the No Base Movement in garrison in Pisa and Coltano
A double garrison, one in Rome in front of the Ministry of Defense and one at the former radar center of Coltano, in Pisa, right in the protected area where part of the army worth one hundred and ninety million euros should rise, precisely to reiterate the total opposition of a territory and its inhabitants to a project that wastes public resources despite the ongoing emergencies (from the health crisis, not yet resolved, to the social crisis to get to hydrogeological instability), impacting the environment and an entire community. A project that yesterday saw an appeal that underlines the opposition of sixty between researchers, researchers and professors of the Pisan area spread precisely on the occasion of today’s institutional meeting and principals. Among the professors Adriano Prosperi and Salvatore Settis, former teachers of the Scuola Normale Superiore, Liliana Cori and Fabrizio Bianchi of the CNR of Pisa, Giuliana Biagioli, president of the Research Institute on the territory and the environment ‘Leonardo’ of Pisa, Enzacchia and Giorgio Gallo, director and former director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Peace Sciences of the University of Pisa, Maurizio Iacono, former president of the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy and of the University Museum System.
“Disarm the territorywithdraw the DPCM that gives the green light to the project of the new military base in Coltano “this is the message that the no-base Movement in Coltano or elsewhere has bounced this morning from Pisa to Rome with which initiatives in parallel: ten people in front at the radar center in Coltano while a delegation of the movement supported by Roman social networks during a press conference at the same time as the institutional meeting attended by Minister Guerini, the president of the Tuscany Region Giani and the mayor of Pisa Conti. institutions arm themselves in the dungeons – underlines the movement – to carry out projects of devastation of the territory on which we want to be clear: for this there is no compensation, fragmentation, different collocation that is acceptable to us. This base does not have to be done and resources must be reoriented on real emergencies: health, school, work, climate change, we cannot afford to waste one hundred and ninety million euros on such an unsustainable project. For this reason today, from Pisa to Rome we are launching the appointment for a great national mobilization in Pisa for the next one June 2“.