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G8: Zanotelli, Agnoletto, Don Ciotti. Voices from Genoa

2021-07-18T14:24:24.298Z


Father Alex: 'I wish justice were done'. The founder of Libera: 'We need that movement, we cannot be silent' (ANSA)


From father Zanotelli to Don Ciotti to Vittorio Agnoletto.

There are many voices raised during the 'G8 video conference.

Another world is possible 'held this morning at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, the first of many events to remember what happened during the 2001 G8 in Genoa.

"I really would like justice to finally be done on Genoa. It has never been done yet", said Father Alex Zanotelli who spoke in a video conference at the conference. 

"That movement of that time - said Don Luigi Ciotti - still needs to be there today. It is necessary. We cannot remain silent, we cannot remain inert. We must make our voices heard, whatever it costs. Without generalization, always in one dimension of non-violence but of great project and proposal ".

 "I believe that any person in good faith can recognize that we were right then. We went back to Genoa to say" you, the 12% who own 85% of the world's wealth are the disease.

We, 7 billion 800 million people, are the cure: the care of the planet, of the species, of every single man and woman ", said Vittorio Agnoletto, former spokesman of the Genoa Social Forum.

"Then - said Agnoletto - we launched an alarm: we said 'attention because the world is running towards disaster'. We have had tsunamis and floods and thousands of deaths. We need to change this energy-intensive model of development. dominates over the real economy. We said: there will be an impressive economic and social crisis. And that's what we have now. Then we understood that migrants would be the primevalities of neoliberalism. Today the Mediterranean is a cemetery. Then we said: another world is Today we are obliged to say another world is urgently needed. Back then we contested the world where 20% of the world population owned 80% of the world wealth. Today 12% of the population owns 85% of the world wealth.55% of the world population owns only 1.3% of the world's wealth. And this - he concluded - is deeply unfair and unacceptable "


Source: ansa

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