Sunday, March 20, 2011

Seven days in Tunisia

Let me suggest what I received in-country outpost of the Arab Democratic wave. And the video made by Cosimo Caridi services. Seven days in Tunisia are not sufficient to understand the complex and not always transparent interplay between old and new, but serve to frame the questions and feel the feelings.

Tunis "Horra" (free) will also Tunis "Laika" (secular)? This is the main question for the feminist elite are beginning to ask, besides the problem of the Constituent Assembly elections of 24 July, one of the municipalities. But in general it is not - and maybe not - the number one problem.

The merry mix, in the garrison square Kasba, girls and young women veiled with style "frikkettone", which sees the collaboration between Islamists and secular left, are, for the moment at least, quite reassuring. Here are some ideas on "women in the Tunisian democratic revolution." Immediately I would say the main question concerns the relationship between the democratic revolution, the need is genuine and that too not recycle the leadership of Ben Ali, and the full resumption of economic activity and services.

Without which are likely to worsen the conditions of unemployment and underemployment that push tens of thousands of young working class to risk your life for a ride by boat in Lampedusa. To Italy, to Europe. Gone are between Friday 4 and Saturday, March 5 the two garrisons of divergent Kasbah (under the Government Palace) and Kobbe (in residential areas north of Tunis), but the feelings, needs, the social composition that expresses both remain at the center of Tunisian debate.

Not to mention that at the first signs of a hitch in the process of renewal of power and preparation of an equal and transparent elections constituents, the Kasbah will return to fill day and night. That's what was and what can be brought back into the Kasbah: Here's a bit 'of the festivity of the garrison committed the Kasbah: The opposite signs of the wave of strikes - or Square incident - they'll come to mobilize the "well dressed" of Kobbe, with their fussiness that protests can be made "between five and seven," after work and before taking the evening with the family.

It 'a movement of this Kobbe, who was born as a reaction to the resignation of Prime Minister Ben Ali post, Gannouci, imposed by the resignation of Kasba protesters. Here are images and voices of Kobbe, "No one who proclaims the people and continues to cry out to all DEGAGE. E'ora that is passed from DEGAGE all'engage, commitment to roll up their sleeves.

"But he adjusted quickly Kobbe language and shooting when the more discerning they had to admit that it might become - or be perceived as - meeting place of the beneficiaries of the old defensive scheme. It seems that in particular has been the party Ettjadid Renewal (defined similar to the Italian Democratic Party) to engage because the promoters of the presidium of the slogans and speeches Kobbe unit to the Kasbah, and in general to the revolution.

Now, at the institutional level, the shift towards bridging the presidential system seems irreversible. The risk was that it went very quickly to new presidential elections, with the possibility that the country is split between the recycled Rsd (the party that has managed all) and even an Islamist "moderate to Tunisia." But among the demonstrators grew increasingly presidential in the idea that there were the foundations for a new authoritarian regime and the next stage, the start of the second republic, should instead be a site of democratic reforms.

The day after the announcement of the date of the election of the Constituent Assembly a guy square in Kasba told me in a tone inspired: January 14 we ousted the dictator, but now we're getting rid of the dictatorship This service briefly summarizes the dynamic between the two squares: just over three months are still a few new forces and to prepare new proposals for the elections.

There is working day and night Habib Guiza, in his dual role as promoter of the reconstitution of the union CGTT alternative (alternative to the powerful and discussed UGTT, who was the union official) and a facilitator of a possible "Civil Democratic Front" in view elections. "We are modernists, that is secular, inspired by social and look to Europe." With the money from foundations and Finnish German Guiza had coordinated the Forum Tunisia 2040, ideas for a sustainable country.

The Libyan crisis, dramatic and close, does not seem to influence the internal debate of Tunisia. But this does not mean it removed. The presence of the activities of solidarity and aid the collection is impressive. Next to the Libyan Embassy and desert protected by soldiers and barbed wire, has formed a collection with people who work there for free all day.

There are others in the neighborhoods or even in front of shopping centers. Difficult to collect precise views on what should be done in addition to helping refugees unconditionally. The imposition of a no-fly zone is the idea that you gather more support, and I learned well before the UN resolution.

"Unthinkable send our army against Gaddafi. E 'weak, but especially now that madman would take thousands of our compatriots hostage. "There is not a Tunisian who does not advocate the immediate fall of Gaddafi. Much more uncertain and different views on the thousands who board at Lampedusa.

The most popular is that if we bend over backwards to 150 000 from Libya is not clear why the Italian government complain so much about five thousand refugees. Then there are those who say that it is understandable that go to seek a better future and those who say that they are crazy. Someone suspected of maneuvering to give the clan Ben Ali of Tunisia unstable image.

But after hearing so much about them, we found them easily, those who are about to leave for Lampedusa, or at least that's what they say: There is no need to do difficult research. We spoke to a group of students of Dante Alighieri - which in Italy would like to come with permission to study - and led us to know their less educated peers in the suburb of the Tunisian Ybal Yloud.

A few miles from the offices and hotels in town are talking about rates of barges, those at Lampedusa and phoned or not he succeeded, Italy as a destination or transit point for other countries more prosperous. It 's all a lot easier as I had thought. Do not flee from one country in the throes of disorder (which no longer exists), they are not manipulated by the regime fell.

Freedom is for them, first, the reduction of police controls that prevented them from leaving, or who were splashing in high switching costs to "Lambedusa. They have no confidence in the democratic revolution. It 's just that, as Safouan says, "there is no freedom without work and without money." The rediscovery of this essential truth of historical materialism is the other side of the coin of Tunisia that spring is beginning.

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