By FLC CGIL Florence
As part of the campaign “ENOUGH FAVORS TO ARMS DEALERS to stop the emptying of law 185/90”, promoted by the Italian Peace and Disarmament Network, the CGIL of Florence organized, together with the category of bankers (Fisac) and workers of the knowledge (Flc), the initiative “Educate for peace, disarm war” in which it will be possible to participate in person or connect remotely to this LINK.
Appointment Thursday May 2nd at 5pm at the Di Vittorio salon in the Chamber of Labor in Florence (Borgo Greci 7)
Will participate: Giorgio Beretta of the Italian Peace and Disarmament Network, Simone Siliani President of the Ethical Finance Foundation, the deputies Arturo Scotto (PD), Andrea Quartini (M5S), Nicola Fratoianni (SI). Ilaria Lani (secretariat of Cgil Florence), Emanuele Rossi (general secretary of Flc Cgil Florence) and Yuri Domenici (general secretary of Fisac Cgil Florence) will speak.
THE POSTER
THE PRESENTATION OF THE INITIATIVE
With this initiative, the CGIL of Florence, together with workers in the financial and knowledge sectors, calls for an immediate stop to the bill that seeks to deprive Parliament and citizens of access to crucial information on the export of arms and on the finance that supports it.
Law 185/90 on the export of Italian arms, which guarantees the control of Parliament and citizens over a strategic and critical sector of the country, as well as over the private financial flows that feed it, is today subjected to an attempt to amend it. The text of the bill released by the Senate, if it were also confirmed by the House, constitutes a clear favor to the arms dealers. We will practically no longer know the specific type of weapons and military materials that are exported to various countries. And this is fundamental information for the control of Parliament and our associations on government activity.
The proposed changes aim, among other things, to cancel the “list of armed banks” which for 30 years has allowed Parliament and citizens to know which banks finance the production and export of weapons and for what amounts. Canceling this transparency safeguard would be in contradiction with the guidelines of Europe, which wants consumers in member states to be increasingly free to make informed choices on the market, including that of banking and financial products. The EU has passed several regulations requiring banks to disclose the sectors they finance and their social and environmental impacts. With law 185, Italy has a law that was at the forefront and it makes no sense to cancel it now that the rest of Europe is also moving in the direction of ever greater transparency on the operations of banks.
