1 00:02:19,033 --> 00:02:20,900 My name is Salif K. 2 00:02:20,933 --> 00:02:21,900 Where are you from? 3 00:02:21,933 --> 00:02:22,633 From Senegal. 4 00:02:22,633 --> 00:02:24,333 And your family lives there? 5 00:02:24,333 --> 00:02:25,500 Yes, in Senegal. 6 00:02:25,533 --> 00:02:31,800 My life has been a bit difficult. Before coming to Spain, I lived in Greece. 7 00:02:31,833 --> 00:02:38,533 I left my home country in 2010 to go to Greece, and I stayed there for two years. 8 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:50,833 Then I went to Germany. After Germany, I went back to Italy, and finally to Spain. 9 00:02:50,833 --> 00:02:57,533 I have suffered a lot in all countries. I was in Greece for two years. 10 00:02:57,533 --> 00:03:06,433 No, five years, sorry. I was imprisoned for two years because of my irregular administrative situation. 11 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:14,833 When I got out of prison, I received an expulsion order forcing me to leave the country immediately. 12 00:03:14,900 --> 00:03:24,533 I crossed the border with everyone, that's when I went to Germany. I go there, I apply for political asylum. 13 00:03:24,533 --> 00:03:31,633 The answer to my asylum application was refused after a year and a half because they considered that I was not entitled to asylum because I was Senegalese. 14 00:03:31,700 --> 00:03:47,933 They gave me a red card, valid for two years. When I finished the process, they told me to leave there too. 15 00:03:48,000 --> 00:04:00,500 I was advised to find a lawyer to appeal, but I gave up and left Germany, because there was nothing to do: 16 00:04:00,533 --> 00:04:04,100 either you have papers and the possibility to work, or they keep you in a centre. 17 00:04:04,133 --> 00:04:07,833 That's when I went to Italy. It is true that there are many Senegalese in Italy. 18 00:04:07,833 --> 00:04:20,533 We Senegalese are usually street vendors, but things were not easy. I spent two or three years in Italy, 19 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:30,800 but I didn't understand the language and there weren't many job opportunities, nothing at all. 20 00:04:30,833 --> 00:04:38,833 After Italy, I came here. In Spain things are going well for me, for the moment. 21 00:04:39,133 --> 00:04:49,733 The far right, since Spain is an entrance door to Europe, and it's also in the border to Africa, where a lot of people in irregular situation come 22 00:04:49,733 --> 00:04:58,300 they are using their hate speech against migrant people. And it's growing a lot in Spain. 23 00:04:58,333 --> 00:05:06,733 We also have to highlight something: in an economic crisis, in a sanitary crisis, too, 24 00:05:06,733 --> 00:05:18,900 people who are native and are in a vulnerable situation, adhere to this far right discourse to blame migrants. 25 00:05:18,933 --> 00:05:27,633 I think the far right is here, they never disappeared. It remains and now it's growing. Their politics have always been playing people off against each other. 26 00:05:27,633 --> 00:05:35,733 They see themselves as better than others, they see themselves as the ideal people. They are generally White, hetero people. 27 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:46,733 They don't only discriminate migrants but also other collectives. They don't like feminism, they don't like homosexuals, lesbians 28 00:05:46,733 --> 00:05:54,233 They come from Franquist times, they believe it and they will continue with that discourse. Many people have lost their humanity 29 00:05:54,233 --> 00:06:01,933 and have normalized that discourse, they have normalized for example the deaths on the borders because they are "the others". 30 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:09,700 "They are not persons, they are invading us, we don't care if they die on their way." 31 00:06:09,733 --> 00:06:20,533 The far right has always been using the same strategy, everywhere: First the dehumanisation of migrants, and then the criminalisation. 32 00:06:35,233 --> 00:06:39,800 When we talk about far-right we need to make a difference between the Parlamentary far-right, 33 00:06:39,833 --> 00:06:48,133 and the radical right, which is the far-right that doesn't renounce to the use of violence to reach their political goals. 34 00:06:48,133 --> 00:06:52,633 And here we can find the neo-nazi groups, or the neo-fascists. 35 00:06:52,633 --> 00:07:00,800 On the other hand, inside the Parlamentary far-right, we find this far-right that, at least in a formal way, 36 00:07:00,833 --> 00:07:08,533 accepts the rules of the game of democracy, although their goal is wearing it down and dynamite it from the inside. 37 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:16,900 And here we find the traditional far-right, the one with "God, homeland and family", traditional, ultraconservative. 38 00:07:16,933 --> 00:07:25,833 And the new radical, populist far-right. In the traditional far-right we find Fratelli d'Italia, Vox, for instance. And in the new far-right 39 00:07:25,833 --> 00:07:34,800 we find Salvini, the AfD or Marine Le Pen, who is the leader of this movement in Europe. 40 00:07:34,833 --> 00:07:42,433 The origins of the new radical, populist far-right can be found in France, right after May '68, 41 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:54,933 when far-right intellectuals noticed that leftist ideas were way more attractive for the youngsters than the right winged ones, that were old-fashioned and outdated. 42 00:07:54,933 --> 00:08:04,233 They began a renovation process for the far-right. Several think tanks were born, for example GRECE, led by Alain de Benoist, 43 00:08:04,233 --> 00:08:08,533 who is the ideologist of all this new radical, populist right. 44 00:08:08,533 --> 00:08:17,933 They studied the enemy, the left, very well, and they took leftist referents, for example Gramsci, and the cultural hegemony concept. 45 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:25,900 And they noticed that they didn't have to aspire to governments, that were still very far from them, 46 00:08:25,900 --> 00:08:31,500 but instead it was in their interest to try to penetrate in society in all posible ways. 47 00:08:31,533 --> 00:08:41,266 They did it and now we can say that the bigot-tubers have this as their ideological origin: Alain de Benoist and the new radical, 48 00:08:41,266 --> 00:08:45,633 populist right that was born in France after May '68. 49 00:08:45,633 --> 00:08:57,200 He was the ideologist of all the cultural battle that we are seeing right now. And of the political incorrectness, and of wanting to be seen as anti-system, 50 00:08:57,233 --> 00:09:04,900 which is actually an anti-politics thing that is, as always and as all the far right, serving the economic elites. 51 00:09:26,933 --> 00:09:37,133 Ultimately, Vox is not far-right. Vox is the nominal far-right. They are like others, like Trump or LePen. They follow their steps, they don't have any originality. 52 00:09:38,133 --> 00:09:57,600 Human nature is like this: it always tends to find simple answers to the difficulty of fronting problems that have complex structures. 53 00:09:57,633 --> 00:10:10,133 This also feeds back into a nationalist feeling. Countries where, in the past, nationalist culture was quite powerful, in moments like this it re-emerges. 54 00:10:10,133 --> 00:10:17,400 Because these are countries that in many ways tend to conservative ideas. They are not open to change. 55 00:10:17,433 --> 00:10:34,033 I always put an example: my grandfather, in a remote African village, can have access to an iPhone, but he can't find a pill for a tooth pain or a headache. 56 00:10:34,033 --> 00:10:49,533 So Capitalism does that: gives access to consum. In moments of economic crisis it happens that the most vulnerable collectives are used by the far-right. 57 00:10:49,533 --> 00:11:00,333 They focus all their discourse to them as scapegoats. The media play a crucial role too, in this criminalisation. 58 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:09,900 From the sensationalism that often highlights crimes committed by migrants. They drop things without any proof. 59 00:11:09,933 --> 00:11:15,833 We have seen many times that something that happenned in other part of the world, they spread it as it had happenned in Spain. 60 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:13,933 The media are the speaker of the far right, because they pick up those speeches and disseminate them. 61 00:12:13,933 --> 00:12:23,100 Every news with a criminalisation of migrant people are broadcasted by them to the people, and that's very negative. 62 00:12:23,133 --> 00:12:37,500 I think a media has the obligation of educating. And if it doesn't ducate, if it disseminates those messages, is a media that criminalises those people. 63 00:12:43,333 --> 00:12:54,233 Berlusconi has the monopoly of he media because he was a media businessman, and also, when he came to power, took control of the public media. 64 00:12:54,300 --> 00:13:01,433 And in this mediatic empire, he set the stage for what we are seeing now, on large-scale. 65 00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:14,933 Berlusconi normalised that Mussolini had done a lot of good things, for example. This was something that many people thought in Italy but you couldn't say it. 66 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:25,800 And he normalised having a fascist person in the debates, a no complexes, self-declarated fascist person. 67 00:13:25,833 --> 00:13:40,533 All these things have also come to Spain and to other places in Europe. Berlusconi came to power thanks to his pact with the Lega Nord, in the North of Italy, 68 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:51,700 and Alleanza Nazionale, that was later refunded into Giorgia Meloni's party, the ones who came from the fascist party. 69 00:13:51,733 --> 00:13:57,633 He broke the pact, which we now call the cordon sanitaire. 70 00:13:57,633 --> 00:14:05,600 There was this pact with all the parties that had defeated fascism, from the communists to the Christian Democracy, to isolate fascism. 71 00:14:05,633 --> 00:14:14,600 It's hard to find a media which has no funding from big companies. There are economic interests behind 72 00:14:14,633 --> 00:14:27,133 and the far right will always be with the economic elites. Therefore it's easy to have a laundered far-right discourse in big media. 73 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:37,100 We already know that the media are in a ratings war. There's also an interests war. Jean-Claude Michel, a French writer and philosopher, 74 00:14:37,133 --> 00:14:51,033 used to say that he doesn't like to appear on the media. He doesn't like the TV because it's a showtime space that obeys a binary way of thinking. 75 00:14:51,100 --> 00:14:59,433 There is no place in these traditional, not alternative media, for critic thinking. It doesn't exist there, 76 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:12,433 because they obey to ratings, and people like very much, let's say, to see blood. People like lynching, and voting speeches, something superficial. 77 00:19:24,233 --> 00:19:27,300 My name is Amina and I come from Afghanistan. 78 00:19:28,233 --> 00:19:35,366 I have been living here for seven months because of war, insecurity and threats that endangered my life in my home country. 79 00:19:35,433 --> 00:19:39,366 I must also say that my profession as a teacher in Afghanistan contributed to this risk. 80 00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:54,300 We came to this course to learn how to sew. We have been learning for months and we are very happy. But we are worried. 81 00:19:54,466 --> 00:19:59,466 When we leave here we won't be able to find a job, or work anywhere because we are foreigners. 82 00:19:59,466 --> 00:20:04,366 That's why we are a bit worried, because as foreigners we don't have a work permit here. 83 00:20:04,366 --> 00:20:19,633 We don't have a work permit and even if we did work, we wouldn't get paid, we wouldn't get paid, that's why we are so worried. 84 00:20:20,300 --> 00:20:44,400 I want women to be listened, not abandoned. Support women, it's the most important thing for them, because we are in foreigner land, we are migrants. 85 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:54,266 We, Afghan women, are very opressed. Nobody listens to us, nobody supports us, but this association does. 86 00:20:54,300 --> 00:21:02,566 I wish that there were more than one. I wish that they were everywhere, not just one place. I hope that some day they were in my own country. 87 00:21:03,266 --> 00:21:18,400 We know that there, unfortunately, women are very opressed. We can't study, we can't work and we, who are here, can't do anything either. 88 00:21:18,466 --> 00:21:28,400 I can't do anything, to be honest, that's why I'm asking you to support women. We want to learn from you, thank you. 89 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:36,466 Thank you for coming, I am Serdal Din, a dressmaking teacher. I work in this association of migrant women and people with disabilities. 90 00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:45,433 We are in the sewing class with the Afghan students. Sometimes workshops are very expensive, this one is free. 91 00:21:45,433 --> 00:21:49,366 As it is free, I have the possibility to support all the students as much as I can. 92 00:21:49,366 --> 00:22:05,233 The women with disabilities, the Afghan women who are here... All these women without economic resources have suffered a lot during the migration process. 93 00:22:05,233 --> 00:22:14,433 Other sewing workshops cost money, but not this one. So far we have supported two thousand women, training them in a profession. 94 00:22:14,433 --> 00:22:21,566 They come here, we have specialists in psychiatry and psychology, they come to talk to them. We have a lawyer and a specialist in Farsi, Mrs. Arzu, Arzu Evin. 95 00:22:21,566 --> 00:22:26,400 And we don't want this place to close, we don't want that to happen. 96 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:27,466 Is your project going to end. 97 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:35,366 Yes, it will end. It's a very sad situation, we don't want it to close. When they come here they learn a profession. 98 00:22:35,366 --> 00:22:45,066 As in other places they ask for money, they can't pay for it. We don't want this place to close and we hope that you will help us. 99 00:29:04,033 --> 00:29:13,300 One of the main goals of Giorgia Meloni's government is making a big operation of historical revisionism, to launder fascism. 100 00:29:13,333 --> 00:29:22,300 We can see the big importance that the Italian government gives to what they call the cultural battle, 101 00:29:22,333 --> 00:29:37,733 because the different Culture Ministers in Meloni's government, use to quote Alain de Benoist as a big referent. This ideologist of the new radical, populist right. 102 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:51,433 Her party, Fratelli d'Italia, is a party that we call post-fascist, because it has a fascist root. Its symbol is actually the Fiamma Tricolore, which is the symbol of fascism. 103 00:29:51,500 --> 00:30:04,933 But they have done a fase washing process. They are not like the neo-fascists, who are this violent far-right that directly beats migrants on the streets, 104 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:14,333 giving the Nazi salute, but it's a party that drinks from fascism. 105 00:30:14,333 --> 00:30:25,400 It is a modern fascism which, however, has the same identical foundations: patriarchal, sexist and racist, fundamentally racist. 106 00:30:51,133 --> 00:31:00,200 My story begins in July 1989, in the countryside of Villa Literno, in southern Italy, 107 00:31:01,233 --> 00:31:09,433 white Italians killed a South African refugee, Jerry Essan Masslo, 108 00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:17,466 who was not recognised by the Italian state, even though he was escaping from apartheid, as a refugee. 109 00:31:17,466 --> 00:31:25,266 He was killed by robbers, but also by criminals who did not want him to fight for his right to a better wage. 110 00:31:25,433 --> 00:31:37,233 That event triggered a very strong, very broad, almost spontaneous movement of associations, parties, men, women 111 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:46,200 and we organised and I was among those who organised the event, taking part in a huge anti-racist demonstration 112 00:31:46,333 --> 00:31:57,200 on 7 October 1989, in which we asked the government for new laws, laws to protect workers, 113 00:31:57,333 --> 00:32:06,400 people who were being exploited, to ask for guarantees for asylum seekers, something that did not exist in Italy at that time. 114 00:32:15,233 --> 00:32:24,400 The end of fascism. On 28 April Benito Mussolini was assassinated, executed, I think that is the correct term, by the partisans. 115 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:32,100 But fascism did not come to an end. Because during those years, from 1943 to 1945, Italy was divided into three parts: 116 00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:37,700 a part that joined the resistance, to which we owe a great deal; 117 00:32:37,700 --> 00:32:47,633 a part that joined the Germans, who occupied us and founded the Republic of Saló, the Italian Social Republic; 118 00:32:47,633 --> 00:32:58,733 and the larger part, the indifferent population, the one that pretended not to be fascist, stayed at home. 119 00:32:58,733 --> 00:33:03,833 If they had a fascist uniform they burned it, threw it away, destroyed it, 120 00:33:03,833 --> 00:33:11,833 if they had a bust of Mussolini they destroyed it, but the mentality remained the same. 121 00:33:11,833 --> 00:33:17,300 Firstly, many real criminals were not punished, and I give an example. 122 00:33:17,433 --> 00:33:24,300 General Rodolfo Graziani, the colonial exterminator in Libya and Ethiopia, 123 00:33:24,433 --> 00:33:31,466 who killed even with gas, or had hundreds of thousands of people killed even with gas, 124 00:33:32,066 --> 00:33:40,233 and who then became the commander of the army of the Republic of Saló, spent a few days in prison, then was released 125 00:33:40,333 --> 00:33:50,433 and became the president of the Italian Social Movement, which was the heir party of fascism, 126 00:33:50,433 --> 00:33:58,766 with the tricolour flame... but, let's say, the party that is the origin of the current Fratelli d’Italia. 127 00:33:58,766 --> 00:34:06,100 All the institutions, police chiefs, prefects, commissars, remained those of fascism. 128 00:34:06,133 --> 00:34:13,200 Now, how is it possible to change the institutions if you don't replace those who run them? 129 00:34:13,333 --> 00:34:20,133 The right has always had racism as a basic, fundamental element. 130 00:34:20,133 --> 00:34:25,400 It is a failed, misguided, losing conception that has no future. 131 00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:33,066 The right wing builds its own symbology on this, the right wing creates its own cosmogony 132 00:34:33,133 --> 00:34:37,466 and, in my opinion, it is a return to fascism, to an idea of real fascism. 133 00:34:38,066 --> 00:34:44,066 The Lega used to work a lot on the idea of an independent North, and so on. 134 00:34:44,133 --> 00:34:54,300 Then they grew quite a lot thanks to the attacks on immigrants, particularly against Muslims, using the fear of terrorism, 135 00:34:55,066 --> 00:35:00,400 saying that it was the fault of a few, but that everyone had to be punished, everyone had to be kicked out. 136 00:35:01,066 --> 00:35:05,266 Then they played a lot with a statement, they grew up with: “Italians first”. 137 00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:17,300 What a beautiful statement! Only, Italians first, and unfortunately many fell for it, means that I, the son of workers, 138 00:35:17,433 --> 00:35:25,433 and the son of a billionaire, who perhaps evades taxes and takes his money to tax havens, are the same. 139 00:35:26,133 --> 00:35:37,200 It's not true! I am more like Mohammed, who works hard like me, maybe more than me. He is closer to me. 140 00:35:37,266 --> 00:35:53,400 Empathy is born when you meet the person, if they become your neighbour, your children's classmate, the person you go to buy things from, 141 00:35:54,300 --> 00:36:01,133 the person is no longer an immigrant, the person is already... you greet them, with whom you even exchange 142 00:36:01,233 --> 00:36:04,266 they become a friend, I don't say a friend, but there they are... 143 00:36:04,466 --> 00:36:08,400 they become a person, precisely, they have a name and surname. 144 00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:14,100 Then, however, the right, especially the right, throws the numbers at you 145 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:19,233 and you no longer see the person, but you see the numbers. So there is a sort of schizophrenia. 146 00:36:19,266 --> 00:36:27,266 I saw with my own eyes in Sicily, in Puglia, in Calabria the landings 147 00:36:28,100 --> 00:36:35,100 and I saw the people, the Italian citizens, not the anti-racists like me, 148 00:36:35,266 --> 00:36:47,400 but the people who brought food, blankets, warm drinks, who came to help those who disembarked because they saw those suffering faces. 149 00:36:48,100 --> 00:36:55,066 And it was beautiful as an image and the people arriving felt warm. 150 00:36:56,266 --> 00:37:03,333 Then, however, when they ended up in the newspapers, it was the invasion, they were the ones who invaded the country. 151 00:37:04,066 --> 00:37:11,333 So, I think that in Italy there is a sort of schizophrenia, you don't want to accept, 152 00:37:12,133 --> 00:37:18,233 you don't want to recognise that what you see and what they make you see are two different things. 153 00:37:18,300 --> 00:37:23,400 And you have to decide whether to accept what you see or what they make you see. 154 00:39:20,433 --> 00:39:26,400 I am Gianfranco Schiavone, the president of ICS, which stands for Italian Consortium of Solidarity. 155 00:39:26,433 --> 00:39:34,133 It is a very old association in Italy, since it was born in the mid-1990s 156 00:39:34,133 --> 00:39:39,266 to deal, at first, with the reception of refugees from the former Yugoslavia, 157 00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:44,433 especially from the particular conflict in Bosnia in 1992-93. 158 00:39:45,233 --> 00:39:52,333 Then, in the first years of this century, it became an association dedicated to 159 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:58,400 the reception and legal protection of refugees, asylum seekers, refugees arriving in Italy. 160 00:39:58,466 --> 00:40:08,066 We operate in Trieste, which is a strategic entry point on the Balkan route, not only now, but also 10, 15, 20 years ago, and always has been. 161 00:40:08,066 --> 00:40:20,133 In Italy there is, I must say, a very, very fierce policy that feeds day after day attitudes of intolerance and racism, 162 00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:20,466 but above all it is a policy that has an objective that we must understand very well. 163 00:40:20,466 --> 00:40:28,266 the aim of the far right is to create as much disorder as possible in order to exploit it politically. 164 00:40:28,266 --> 00:40:36,100 It is not directly racist, in the sense that this would be too unpleasant; 165 00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:47,400 what it does is feed racism indirectly, making everything related to the life of foreigners in Italy extremely difficult, 166 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:59,466 making public services not work for them, creating a circuit of social marginalisation, creating situations of discomfort 167 00:41:00,333 --> 00:41:04,066 and then exploiting these situations of discomfort politically. 168 00:41:04,133 --> 00:41:13,333 In other words, it is a kind of machine to generate fear but also to generate disorder. 169 00:41:13,333 --> 00:41:19,766 The slogans of the right and the far right are words about order, but in reality 170 00:41:19,766 --> 00:41:26,966 the aim of the far right is to create as much disorder as possible in order to exploit it politically. 171 00:41:27,066 --> 00:41:34,400 As everybody knows, the sectors of the population most affected by xenophobic propaganda are precisely 172 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:44,400 the weakest sectors of the population, the most popular sectors, which are most at risk of... 173 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:53,200 falling into poverty or are already in poverty and are most at risk of marginalisation. 174 00:41:53,300 --> 00:42:01,266 That's why I mentioned before that the strategy of the far right is a strategy of disorder: 175 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:12,133 because it aims above all at these situations, that is, at these social classes, to convince them 176 00:42:12,133 --> 00:42:24,066 that the malaise they are experiencing is not due to bad public management, to an iniquitous distribution of resources, to a lack of social interventions, 177 00:42:24,066 --> 00:42:29,233 in short, basically and precisely to the policies of the right, but that the fault lies with the newcomers, 178 00:42:29,266 --> 00:42:36,333 that they are competition and that, if these competitors were not there, the problem would not exist. 179 00:42:37,066 --> 00:42:49,333 So this is a very clever strategy, we know, very clever, because you have to solve the problems of people who are in difficulty: 180 00:42:49,333 --> 00:42:53,233 that they don't have a house, that they don't have a place to go, that they have lost their job, and so on. 181 00:42:53,333 --> 00:43:01,100 So intervention for migrants is not an intervention that takes something away from them. 182 00:43:01,233 --> 00:43:09,300 They are simple, but we live in a society of complexity, complexity is a problem, that's why we seek to simplify, simplify, simplify, 183 00:43:09,333 --> 00:43:15,266 and this is a very important tool for the right: extreme simplification. 184 00:43:47,733 --> 00:43:58,233 They say they are Christians...They have a phobia. Because every religion says you have to love the others as they are. 185 00:43:58,233 --> 00:44:07,333 Because we are all human beings, and we want a better world, according to all religions. So beating your chest saying you're a Christian, 186 00:44:07,333 --> 00:44:16,433 but you can't help people who are in a vulnerable situation, is something that doesn't match religion. It's like... 187 00:44:16,433 --> 00:44:25,633 They are using it as a discourse, but they are not Christians, they are not Catholics if they can't help people in a vulnerability situation. 188 00:44:25,633 --> 00:44:34,800 Jesus acted like an anti-capitalist. When they went to Jerusalem's market, he fought speculation and traders. 189 00:44:34,833 --> 00:44:44,433 And that's what we are doing, we want a fairer world, where no one should live at the expense of others. 190 00:44:44,433 --> 00:44:57,433 One of the biggest contradictions of he far right is that they call themselves Christians but their values and ideas are against classic Christianism. 191 00:44:57,433 --> 00:45:07,033 This leads to, for example, considering Pope Francis an enemy for a big part of the far right. 192 00:45:07,133 --> 00:45:23,633 And, in fact, the far right has supported the part of the Vatican curia which is ultrareactionary, ultraconservative, that is making Pope Francis' life a living hell. 193 00:45:24,066 --> 00:45:33,100 He is a pope who often speaks very forcefully about immigration, who condemns deportations, who condemns refoulement, 194 00:45:33,333 --> 00:45:40,066 who takes a stand, from this perspective, with us. But even with concrete acts, you know? 195 00:45:40,333 --> 00:45:48,466 And then there are the priests, the bishops who, on the other hand, close their doors when we ask for a welcome. 196 00:45:50,066 --> 00:46:01,300 They think like Salvini or Meloni. They say that we must refuse, that they don't practice charity, that they don't... 197 00:46:01,333 --> 00:46:11,466 they say that immigration is a danger. Some are even far right-wingers. I mean, it's a complicated world, from this point of view. 198 00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:20,266 Some see Salvini and Meloni as references, because they defend the traditional family. 199 00:46:20,266 --> 00:46:29,300 Then, the traditional family of Salvini and Giorgia Meloni is a bit laughable, but they are deceiving in this respect, they are very deceiving. 200 00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:39,233 If someone asks me if the Church, understood in its complexity, is progressive, my answer is no, it is not. 201 00:46:40,133 --> 00:46:50,100 There are parts of the Church that are, that fortunately breathe a little within this line imposed from above, 202 00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:58,100 but the history of the Church is a difficult history and it is basically a history of closure. 203 00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:06,333 In reality, the right-wing political forces in Italy are taking advantage of this, that is, they know that they can continue 204 00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:16,266 to nurture a traditionalist and frightened Catholicism, especially among the elderly, 205 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:23,200 who are also the most... who are the main electorate. We know that we live in an ageing society. 206 00:47:24,133 --> 00:47:34,100 However, one thing is certain: that there are many cracks within the Catholic Church. 207 00:47:34,233 --> 00:47:46,266 Shortly after the demonstration for Jerry Masslo, in 1990, there was an occupied, abandoned place, an abandoned building, 208 00:47:47,133 --> 00:47:53,333 and there were thousands of people on the street, immigrants, who didn't know where to sleep, they slept on the street. 209 00:47:55,466 --> 00:48:13,466 We went, four or five Italians, together with the president of the diocesan Caritas, Monsignor Luigi Di Liegro, to break the locks and open the building. 210 00:48:15,066 --> 00:48:25,266 Fifteen hundred people occupied that building. When they asked him: “Monsignor, but this way you are breaking the law” 211 00:48:26,133 --> 00:48:34,133 he answered very forcefully: When laws are unjust, it is a duty to disobey them. 212 00:48:35,100 --> 00:48:42,333 Well then, I felt Monsignor Di Liegro, being an atheist, as I am and always will be, 213 00:48:43,133 --> 00:48:51,333 to be much more of a comrade than many others who talk the talk and then do nothing. 214 00:48:51,400 --> 00:49:06,200 One of the most important NGOs, the most important in Italy, Mediterranea, its main figure, the one who is publicly exposed, is a priest. 215 00:49:07,266 --> 00:49:14,133 And he is a priest who gets on the boat to help people who are about to drown. What can I say? 216 00:49:36,833 --> 00:49:44,800 We must understand that public, official positions are one thing, especially in this pontificate, 217 00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:51,766 but that the social reality of the Church within the Church and also in the ramifications of the Church itself is another thing. 218 00:49:51,800 --> 00:50:03,500 Catholic environments remain in practice a solid basis for the right, even if all this is in contrast to the message of the Church. 219 00:50:03,566 --> 00:50:09,133 All this may seem contradictory, and in some respects it is, but it is necessary to understand this complexity. 220 00:54:13,900 --> 00:54:20,766 I believe that the greatest responsibility for the growth of far right-wing parties 221 00:54:20,900 --> 00:54:24,633 has to be attributed to the parties of the moderate left. 222 00:54:24,766 --> 00:54:31,633 It's something that is not understood: in the places where socialdemocrats govern, they do nothing. 223 00:54:31,666 --> 00:54:39,666 They do nothing, it's like they are accomplices of this system. They are doing nothing at all and people are suffering this. 224 00:54:39,666 --> 00:54:46,900 It's what generates a rejection of politics. A rejection and anger hat are being capitalised by the right and the far right. 225 00:54:46,900 --> 00:54:53,666 They have abandoned people, they have abandoned all the fights for the working class. 226 00:54:53,700 --> 00:54:59,666 Migration, as a collective, has never been on their agenda as to think they have abandoned it. 227 00:54:59,700 --> 00:55:09,666 But they did have abandoned it, because their duty as leftist thinkers, is at least, although they do nothing, at least to defend 228 00:55:09,766 --> 00:55:20,766 those rights as a set of rights, to be seen as political subjects in the work field. Migrants are a labour force. 229 00:55:20,766 --> 00:55:32,766 Every day there are reports that prove that even Spanish elders' benefits will need many many thousands of immigrants, just in Spain, 230 00:55:32,766 --> 00:55:40,500 to keep the same social welfare that socialdemocrats defend. 231 00:55:40,500 --> 00:55:50,500 So stop seeing us, or seeing migrants, as immigrants but as a labour force, as workers. From now on they will be able to include 232 00:55:50,533 --> 00:55:55,833 migrants inside their struggle on the work environment. 233 00:59:01,500 --> 00:59:13,866 The left has probably not understood, or has understood too late or too little, that migration profoundly transforms society 234 00:59:14,566 --> 00:59:24,733 and that dealing with migration is not a specific area, perhaps even a little marginal: “I have to deal with this too, among other things”, 235 00:59:24,900 --> 00:59:30,900 but that this was the central axis of the policy and that if you don't manage it, you don't deal with anything. 236 00:59:30,900 --> 00:59:42,866 Statements are not enough, demonstrations are not enough, anti-racist acts are not enough, condemnation initiatives are not enough, 237 00:59:43,833 --> 00:59:55,766 because, of course, they are necessary, but if they are badly managed, there is a risk of creating even more distance, because people may feel negatively judged. 238 00:59:57,500 --> 01:00:06,566 On the other hand, we need to accompany them with information, yes, but also with positive experiences. As I said, 239 01:00:06,666 --> 01:00:14,700 we must first counteract this xenophobic drift with information, but also with positive experiences, so that 240 01:00:14,700 --> 01:00:29,766 vulnerable people in Italy and Europe, in any case, can concretely experience that migrants are not a problem. 241 01:00:29,766 --> 01:00:43,766 If the left, the moderate left, had helped and promoted effective laws and also the construction of a better culture, 242 01:00:43,766 --> 01:00:47,900 we would not be facing these problems today, nor in these dark times. 243 01:00:48,700 --> 01:00:55,533 Instead, terrible laws have been passed, migration has been spoken of as a public order problem, 244 01:00:56,700 --> 01:01:08,566 the idea has been accepted that immigration either could not be talked about or that rights had to be granted little by little. 245 01:01:08,700 --> 01:01:21,566 Many weak messages, profoundly weak and ineffective, with the result, and this is the worst thing, that working men and women, 246 01:01:21,566 --> 01:01:27,700 a large part of the working classes vote for the right because, they say, the right defends us from foreigners, 247 01:01:27,833 --> 01:01:39,766 as if low wages depended on foreigners and not on the fact that capitalism imposes the lowest wages in Europe on our country. 248 01:01:40,500 --> 01:01:45,900 Instead of fighting together for higher wages, you take it out on those who are worse off than you. 249 01:05:50,433 --> 01:06:01,000 Love Narratives is a concept that portraits the neccesary narrative strategy to build societies through love, understood as a political act. 250 01:06:01,033 --> 01:06:08,100 It has the revolutionary part of bursting in a space where you can't talk about love, but hate. 251 01:06:08,133 --> 01:06:20,300 To fase the hate speech, instead of making 'anti' speeches, we make this kind of speech that are about love. 252 01:06:20,333 --> 01:06:28,733 If man is, by nature (and when I say 'by nature' I mean physically, not only philosophically) 253 01:06:28,733 --> 01:06:38,133 has some brain resources, and a series of hormone productions, that are destinated to live in community. 254 01:06:39,133 --> 01:06:44,400 That is, either we want it consciously or unconsciously, we are always going to look for community. 255 01:06:44,433 --> 01:06:48,033 The lack of community is toxic. 256 01:06:48,100 --> 01:07:00,433 If no one proposes a community to you, you will end entering those spaces where that proposal exists, and hatred is a toxic, community link. 257 01:07:00,433 --> 01:07:08,266 It's a faster tool that does not assure the union of people who share it. 258 01:07:08,266 --> 01:07:18,233 So we have big masses of people that are catalized in a very big, wide and fast way, and easy to control. 259 01:07:18,233 --> 01:07:25,233 You're fulfilling all the wishes, it's like very visceral. On the other hand, community building can be frustrating. 260 01:07:25,300 --> 01:07:35,833 Think that the turning point was the day that they (Vox) put a banner in a Madrid subway station, where they talk about a lady whose benefits were taken away 261 01:07:35,900 --> 01:07:44,400 because of a foreigner minor. Then it started to form a ball and everything starts to work as a discourse. 262 01:07:44,433 --> 01:07:54,433 The parties that are promoting hate are extremely irresponsible. And then it happens that it is a trend that is not very sustainable over time. 263 01:07:54,500 --> 01:08:03,500 In fact we are now starting to reach the limits of that capacity of sustainability of hatred in society. Because hatred in society generates even more sadness. 264 01:08:03,533 --> 01:08:13,900 It's not just the capitalist system with its individualism, but hatred producing sadness and also loneliness is toxic and therefore is very destructive. 265 01:08:13,933 --> 01:08:21,600 Through love, incredible things have been achieved but now people talk badly about them. I aleays talk about the hippies who stopped the Vietnam war. 266 01:08:21,633 --> 01:08:32,533 And they did stopped it. They were those movements. And now it seems like they all were drug-adicts, right? So hating is well seen, and talking about love is not, 267 01:08:32,533 --> 01:08:45,133 because it's the revolution. Because if we built from that perspective, many problems that we have, as loneliness and sadness, would drastically decrease. 268 01:11:38,500 --> 01:11:54,433 The German online media Collective uncovered, in January 2024, that in November 2023, in a city near Berlin, Potsdam, 269 01:11:54,433 --> 01:12:06,833 there was a secret meeting between neonazi leaders, AfD politicians and local businessmen who paid to attend that meeting. 270 01:12:06,833 --> 01:12:21,400 Martin Sellner told in that meeting that the aim of AfD had to be precisely what we were saying: laundering the neonazi ideas. 271 01:12:21,433 --> 01:12:31,533 And that they calculated that they will need only 10 years for these neonazi ideas to be socially accepted. 272 01:13:18,633 --> 01:13:34,133 If you carry out politics of murder, death and destruction in spaces where you are not seen, such as Spain and its borders externalisation, 273 01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:42,000 while you talk about Human Rights or rights in general, but you allow, with your equipments and your money, 274 01:13:42,033 --> 01:13:51,833 people to be abandoned in the desert and to die, and you don't care at all. That's cynical, and when it's denounced but nothing happens, 275 01:13:51,833 --> 01:13:56,833 it leads to impunity and it makes the Overton window bigger. Because this means: "It doesn't matter”. 276 01:13:56,900 --> 01:14:10,100 You can kill whoever you want if you do it well. "And that impunity, that narrative of impunity, seems extremely dangerous to me”. 277 01:14:10,133 --> 01:14:19,933 And the governments that carry out those politics are not positioning in public, so it's extremely dangerous too. 278 01:14:20,733 --> 01:14:30,900 In reality, behind the claim of wanting to define themselves as progressive there is little, there is very little. 279 01:14:31,566 --> 01:14:39,700 Sometimes there is something, some positions have been clearer, more defined, but, in general, precisely what I was saying before: 280 01:14:39,700 --> 01:14:53,666 there is a lack of elaboration and there is a tendency to slide towards positions, not only of the centre, but, I would say, of the strictest right, 281 01:14:53,733 --> 01:15:02,733 thinking that they are more popular, more captivating, more “intelligent”. 282 01:15:02,733 --> 01:15:12,533 And the most tragic thing is that, in a certain sense, they are, because in fact, when you adopt these positions, 283 01:15:12,666 --> 01:15:22,533 in the end you seem to have carried out an operation to preserve your identity and your popularity, 284 01:15:22,533 --> 01:15:30,700 but in reality you have only made the situation worse, because you have only succeeded in shifting public opinion towards these positions 285 01:15:31,500 --> 01:15:39,500 and whoever defended them before you will have the advantage, because, if you pursue the ideas of the right, 286 01:15:40,566 --> 01:15:44,900 it will always be the right that will win, because the original is always better than the copy. 287 01:15:45,633 --> 01:15:51,900 If you are only a copy, I will always choose the original, there is no reason why I should choose the copy. 288 01:20:03,733 --> 01:20:08,566 It's just an electoral strategy. 289 01:20:08,766 --> 01:20:15,766 To legitimise what they say: that they need to join forces to somehow create a common enemy. 290 01:20:16,500 --> 01:20:18,833 And there is also a structural ignorance. 291 01:21:29,866 --> 01:21:41,733 This narrative is rejected or contrasted, let's say, first and foremost by disseminating correct knowledge. We, for example, are constantly 292 01:21:41,733 --> 01:21:49,666 trying to organise events, initiatives, which also deal with the study of the real situation. 293 01:21:49,733 --> 01:21:57,566 For example, regarding the situation in Trieste, the arrival from the Balkan Route, we publish data, we make regular reports... 294 01:21:57,566 --> 01:22:09,566 We try to counteract the spread of false news, basically. We know that it is probably not enough, 295 01:22:09,566 --> 01:22:23,566 but we do not appeal only to, let's say, an emotional approach, how to define it\'85 We also try to focus on very specific aspects 296 01:22:23,700 --> 01:22:31,866 and to speak with data, with information, with information that is as objective as possible 297 01:22:31,866 --> 01:22:35,766 in order to also address that part of the population that is perhaps a little undecided 298 01:22:35,833 --> 01:22:40,833 and that does not understand whether the information they receive is true or false. 299 01:22:40,833 --> 01:22:47,766 We know that it is false, that it is deliberately created, but in order to dismantle it, it is essential to first 300 01:22:48,700 --> 01:22:56,633 correct this information and from there we can begin a process of revising attitudes. 301 01:25:30,566 --> 01:25:43,700 I wrote a book, whose Italian title is ‘Sconfinate’, where I tell 18 stories of migrant women or women with a migrant background, 302 01:25:44,533 --> 01:25:58,900 who decided not to accept the subordinate role of being migrants. They pointed out some very important things to me. 303 01:25:59,700 --> 01:26:05,666 First of all, we have to fight against the oppression of our culture of origin, 304 01:26:06,500 --> 01:26:11,733 which would want us locked up at home, which would want us to be obedient mothers or daughters. 305 01:26:12,500 --> 01:26:22,666 Then, Italian men look at us as prey, because in Italy there is a huge spread of prostitution. 306 01:26:23,500 --> 01:26:32,566 Many are looking for girls, underage foreign girls, and when they see a young woman, 307 01:26:32,666 --> 01:26:38,500 perhaps attractive, who looks foreign, they immediately think she is available. 308 01:26:39,833 --> 01:26:44,633 And then there is the third ring of exploitation, which is class exploitation, 309 01:26:45,666 --> 01:26:51,833 because if you are a woman and also black, then you also have to be exploited. 310 01:26:52,533 --> 01:27:00,666 These women could be the real future of our country. I say this for a specific reason, because those I have met 311 01:27:00,766 --> 01:27:10,533 and who have managed to overcome borders, as I said before, are dedicated to other things, but also those who try 312 01:27:10,900 --> 01:27:18,866 and even the young women, especially the young girls, if these women who want to be free because they are women 313 01:27:20,833 --> 01:27:30,500 managed to become more visible in our country, I repeat, we men would also live better, and even my older generation would live better, 314 01:27:30,533 --> 01:27:38,766 because they would see something more beautiful, more alive. And I think that this could also be a blow to the right wing. I have a lot of hope in these women. 315 01:27:39,233 --> 01:27:48,866 Before the elections that Meloni won, there was a rape in Italy and a neighbour could record a video. 316 01:27:48,933 --> 01:28:03,966 Meloni disseminate the video, revictimising the woman, because she was identified. And she did it because the suspect was an immigrant. 317 01:28:04,033 --> 01:28:21,566 Meloni took a lot of advantage from this case, she used a fascist slogan that said "We will defend our women". This fed hatred a lot, and also fear of the migrants. 318 01:28:21,633 --> 01:28:33,666 Meloni in this case also used a fake feminism in which she takes sides with women, so it seemed if she came to power, 319 01:28:33,733 --> 01:28:43,733 the rapes would stop because rapes were only caused by migrants and she wouldn't let any migrant into Italy. 320 01:28:43,766 --> 01:28:47,900 Of course nothing of this happened. 321 01:28:48,500 --> 01:28:54,900 She is a woman, but she manages power like a man, she has taken power like a man, 322 01:28:55,833 --> 01:29:02,500 in fact, she does not want to be called “the she president”, but “the he president”. 323 01:29:02,500 --> 01:29:13,700 She acts like a duce, I would dare say, because in her conception, “God, country and family”, 324 01:29:13,866 --> 01:29:26,533 the family is the one where men work above all. In fact, for women, the birth campaign is promoted, i.e. staying at home and looking after the children. 325 01:29:26,633 --> 01:29:36,566 It is the man who brings home the money and the woman has to be faithful and obedient. 326 01:29:37,500 --> 01:29:49,666 Then it is said that they criticise Muslims, but more than Muslim countries, we are in the same order of ideas and perception of the world. 327 01:29:49,766 --> 01:30:01,833 Feminists scare Meloni but, above all, they scare the whole right-wing world and particularly right-wing men, and not only right-wing men. 328 01:30:01,900 --> 01:30:08,833 They are afraid of them precisely because they question the dominant patriarchal role. 329 01:30:09,500 --> 01:30:20,700 I repeat, in the 60s and 70s, above all, feminism managed to get very important laws passed in our country, 330 01:30:20,700 --> 01:30:28,533 on the interruption of pregnancy, on divorce, the family state, the abolition of the crime of honour, 331 01:30:28,533 --> 01:30:37,666 the one that allowed that, if you killed a woman, your partner, wife, daughter, because you suspected that she was with another man, 332 01:30:37,866 --> 01:30:51,500 your crime would be punished in a lighter way. But it was abolished in ‘81, a barbaric rule like that and there is still... 333 01:30:51,566 --> 01:30:59,833 Rape was not considered a crime, but a crime against morality. 334 01:31:01,566 --> 01:31:12,700 So, if at that time Meloni or people like her had been at the head of the government of the country, had ruled the country, we wouldn't have all these rights. 335 01:32:19,866 --> 01:32:36,533 Every day we have a good group of minors arriving in Trieste, even at a very young age, and who tend not to stay, but continue their journey 336 01:32:36,533 --> 01:32:47,533 because, in reality, the final destination is to reach relatives and contacts, also their parents, but often only relatives living in other countries. 337 01:32:47,666 --> 01:32:53,900 Why do these minors leave? Nobody asks this question and we really should ask ourselves this question. 338 01:32:54,833 --> 01:33:03,866 Surely the minors leave because in some countries, I am thinking of Afghanistan, which is the country with the highest number of people in Trieste, 339 01:33:04,866 --> 01:33:07,700 there is a deliberate decision to make the minor undertake the journey 340 01:33:07,733 --> 01:33:20,700 in order to remove him or her from the consequences of an adult life considered unworthy of him or her. 341 01:33:20,700 --> 01:33:33,733 In order to give the future adult a better life, it is even preferred to expose him or her to enormous risks, but it is considered that if he or she stays, the risks are greater. 342 01:33:34,666 --> 01:33:40,900 It is not that there is no awareness that the child could suffer violence or even die during the journey; 343 01:33:41,500 --> 01:33:47,033 there is awareness, but it is felt that it is better for the child's well-being. 344 01:33:56,300 --> 01:34:01,900 I'm very optimistic because I believe there is very interesting future, 345 01:34:01,900 --> 01:34:10,800 because the far-right speech in some sectors, many of their things are being discovered to be lies. 346 01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:19,566 For example with the DANA, we saw a lot of spreading hoaxes everywhere, and how people have been dismantling everything. 347 01:34:19,566 --> 01:34:24,700 In many places such as schools or the streets, we see diversity, 348 01:34:24,700 --> 01:34:32,566 there are people from different origins who are together in the streets, the parks, the schools too. 349 01:34:32,566 --> 01:34:38,833 And we are also working in this sector, the education, and all others. 350 01:34:38,833 --> 01:34:48,800 There will be generations and generations with more presence of native people and migrant origin. 351 01:34:48,800 --> 01:34:53,900 And that mixture is going to be very beautiful for Spain, to combat racism. 352 01:34:53,900 --> 01:34:57,966 We have a marvellous future ahead. 353 01:35:55,700 --> 01:36:02,666 I often go to schools, as I said and mentioned, to talk to the boys and girls 354 01:36:02,700 --> 01:36:11,700 and the classes have changed, they are now mixed and there is no racism in the classrooms. 355 01:36:12,633 --> 01:36:22,700 They are the same class. That's my classmate, I study better with him, I don't like him or dislike him, 356 01:36:22,833 --> 01:36:32,900 I don't care if he's black or white, if he comes from China or Italy, I don't care at all. This is the future. 357 01:36:33,000 --> 01:36:41,733 There is this awakening of young activism, it' powerful, and it's up to everyone of us: to be there or not. You have to choose. 358 01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:09,500 I've had the opportunity to do some talks in some high schools. I'm saying because I have experienced it: 359 01:38:09,566 --> 01:38:16,200 I have always been surprised about their mature and anticipated answers. Many people say that youngsters today do nothing. 360 01:38:16,200 --> 01:38:28,233 No, I have a different opinion. They are aware. So I see a lot of interest and concern, especially when we are talking about Africa, that is near and far at the same time. 361 01:38:28,233 --> 01:38:34,800 They have a lot of questions. They are concerned so they have it in their power to change tomorrow. 362 01:38:45,733 --> 01:38:54,633 I don't think that people want the end of the world. I also think people really feel sad and lonely. 363 01:38:54,633 --> 01:39:07,433 And I don't think that is what advanced society wants. So it will have to come a time where the Good and the ways of working trough community and love, 364 01:39:07,500 --> 01:39:16,133 triumph over other much less satisfactory choices. I'm an optimistic, yes. I need to be, if not, how could we change anything? 365 01:39:33,433 --> 01:39:40,733 There is an African saying that goes: "The river never forgets its origins". We humans must remember our roots and our nature. 366 01:39:40,800 --> 01:39:54,533 Our way of being is to move, to migrate, searching everything that we don't have. For many reasons: humanitarian ones, economic ones... 367 01:39:54,600 --> 01:40:04,033 Or just for a good life or freedom. Nothing in life lasts forever nor is permanente. Everything tends to change. 368 01:40:05,066 --> 01:40:11,233 I am convinced that the time will come, that the path will open up and we will have to decide which side to be on: 369 01:40:11,266 --> 01:40:18,433 on the side of those who want to keep the world as horrible as it is, or on the side of those who want to build a better world. 370 01:40:19,133 --> 01:40:26,233 I repeat, perhaps because I want to say goodbye with optimism and because I do not intend to resign myself, 371 01:40:26,433 --> 01:40:30,600 but I believe that those who want a better world have the upper hand.