Punto Radio interview with Federica Salsi about Bologna-Seongnam agreement

Ringrazio Barbara Chiodi per l'impegno e la tenacia e Barbara Cavara di ‪#‎DIAMOCILAZAMPAPUNTORADIO‬ per lo spazio dedicato in trasmissione all'approfondimento dei maltrattamenti dei cani in Sud Corea e a come il Comune di Bologna potrebbe interventire grazie all'accordo strettocon il Sindaco di Seongnam.
L'intervista è sottotitolata sia in italiano che in inglese.

Thank you Barbara Chiodi for the commitment and tenacity and Barbara Cavara of #DIAMOCILAZAMPAPUNTORADIO for the space dedicated in the transmission for deepening the mistreatment of dogs in South Korea and how the Municipality of Bologna could help thanks to an agreement made with the mayor of Seongnam.
The interview is subtitled in Italian and in English.



Altro sul medesimo argomento:

Il Sindaco di Bologna, Virginio Merola, manifesti alla Città Partner di Seongnam, in Corea del Sud, la propria opposizione alla tortura e al consumo di cani e gatti

Seongnam, South Korea.Moran Dog Meat Market 모란시장 애완견과 개고기(Pet dogs and dog meat in the Moranjang Market)https://t.co/AbEdet0U5a via @YouTube

— Koreandogs (@Koreandogs) 13 Gennaio 2016

At bottom see the english version

A dicembre in seguito ad una segnalazione, sollecitai il Sindaco Merola affinchè sensibilizzasse il Sindaco di Seongnam in Sud Corea in merito alle torture che subiscono cani e gatti destinai al macello. I due Sindaci hanno firmato un accordo di cooperazione in amicizia, per promuovere uno scambio efficace di progetti in campo economico, culturale e tecnologico, sia nel settore pubblico che privato. La risposta dell'Assessore competente è disarmate: "Al momento non sono previste azioni specifiche". Commentai quindi che la costituenda consulta degli animali avrebbe avuto già il suo da fare. Lunedì scorso in Consiglio la Consulta è diventata effettiva, il mio voto è stato favorevole poichè ne condivido il principio. Mi rimane qualche perplessità sulla tempistica, sembra quasi uno spot elettorale per ingraziarsi i sostenitori del mondo animale. Ma lo vedremo presto se sono solo chiacchiere. Ieri è partita una petizione per chiedere al Sindaco Merola che manifesti alla Città Partner di Seongnam, in Corea del Sud, la propria opposizione alla tortura e al consumo di cani e gatti. In un giorno ha già raccolto quasi 2.000 firme da tutto il mondo. Bologna non ci sta facendo una bella figura, proprio ora che da un punto di vista turistico sta vivendo un momento felice. Se il Sindaco e il PD fossero almeno un po' furbi (dato che hanno già manifestato in un certo senso che di come vengono trattati cani e gatti in Corea gli interessa poco o nulla) e amassero un po' questa città, eviterebbero almeno di esporla a queste critiche. La consulta potrebbe pertanto portare all'attenzione del Sindaco la questione coreana e a quel punto, dopo l'attenzione sollevata dalla petizione, voglio vedere con che coraggio il buon Merola asserisce che "Al momento non sono previste azioni specifiche".

English version

Beppe Grillo Parlante

(click here for english synopsis)
Tempo fa, a settembre 2012 il tempo del fuorionda di Favia per intenderci, mi contatta su Facebook un giovane, si chiama Francesco Oggiano e mi spiega che è un giornalista di Vanity Fair.it, segue da tempo il Movimento 5 Stelle e sta scrivendo un "piccolo libricino per Cairo Editore che ne ricostruisce la storia e ne analizza i vari aspetti". Allega anche i link agli articoli che ha scritto. Leggo gli articoli. Sembra serio e gli rispondo.

"Ciao Francesco,
la voglia che ho in questi giorni di parlare con i giornalisti è pari a quella che ho di tirarmi delle martellate sulle dita dei piedi. Oggi ho anche scoperto che la giornalista di Piazza Pulita che mi ha telefonato per una chiacchierata, ha registrato a mia insaputa la telefonata e ci ha pure fatto un video. http://www.la7.it/piazzapulita/pvideo-stream?id=i592312 Io sono la seconda persona a cui telefona. Ha camuffato la mia voce. ... comprenderai la mia reticenza ...
Ho letto i tuoi articoli, ho apprezzato il fatto che non suggerisci al lettore un'interpretazione del contenuto, ma lasci che sia il contenuto stesso a spiegarsi.
Questo è il mio cell XXXXXXXX sentiamoci domenica, tarda mattinata o primo pomeriggio.
Ciao Federica"

Così ci siamo sentiti, ho trovato un giornalista che conosceva molto bene il MoVimento 5 Stelle, conosceva tante altre realtà sparse sul territorio e le loro storie, e io ho aggiunto i miei tasselli per arricchire il quadro.

Bologna conferisce la cittadinanza onoraria a Aung San Suu Kyi

Questa mattina Aung San Suu Kyi, premio Nobel per la Pace, ha ricevuto dal Sindaco Virginio Merola la cittadinanza onoraria della città di Bologna, - See more at: http://www.comune.bo.it/news/cittadinanza-onoraria-ad-aung-san-suu-kyi-0#sthash.gAQXW6Dp.dpuf

Questa mattina Aung San Suu Kyi, premio Nobel per la Pace, ha ricevuto dal Sindaco Virginio Merola la cittadinanza onoraria della città di Bologna. La voce di Suu Kyi, che insieme a quella di tanti dissidenti cinesi e asiatici di altri Paesi è testimonianza di una cultura di pace, di democratica e dei diritti dell’uomo, oggi ha riempito la nostra città. Grazie.

Il video del discorso nell'aula del consiglio comunale; segue il discorso originale e la traduzione in italiano. Qui gli interventi degli altri rappresentati istituzionali.

"Thank you.
Madame chair, president Sofri, mister Major and distinguished guests.
I thank you from my heart for your warm welcome and for the enthusiasm with which you have made me one of you, a citizen of Bologna.
When I was welcomed by the chair she mentioned the fact that I had expressed a great affection for the people of Italy, she described it as platonically in love, I am not quite sure whether it is platonic or not but I am certainly very much in love with Italy as it is today.
A very warm country, warm and very loving people, I thank you for accepting me as one of you.
Professor Sofri talked about the fact that I was not alone, these are the words that his holiness the Dalai Lama said to me not long ago, we are not alone he said, there are people with you, who share with you the same values and the same desire for peace and freedom in this world.

Bologna, the TARSU tax hits a record at +67%. Here is why it's not supposed to.

(Read here the original article in italian by Antonio Amorosi).

Bologna sets a national record, but for taxes on waste collection. They're the highest in Italy. According to CGIA of Mestre, they increased by 67% since year 2000.
We found out why. The local administration achieved it by "forgetting" to apply the law that regulates the disposal of municipal solid waste (Article 61 of the Legislative Decree of 15 November 1993, number 507).
It states that waste charges payed by the citizens of a municipality may not exceed the total cost of collection. Too bad that the Municipality of Bologna from 2006 to 2012 imposed taxes higher than that cost by many millions of Euros.
As in 2012 (official data): waste collection cost to the municipal company (Hera) 67 million 315 thousand euros but taxes resulted  higher by 11 million and 323 thousand euros, for a total of 78 million 638 thousand euro. With a burden on individual bills by a third.
In 2011, for example, the collection cost 65,600,000 but 69,500,000 Euros is what citizens payed. Or in 2010, the collection of waste cost 63 million but the municipality applied taxes of 66 (cf. tables at the bottom of the article). Sinces 2006 the citizens of Bologna have payed 22 million 600 thousands euros in excess.

Five Star Movement: how it really started

(clicca qui per l'articolo in italiano)
 
The Five Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle, M5S), and even before the Meetup, have always used the Meetup platform to create groups in the area.
These groups arise from aggregations of people who share the Grillo thought and decide to open a meetup and connect with each other. It can be said that the engine on the territory of M5S are the meetups, where activists do things.
Banquets, collected signatures, submission of electoral lists, events, information evenings, various meetings and more.

The voters of M5S may be different and not necessarily participating actively in the five-starred initiatives: they not necessarily belong to a meetup. They are not necessarily members of the Beppe Grillo portal. 
Maybe they read Grillo's blog, without even knowing a single thing g about what is happening before their eyes.
Grillo continuosly talks about the spontaneity of the movement, but let's see if everything is just so spontaneous or if a superior director exists.

2004, January 22

Ius soli the italian way

These days the theme of Ius Soli is widely debated. As I have already said more than once I am in favor of a Law that goes in this direction. This is my vote in the City Council to support the campaign "I am Italy too"

I have already posted here some in-depth material and today I post some more, with the hope that people will want to go deep into the topic without stopping to ideological positions on both sides; being in favor or against it makes little difference, what is important is the awareness that drives choice.

Here is what Graziella Bertocchi wrote on Lavoce.info

Ius soli in versione italiana (Ius soli the italian way)

"Ius soli is (again) one of the most discussed topics in political debate. Many law proposals, with similar innovations in them, have already been proposed since the start of the legislature. How do they fit into the european landscape? What are the potential dangers of not shared choices?

Who I am

I was born in Bologna on September 25, 1972.
I got a high school degree at the Liceo Scientifico Statale Copernicus in 1991.
I got married in 1996, in 1999 my first daughter was born, in 2002 I gave birth to my second child and in 2003 the third child joined us.

My first work experience was the campaign of apricots picking in the summer between the third and the fourth year of high school ... the funniest thing was to do the "war" with rotten apricots, the best thing was just the flavor of ripe apricots picked from the tree, still warm from the sun.

Chinese article and interview (Articolo e intervista...in cinese)

[Italiano] Vi indico il link su inewsweek.cn, un magazine cinese su cui è comparso un articolo sulla trasparenza del M5S e una mia breve intervista.
Purtroppo è...in cinese e nemmeno i traduttori automatici aiutano molto. 
Cliccate qui per leggerlo, buon divertimento :)
 
Di seguito riporto le domande e risposte originali e in inglese, sulla base delle quali è stato tratto l'articolo.
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[English] Here is an article that appeared on the chinese magazine inewsweek.cn; it's about the transparency of Five Star Movement and it includes a short interview they made with me.
Unfortunately the article is written in chinese and even google translator cannot sort it out in a decent way...

Here is the link, have fun :)


What follow are the original questions and answers we exchanged by email and that were used as a basis for the article:

Time Magazine: The Joker's Wild

Here you can read an article appeared on the Time Magazine by Stephan Faris on mar 18, 2013 where he discusses the Five Star Movement and the Italian Elections as seen from abroad.

The Joker's Wild
By Stephan Faris / Rome  

The comedian Beppe Grillo, the leader of the party that won the most votes in Italy's February election, sits in his beachfront villa in Tuscany as Italian journalists crowd outside, desperate for a sound bite. "They film me while I eat, while I fart," says Grillo, with characteristic vulgarity. "They point their cameras at me 24 hours a day. If I need to pick my nose, I first need to go hide."

Wu Ming: Grillismo: Yet another right-wing cult coming from Italy

Un lungo articolo in inglese, che i Wu Ming hanno scritto per un'importante rivista, che evidenza il carattere autoritario e reazionario del M5S fondato da Beppe Grillo e Casaleggio.
Per alcuni disguidi l'articolo non è uscito in forma completa; puoi leggerlo qui in versione integrale (a breve la versione tradotta in italiano):

[A week ago a prestigious British magazine asked us for a long piece on Grillismo. We wrote it and submitted it, but there was some misunderstanding, and they edited it too heavily for our own taste. We clarified the matter with them, but at that point we were way beyond the deadline and the issue went to print without our contribution. Too bad, but no grudge held. The piece was too long - almost 5,000 words - to submit it to any other mag or newspaper, let them do all the editing all over again and have it published in a reasonable lapse of time. Over here the situation is very bad, and people abroad are completely disinformed about it. Every day we read nonsense and bullshit on Grillo by people who completely ignore the reactionary, authoritarian nature of his movement. A harsh reality is biting our arses and we need to send a message in a bottle right now.

My interview on intervistato.com

from intervistato.com
here is the 1st part of my interview (scroll down to watch the other parts and read the article): 

My interview about Beppe Grillo on BBC Profile

At the beginning of March I was interviewed for the BBC program called "Profile" about my experience of being kicked out from the Movimento 5 Stelle by Beppe Grillo for my appearance to the popular talk show on the italian national television "Ballarò".
You can listen to the full podcast by clicking on the link at the bottom of this BBC page.

 [...]
Journalist: "He's also been attacked for what critics claim is his autocratic style. At the end of last year, Federica Salsi, a counselor for the Five Star Movement in Bologna, was frozen out of the party when she ignored Beppe Grillo's orders for his representatives to stay off TV."

Federica Salsi: "I went to a talk show, it's very popular on italian television. The transmission went well, but the next day Beppe Grillo published a post on his blog entitled 'The talk show kills you'. Grillo used a very strong language with precise sexual references to criticize me as a person and not the political content of my speech."

Journalist: "After her appearance, Grillo took... named comments which led to accusation of chauvinism. Federica Salsi says she felt humiliated."

Federica Salsi: "I was mortified, he has shown himself to be a victim of the Berlusconi culture; he was very unpleasant, chauvinist like the others. He talked about about me not like a politician, but like a woman and he was very degrading."

F.A.Q. Something about me

When did you decide to join the five star movement? And what were your reasons to do so?

Era il 2008, e in Italia cadde l’ennesimo governo. Quella volta toccò a Prodi. Capii che la classe politica non era in grado di governare il paese e che era necessario impegnarsi in prima persona, poiché chi lo aveva fatto fino a quel momento aveva miseramente fallito.
Da un paio di anni leggevo il Blog di Beppe Grillo, apprezzavo le sue denunce e decisi di andare a conoscere il gruppo degli “Amici di Beppe Grillo” di Bologna. Incontrai persone che volevano occuparsi attivamente del territorio, fare qualcosa di concreto. Nel 2009 ci sarebbero state le elezioni amministrative e organizzammo la lista civica Beppegrillo.it nella quale mi candidai. Fui eletta consigliere nella circoscrizione Navile di Bologna. Il mio mandato fu brevissimo: iniziò a Luglio 2009 e terminò a Febbraio 2010 in seguito alle dimissioni del Sindaco Flavio Delbono che era coinvolto nel Cinzia-gate. Nonostante la breve esperienza capii l’importanza di essere dentro alle istituzioni per incidere veramente sulle decisioni politiche della città. Nel frattempo nacque il vero e proprio Movimento 5 Stelle. Dopo il lungo commissariamento della città durato quasi due anni, ci ripresentammo alle elezioni amministrative del 2011 e fui eletta consigliere comunale. 

It was 2008, and in Italy another government fell yet. This time Prodi fell. I realized that the political class was not able to govern the country and it was necessary to engage in first person. The governament had miserably failed another time.

Italian comedian turned politician in row over his 'medieval sexism'

Beppe Grillo, the anti-politics hero who promised to clean up the system sparks storm over angry outburst

 

Tom Kington in Rome The Observer, Sunday 4 November 2012 

 

 

Five-Star Movement activist and comedian Beppe Grillo has been accused of sexism following his G-spot outburst. Photograph: Reuters

 

After a decade in which Italian politics was dominated by showgirls and sleaze, Beppe Grillo's brand of web-based democracy and anti-corruption campaigning has been taking Italy by storm, and his movement became Sicily's biggest party in regional elections last weekend and came second in nationwide polls.
But the tousle-haired comedian and blogger has now been dragged into a very familiar sounding Italian row after he was accused of being a "medieval" sexist and no different to politician Silvio Berlusconi.