Friday, May 1, 2009
I receive a letter written by Laura Young college student of Colle Roio , a village hit by the earthquake. The text highlights the point of view of the earthquake and it has been, beyond the proclamations and propaganda of the government of "all under control" that all the newspapers and television stations have rushed to of vulgare without any critical mind, is experimenting with how it works in reality the machine ...
aidApril 29, 2009 - " Hello everyone, today is April 20, 2009. Abruzzese For many the gaze is all frozen ' dawn of April 6, 2009. I, fixed my father's smile and reassuring sull'ennesimo of our Chairman of the Board, which stands on the centerfold of The Center, a local newspaper and once again (even when a minimum of decency require moderation), shows off the capability and efficiency by making big promises in the hope that you forget as soon as possible ( know the Italians have loooong memory short), which up to 5 April in the beautiful house plan that was intended Vararo everlasting solution to the economic crisis, earthquake standards of even the shadow .
"I am writing from Colle of Roio (Aq) one of the villages affected by the earthquake of 6 April 2009. My country ... I find it very difficult to do in order whirlwind of thoughts that swell the head, but I'll try. And I write this note because I believe that just a tool which allows the network to meet other truth, without me of actions unless the author .
"Our camp is inhabited by about three hundred people, distributed in forty tents. Returning from a vacation never started, along with Pierre, we tried to make a contribution to the activities of management tent that in the meantime, (it was already past one week by the unexpected event), had evolved .
" As you know I am not a technician, nor do I have some experience of management and staffing in emergency situations and I'll tell you what can be vitiated by a state of emotional weakness (I guess you can forgive me). The fact is, that in the face of an effort invaluable efforts made by many people in our field, (volunteer civil defense, the cross, green / red, fire, police etc ...), unstoppable until they are exhausted, there we found, or it would be better to king we have unfortunately come across in the official structure of Civil Defence and its own organizational system .
"The wonderful car of aid, as I have seen, rests its solid and certainly earthquake bases, shoulders and balls of volunteers from the rest ' the impression of dramatic improvisation. It does not work because you do not know or do not have tools and resources, but simply and in my opinion, because it is wildly underestimated the problem from the beginning .
"If true, that the earthquake is unpredictable it is equally true that all the previous shocks (about three hundred more or less violent than the first event of the unexpected) were to be a serious warning. Why it did not help the fact that two weeks before the earthquake a number of buildings present in Via XX Settembre, in L'Aquila, miserably gutted, had already been cordoned off because the successive shocks that were until then (the higher than 4th grade, Quin little of everything ...) had dropped part of the plaster cornices and ...> / i> "
" An intelligent person minimamante, head of a structure as big as civil protection, would had to deploy its soldiers near the city, like an army, ready for any eventuality. And instead I find myself having to tell that the first twenty tents of our camp are due to mount if the citizens of the country (still distorted by the earthquake), with the help of a handful of tireless volunteers, that there is no coordination between groups present, the secretariat of the field (we are trying to run), remained active until yesterday with a personal computer owned by my property, purchased "has ever had to serve," and with that of a volunteer that we were equipped with printer and telephone line for DSL, but (in Italy is still a strange thing ...) we are still waiting for and what we managed to put together is about the intelligence of some youth from the village and its technical instruments that we had to call all you disinfect and take away the piles of clothes because they got dirty and not usable, that up to ten days after the earthquake we had a tap to three hundred people, no shower, about 20 portable toilets and no heating of tents .
"I remind you that in Abruzzo L'Aquila and in particular the spring hard to get and that on this night the temperature continues to be close close to zero. We can not therefore surprising that many people, most of them elderly (and not all of them with dentures ...), and stubbornly in spite of the directives that prohibit covered in houses, contiunano to shuttle from the tent to the bathroom to home.
"You could argue that all things considered and the results achieved in following more than forty thousand displaced these problems are inevitable and you just have patience. with the reasoning of vido .
"What leaves me amazed that people do not know and that the media are careful to say is that the whole machine is based in practice on the will and the heart of people who leave their homes and their families and who do not pay, they try to restore a minimum of of dignity and comfort to those who, from his intimacy, he lost almost everything. Civil protection that many imagine (at Bertolaso \u200b\u200bfor instance) does not exist in the fields, at least not in ours. Volunteers shift, because compelled to leave after about 7 days .
What does this mean?
"What you see new faces every week with the need to begin to know and learn to coordinate, the head field changes too with others and therefore may have less experience or, often, and it is our case, the management of certain activities is entrusted to the earthquake victims will not be sent because dedicated staff, with inevitable problems, and invited of acrimony and fighting each other ... poor .
Want an example of crystalline sorganizzazione?
"Our psychologist, arrived at the camp for his stubborn will, she remained only a week. Can you imagine what may be the help and support they can give a person in charge and what confidence can risquotere to allow people to open up, if it changes every Sunday?? In addition to this the inexperience of many people (often and fortunately defeated by the will to do well) and the sad and humiliating displays of human misery that characterize us and that is even more indecent and unacceptable in cases of emergency " .
Something of good guys but I've learned .
"I learned that the request for materials should I send a special form to sign and that it shall not be the head field, the responsibility, luck it is only to manage three hundred lives, three hundred souls, plus all those who help us overnight, but need the approval of the Mayor or the chairperson or their delegate (official). Us after having spent two days in of tify who should sign these forms blessed, we know that we have to take the car and when you need it (of course several times a day) to achieve common .
last noticina .
"Two days ago, the Civil Defence met with experts, and considered that there are no concerns with regard to the dams Abruzzo (the earth trembles every day). Now remembering that similar safety was expressed at the dawn of a kick in the fourth degree and a few days before we did three hundred dead and unexpected event clear the economy and the lives of thousands of people ... I have done so, inelegant, to perform the gesture known superstitious ... "But
gifts I have received .
"These are the tears of many of the people who worked at the camp, held barely in time to say goodbye, are the words and the looks of the old country, mixing of dignity and fear, courage and resignation, without ever a lament. " Another thing
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"Please, whoever you can, take the train or plane the car and do a tour of L'Aquila and its surroundings. The tent cities are not all such as those Colle May. You'll discover the level of deceit that is lavished with both hands on your back now from the organs of communication and the level of indecency of our first prime minister who with tears to the onion and then with plastic smiles of guarantees and future version distributed to those living in tents and essays on the skin of the situation knows that all balls are .
"The dead are immediately served to show human sympathy for the families, but now it is better to Gradually forgetting in a hurry .. .. no responsibility, no criminal intent. The prosecutors are evil .. rebuild in a hurry .. under the Life is good, you'll see in a month at home ... you'll all know the names families to house in his villas? The human virtues transcend the events, their miseries have no boundaries .
If you want to please strongly to send this email to all your friends. The national press has refrained from publishing it.
Greetings Laura at all.
We All One X One X _ All are with you! FJ
taken from the site (www.gennarocarotenuto.it)
