From the Charter of April 24, 2008 Another policy [PAPER - April 24, 2008]
publish a text that is not a call nor a document, a letter, that many people have thought it useful to write, correct, rewrite and amend or simply share. Everything was done in a few days last week. We felt an urgent need: to suggest that, in the face of what is falling on us citizens, communities, civil society movements or [everyone who wants to use the term], there the possibility not only to resist but to begin to establish immediately a different kind of politics. This is nothing new, this conviction. Months ago, was issued an appeal titled "The policy that we
", signed by many people from civil society, which then gave rise to the Lilliput network workshop on the same subject was held on April 5, the same day that the Charter Shipyards and the association organized the Social Construction of the other political. Paolo Cacciari E
, who had attended both meetings, then wrote the first draft of the letter we publish. Movements such as the Val di Susa and Vicenza are already in our opinion - the germ - this other policy. But there are many other ways to try the same thing. The letter was in fact proposed by different people together. There are researchers, intellectual assets, so to speak, as
Marco Revelli, Riccardo Petrella
,
Tonino Perna and Bruno Amoroso
. The same
Giulio Marcon is an analyst of international cooperation and civil society, besides being the chairman of the Network Sbilanciamoci. Then there are the Susa
Sasso Chiara, Claudio
Day and Ezio
Bertok [who cares for the site of the pact of mutual aid]. Network Lilliput part
Alberto Castagnola and Richard
Troisi, and cooperate with them on this and other issues,
Antonio Tricarico and Andrea Baranes the Campaign to Reform the World Bank. Promoter of the other networks economy is
David Biolghini while
Alberto Zoratti, was also active in the trade fair, has built an observatory on world trade [Watch Fair, working every week with the Charter].
Sergio D'Angelo, a Neapolitan, is the president of a large consortium of social co-Gesch. Water movement is part of the Tuscan
Tommaso Fattori, and the World Water Contract
Emilio Molinari .
Cyrus Pesacane is the promoter of the Environmental Forum,
Gianni Tamino is a teacher and environmentalist, and Gianni Palumbo
movement is "No Oil" of Basilicata [among other things]. To discuss with us
Ciccio Auletta and Sergio Bontempelli , Project Rebeldía of Pisa, extraordinary 'home associations. "
Giuseppe De Marzo Association is in the south and
Mimmo Rizzuti Left Mediterranean. Dear Don Pasquale
is the pastor of Sorrivoli [in the province of Forlì-Cesena] and
Savadori Mino is the president of the cultural 'The Castle', Cesena Network civil society organizations. No Tav [the threatened "under crossing" of the city] is also the Florentine
Zordo Maurizio De while
Cristiano Lucchi is the monthly "The other cities', very close to the communities of Piagge, and of course
Ornella De Zordo and councilmen in Florence Unaltracittà / unaltromondo. To work around our letter has obviously helped those of the Charter, particularly
Anna Pizzo and Pierluigi On and
Morniroli Andrea, president of the shipyard industry, and Sergio
Sinigaglia, Cantieri social Marche. Having more days available, this list could get longer in proportion. Several chose to take some time to reflect, and tell them in future issues of paper and elsewhere, and it will all end at the site of the Charter and other areas. We felt it necessary to launch immediately a signal, but the letter is intended to be an open work, whose writing is so progressive and collective, to which anyone can contribute, either by writing to carta@carta.org [address denoted for convenience, to have a only place from which to sort the communications], that by participating in meetings that we propose in the letter.
Another policy A premise We are in a serious moment of collective life. That not only has its roots in the events of politics, the latest elections, but in an in-depth breakdown of the social bond. Here we want to make a simulation game: tell us, and say in public, as we imagine to be another world, and how you might try to do so. This text contains a hint: look ahead to better understand how to tackle today.
Two claims 1.
promote political action from below , a condition of citizenship entirely interwoven with social ties, pluralistic, global, with an overall vision and is able to propose a social system free from the dominant economic logic. Stating that the policy that we want, our ability to be society. We are all politicians, all we do is political.
2.
There is a complex and widespread galaxy social action groups, associations, collectives, networks, people's committees, trade unions, community substantial constituents, which form rings of national and transnational networks of solidarity, instances of resistance, other economy , spread of democracy. Now you can become aware of the positive force that this particular "civil society" expresses, network and strengthen the culture of thinking in a collective process self-government, public space-or, perhaps, would be better to call it from now on a "common space" where-can be offered, compare and share experiences and practices. A political pact open, inclusive, a real widespread system of self-representation, capable of contending for the powers that be a monopoly of political decision. A truly joint force capable of producing in their day to day trading and processing.
Five Pillars 1.
idea of \u200b\u200bsociety so worthwhile endeavors. E 'possible to imagine a world that the future is friendly, fair, non-violent. Only a forward-looking policy can give comfort and tranquility: the "profitability" in short, the unlimited exploitation of nature and society leading to global inequality and environmental disaster. The design of good society is to live together. The common good is not the arithmetic sum of private property owned by individual members of society and poorly redistributed, but the shared enjoyment of the commons: space, air, sea, water, forests, energy, knowledge, education, communication, security, justice , health, work ... Its realization requires, indeed demands, the use of media-friendly and compatible with the objective, that means strictly nonviolent.
2.
The economics of reciprocity. E 'that everyone can regain control of the circumstances that govern their daily life. you can overcome the discomfort, insecurity, anxiety that every honest person feels because of the growing hostility between the governments of many countries [population] of the Earth, degradation of the biosphere and social disasters caused by rising prices food and raw materials. The conquest of freedom by the needs of each individual is the basic precondition for an authentic existence and effective exercise of democracy. Freedom, first of all, it must be freedom from conditioning and blackmail. Globalization is done in the name of profit, competition, market. The global community however is reached by following the principles of reciprocity, cooperation and sharing. Neoclassical economics and liberal economics ecological liar by the myth of infinite growth to sobriety, from the imperative of competitiveness in the supportive cooperation.
3.
Wisdom is knowing how to predict . E 'can rely on the knowledge and experience the cultures of peoples have accumulated to improve the conditions of each and all the inhabitants of Earth. The technique, science, intelligence must be able to foresee, and therefore must comply with the precautionary principle. Technical resources, scientific knowledge, the same financial resources available to humanity would be enough to bring out the entire human race from poverty. If this does not happen today is due to the prevalence of economic logic and predatory and selfish short-sighted political will and suicide. The great theme of a new modernity and social control on scientific research and technologies in a renewed relationship with the real needs of local communities.
4.
A happy relationship between people, between cities and people . It 'possible that many people - ordinary people engage in citizen- the way to improve social relations between genders, generations, nations and species. You can redesign cities and welcoming community, safe as bonds and relationships based on proximity and coexistence, in which each individual is recognized primarily for his needs and desires. In an interconnected and interdependent world peace and security are not divisible. Nobody will be safe, even if build walls, if so are its neighbors and neighbors of neighbors. Sharing, reciprocity, cooperation, recognition of ecological debt, human and economic contracts by the North towards the people of the South are the guiding principles to be followed by reports international. Our cities are increasingly the places of exclusion, of identity based on cancellation of those of other, non-citizens, competitors increasingly lonely, sad. City where the anomalies are the last, different, who does not approve. Should reverse this machine to separate, suggesting universes - and political - are open to intermarriage, cooperation.
5.
A democracy radically different . E 'possible to regenerate the policy as a voluntary civil action for a collective service. Only civil ethics can give way to politics. Ethics in politics is a system of values \u200b\u200bchosen and shared. Representations [albeit minimal physiological and adjusted so that freedom of conscience of the "delegate-elect," and a binding mandate always be transparent and verifiable] are needed in practice conflicted democracy / participation. Hence the inescapable need to secure forms of political organization, as well as riallargare policy space through direct and participatory forms of democracy. Must invent a model radically different from that, so far known, political parties, from the birth of parliamentary democracy today. Their form has finally run out. The culture of the network, horizontality, autonomy of the nodes, the method sharing, consensus, within the EU and national co-decision, all with the aim of empowering communities, are the great innovation and strength of social movements. Knowing that it's just so - and freeing up space for federated growing community - which makes room for a real alternative. However, it should be clear that "he who says organization says oligarchy", and it is therefore necessary to provide strong countermeasures against all risks of centralization, vertical, bureaucratic, self-separation. One form of other policy with this in mind, so radically from those of the new century, can be a prerequisite for the construction of a new democracy, based primarily on "river" where people, communities, form, live and act: the cities and territories, whose "scale" larger than to the effectiveness of control ' Delegates, it is likely that sub-regional level. This in turn suggests the urgent problem of connections, constraints, alliances, coordination between political organizations and institutions of a new type from one place to another, in mobile and variable: up to propose to influence European and global choices. Experiences of this kind already exist, both at local, national and supranational Pact of mutual aid such as the movement of migrants and feminists and lesbians, or that GLBTQ, but also the movement of water, the 'peoples' socio-economic partnership, the new networks of shop stewards, etc.. This is not to invent anything, but to draw lessons from what is already happening in society and make it consistent and effective.
The Republic translated into the language of today This letter is a cry of alarm. Try to imagine the future is the indispensable foundation to organize resistance to what already promises, considering the consequences that will result-election as an attack on civil society, its organizations, its values, workers and the union, migrants and the very possibility of a civil society. The evident crisis of globalization, the catastrophe of global food and financial collapse are the causes of the transformation of the democratic system, or what's left of it, in a despotism which will retain only the empty forms of citizenship. We must now think and operate new forms of self-organization, process networks in active instruments of exchange of experiences, mutual support and mobilization. We must be willing to experiment with new forms of organization and decision. What I suggest is that now any person or group that wants to resist this tide will meet, as openly as possible, in as many places possible, in close relationship with each other and that moves around them, to discuss immediately, setting aside the mistrust and deepening mutual understanding, the way to establish new forms of political organization. If we all move well, you can arrange to June 2, Republic Day and the Constitution, which has long turned into a celebration of a nation in arms, a great first national meeting in which to begin to compare the proposals emerging from the thematic clusters and local networks. What a beautiful
