[fse-esf] for the EPA

[mariangela casalucci]

Hi everybody
this is a document we are going to present in the assembly of saturday to 
ask you to support it
We ask you to sign for your solidarity either directly on line or at the EPA 
in Frankfurt or send a comunicate to the website

All the best
Mariangela Casalucci e Giovanna Fassetta


MODERN DAY PIRATES
Let’s save the ‘Collettivo Bellaciao’ website

Roberto Ferrario, legally responsible for the www.bellaciao.org website, 
site of the Bellaciao Collective*, has been committed to trial for 
publishing on the website a press-release made by the French trade union 
CGT.

The press-release by USM-CGT of the 16th of September 2005, by the title 
‘Modern-day pirates’, concerned the protest made by the Polish workers of 
the St Nazaire’s Shipyards (France) who had contacted the USM-CGT do 
denounce the precarity to which they were forced, the extremely low wages 
they were receiving, the unacceptable times they had to work and the 
impossibility to protest without being sent back home.

Roberto Ferrario, as the person in charge of the Bellaciao website has been 
committed to trial following the publishing on the website of the 
press-release by CGT.

The St Nazaire’s Shipyards have accused him and the site of diffamation. The 
facts are not denied, but the charges are about the language used in the CGT 
press-release and  specifically the sentences ‘modern-day slavery’ and 
‘owners’ banditism’.

Such repressive measures, proofs of a will to control the Internet and what 
is said in it, is inconceivable and a menace for free information. The 
Collettivo Bellaciao website runs the risk of being muffled or even shut 
down for divulgating an official press-release by a trade union. The 
consequences of a possible condemn are easy to guess. Will the freedom to 
publish material be reserved only to those sites that can face the legal 
expenses of eventual charges? What would be of all the free voices that find 
in the Internet a space for information not subject to the law of the 
fittest?

A condemn of Roberto Ferrario and the obscuring of the Bellaciao site would 
be an unacceptable precedent. We cannot allow this to happen without firm 
opposition. We therefore ask you to sign the petition which you’ll find 
enclosed and to support the Committee for Freedom of Expression (that has 
already collected almost 5 000 signatures online) also on behalf of your 
organisation, for the free circulation of ideas and against any attempt to 
intimidate.

For further information and to sign online, please visit the website 
www.bellaciao.ort, followed by /it/ for the Italian pages, /fr/ for the 
French pages, /es/ for the Spanish pages and /en/ for pages in English.
Mariangela Casalucci (Collettivo Bellaciao GR)
Giovanna Fassetta (Collettivo Bellaciao GB)

The Collettivo Bellaciao is a group of Italians, men and women, who, for 
various reasons, live abroad. At present there are Collettivi Bellaciao in 
France, Great Britain, Argentina, Italy and Greece. Each Collettivo is 
independent from the others and is not linked to any particular political 
party or association. What unites us is the fact that we lean to the left 
and above all the will to work in order to live in another possible world. 
The website of the Collettivo Bellaciao is ‘’the voice’ of the various 
collettivi, the meeting and exchange point for al the ‘bellaciaos’ around 
the world.

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