“Carrara is not a fascinating jewel of the Apuan Alps”. The citizen committees are not willing to pass this message on the city. They are the readers of the daily Fatto and they have sent the journalists who will be in Piazza San Francesco tomorrow a lightning-fast statement in which they talk about “wild extractivism, pollution that takes over the city in all its vital ganglia, from culture to health”. The health policy of the Municipality and the local health authority which is dismantling the hospital and outpatient facilities is still being highlighted. There is talk of reclamation which has been awaited for 40 years from a territory “devastated by chemical residues and never reclaimed”. The management of public affairs understood as “its own thing”, used to build consensus through perks and distribution of direct tasks. As readers of Il Fatto we were enthusiastic about the Paper Fest. However, we were disappointed by the words of the mayor who, in welcoming the initiative, describes a distant situation from reality Hence the list of critical issues such as the closed Marble Museum, the historic center abandoned to decay, the vaunted Apuan Alps crumbled and in the hands of a few families. An administration that is on the opposite side of these struggles is the The most marbled, most polluted municipality (never reclaimed) with the highest cancer rates and the worst health services in Tuscany”. The letter is signed by the First Aid Committee, Adic Citizens Association, Public Health, Public Health Versilia Massa Carrara, Ecoapuano, Apuoversiliese Environmental Coordination, Friends of the Earth Versilia, New Urban Landscapes, Lunezia.
In the meantime, yesterday on YouTube the episode of Millennum of the Fatto quotidiano was aired where the photographer Alessandro Gandolfi illustrated the content of a dossier carried out in the quarry entitled ”The owners of marble: few taxes, little safety, a lot of pollution”. The journalist Mario Portanova interviewed Nico di Athamanta and Maria Paola Antonioli of Legambiente in an episode in which the spotlight was on pollution, wild extractivism, a divided city and working methods worthy of South American states. Hence the lack of repercussions on an exploited territory, the politics that do not help and a city where nothing remains of the nabob profits reserved for industrialists. “A divided city where not even the workers – explained Gandolfi – are unionized, but being anarchists they are difficult to classify”. The rest were accusations relating to the appraised assets and the laws of the 18th century, mountains crumbled to make toothpaste and calcium carbonate, a robbed territory.
