CIRCOLO PINK VERONA
the attention of Dr.
PEARL Stancari
Prefect of Verona
know the unemployment figures in our city and our province, we know the insecurity that grips many walks of life, increase the hardships of single people, elderly people, young men and women. But then, you need not read many statistics, just the everyday experience tells us what the real problems of people who surround us. And here comes Christmas. No, indeed: here is that you put the machinery in motion which calls for Christmas to arrive as soon as possible. Illuminations, decorations, jingle: Everyone is invited to think about the big party that unites hearts, and, before that, the bags. Well, times change, the country shows signs of slowing, Veneto half suffers the consequences of the flooding, but Christmas is to advance with his intrepid signals, as if nothing had happened. This indifference to the present day seems well represented by the Christmas tree, a famous company get the very nerve center of the city (maybe this year we will be spared to place the tree near the place where Nicholas was killed Tommasoli). In particular, the tree of Porta Nuova, tawdry in its excesses, goes beyond the monument and with common sense, becoming an emblem of its own futility, of his own ignorance. We do not know what the City of Verona receives in return for hospitality given to trees advertising (which should be a sign, placed in plain view, give the necessary information to the towns and citizens eager to transparency). We do not know, we at least, what constitutes an exchange: it is what it is, the important thing is that everything continues in the wake of a tradition, that a purely commercial, which is at odds with the historical moment the quota, with the needs and with the wishes of the people, who feel, even on their skin, the severity dei problemi. Di sicuro un altro segno si presterebbe a meglio rappresentare tali problemi e la loro possibile soluzione: la stalla di Betlemme, sì, quella che ospita il bambino Gesù nella paglia, accanto agli animali, a due genitori respinti, ai pastori itineranti. «Gloria a Dio nell’alto dei cieli», dissero gli angeli festanti per quella nascita, secondo la testimonianza dell’evangelista Luca. L’innologia cattolica provvide a distribuire più equamente le speranze e le responsabilità, e aggiunse la celebre frase «e pace in terra agli uomini di buona volontà». Passarono i secoli, e gli studenti delle università americane, nei primi anni sessanta del secolo scorso, convertirono di nuovo the phrase in the memorable slogan "there is no peace without justice." The trees of the typical Christmas Verona, plump and a bit 'volgarotti, inappropriate in times of floods and landslides, we speak of an imbalance that no one, perhaps in obedience to superior orders, wants to see and adjust.
The Circle of pink Verona
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