On Wednesday 8 October 2008 at 10.30am in Naples, Piazza Municipio, a protest took place to reject the proposals contained in the security package of the Municipality of Naples. who, evidently having nothing else to offer citizens to make them feel safer, he takes it out on the last and the most fragile, making their existence even more precarious.
After the approval of the security package, one wonders whether, contrary to what is expected, the sense of insecurity and fear will not be further fuelled, which it is leading to closure and distrust towards others and causing dangerous phenomena of racism towards all kinds of diversity.
In Naples, the hallmarks of insecurity are unemployment, the spread of an increasingly clientelistic system, the weakness of the welfare system, and conflicts arising from situations of material and relational poverty.
Taking it out on graffiti artists, the homeless, prostitutes and their clients, on those who ask for a few crumbs of our well-being at the traffic lights, It means being strong with the weak while continuing to be weak with the strong., not having plans for the city, unloading responsibilities that are not theirs onto the less fortunate.
The city's social associations and organizations, which unsuccessfully requested a hearing before the municipal administration's safety measures were implemented, are calling for the suspension of the mayoral decree and the immediate convening of a roundtable discussion to develop a social plan of interventions that will truly make the city safer.
Among others, the demonstration was attended by:, transsexual people who prostitute themselves because they have no alternatives, because they are discriminated against because they are different, due to the lack of concrete and accessible active labor policies; the victims of trafficking who currently have no shelter in Naples, given that reception facilities are closed or refuse to accept them because the workers are unpaid; the unaccompanied minors who in recent years have abandoned the traffic lights not because they were "arrested," but because they found workers and services that guided them toward training, school, or work.
Demonstration promoted by:
Arcigay Antinoo Provincial Committee of Naples – Transsexual Association of Naples – Transsexual Identity Movement – Gesco – Dedalus Social Cooperative – Legacoopsociale – Social Works – Priscilla Association
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