Saturday, March 5, 2011

Broken Capillaries Under Lip

Servizio civile e nonviolenza

As budgets are cut to the National Civil Service, continues a policy of rearmament and are found 20 million euro for the "mini-naja" re-establishing the factual differences between military service and civil service, recognized as a form of "defense of the country in May 1985. In 2007, the millions allocated to the Civil Service was 296, dropped to 170 this year, next year will reach 113. The young people were initiated into service 51 000 2007, 18,000 hours are planned for 2011 and 11,000 in 2012.
E 'unacceptable mortify many resources youth: four young people who have to spend a year to the community, only one is used!


interview with one of the fathers of conscientious objection and civil service in Italy, which retraces the steps of nonviolence and its foundations, the transversality of nonviolence in every sphere of human action and, finally, the complaint against a public policy that destroys today a model of civil service copied abroad and increases funds for military spending.
Read the whole long, interesting interview Angelo Cavagna: Nonviolence Today

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