"When you begin to say enough in Italy? When?!? "This is what a little 'time wonder many Italians, young and old. Among them is also Johanna, 29, a girl from the Trentino Alto Adige, which works in Valencia for more than a year. Johanna is experiencing first hand the so-called "Spanish Spring" and then, more than others, can not help but ask yourself this question, to desire the same "spring" for his country of origin.
Johanna is not a political activist, at the beginning was not even almost realized the protest on May 15, went to see what it was only five days later, on Thursday. Did not find many people that day, few compared to the multitude that you see on the news all over the world in the last week, there were people sitting talking, discussing ...
and there were many post-it. And 'this is what struck you, the many slips of paper filled with desires, suggestions, ideas of the people pass by. And signs with subsequent appointments. And the next day, after work, Johanna is back in the square in Valencia. Why is it back? What motivated you to go back there? His answer is, I believe, why we can still hope for change in this society: "Because it seemed to me something different from the usual protests, there were proposals in addition to criticism, then why was it necessary for me ...
finding people who wanted to do, to change, to believe it ... for me it was a real leader ". And the second day of the surprise: the number of people in the square had grown exponentially, there was a lot of people. "It was awesome. The thing that struck me most was the dialogue ... the people in the square, sitting, not march, we discuss really, they initiate proposals for change, proposals for real.
" On the third day Johanna sat with them, participated in its first meeting, the theme was violence against women. And then direct the General Assembly. 'E' at 20, there is one every night, which summarizes the various meetings and try to pull out of the proposals. " And there is just every night after work.
He talked about the relationship between the young and old alike, of how sometimes it was difficult to communicate via modes of thinking and speaking are very different, because youthful idealism that is often hampered by the realism of adults, and how But young people have realized the importance of older people, their experience, how they can help them avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
"I remember this man well along with age ... how she asked to speak during the general meetings and how he ended by saying 'it's all so pointless, in a bit' all become capitalists'. They booed both young adults and old ... in the end - smiling Johanna - albeit with different ways, we all want the same thing, whatever our age.
" But quell'anziano so disillusioned and cynical have been so wrong? Maybe those guys do not all become capitalists, but they will really be able to undermine the whole economic system, a system on which you hold the governments of Europe and, more generally, all over the world? It will not be just another idealistic protest that will have its end before returning to the usual reality? "We do not know what will happen in the short and long term, we do not know what police will do now that the elections are over and we do not know what people will do if they continue to protest and, if so it will be if the government before or then listen to us ...
we can not know, nobody knows. What I know is that this protest is not like the others. It is against this party or that, right or left, it is against an economic system which are based on all European governments, with the various differences of course, but everyone, left and right, Spain, England or Italy.
And 'a protest against the exploitation of any social group, an exploitation that is intrinsic, necessary, for this system. And 'This is the strength of this movement. She can not go as usual. You know why? Why do people not take it anymore. It may happen that these protests will end, but will only get a break because there are underlying reasons that will not be gone.
People will always be worse. And you'll begin again. Unfortunately for them, and fortunately for us, it's just a matter of time, it's only a matter of waiting for the moment when people will realize that there is no point being exploited by a few powerful, the point at which people break out.
Maybe not today for Spain, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps for Italy will be tomorrow, but it will come. And the cool thing about this is that people are joining. The strength of 'those guys' is isolation of the individual citizen. And there's nothing better than a common enemy to unite people.
" Above all, I am beginning to add, if that enemy is the tyranny, arrogance, exploitation. In a word, the lack of respect for the human being. Federica Fabbri 
Johanna is not a political activist, at the beginning was not even almost realized the protest on May 15, went to see what it was only five days later, on Thursday. Did not find many people that day, few compared to the multitude that you see on the news all over the world in the last week, there were people sitting talking, discussing ...
and there were many post-it. And 'this is what struck you, the many slips of paper filled with desires, suggestions, ideas of the people pass by. And signs with subsequent appointments. And the next day, after work, Johanna is back in the square in Valencia. Why is it back? What motivated you to go back there? His answer is, I believe, why we can still hope for change in this society: "Because it seemed to me something different from the usual protests, there were proposals in addition to criticism, then why was it necessary for me ...
finding people who wanted to do, to change, to believe it ... for me it was a real leader ". And the second day of the surprise: the number of people in the square had grown exponentially, there was a lot of people. "It was awesome. The thing that struck me most was the dialogue ... the people in the square, sitting, not march, we discuss really, they initiate proposals for change, proposals for real.
" On the third day Johanna sat with them, participated in its first meeting, the theme was violence against women. And then direct the General Assembly. 'E' at 20, there is one every night, which summarizes the various meetings and try to pull out of the proposals. " And there is just every night after work.
He talked about the relationship between the young and old alike, of how sometimes it was difficult to communicate via modes of thinking and speaking are very different, because youthful idealism that is often hampered by the realism of adults, and how But young people have realized the importance of older people, their experience, how they can help them avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
"I remember this man well along with age ... how she asked to speak during the general meetings and how he ended by saying 'it's all so pointless, in a bit' all become capitalists'. They booed both young adults and old ... in the end - smiling Johanna - albeit with different ways, we all want the same thing, whatever our age.
" But quell'anziano so disillusioned and cynical have been so wrong? Maybe those guys do not all become capitalists, but they will really be able to undermine the whole economic system, a system on which you hold the governments of Europe and, more generally, all over the world? It will not be just another idealistic protest that will have its end before returning to the usual reality? "We do not know what will happen in the short and long term, we do not know what police will do now that the elections are over and we do not know what people will do if they continue to protest and, if so it will be if the government before or then listen to us ...
we can not know, nobody knows. What I know is that this protest is not like the others. It is against this party or that, right or left, it is against an economic system which are based on all European governments, with the various differences of course, but everyone, left and right, Spain, England or Italy.
And 'a protest against the exploitation of any social group, an exploitation that is intrinsic, necessary, for this system. And 'This is the strength of this movement. She can not go as usual. You know why? Why do people not take it anymore. It may happen that these protests will end, but will only get a break because there are underlying reasons that will not be gone.
People will always be worse. And you'll begin again. Unfortunately for them, and fortunately for us, it's just a matter of time, it's only a matter of waiting for the moment when people will realize that there is no point being exploited by a few powerful, the point at which people break out.
Maybe not today for Spain, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps for Italy will be tomorrow, but it will come. And the cool thing about this is that people are joining. The strength of 'those guys' is isolation of the individual citizen. And there's nothing better than a common enemy to unite people.
" Above all, I am beginning to add, if that enemy is the tyranny, arrogance, exploitation. In a word, the lack of respect for the human being. Federica Fabbri
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