Cinecittà, the southern suburbs of Rome. A square. At the center of a square container and a colored inscription: "Surgery." Inside, a man sitting behind a small desk remedied somewhere and a purse, a handbag worn by Medical Mutual. The man, illuminated by a neon light against the wall, his name Antonio Calabrò Antonio Calabrò Dr. "What am I doing here? I just do my work, I try to heal and help those who are ill. "
In fact no one has ever asked to Antonio Calabrò to place themselves there. Nobody pays him - his work as a doctor is at the Fatebenefratelli - and only someone help me. Certainly does not help the ACEA, the multinational company that is dedicated to providing light and water to the citizens of Rome but decided to leave without electricity this medical frontier. An oversight? Maybe, after all his patients are not worth much: they are Roma, Romanians, Poles and all the humanity that wanders in various cities of Italy. A population of invisible ghost that every single day that God sends into the ground trying to make ends meet to fix a meal, a warm place to spend the night, and when the situation is particularly severe, a doctor.
'days have been very heavy - says Dr. Calabro -. The mayor has decided to vacate the barracks at Tor Bella Monaca and hundreds of people, especially pregnant women and children, spent this Easter weekend in the rain. " Result of the blitz? "The clinic has been invaded by kids with serious respiratory problems." And yes, it works in Rome recently. The police arrive and their sirens wailing, the ghosts that come from the East and South of the world, run like beasts, beasts hunted by police batons. A desperate escape to the countryside of Rome: Vermicino, Tor Vergata, Frascati ...
Then the police walked on, and they can return to rebuild the shacks demolished by bulldozers the Italian Republic. The fact is that this holy Easter Dr. Calabro has passed to treat bronchitis of those "poor bastards."
and Christ the doctor has a very clear idea, almost intimate, "He is born, lived and died in the street, next to the last, desperate. For me - then added - this is the gospel. " Long story that Dr. Calabro: "I was born there - he says, pointing to the enormous structure of the Salesians of Tuscolana - I grew up and I have formed on the books of the theologians of liberation. At that time the priests made us memorize "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire. " That must be why Dr. Calabro insists on thinking Christ is above all that there, among the huts of Cinecittà: "Paradoxically - he says - to go down to hell to discover and find Jesus Christ."
suddenly comes Mrs. Carmela: "Doctor - frantic calls - gave them to the analysis results of yesterday's boy?". "Yes, I think they are ready, but I need the name and surname," he says. "Name? And who remembers it. You know how many of these I have here? I can not remember all the names. " Mrs. Carmela is another volunteer who offers a daily hot meal to those who need it, washes his clothes and arranges for medical examinations, shipments by Dr. Calabro. 'It was really a period difficult - says Mrs. Carmela - the day the murder of Mrs Reggiani - the woman attacked and killed by a Romanian Milvio Bridge - has created an atmosphere of witch hunt. These here - then he blurts out - they are human beings, human beings like us. "
"The problem - is echoed by Dr. Calabro - is that if we do not give a face to these desperate people, if we do not realize that the word Roma, Romanian or outside is a man of flesh and blood, will not change anything . This is why people tolerate, tolerate without lifting a finger, the troops of camel Veltroni to evacuate the camps and slums. Nobody really thinks that women live in those barracks, men and children in the flesh. "
The fact is that the presence of Mrs. Carmela makes it a good idea of \u200b\u200bthe network that moves around to Dr. Calabro. A network of solidarity that nourishes thanks to the radical, the radical real and lived every day in the streets of Rome. "When you meet immanence and transcendence - the doctor says, smiling - you can do real miracles." Yes, miracles. Like the time they saved a young Roma aged 28 at his seventh pregnancy. "He suffered the separation of the placenta. Really in danger of dying. Ambulances were not, then I sent my daughter went to camp, he loaded the car and brought it to me in the hospital operating room where she was ready. We have saved for skin of our teeth. " Then
policy. And yes because thanks to the insistence by Sandro Medici, president of the district, Dr. Calabro has decided to stand in the lists of the Rainbow Left. "A difficult decision - admit smiling - I had to ask permission to Father Zanotelli, who found a hell of Christ Korogocho, because between us there was a promise not to enter politics under any circumstances." "Nothing to do with Cricket, it is clear," then specifies. "I do politics, politics with a capital P believe they do. E 'parties, in what is left of the parties that I do not think. "
"Why policy away people like Antonio Calabrò? I wonder I - admits Sandro Medici - It is certain that if politics is reduced to the technical management of the territory, if it fails to transmit values, giving rise to these experiences, the problem is not parties and of those people who make such radical choices and totalizing. "
fact is that in the end Dr. Calabro was persuaded to try the way of politics: "I asked Sandro to be able to occupy young people. And 'there that we have to begin to give hope to this country. I have five children and I know how the hell the kids live. I'm just digestive tracts. There is no one who takes you by the hand and slams at the reality of the real world. The parishes are empty and the sections of the PCI closed for ever. About take care of them? The television? ".
And if you ask him of his election program, Dr. Calabro pulls out a document from his tattered bag. "See? - Says he is satisfied - this is a document that I wrote with Father Zanotelli and Don Andrea Santoro. It's called "The policy we want". " A document can look away, flying high, but who wants to act in individual territories: "We are far from those policy decisions in recent years have made all the more obvious the logic of war and militarism, privatization of common goods, discrimination and intolerance towards immigrants and foreigners, job insecurity. " And again: "Our country is experiencing a decline in political, economic, social and cultural life that comes from the apparent inability of the ruling classes in every area of \u200b\u200bsociety (politics, economy, culture and media) innovative answers, and centered on the principle of solidarity, responsibility, civic culture, the challenges and emergencies which we live. "
"We must all work together, from individuals, small groups, networks, committees, local, and now join forces to give us? Minimum program? ensuring the centrality of local mobilizations against the common good and works great, the devastation of the territory, military bases, in the spirit of the movement of Genoa, and to relaunch the new forms of participatory democracy and deliberative and against any collateral or co-optation subordinate institutions - the proposal for an independent political identity of subjectivity and social movements. "
Meanwhile down in the evening. E 'come forward to close the clinic. Not far away stands a bowl of meatballs and milk. "These are the cats - SPEGA Dr. Calabro - kitchen every good things for animals in the neighborhood. If instead of the cats there were a few migrants could also die of hunger. "
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