Friday, February 29, 2008

Let's do that...


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A page of the best Stefano Benni in "The company of Celestini" tells about the match of "let's do that", an extreme variant of streetball to be played 5 against 5.

Let's do that Naples becomes invaded by waste, so much so that you can't avoid walking in the middle of it, over it, under it.
Let's do that the Neapolitans, after 15 years of watste-crises, begin to protest against the bad government.
Let's do that the population asks for the organization of a modern system of waste management, limiting unnecessary packaging, practicing kerbside collection, treating the toxic waste, recycling empty containers, paper, wood, glass, metals and plastic, composting organic waste and, finally, dumping the remaining and safe 10% of the urban solid waste.
Let's do that the government imposes instead the cancerogenic incineration of the waste "such as it is", to which the interested communities oppose a clear NO.
Let's do that those who civilly and peacefully protest, defending their own rights and proposing good solutions inistead of bad solutions, become subdued as they are clubbed by the police forces.
Let's do that the number of citizens who protest peacefully is growing, and that there is a proportionate increase of clubbing. And that consequently there are more clubbing and more protests.
Let's do that the peaceful protest turns in rebellion...

Let's do that the populations of the Delta of the Niger see their oil fields exploited by the western multinationals, with no benefit to themselves, while they continue to live in extreme poverty.
Let's do that the trade agreements mean that Pakistan can buy technologies from Europe but it cannot sell in Europe their agricultural products in order to pay for the acquired technologies.
Let's do that for 25 years the Maldives government is one of nepotism, run by a bloody-thirsty dictator allowing torture, disappearances and repression of the dissenting voice, while the European and American tourists enjoy their holidays on the beach.
Let's do that in Botswana the AIDS is so widely spread among men and women that the average life expectancy is reduced to 40 years, but that the European and American drug companies refuse to reduce the cost of medicine (and the highest profits), preventing the poor people from being able to cure themselves.
Let's do that...
Let's do that...
Let's do that...

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