Why Stitch After Eating

The wind deep in Florence

Stephen Cato

Over the weekend I was in Florence, with the " breakers who did not scrap their no leader of the Democratic Party. Rather, they listened, they shared. I wish I could say "built".

For VareseNews I wrote :

From Florence, Next stop: Italy , the first and only standing ovation is not taken or scream - there never was - of "all rottamiamoli "and even" all home ", no, the so-called" scrappers "have stood up to applaud the meeting of the Working in contemporary Rome .

Yes, because beyond the slogan of these days, Florence is the "marketplace of ideas", where everyone from the Senator to the militant in the province of Varese, can climb on stage and make available all of its proposal through a simple diagram. A word, slogan, and a proposal for action. No exceptions, in five minutes. At the end of the 300 seconds the "gong" sounds, pitiful and kind, for everyone.

"The marketplace of ideas" is also a physical place in the guard (the room) adjacent to the "destruction". There are available the good practice , methods and tools work and communication. Ideas so revolutionary that for the most part, are already implemented by the local government of the Democratic Party in Italy. Were collected, revised, networking, and finally made available. They talk about taxes and jobs, school, search and temporary employment, immigration and cultural enrichment, mixity. Do not talk about nuclear power but use of land and energy saving. Do not talk about "security emergency", but demographics, neighborhoods and housing. But do not speak of the special administrators of open government and access to public documents. And what a waste of Naples emergency meeting with an administrator "democratic", in a town of Campania, in four months, has enabled the collection and brought it to 60%.

Rather than "scrap", the 3300 (Updated: Sunday are now 6,800) in Florence have made: all this you can see for yourself, it's real, it is feasible, not tomorrow but today. All this is put at the disposal of the Democratic Party and Italy . No confrontation in the Democratic Party: "We are the only ones who threaten to not go away," say Renzi and Civati, directors, conductors and deejay Next stop: Italy .

Friday I spoke. My key word was "sharing". I recounted my experience with the movement Come Over , which led to the production of four " wagons ", which are also available in the first version - provisional, incomplete - and freely downloadable .

train, on the way back, I read Save 's Italy , Paul Ginsborg. In there there is all the Leopolda. The "deep wind", "Romantic Energy" - cited by Pippo Civati \u200b\u200b - that "pushes individuals and strokes, as did the romance in the first half of the nineteenth century."

The romance is not only a moving introspective and emotional, which proceeds from internal to external, but also to move in the opposite direction. In other words, the inner highly enriched, passionate and restless, is constantly looking outward forms worthy of it.

La Leopolda was beautiful. Indeed, very romantic.

The final speech, given to Civati, is this: