Work on cruises in Italy

Employees on board 25 ships of the Costa Cruises are a total of 18 000. "80 percent of them are under 40 years old and come from 70 different countries", says the company. Except for officers, nearly all Italians, well-paid staff members are mostly young people from Asia and Latin America. The most numerous are the Filipinos, followed by Indians and Indonesians. They are entrusted with the most humble tasks, such as cleaning rooms or washing dishes.

The Europeans are working hand in contact with the public, from animation to accompanying tours. It worked in this way for the 1,026 crew members of the Concordia, among whom were 296 Filipinos, 202 Indians, 170 Indonesian and 144 Italians. The working conditions? Herbert Rodelas is a Filipino landed 28 years in November from the Costa Magica. He works for the company since 2005 as a janitor: "My last salary was $ 547 per month. Work on average 12 hours a day, seven days a week. " It should be a little better for waiters. Brijesh Patel, the Indian, he worked for Costa Cruises from 2000 to 2007: "The starting salary was 550 euros, but with the tips happened to reach 1,500 euros.From 12 to 14 hours a day, seven on seven." Brijesh Patel was lucky: his salary has always been paid in euros. "In February of 2010," says Herbert Rodelas, "the company began to pay us in dollars outside the EU. With a change in one to one: therefore my 547 euro became $ 547. " A net loss in current value of about $ 150 per month.

Protests? "No, we were afraid of losing our job." Yes, because the contracts of employment on ships are temporary in nature, ranging from four to eight months. And there is no guarantee of renewal. Even the Europeans are not doing well. Lommi Monica, 35, was on board Costa ships as a tour guide, it is required knowledge of at least three languages: "I worked from 10 to 15 hours a day, seven days a week. So for all the six month contract. The salary? 900 euros a month. " The Italian law requires that cruise ships are not able to work on average more than 11 hours a day. Leo Caggiano, coordinator for the group unit of CGIL Costa Cruises, ensuring that "employees of the company employs more than 10 hours each week enjoy a day of rest, and their wages are higher as established by international organizations."

All employees of the group contacted support yet another version. As Melissa Virdi, 30, worker at the front desk, a task that required oral and written knowledge of at least four languages: "I was busy seven days a week, for at least 12 hours a day, including night shifts, and the pay was 700 euros a month. " How is this possible? The trick is explained by a manager for Costa Cruises who continues to work and therefore prefers to remain anonymous: "Every 15 days we put in an electronic form the hours worked by employees of our office. The program does not allow, however, bring an average of more than 11 hours a day, so the official figures are not real. "

This explains the good life of those who work on cruise ships. People sleeping in cabins with 6 square feet to be divided in two, without a porthole because those are reserved for customers. People who has lost his life in front of the island of Giglio. And 'so, by reducing labor costs, which customers can afford cruises at affordable prices. Even under those Filipinos mistreated because of their inability to speak Italian. Besides, it would be hard to find thousands of countrymen ready to receive a salary of $ 500 per month for an average of 84 hours per week.

Indeed, although the majority of customers, both Italian, speaking our language is not necessary to work on ships of the Coast. The basic requirement is the basic knowledge of English. Employees take on one thing, however, to clarify: emergency preparedness. All workers must take before boarding at their own expense (500 euros) the Basic Safety Training, a course of three days in which they are trained in firefighting techniques, rescue operations at sea and first aid. In addition, the simulations of abandon ship procedures that each worker must do once you start boarding. They are the same exercises that passengers would have risen to Civitavecchia played Saturday, 24 hours after the start of the cruise, just as the law requires.

The Curia of Palermo prohibits a prayer vigil for the victims of homophobia

The Curia of Palermo prohibits a prayer vigil for the victims of homophobia, scheduled May 12 in the parish of Saint Lucia. An event organized by "Ali D'Aquila", a group of gay and lesbian Christians, during celebrations for the Pride Palermo 1, and that could count on the support of the parish priest, Don Luigi Consonni. The religious, a Comboni missionary, however, came from a stop: the archbishop of Palermo, Paolo Romeo, and Auxiliary Bishop Carmelo Cuttitta, they've ordered to withdraw the authorization for the use of the premises of the parish. A ban that was inspired by the principles contained in the Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the pastoral care of homosexual persons, 1 October 1986, signed by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and providing "pastoral care" of homosexuals, with the ' assistance of physicians and psychologists.
The vigil, which commemorates the victims of homophobia in Italy and around the world, is not the first of its kind in Palermo: there were at least four more from 2007. The novelty, compared to other years, which is that of May 12 had been included in the calendar of events related to the Palermo Pride, the event organized to defend the rights of LGBT people and culminating in the parade through the streets of the historic center, 21 May. An association that the Curia has obviously not acceptable and that he wanted to reject the ban. In addition to the group of gay Christians Ali D'Aquila, the prayer service was also organized by the community of St. Francesco Saverio all'Albergheria, the Waldensian Church of La Spezia, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

"The church had given us the premises - the organizers explain Ali D'Aquila, a group born in 2009 - and frankly we are sad and outraged by this veto, which were communicated to us by Don Luigi Consonni, and even the archbishop. With our prayer we wanted to remember those who suffer because of homophobic prejudice. " Don Luigi Consonni, who arrived in the church of Saint Lucia in September last year, wanted to inform his congregation of the ban by publishing a brief note on the parish website: "The Curia of Palermo, became aware of the initiative, I urged to fully respect the rules of the Holy See paragraph 17 of document Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, 1 / 10/1986. Then I was asked to cancel the prayer meeting of day 12 pv in the parish of Saint Lucia.

A document, which appeals to the Curia of Palermo, which, for gay people, even medical assistance and psychological, as required by the then prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. Moreover, even in other locations - the United Nations - the Vatican has stood for not wanting to vote in favor of decriminalization of the crime of homosexuality, while the Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's representative to the UN, has recently expressed against the "victimization" of homosexuals, in defense of the right to "criticize unions between same sex."

Paola Concia, lesbian parliamentarian of the Democratic Party, meanwhile, asks to be able to immediately meet with the archbishop of Palermo: "His gesture is bad, inhuman. This ban is offensive to many Catholics who are homosexuals. I want to meet him and I want you to explain, looking into my eyes, because he wants to ban a wake whose purpose is, among other things, to remember those who died because of homophobia. I do not want to believe that the church hierarchy have been reduced to this. Why do not you think the true message of Jesus and the Gospel? ". Duro also the comment of Arcigay, which, of course, had encouraged and supported this moment of prayer: "We are shocked and saddened. It 's a veto to remove the suffering of innocent victims, of the same weaknesses that the Cardinal and the Church say vowed to defend without distinction. The prohibition is also an act of aggression, in its complicity with those who spread hatred and homophobia, "says Daniela Tomassino Arcigay president and spokesman for the Palermo Palermo Pride. "Banning a prayer for the victims of homophobia is just the latest of the insults that hierarchies turn to gay, lesbian and trans Italian, Paolo Patanè attacks, national president of Arcigay, which says:" The Church with which this act want to silence the victims of a daily horror show, once again, of being an accomplice and a major sponsor of aversion to the dignity of millions of people. "

Ali D'Aquila The group has however decided that, in agreement with the other movements that have joined the initiative, however, held vigils, presumably in front of the church, at 21 the same day: "We will continue to pray, even before doors that are closed. "

Napoli -U.S. and Canada students beaten after night in the pizzeria

The group of tourists was attacked in the center. They were first blocked and surrounded by a car and some motorcycles, then beaten and robbed. The incident reported by the manager of the hostel where seven boys slept

A group of students, guests of a hostel, was attacked last night in the historical center of Naples while returning from an evening spent at a pizzeria. The boys, six American and one Canadian, were blocked and surrounded with a car and several motorcycles, beaten and robbed. The story was reported by the owner of the accommodation, John Berardi, who says: "Now is not reporting the problem. It should, instead, begin to teach children to love and to experience the beauty and importance of their city."
"These young men were returning from a pizzeria in the old town - is the story of Berardi Ansa - five boys and two girls, students at this time in Seville and Paris, who decided to choose Naples and Pompeii as a destination for their trip. They had not reckoned with unscrupulous people ... Ten or twelve criminals, just before one, surrounded them in an alley near the hostel and started beating them. " And 'the dramatic scene described the tour: "With scooters and a car blocked them first and then attacked, and two, in particular, were beaten and taken to blows, one of them while he was on the ground.
So the guys who came yesterday morning in the city, were at the mercy of "petty people, repressed, that are put on display to mark territory like a dog to pee and, meanwhile, knocked a city that could live only with tourism ...". Two of the attackers also tried, says Berardi, "background kicked the gate of the building where is the accommodation. Then, thanks to the screams of the neighbors are gone but not without having made a small raid : a 'booty' of about ninety euro, some credit cards and cell phones. "
When the young foreigners are back in the hostel were terrified faces and no desire to speak. Ice on his head, a bit 'of medicine, but the hurt inside is insane. "The guy physically bigger - while the landlord says his words in a growing sense of helplessness and anger - he hugged me and told me: 'John, it's not your fault. And I think that' class 'a' now to my guests about the dangers they may encounter in their travels. " There is no hope, then? "Look, the facts speak: In the past there were lots of complaints and alarms. And what are they served? Almost nothing. The presidium of the police - who are fighting in increasingly difficult conditions, it must be said - is often only becomes 'symbolic' in some places because they are privileged and some areas just because maybe the most populated with tourists, but there are also nearby streets that are often the scene of petty crimes.

Italy and Lybia

Suddenly it broke out the least of the riots in the Arab world, by far the most violent against the people of Libya's dictator Gaddafi. The world is witnessing a terrible spectacle: the political demonstrations of unarmed demonstrators were exterminated by military units mercenary. The United States condemns, even if the voice of the world's leading power is too weak. Europe has said that what happens in Libya violates every principle of political and human and can not be accepted by any of the member countries.
None? But Italy is linked to Libya's dictator, who is wiping out his people by a treaty which binds it to the point - it is said in Article 4 - "Italy is committed to refrain from any form of interference, direct or indirect , in the internal or external affairs affecting the jurisdiction. Italy will never use or allow the use of their territories in any hostile action against Libya. " But the Treaty - as you will recall - was voted not only all right but by the entire Democratic Party, elected with the exception of the Radicals in the lists of the PD, and two deputies of the Democratic Party, Sarubbi and writer, has in Serbian other surprises. Article 20: "The two parties undertake to develop, in the defense sector, the cooperation between their armed forces, including through the exchange of military information and a strong industrial partnership in the field of defense and military industries. But also (Article 19) "the two Parties shall encourage a system of control of land borders Libya to be entrusted to Italian companies."
In short, we are accomplices. We are bound by a "close partnership" with a country that was and is no guarantee of respect for human rights.
It is urgent duty of the Italian Parliament has ratified almost unanimous agreement that the Treaty was already easily recognizable as a shameful act immediately to suspend him. We will begin our report with the sentence pronounced by Berlusconi, while demonstrators in Benghazi were wiped out with weapons and perhaps Italian media: "Do not ask me to act now. I can not disturb Gaddafi ".

Two rape a girl a in short distance from Trinita dei Monti

It happened on the climb to San Sebastianello, a few meters from Piazza di Spagna in Rome. The young Spanish woman, aged 23, in shock, and then returned home, along with the boyfriend went to the hospital. It is possible that some of the area camera may have captured the two on the run
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Raped in the center, Trinity Mountains, on the slope of San Sebastian. Violence in the heart of nightlife in the crowd and the excitement of Friday night, in the confusion of chatter and laughter. Thus, two young people, around one and a half, grabbed the girl by the arm, - a Spanish student of 23 years who is in Rome to study, and they dragged behind a car parked. The victim was raped by both in turn, between the car and a wall.

The girl, in shock, disbelief for what had happened in a place full of people, and then returned home, along with the boyfriend went to the hospital to be healed Vannini. At half past two in the morning, an hour after the drama. The young woman reported being threatened with a knife and forcibly taken into a dark place.

The agents of the squad the capital, directed by Vittorio Rizzi, were immediately put on the trail of the two attackers. But the minutes are precious in these cases, despite the 70 police cars lined up to watch the old town over the weekend, it was impossible to detect. But the investigations are ongoing and are tightened. It is possible that some of the area camera may have captured the two on the run.

The italian death penalty

”As everyone knows, the death penalty doesn’t exist in Italy. It’s true, there’s still the freedom to torture, in that our penal code does not mention it and some people take advantage, as they did during the Genoa’s G8 at Bolzaneto and at the Diaz school. But since 01 January 1948, the death penalty no longer exists, as stated in the Italian Constitution. That’s the reason why capital sentences are executed with discretion in the prisons, without being too visible. The beating up is called a heart attack or a cerebral haemorrhage. Strangling is always a suicide, often with the laces of their shoes that even a cricket wouldn’t be able to use to hang itself. You can die in your cell and during your death throes, that can last for hours, as they did for Aldo Bianzino or for Stefano Cucchi, no one is present. The prison orderly is constantly somewhere else. The duty doctor late. When he arrives, reassuring, with his bag, he never notices the signs of the hitting, the bruises, and the injuries. The death is natural. The doctors’ photocopy diagnoses state that the injuries were self inflicted. They always hurt themselves. The detainee was depressed, he couldn’t cope. The signs of the dark badness that the dead prisoners inflicted on themselves are the witness letters sent to the relatives, and especially their mothers, shortly before their death.
They are announcements of death, from lads who are shouting out in an uncertain handwriting, desperate, lads who are about to be killed dead. The mothers ask for an interview, a transfer, but however, right up to the death, that is denied, as in the case of Niki Aprile Gatti. Prison, the place that by definition is the safest and the most looked after in the world, is an arm of death that extends right down the peninsula from Genoa, to Florence, to Rovereto. Each year, about 180 detainees die in prison.
A third are suicides. The ones that take their own life are usually the lads being imprisoned for the first time. In 2009, there were sixty nine suicides, a record as never before, a suicide rate that is twenty one times the rate for the Italian population not in prison. It’s possible to think that it’s normal that that happens, in Italy like elsewhere. However, Canada has a rate that is four times lower than the Italian rate and the Polish Minister of Justice had to resign because of a suicide. In prison, the ones who survive and don’t commit suicide or get themselves suicided becomes habitual criminals, a danger to society when they return to freedom. The option of being on probation in the care of the social services has in fact been eliminated. Probation is a measure for re-education to protect the safety of the citizens. The prisoners on probation with the social services, in fact, almost never commit other crimes and go back inside: only three out of ten. Those who serve their whole sentence in prison continue to commit crime: a good seven out of ten.
This book is a painful chorus of voices that tell us the story of infernal to-ing and fro-ing in which the death penalty is inflicted without a verdict, without guilt, without witnesses, and above all without anyone being guilty. The prison, like the uniform, is not put on trial, and anyone ending up behind bars is just a number with no longer any rights. The death penalty has never been abolished, it has evolved. Anyone, to general surprise, found dead in his cell, with a swollen face, his organs in a state of devastation, is just one who is “differently suicided”.( Beppe Grillo)

The shit hits the fan

Some people compare Berlusconi with Al Capone. The former on his way out because of stories involving prostitutes, the latter imprisoned for tax dodging. But the comparison doesn’t stand up for two reasons. The first is that Al Capone was the boss of Chicago, but not the President of the United States. He was a private citizen, not the First Citizen. The second reason is that he did not have available to him information about the big tax dodgers of America, whereas the psycho-dwarf certainly has a cupboard full of dossiers on all those who have been gravely sinning, and not just sexually, whether they are in Parliament or in the institutions. How many are there and who are they? Before leaving the stage he will bring them down. He will use his media like cannons. In 1993 it was said that politics could not be substituted by the magistracy. The collapse of the 5-party set up has gifted us with the worst twenty year period of the Republic and the restoration of the Craxi-ists and the P2-ists. Who remembers Tina Alselmi? In 2011 we are still at the starting point, like a never-ending ‘Game of The Goose’. Then the bribe money, today the showgirls. In this legislature the Oppositions (?) have had a number of opportunities to bring down the government. It would have been a worthwhile action. It didn’t happen. And politics has been substituted by Ruby. Politics cannot abdicate its role. Bersani, Fini, Casini, D'Alema, Veltroni and other courageous ones are using a young girl as their shield for the end game. A game that should have and could have ended a decade ago. Berlusconi has been a lame duck for some time. He is the past. But, in politics, there’s a variety of ways to bury the dead. The risk is that even the Italian Republic might get buried. After the fall of Benito Mussolini, there was chaos, September 8, the fleeing of the king. Berlusconi is the one who is the guarantee of very precarious equilibria. The economy is close to collapse, whatever ‘Tremorti’ says. If there were elections, with PDL in disorder, the Lega could get a majority in the North and start off the secession with the consensus in the Veneto region and in Lombardy. The psycho-dwarf in his own way has been the glue of a Nation that is in decay, his alibi and his mirror. This evening in the streets of the cities of Italy, hundreds of underage girls will be offering themselves as prostitutes to the general indifference of the public and today multitudes of Italians will take off in flight, true modern ogres, to rape children in the world. Is anybody interested? We can expect a period of private shit in the fan; I believe that almost no one will be immune. (Beppe Grillo)