1, MEETING FOR THE RIGHT TO ACCESS THE EARTH MONTE ALAGO 5-6 June 2010
From the morning of 5 in the afternoon of 6 to compare experiences and share analysis on the issue of access to land for all and all.
There will be moments of meeting the common-circle or workshops (permaculture and sustainable use of land, the experiences of indigenous struggle, environmental education, civic uses).
We will have a bakery and a fountain on the site. Bring tent, food self-produced seeds to be exchanged and a lot of enthusiasm!
To get there: Coming from Rome Flaminia overcome Nocera Umbra and soon turn right into Mount Alago (Direction: Casaluna, Salmaregia, Molinaccio) from Gualdo Tadino turn left before reaching the center of Nocera. Go to the top where you'll find these and other directions for parking.
The environmental and economic crisis caused by capitalism begins to cause small to flow reversal in the mobility from the countryside to cities, which have characterized the world from the 50s onwards. Gradually more and more people turn their gaze to the field and its own development, often fleeing the city now unlivable and unhealthy. Dying on the carcass (as yet destructive) of capitalism accompanying the new paradigms in search of another lifestyle, another biorhythm of another power, a new relationship.
In this scenario, a new generation begins to return to the field looking into activities and rural life in a way to escape the terrible uncertainty of postmodern metropolis and with the intent to build nuove relazioni sociali, ambientali, economiche. Insomma una generazione politica che fa del ritorno alla terra e all'agricoltura contadina una strada per la realizzazione della propria persona e uno strumento di lotta politica per la costruzione di una società post-capitalista.
Però anche questa prospettiva sembra scontrarsi con il problema della proprietà dei mezzi di produzione, cioè con l'accesso alla terra.
"Chi vuole oggi terra in Italia ? Ce ne sono d'avanzo!" penseranno molti.
Invece almeno tre elementi have made that access to land in Italy requires a fair amount of money. First, the geography of the peninsula, with a limited availability of good lands, almost always the prerogative of agribusiness (in Umbria enough to see the relationship with tobacco). Then the beauty of our countryside has made them become a destination for tourism booming, often elite, then there is the tendency, which is now fully invested even our area, to transform the holiday camp in the living room (if not when real treatment center) for rich and wealthy stressed. Finally, the personalistic management of state ownership, which sees the political duty to keep large pieces of land abandonment pending become attractive for some private speculation.
Once again the need of money to want to stop caging dreams and paths. An unbearable situation, especially for those who have decided to turn their backs on the system and instead finds it so hard to speak about their lives.
And so in 2010 access to land in Italy back on the agenda of the movements. As in many other parts of the world has always been one of the most advanced frontiers of anti-capitalist struggles, around which have developed important and practical experiences build another world possible (I think the Zapatistas, the Brazilian MST, etc).
Logically, our attention turns to the large state-owned assets, which in many cases it pays in state of disrepair. Capital represented by a marginal zone (Apennine ridge, high hills, valleys, isolated) less attractive and appropriate to agribusiness or other forms of speculation, but that has always characterized the peasant agriculture and civilization in Italy.
Beni often hostage to negligence or bad faith, government and local bureaucracies.
The territory and arable land are considered the land can still be exploited as intensively and with strategies to create more and new forms of dependency in the social stratum (GMOs). At the political level the economic crisis and the resulting unemployment are rethinking agriculture as a lifeboat. So over several constitutional forces have begun to mention the issue of redistribution of public lands. First and foremost the league, which has pursued a policy on agriculture complex and not obvious, as demonstrated by the work of a minister Zaia. But we know how to read and counteract this policy proposal, which with all its populist appeal seems to hold over many people. First to the unbearable racism characteristic of League policy: "young earth ... as long as the Italians" <> . And because it binds to a vision always possible redistribution markedly agricultural productivity, a feeling very far from the young people who return to earth with a passion, a way of understanding the relationship with the environment that becomes the real challenge facing us profiling to be addressed in education.
fact, when something seems to move at the political level and open up possible scenarios, we need to constrain the fore the issue of access to land for programs and projects of sustainable use of this and preservation and protection of landscape and biodiversity.
Why "The Earth belongs to those who work it" as claimed exactly 100 years ago, Emiliano Zapata, now no longer enough in front of the degree of deterioration of our ecosystem. Today, it is necessary to add that the Earth is one of those who work, but in a sustainable manner and with respect and responsibility towards future generations.
There's more. It is necessary to forcefully introduce the theme of collective ownership. Right now the civic uses that are being targeted by an instrumental regularization state for their lack of a mapping, may be a solution (adjusted to today's context) in a new proposal viable and popular demand. So redistribution of land to individuals and collective inalienability of lands assigned.
To discuss this, to build a common struggle on the right of access to land, we invite you on 5 and 6 June in two days on Mount Alago (Nocera Umbra)
