To sign the “plan” And Stephen Ogongo, journalist and native of Kenya. Arrived in the beautiful country now 25 years ago, His CV boasts teaching at the Gregorian University. At the age of 44 years old has two daughters and is the editor-in-chief of 10 group publications “Foreigners in Italy”. Last October on Facebook he created a page to sponsor the movement “Dear Italy“. The six thousand subscriptions collected, according to what he writes Republic, they could soon lead to the birth of a real party. The movement, explains Ogongo to Rep, “its protagonists are immigrants and Italians who work together against racism and all other forms of discrimination. A common house to try to bring associations together, organizations, groups that deal with the rights of new Italians“.
However, it will not just be an association that operates in the social field. The real objective seems to be political. “Italy belongs to those who love it and we love it”, you can read it in the description of the Facebook page. “Dear Italy is a new movement with the aim of fighting for and defending the rights of immigrants and all Italians”. And he does it by aiming “to create a new ruling class that truly loves our country“. The dream? “A day in which Parliament will be full of Italian parliamentarians of all origins“. O magari “an Italian of Indian origin” will become “president of the Republic”.
Ogongo relies on the fact that i “our newspapers and websites ‘Foreigners in Italy’” they reach “every month one and a half million immigrants and new citizens, together with the Italians“. If clicks turned into votes, they could be enough to reach the House.
Here are the objectives of the movement. First of all they mean “fight against intolerance, racism and all other forms of discrimination, promoting awareness of racism, about the risks of being racist and how to defend yourself from racists”; then they want “fight for justice and defend everyone's rights, especially gods immigrants“; the third objective, Instead, is to get “a citizenship law consistent with the reality of the country“. And again: they want “fight against all obstacles that prevent the active participation of immigrants in all areas of life” and in particular “for the right to active and passive vote for immigrants resident in Italy“. In the beautiful country, in fact they underline, despite five million foreigners working and paying taxes, “most” I am “excluded from the decision-making process” Why “they do not have the right to vote actively or passively, not even at the municipal level” (excluding EU citizens). “The day all these citizens without citizenship they will have the right to vote – we read in the program – the discussion on immigration and immigrants will change drastically“. The reason? “It's unfair – writes Ogongo – denying millions of people the right to have a say in how their country and cities are governed. Worse still, it is unfair to deny citizenship to more than one and a half million children and young people born and or raised here“.
At the base of everything is the fight against presumed “racist wave that is crossing the country”. For this Dear Italy “will bring forward one fight without quarter for rights and a political space for immigrants, the new citizens and immigrants of the second generation”. The challenge is open