#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Italy, Libertarian Initiative - Pordenone: CASERMA GREEN, LEAD POLYGONS AND GREEN HEALTH (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]

 In FVG we have the highest density of military structures in Europe, now for the

most part in a total state of neglect. ---- A fairly recent search has managed to
identify as many as 285 military areas. --- In 2006, a study by the Military
Prosecutor of Padua (2001) was published in a national magazine, which recorded
407 abandoned military sites for Friuli Venezia Giulia. It almost means a
barracks every 15km. ---- But to be aware of the real number it would be
necessary to bypass the military secret that still prevents us from obtaining the
exact mapping.
To this corollary of buildings built without any urban planning strategy, there
are those still in use (and there are dozens of them), the USAF Base in Aviano
with the 50 atomic bombs, which extends over two countries (Aviano and Roveredo
in Piano) and the 9 military polygons in which fire exercises are carried out,
heavy vehicle launches and, in the past, radioactive Thorium (Cellina-Meduna) and
probably Depleted Uranium (Cao-Malnisio) were happily used. They are sites that
should be under Special Protection for their biodiversity (SIC and ZPS). This is
therefore the scenario of a region that has been harassed and exploited for years
for the use and consumption of militarist policies.
If we think that all these abandoned areas would need massive remediation
measures to be able to be converted, we can only imagine the expense to be borne
by the community.
It is no coincidence that for decades the Ministry of Defense has always tried
the paper of "cession" to the regional and municipal heritage of these barracks
and annexed estates, a real "barrel discharge" whose costs are in any case on the
shoulders of all of us .
> Military expenses rise as people also die from the virus, but not only.
We are still in the midst of the pandemic, we have all and all experienced the
consequences of decades of privatization policies of essential services and in
particular of the national health service on us, our loved ones and communities.
The thousands of deaths from COVID19, the staggering amount of hospitalizations,
often in intensive, that has brought health workers to their knees, have misled
all the rhetoric of governments about their political priorities.
In 2022 the wall of 25 billion in the defense budget was exceeded (3.4% increase
compared to 2021) and a jump of almost 20% in 3 years.
One billion more for the purchase of new weapons: with a total of 8.27 billion we
are at an all-time high!
> Military Citadel in Comina? Sir No!
The obscene project of erecting a Military Citadel in Comina, borrowing
greenwashing techniques from large polluting and predatory companies is unacceptable!
Hectares of territory once again dedicated to soil militarization projects with
the screen of gyms, courses and services to citizens is not already admissible in
years of serious ecological crisis, let alone in a dramatic situation, especially
in a province where the health services suffer from lack of staff, lack of
investment, closures of hospitals and the continuous bleeding of specialized doctors.
When 9 million in profits are made in these conditions, even seeing them snatched
from the Region, it only means that people's health has no value for
administrators of company and electoral profits.
 From Sicily we get news of PCTO (the infamous school / work alternation) signed
by some schools with some barracks, is this the future hoped for by the local
administrations in league with the Aries Military Command in supporting the new
"green barracks"? A way to put a color patch on the now decades-long crisis of
voluntary enlistment in the army?
We will do what we can to stop this umpteenth militarist havoc, today more than
ever everyone's health and the protection of biodiversity are an integral and
priority part of a project that provides for the conversion from military to
civilian and the definitive closure of every place. of war, that is, of death!

Libertarian Initiative - Pordenone

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