American jobs to other countries when that company is already making profits in America. Our jobs are the most important national treasure and they cannot be removed from the country simply because someone wants to make more money.
3. Require that all Americans pay the same Social Security tax on all of their earnings (normally, the middle class pays about 6% of their income to Social Security; someone making $1 million a year pays about 0.6% (or 90% less than the average person). This law would simply make the rich pay what everyone else pays.
4. Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act, placing serious regulations on how business is conducted by Wall Street and the banks.
5. Investigate the Crash of 2008, and bring to justice those who committed any crimes.
6. Reorder our nation's spending priorities (including the ending of all foreign wars and their cost of over $2 billion a week). This will re-open libraries, reinstate band and art and civics classes in our schools, fix our roads and bridges and infrastructure, wire the entire country for 21st century internet, and support scientific research that improves our lives.
7. Join the rest of the free world and create a single-payer, free and universal health care system that covers all Americans all of the time.
8. Immediately reduce carbon emissions that are destroying the planet and discover ways to live without the oil that will be depleted and gone by the end of this century.
9. Require corporations with more than 10,000 employees to restructure their board of directors so that 50% of its members are elected by the company’s workers. We can never have a real democracy as long as most people have no say in what happens at the place they spend most of their time: their job. (For any U.S. businesspeople freaking out at this idea because you think workers can't run a successful company: Germany has a law like this and it has helped to make Germany the world’s leading manufacturing exporter.)
10. We, the people, must pass three constitutional amendments that will go a long way toward fixing the core problems we now have. These include:
a) A constitutional amendment that fixes our broken electoral system by 1) completely removing campaign contributions from the political process; 2) requiring all elections to be publicly financed; 3) moving election day to the weekend to increase voter turnout; 4) making all Americans registered voters at the moment of their birth; 5) banning computerized voting and requiring that all elections take place on paper ballots.
b) A constitutional amendment declaring that corporations are not people and do not have the constitutional rights of citizens. This amendment should also state that the interests of the general public and society must always come before the interests of corporations.
c) A constitutional amendment that will act as a "second bill of rights" as proposed by President Frankin D. Roosevelt: that every American has a human right to employment, to health care, to a free and full education, to breathe clean air, drink clean water and eat safe food, and to be cared for with dignity and respect in their old age.
Let me know what you think. Occupy Wall Street enjoys the support of millions. It is a movement that cannot be stopped. Become part of it by sharing your thoughts with me or online (at OccupyWallSt.org). Get involved in (or start!) your own local Occupy movement. Make some noise. You don't have to pitch a tent in lower Manhattan to be an Occupier. You are one just by saying you are. This movement has no singular leader or spokesperson; every participant is a leader in their neighborhood, their school, their place of work. Each of you is a spokesperson to those whom you encounter. There are no dues to pay, no permission to seek in order to create an action.
We are but ten weeks old, yet we have already changed the national conversation. This is our moment, the one we've been hoping for, waiting for. If it's going to happen it has to happen now. Don't sit this one out. This is the real deal. This is it.
Have a happy Thanksgiving!
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@MichaelMoore.com
@MMFlint
MichaelMoore.com
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Friends,
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and goals of the movement. It was attended by 40+ people and the discussion was both inspiring and invigorating. Here is what we ended up proposing as the movement's "vision statement" to the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street:
We Envision: [1] a truly free, democratic, and just society; [2] where we, the people, come together and solve our problems by consensus; [3] where people are encouraged to take personal and collective responsibility and participate in decision making; [4] where we learn to live in harmony and embrace principles of toleration and respect for diversity and the differing views of others; [5] where we secure the civil and human rights of all from violation by tyrannical forces and unjust governments; [6] where political and economic institutions work to benefit all, not just the privileged few; [7] where we provide full and free education to everyone, not merely to get jobs but to grow and flourish as human beings; [8] where we value human needs over monetary gain, to ensure decent standards of living without which effective democracy is impossible; [9] where we work together to protect the global environment to ensure that future generations will have safe and clean air, water and food supplies, and will be able to enjoy the beauty and bounty of nature that past generations have enjoyed.
The next step will be to develop a specific list of goals and demands. As one of the millions of people who are participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement, I would like to respectfully offer my suggestions of what we can all get behind now to wrestle the control of our country out of the hands of the 1% and place it squarely with the 99% majority.
Here is what I will propose to the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street:
10 Things We Want
A Proposal for Occupy Wall Street
Submitted by Michael Moore
1. Eradicate the Bush tax cuts for the rich and institute new taxes on the wealthiest Americans and on corporations, including a tax on all trading on Wall Street (where they currently pay 0%).
2. Assess a penalty tax on any corporation that moves American jobs to other countries when that company is already making profits in America. Our jobs are the most important national treasure and they cannot be removed from the country simply because someone wants to make more money.
3. Require that all Americans pay the same Social Security tax on all of their earnings (normally, the middle class pays about 6% of their income to Social Security; someone making $1 million a year pays about 0.6% (or 90% less than the average person). This law would simply make the rich pay what everyone else pays.
4. Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act, placing serious regulations on how business is conducted by Wall Street and the banks.
5. Investigate the Crash of 2008, and bring to justice those who committed any crimes.
6. Reorder our nation's spending priorities (including the ending of all foreign wars and their cost of over $2 billion a week). This will re-open libraries, reinstate band and art and civics classes in our schools, fix our roads and bridges and infrastructure, wire the entire country for 21st century internet, and support scientific research that improves our lives.
7. Join the rest of the free world and create a single-payer, free and universal health care system that covers all Americans all of the time.
8. Immediately reduce carbon emissions that are destroying the planet and discover ways to live without the oil that will be depleted and gone by the end of this century.
9. Require corporations with more than 10,000 employees to restructure their board of directors so that 50% of its members are elected by the company’s workers. We can never have a real democracy as long as most people have no say in what happens at the place they spend most of their time: their job. (For any U.S. businesspeople freaking out at this idea because you think workers can't run a successful company: Germany has a law like this and it has helped to make Germany the world’s leading manufacturing exporter.)
10. We, the people, must pass three constitutional amendments that will go a long way toward fixing the core problems we now have. These include:
a) A constitutional amendment that fixes our broken electoral system by 1) completely removing campaign contributions from the political process; 2) requiring all elections to be publicly financed; 3) moving election day to the weekend to increase voter turnout; 4) making all Americans registered voters at the moment of their birth; 5) banning computerized voting and requiring that all elections take place on paper ballots.
b) A constitutional amendment declaring that corporations are not people and do not have the constitutional rights of citizens. This amendment should also state that the interests of the general public and society must always come before the interests of corporations.
c) A constitutional amendment that will act as a "second bill of rights" as proposed by President Frankin D. Roosevelt: that every American has a human right to employment, to health care, to a free and full education, to breathe clean air, drink clean water and eat safe food, and to be cared for with dignity and respect in their old age.
Let me know what you think. Occupy Wall Street enjoys the support of millions. It is a movement that cannot be stopped. Become part of it by sharing your thoughts with me or online (at OccupyWallSt.org). Get involved in (or start!) your own local Occupy movement. Make some noise. You don't have to pitch a tent in lower Manhattan to be an Occupier. You are one just by saying you are. This movement has no singular leader or spokesperson; every participant is a leader in their neighborhood, their school, their place of work. Each of you is a spokesperson to those whom you encounter. There are no dues to pay, no permission to seek in order to create an action.
We are but ten weeks old, yet we have already changed the national conversation. This is our moment, the one we've been hoping for, waiting for. If it's going to happen it has to happen now. Don't sit this one out. This is the real deal. This is it.
Have a happy Thanksgiving!
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@MichaelMoore.com
@MMFlint
MichaelMoore.com
domenica 20 novembre 2011
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