With some delay, the latest article posted by the public AgoraVox:
It ended three days ago, the 1st day of March, an initiative dedicated to the achievements immigrants from all countries, born in France years ago and arrived today in Italy with a significant title: "24 hours without us - the day without immigrants", a collective strike, then, as if to a hypothetical situation in exemplary which disappears for a whole day, all the productive force represented by the foreigners in our country. On the one hand that is not merely economic, but the rights are lots of events in which many different yellow-painted Italian piazzas and lively debates in various conferences throughout the peninsula, including the one held in the Faculty of Political Science Cagliari, concerning in particular the issue of immigration women and they have intervened directly involved with several personal stories, accompanied by the screening of several short films. In Italy the movement is to be located after a few major events, last among all the so-called "gang warfare" and the facts of Rosarno, which has been written and talked so much. What interests me here is the letter transcribed Migrant Rosarno, in fact, read a month ago (February 2) in a press conference in Piazza San Marco (Roma), titled "The Mandarins and the olives do not fall from sky, "which explains better than any other image the situation of immigrants in our country.
On January 31, 2010 we together to form the assembly of workers of African Rosarno in Rome. We are the workers who were forced to leave after Rosarno claimed our rights.
work in inhuman conditions. We lived in abandoned factories, without water or electricity. Our work was underpaid. Leave the places where we slept every morning at 6:00 to re-enter only at 20.00 hours for 25 € all that did not end even in our pockets. Sometimes we were not, after a hard day's work, to make us pay. We returned with empty hands and the body bent with fatigue.
We were, for many years, the subject of discrimination, exploitation and threats of all kinds. We were exploited during the day and hunted at night by the children of our exploiters. We were beaten, harassed, hunted down like animals ... taken, someone is gone forever. They shot at us, for fun or for someone's interest. We continued to work. By the time we became easy targets. We could not anymore. Those who were not wounded by bullets, were injured in their dignity, their pride as human beings. We could no longer wait for help that would never happen because we are invisible, do not exist for the authorities of this country.
We got to see, we went down the street shouting for our existence. The people did not want to see us. How can someone express does not exist?
authorities and the police came and we were deported from the city because we were no longer safe. The inhabitants of Rosarno they started giving us the chase, to lynch him, this time organized into teams of real manhunt. We were locked up in detention centers for immigrants. Many of us are still there, others returned to Africa, others are scattered in the cities of the South We are in Rome. Today we find ourselves without jobs, without a place to sleep, without our luggage and with wages still unpaid in the hands of our exploiters.
We say we are the actors of economic life in this country, whose authorities do not want or see us or hear us. The mandarins, olives, oranges do not fall from the sky. They are the hands that pick them.
We were unable to find a job that we have lost simply because we asked to be treated like human beings. We did not come to Italy to tourists. Our work and our sweat serves as Italy is to our families who have placed in us much hope. We ask the authorities of that country to meet and to listen to our demands:
- ask that the permit be granted for humanitarian reasons and 11 injured in Rosario in Africa, is granted to all of us, victims of exploitation and irregular condition of our who left us unemployed, abandoned and forgotten on the streets.
- we want the government to assume its responsibilities and guarantees us the opportunity to work with dignity.
Assembly of African Workers in Rome Rosarno
work in inhuman conditions. We lived in abandoned factories, without water or electricity. Our work was underpaid. Leave the places where we slept every morning at 6:00 to re-enter only at 20.00 hours for 25 € all that did not end even in our pockets. Sometimes we were not, after a hard day's work, to make us pay. We returned with empty hands and the body bent with fatigue.
We were, for many years, the subject of discrimination, exploitation and threats of all kinds. We were exploited during the day and hunted at night by the children of our exploiters. We were beaten, harassed, hunted down like animals ... taken, someone is gone forever. They shot at us, for fun or for someone's interest. We continued to work. By the time we became easy targets. We could not anymore. Those who were not wounded by bullets, were injured in their dignity, their pride as human beings. We could no longer wait for help that would never happen because we are invisible, do not exist for the authorities of this country.
We got to see, we went down the street shouting for our existence. The people did not want to see us. How can someone express does not exist?
authorities and the police came and we were deported from the city because we were no longer safe. The inhabitants of Rosarno they started giving us the chase, to lynch him, this time organized into teams of real manhunt. We were locked up in detention centers for immigrants. Many of us are still there, others returned to Africa, others are scattered in the cities of the South We are in Rome. Today we find ourselves without jobs, without a place to sleep, without our luggage and with wages still unpaid in the hands of our exploiters.
We say we are the actors of economic life in this country, whose authorities do not want or see us or hear us. The mandarins, olives, oranges do not fall from the sky. They are the hands that pick them.
We were unable to find a job that we have lost simply because we asked to be treated like human beings. We did not come to Italy to tourists. Our work and our sweat serves as Italy is to our families who have placed in us much hope. We ask the authorities of that country to meet and to listen to our demands:
- ask that the permit be granted for humanitarian reasons and 11 injured in Rosario in Africa, is granted to all of us, victims of exploitation and irregular condition of our who left us unemployed, abandoned and forgotten on the streets.
- we want the government to assume its responsibilities and guarantees us the opportunity to work with dignity.
Assembly of African Workers in Rome Rosarno
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