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Through the arrests
of Carlo and Arafat
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they wanted to
intimidate the union.
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The opposite happened.
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Away with the police
chief of Piacenza!
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Everybody - free!
Arafat - free!
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Carlo - free!
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Today, we're here
because before 8 March,
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when we were
here last time,
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we were the only
ones nation-wide
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that went to
Rome to discuss
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that Draghi, the
current prime minister,
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doesn't represent us.
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We're not in the same boat.
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He's here to organize the
more severe squeezing of workers
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That we went Rome
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to scream out our position
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and on 8 March, when we
went here to Amazon
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to state that these
workers have to organzie with us,
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that sufficed for them to
start this mechanism
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by using our two weeks'
strike at TNT.
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It's no coincidence that
the state prosecutor said:
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"That's not how you
do union work,
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with strikes and pickets.
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It's done as shown by
CGIL, CISL and UIL!"
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There's a prosecutor general
that proclaims
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which union
he likes best!
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It's obvious that he
prefers these unions!
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For these are the ones
that even in these days,
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yesterday evening,
closed a deal
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that disadvantages the workers!
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They need these
bought unions!
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They don't need
unions like ours!
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Shame! Shame!
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Shame! Shame!
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The best demonstration
for this will be
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today's nation-wide strike
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and that, in the
upcoming days,
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we're going to
force the employers
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to bargain with us for
the National Collective Agreement.
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That's how it was in the
last years and how it is today
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when we have the strength
to achieve better results!
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Now it has come so far that
the union umbrella organizations
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and the employers meet
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because they understood
that we're hurting them.
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Employers are being
stopped by striking, blocking
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and affecting
their interests.
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That's when they have to react.
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We're going to demonstrate
but also to strike
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and cripple their
entire activities
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until we have
our rights.
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Long live the struggle,
long live SI Cobas!
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Arafat - free!
Carlo - free!
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Away with the police
commissioner of Piacenza!
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I want to state
something very important:
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Wo can write down
200 billion Euros?
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I don't know with how many
fucking zeros you write that.
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But I can guarantee you
that these numbers, 200 billion Euros,
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is the amount that's being
evaded in taxes each year!
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With 200 billion Euros one wouldn't
have to attend anything like this here.
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If this money went
back to the workers,
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to the retirees, the
poor, the homeless
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we wouldn't have
to be here today!
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For the wages would be higher,
the supply/coverage'd be better,
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the pensions would be dignified,
we wouldn't have to
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claim our rights from those
who strip them away from us!
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I have to say something
to the police:
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Congratulations to the superior
numbers you demonstrate here!
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Know that no Red Brigades
are present here,
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no Armed Revolutionary
Cells (NAR), no subversives,
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here are workers, who could
be at home now,
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with their families.
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Shame! Shame!
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... and who frees them?
The baton?
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I'm done.
I love you!
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On March 26 at 5:50 pm
we receive the message
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that the house arrests
have been lifted.
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Carlo - free!
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Arafat - free!
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I'm sorry, I'm no prepared
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to speak in front of
so many people.
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But today you show
these people over there
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what's the difference
between being hated or loved!
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The difference between
doing evil to those
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who defend the poor
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and helping poor people.
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I'm excited because
the solidarity
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during the two weeks
of our house arrests
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and now here has surpassed
my boldest expectations.
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We knew that we
worked well,
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that we won
rights and dignity
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for the people ...
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Away with the police
commissioner of Piacenza!
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We knew ...
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Away with the police
chief of Piacenza!
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It's stronger than them!
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Away with the police
commissioner of Piacenza!
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Guys, we knew
we worked well
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and gave dignity
and rights to
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thousands of formerly
exploited citizens of Piacenza.
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But we couldn't see before,
how big the heart,
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the heart of the working
class would be in these 15 days.
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And not for the first time.
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We all remember
when in March 2020
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the corona virus
broke out.
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Who were the only ones
who reached deep into the pocket,
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even when they had
starvation wages,
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and brought masks
to the Red Cross?
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Who were the only ones ...
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SI Cobas, SI Cobas!
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Who're the only ones?
And I want to thank
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the SI Cobas people as well as
the people of the shopping groups
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who I see here.
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Support to the homes,
for 400 families
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with cancer patients,
with people who're too poor
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to leave their homes
with the corona virus.
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That's us! Neither those in uniform
there nor the commune of Piacenza,
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nor the police department.
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The big heart of the working class
turns the proletariat into the only
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historic subject
that's capable of
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ending exploitation
in capitalism.
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The same capitalism that the
institutions of Piacenza are serving,
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for they don't serve
the Italian state
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but the multi-
national colossuses
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that are called
Amazon, Fedex-TNT, GLS,
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and all companies
that we know of.
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Otherwise it would be
unexplainable why people are being arrested,
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of all things the same people
that freed thousands of workers
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from exploitation and slavery
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We also remind
the people across.
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At end of the month, at the turnstile,
the mafia handed out 800 Euros in cash!
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Now, with us,
there are correct contracts!
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Millions of Euros for the state ...
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Back up a little bit, please
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We don't want to provide pretext,
more space please.
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We have turned
that world upside down.
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But it's been said very clearly
in the prosecutors files
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that they are worried because
approval for us is on the rise
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and that's true. Approval for us
is rising not only in logistics anymore!
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The health workers with
the scandalous contract
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of the private clinics:
those that are members of SI Cobas
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couln't be vaccinated up
until this day!
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The institutions should go
to these employers
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to control why they won't
let them be vaccinated.
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After the lousy applause
they let them stay at home,
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the health workers.
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Do you know what
they want to sign?
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This: Piacenza, tomato business,
with many faces known all over town,
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do you know how they
earned their billions?
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For decades, they paid
the workers 4.60 Euros per hour!
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And CISL and CGIL said
this was correct!
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Shame! Shame!
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Then, we came and gave
them, within a year,
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the logistics contract that
allows them to earn the double!
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They want to stop this!
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That we take care of workers
not having to accept starvation wages
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and being replaced by other
starvelings at any given time.
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They want to hold up that
we give dignity to the workers,
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amongst them many
migrant workers.
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Previously, you've chanted: Away with
the Lega, away with the Fratelli d'Italia.
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Correct, these are obscene,
neo-fascist parties.
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And do you know why
they've attacked us?
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Because many workers that
graft and pay taxes in Piacenza
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are immigrated workers.
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These immigrated workers,
all of you, are much more Piacenters
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than those that conducted
these repressions
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or the ones from the Lega
or the Fratelli d'Italia.
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If they think they've
scared us with these arrests
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we have to thank
them instead:
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they've made us
much stronger!