roots and wings of our city
The reflection of the Democratic Party Secretary John Pignataro and cultural center on the development of Gallarate: "Our roots are in work and solidarity"
Roots and wings
Last week our city has been likened to Barcelona by a Minister of the Republic.
Despite the claim does not lend itself to some irony, I decided to comment in any way. I love my city and for this I am not going to criticize a comparison obviously exaggerated but positive. What I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on what are the roots of Gallarate. What are the hallmarks of this city, which means today to be Gallaratese?
does not seem a useless question, no tree grows without roots and no city plan may be. And the roots are no prisons, no regret for a past that will never return the same, but the foundations.
To search for an answer then that I can from my roots. Gallarate
When I think of it I remember instantly the image of my maternal grandfather was born, lived and died in this city. Textile entrepreneur who deeply loved his job and his workers. A man of deep faith and not publicized, that the weekly time devoted to those who needed. Through
My grandfather, I, like many others I think my fellow citizens through their family stories, I knew a picture of Gallarate active and supportive. By using the term so broad it could be said then that the "culture" of Gallarate is made of work and solidarity. These are the roots and the characteristic that, in different times, we have inherited and that we need to. After all, the great artistic movement Gallarate, from which among other things gave rise to the experience of modern art gallery and our library is able to be born on the sturdy legs of a city that produces and try not leave anybody behind. The culture in the strictest sense has not been and will not be from one engine of the future development of Gallarate, which in fact is not Barcelona, \u200b\u200bVenice, Florence, but, proudly, Gallarate.
This reflection on the roots is reflected in the pattern of development of this city. The works of the center-folded, with the revival of the old town to the restoration of the theater Condominium until you get to New Gallery of Modern Art were made possible by the great urban development. This led to a senseless use of unbuilt areas of the City but has provided the liquidity needed without burdening the municipal budget in terms of mortgages or loans. This mode of administration, which has severely affected the environment and the possibility of using of a territory not compromise on the part of our children, can no longer sustain the future regardless of even important ecological considerations. The buildable land is exhausted and the only area left is the 336. In fact the project of moving the library building Minoletti is an early sign in this sense, as it is funded by the ignition of the loan.
So then to build a model of sustainable development in the future we need to change and start again from the roots, work and solidarity.
Only a city that continues to produce and ensure that jobs will indeed keep the great works. Must then choose, for example, to facilitate manufacturing facilities in the area and not restrict entrepreneurship to building, creating a network of companies (not just the trade), help to create a system to imagine a future beyond the manufacturing crisis in the textile and administered in accordance with transparency and sense the former municipal company.
Only a city that guarantees everyone a decent life and to create communities, leaving behind no one can go back to being the protagonist of development. Leveraging the enormous wealth of volunteers from parishes and associations through a real horizontal and vertical subsidiarity, addressing the challenge of creating inclusion in compliance e non esclusione, introducendo criteri più chiari e conosciuti per l’erogazione dei servizi attinenti alla sfera del sociale.
Per tutto questo non basta ”fare” ma occorre “pensare” e “progettare” da subito.
Il PD di Gallarate senza polemiche ma con senso di responsabilità intende ripartire dalle radici di lavoro e solidarietà: queste radici sono infatti le nostre ali. Da qui vogliamo costruire insieme a chiunque vorrà una reale alternativa per la Gallarate di domani.
Giovanni Pignataro
Secretary of the Democratic Party of Gallarate
11/12/2009
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