Stories and News

Stories and News No. 283 Reading the latest revelations about Berlusconi Wikileaks, I was going to write another vitriolic post about him, when I felt in a sense of disgust. I did before, but this time it was so strong that it can not be ignored. The fact is that while I hesitated with the fingertips suspended on the keyboard two faces came to my mind, making me feel once again split in two between news and stories, among the current and the soon forgotten facts: the prime minister and his parties and one of the students that these days are taking the streets to protest. Well, sorry for the expression, but I felt obliged to say fuck the old man and give the post to those girls and boys… The Story: Dear students, undeservedly making the words of Martin Luther King as mine, I am sending you this letter. I'm here to write on this blog because in my country the injustice reigns. I can not stand idly sitting at my computer and do not worry about what happens to you. Injustice anywher...

Stories and News No. 278 It is getting exciting. In short, Italy Education Ministry Mariastella Gelmini - blaming Democratic Party leader Pierluigi Bersani for joining the protesters students going over the roofs, had questioned his academic results. The latter responded by posting on his Facebook Wall a copy of his university book , with a lot 30s (the maximum grade), challenging the Minister to do likewise. Excuse me, but I can not take this matter seriously. Not so much as instead the current situation of education in my country deserves. On the other hand, Bersani lost from the start. I mean, are you kidding? Gelmini is a Minister! A Government Berlusconi Minister! I do not think it is possible for a woman to become Berlusconi Minister without exceeding any examination with the highest grades. For this reason, I am proud to publish, exclusively on my Blog, Gelmini’s university book… The Story: PS: And you still have not seen Minister Carfagna’s one… The News: Bersani answers...

Stories and News No. 277 In Italy the assault by students continues. Yesterday they reached the Senate and is now the turn of the Chamber of Deputies, although I read that a young man in Florence is left battered by the fighting. The cause of the scandal, as often happens, is the reform that bears the name of the Minister of Education, University and Research Mariastella Gelmini. From what I read online, the bill provides, among other things, funding cuts and fixed-term contracts for researchers, renewable once, from that some of the reasons for the revolt. I do not want to discuss the decree. I must say that for age reasons this is not the first student demonstrations against his ministry Reference I see. I remember most the Movement of Panthera, in 1989. In 1990 I attended my first year at La Sapienza University, in Rome. I had already done some… disruptions of the natural order of the school, but seeing the campus in the hands of students, day and night, was a unique experience for...

Stories and News No. 273 In Italy, we have just celebrated the No Gelmini Day , school protest vs Berlusconi’s Minister of Education, Mariastella Gelmini . At least 200 thousand students and 100 demonstrations manifested across Italy. They took to the streets for the right to study, asking for more money to the school and contextual blocking of the last government cuts. "We must have the courage to change. It is essential to continue the reforms; we must point to a quality school, more related to employment and more international," the Minister said , setting out the demands as old slogans . What about the teachers? According to the purely business / sales strategy of Gelmini’s boss, she proposed them an undoubtedly attractive offer: a monthly premium salary to the most deserving ones . That is a clearly smart action, a mere example of divide and rule, a clear intervention between teachers and students. In other words, if I buy the former, I weaken the most rebellious among ...