Le madri lontane
▻https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Romania/Le-madri-lontane-226428
Le migliaia di braccianti romene e bulgare che lavorano nei campi di Italia, Spagna e Germania devono separarsi dai figli per mesi. La lontananza e la “maternità delegata” segnano i figli per sempre
JO de Paris 2024 : « Plusieurs centaines de milliers de spectateurs » en accès gratuit et 35 000 forces de l’ordre pour la cérémonie d’ouverture
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2023/05/23/jo-de-paris-2024-environ-35-000-forces-de-l-ordre-pour-relever-le-defi-de-la
.... « Cela n’a pas de précédent dans l’histoire des forces de l’ordre », a-t-il insisté, ajoutant qu’il y aurait « un périmètre antiterroriste ».
A ces forces de sécurité s’ajouteront 2 000 policiers municipaux de la Ville de Paris pour la partie quais hauts, ainsi que « 2 000 à 3 000 agents de sécurité privée » pour les quais bas, « sous la responsabilité de l’Etat, qui supervisera l’ensemble de la sécurité des Jeux et de cette cérémonie », selon M. Estanguet.
Le secteur Trocadéro-tour Eiffel, où seront présents notamment les chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement, sera « exclusivement pris en charge » par les forces de sécurité intérieure, précise le texte du protocole.
JO Paris 2024 : les juridictions d’Ile-de-France s’inquiètent des conséquences du plan « zéro délinquance »
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/01/19/jo-paris-2024-les-juridictions-d-ile-de-france-s-inquietent-des-consequences
A Bobigny, un afflux de procédures supplémentaires est déjà enregistré, en raison de la multiplication des interpellations, notamment de dealeurs et de consommateurs de drogue et de vendeurs à la sauvette.
.... le plan « objectif zéro délinquance » décliné en Seine-Saint-Denis comme dans les autres départements concernés par les JO [cible], entre autres, la question des stupéfiants, de la vente à la sauvette, la contrefaçon ou encore les vols à l’arraché.
Les effets de ce plan se font ressentir depuis septembre 2022. Jusqu’à trois opérations quotidiennes ont d’ores et déjà lieu dans ce cadre au sein du département. Avec des conséquences en chaîne : plus d’arrestations engendrent plus de gardes à vue, qui conduisent à plus de déferrements, et donc, potentiellement, à plus de poursuites. « Nous en ressentons déjà les effets : nous observons une augmentation de 50 % à 88 % des gardes à vue quotidiennes pour stupéfiants, notamment pour des usages, et une hausse significative des interpellations en matière de vente à la sauvette ou des enquêtes de travail dissimulé. Un renfort des permanences du parquet est indispensable », a souligné Eric Mathais.
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Paris maquis
Inventer la liberté
Fichés traqués matraqués
Face aux nervis camoufles
Solides gardiens de l’appris
Payes armés pour nous tuer
Paris maquis quotidien
Un jeu truqué où tu perds
Terrerur meurtre ā chaque instant
Drôle d’etat assassin
Fragilite liberté
Révolution Résistance
Paris maquis quotidien
La ville zombie régulee
Musés blindés de l’appris
La ville resiste terroriste
Assassine l’état dans la poche
Je te juge l’état contre moi
Fasciste !
Le transfert de sans-abri de Paris vers plusieurs villes de France avant les JO inquiète
►https://www.nouvelobs.com/societe/20230523.OBS73691/bruz-besancon-le-transfert-de-sans-abri-de-paris-vers-plusieurs-villes-de
Le gouvernement souhaite inciter les #sans-abri, principalement des #migrants, à quitter la région parisienne avant les Jeux olympiques. Des « sas d’accueil temporaires » ont été créés dans la plupart des régions.
c’est vrai que plus de les voir (horreur) y a des campements à déloger tous les régulièrement
#hébergement_d'urgence #sans-abri
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le tsunami occasionné par les JO s’annonce aussi en province, ici, la Bretagne ►https://seenthis.net/messages/1004203
Braccianti bambini trattati come schiavi nelle campagne di Latina
Giovanissimi migranti sfruttati da clan mafiosi e padroncini fascisti. La denuncia di un lavoratore italiano: «Agenti e politici locali in una delle aziende già conosciute alle forze dell’ordine»
«Nella mia esperienza l’unica legge vigente in alcune aziende dell’#Agro_Pontino è quella del padrone, che decide tutto a partire da chi deve lavorare, quante ore di lavoro deve fare e quanto dobbiamo essere pagati. Se qualcuno si lamenta non ti richiama più, oppure ti insulta o minaccia in modo brutale. L’ho visto personalmente minacciare braccianti del Bangladesh e indiani con fucili e pistole per farli tacere dopo tre mesi di lavoro svolto senza stipendio». A parlare è un bracciante italiano di origine calabrese che da poche settimane ha lasciato la provincia di Latina perché stanco di umiliazioni e violenze. Ha lavorato infatti sotto padrone nelle campagne dell’Agro Pontino da quando aveva 16 anni. Le sue mani sembrano quelle di un anziano bracciante di ottant’anni. Ne ha invece solo quarantadue.
Mostra delle foto fatte di nascosto col suo cellulare mentre lavora sotto le serre con la schiena piegata accanto a quella di altri suoi compagni immigrati. E con le foto anche alcuni eloquenti vocali. Dichiara e dimostra, ora che è al sicuro in un paese vicino Milano, qualcosa di inaspettato anche per chi si occupa di studiare e denunciare lo sfruttamento dei braccianti italiani e immigrati della provincia di Latina da vent’anni. «Ancora in queste settimane, soprattutto il venerdì, il sabato e la domenica, arrivano anche minori a lavorare come schiavi. Sono ragazzi provenienti dal Bangladesh e dall’India. Hanno 14 anni, altre volte 15. Qualcuno arriva al massimo a 17. Non parlano italiano se non pochissime parole che il caporale indiano, su mandato di sedicenti capi della comunità indiana o bangladese, fa imparare loro per eseguire correttamente gli ordini del padrone italiano. Devono soprattutto capire quando arriva l’ordine di scappare perché si teme l’arrivo dei Carabinieri o di qualche controllo specifico».
Sono giovanissimi immigrati che anziché frequentare corsi di formazione e di lingua, le scuole italiane come i loro coetanei o pensare a vivere in modo sereno la loro adolescenza, sono impiegati senza contratto anche per dieci o dodici ore al giorno nella raccolta delle carote, delle cipolle o dei ravanelli che garantiscono profitti illeciti a padroni e criminali italiani e immigrati e a un sistema agromafioso che, ricorda l’Eurispes, fattura ogni anno circa 24,5 miliardi di euro.
«Il padrone li recluta parlando coi caporali o con il capo indiano della comunità per pagarli appena 4 euro l’ora. Parliamo di 40 euro al giorno per svolgere un lavoro faticoso e pericoloso. Devono infatti camminare in ginocchio per raccogliere gli ortaggi, usare coltelli affilati per tagliare cespi di insalata o i famosi cavolirapa per il mercato tedesco, e sollevare cassette molto pesanti dopo averle riempite completamente. Le loro pause, come anche le mie, sono al massimo di quaranta minuti per tutta la giornata. I dolori alla schiena, anche a quell’età, o alle ginocchia, sono molto forti e qualcuno di loro per evitare di sentire la fatica prende, come anche molti altri immigrati sfruttati, pasticche o oppio che alcuni hanno dentro i loro zaini». Si tratta di un fenomeno già denunciato nel 2014 da “In Migrazione”, riscontrato peraltro anche in molti processi in corso presso il Tribunale di Latina.
«Sono minori che vivono in famiglie i cui genitori fanno anche loro i braccianti. Se sommi lo stipendio di padre, madre e figlio minore, tutti sfruttati nelle campagne pontine in aziende molto note, si raggiunge a malapena il salario previsto per il lavoro di un singolo bracciante con regolare contratto. Insomma, ne fai lavorare tre al prezzo di uno, minore compreso. Quando ho provato a dire al padrone che doveva trattarci bene e darci quello che ci doveva, mi ha insultato. Mi ha chiamato calabrese di merda. Una volta mi ha anche preso a calci e a schiaffi, dicendomi che potevo rivolgermi tranquillamente ai sindacati o ai giornalisti, tanto non ha paura di nessuno». Il padrone in questione, peraltro, «è noto alle forze dell’ordine, ma sembra fregarsene. Forse è protetto o si sente protetto, anche perché in azienda, soprattutto nel fine settimana, arrivavano alcuni agenti e politici locali. Si ritrovava anche con alcuni imprenditori agricoli di successo che dicevano fossero molto vicini alla camorra. Si prendevano tutti sotto braccio e pranzavano insieme, mentre io, insieme a quei ragazzi che potevano avere l’età di mio figlio, lavoravamo per loro quasi gratuitamente. E quando qualcuno di noi ha cercato di ribellarsi è finito in ospedale con la testa rotta. Il caporale infatti lo ha preso a bastonate fino a lasciarlo in terra sporco di sangue mentre il padrone faceva sparire il bastone per evitare guai».
Non solo pratiche però, anche il linguaggio del padrone è importante. E infatti «amava farsi chiamare Mussolini, tanto che aveva fatto montare in azienda busti e adesivi inneggianti al fascismo. Quando pagava i salari, spesso in contanti, ricordava ai braccianti immigrati, minori compresi, che in Italia ci vorrebbe Mussolini o Hitler per sistemare le cose. E poi li insultava definendoli degli indiani idioti, che in Italia devono obbedire agli ordini degli italiani e ringraziare per il lavoro che lui gli garantiva. Era un fascista amico».
Questo è probabilmente uno di quegli imprenditori che secondo il presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni non deve essere disturbato, come lei stessa ha dichiarato agli industriali durante un’iniziativa pubblica. Peraltro anticipando quanto affermato di fatto anche dal neo direttore generale dell’Ispettorato Nazionale del Lavoro il giorno del suo insediamento. Non disturbare il manovratore, dunque, anche quando sfrutta lavoratori, ambiente e minori. È la solita dottrina di una destra che è forte con gli sfruttati, italiani e immigrati, donne e uomini, e invece attenta a non disturbare i forti, soprattutto quando sono padroni e fascisti che portano voti e consenso.
▻https://ilmanifesto.it/braccianti-bambini-trattati-come-schiavi-nelle-campagne-di-latina
#exploitation #enfants #enfance #mineurs #braccianti #Italie #Latina #agriculture #néo-esclavage #Bangladesh #Inde #migrations #caporalato
#Caporalato in #Friuli_Venezia_Giulia : #Gorizia è solo la punta dell’iceberg
A fine febbraio una telefonata anonima ha fatto scoprire 30 braccianti rumeni, tra cui due minori, segregati in case fatiscenti, obbligati a lavorare per pochi euro, minacciati e picchiati. Per la Flai Cgil «il caporalato sta dove c’è ricchezza: in Friuli è rappresentata dai vigneti»
A fine febbraio tre persone sono state arrestate a Gorizia per intermediazione illecita e sfruttamento della manodopera in agricoltura. Le accuse nei loro confronti sono aggravate dalle minacce, dal numero dei lavoratori coinvolti e dalla minore età di due di loro.
Il nuovo caso di caporalato è emerso grazie a una segnalazione anonima. La guardia di finanza e la procura hanno così scoperto una trentina di persone segregate in case fatiscenti e in precarie condizioni igienico-sanitarie, costrette a lavorare come braccianti agricoli per pochi euro al giorno, minacciate e picchiate se tentavano di ribellarsi. Lavoratori e caporali sono di origine rumena.
«Che il caporalato fosse diffuso in regione lo sapevamo già, almeno dal dicembre 2021, quando sono stati scoperti alcuni casi a Pordenone. Adesso tutti si meravigliano, ma quello che è accaduto a Gorizia è l’ennesima dimostrazione che il caporalato, come la mafia, sta dove c’è ricchezza. E la grande ricchezza a cielo aperto del Friuli, come del Veneto, sono i vigneti che da tempo hanno sostituito le vecchie coltivazioni», dice a Osservatorio Diritti Alessandro Zanotto, coordinatore regionale Flai Cgil Friuli.
Caporalato in Italia: il fenomeno va da Sud a Nord
Il caporalato è sempre più radicato anche al Nord. Sono 405 le aree interessate dal fenomeno lungo tutta la Penisola, di queste solo 194 si trovano al Sud.
Le altre sono divise tra Nord e Centro. Tra le regioni del Nord, Veneto e Lombardia sono quelle più coinvolte con 44 e 21 aree individuate. Due quelle monitorate in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, a Pordenone. A cui ora si aggiunge Gorizia (dati Osservatorio Placido Rizzotto Flai Cgil).
«L’operazione della Procura e della Guardia di finanza a Gorizia è la prova che nessuna regione, nessuna coordinata geografica è immune allo sfruttamento. Un menù tossico fatto di condizioni di lavoro umilianti e contesti di vita ripugnanti», spiega a Osservatorio Diritti Jean René Bilongo, presidente dell’Osservatorio Placido Rizzotto della Flai Cgil.
Differenze non ce ne sono rispetto ai casi scoperti al Sud: spesso i lavoratori sono di origine straniera (nei casi scoperti a Pordenone erano pachistani, a Gorizia rumeni), i salari sono bassissimi, contratti non ce ne sono e neppure diritti.
Anche se al Nord può capitare che ci si avvalga di società di somministrazione di manodopera o di consulenti del lavoro locali, «che danno una parvenza di legalità, ma che in realtà sono apparati schiavistici. A Gorizia poi erano coinvolti anche due minorenni e i lavoratori erano tutti di origine rumena, quindi cittadini europei. Una vicenda che smentisce la retorica sul permesso di soggiorno», afferma Bilongo.
Caporalato in Friuli Venezia Giulia
I casi scoperti in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in particolare nel territorio di Pordenone (su cui il VI Rapporto Agromafie e Caporalato della Flai Cgil ha acceso i riflettori), sono «solo la punta dell’iceberg in un territorio che si vanta di avere come pilastro della propria società la rettitudine, ma che il caporalato riesce a scalfire ugualmente. E lo stesso numero di vertenze aperte sul territorio è paradigmatico dell’ampiezza del fenomeno», dice Bilongo.
Anche Zanotto parla di punta dell’iceberg quando racconta dei casi scoperti in regione, in particolare a Pordenone: «In quel caso erano coinvolti lavoratori pachistani, rinchiusi in case in campagna o in centro, alcuni senza permesso di soggiorno. Anche il caporale era pachistano. Ma le vere menti sono locali. È ipocrita chi dice di non sapere e di non vedere: noi li vediamo, questi ragazzi e ragazze, lavorare nei vigneti alle potature, a novembre e dicembre, tutti i giorni, anche i sabati e le domeniche, dalla mattina presto alla sera tardi. Ragazzi e ragazze che arrivano attraverso la rotta dei Balcani e che vengono sfruttati nelle nostre campagne».
La legge contro il caporalato esiste, ma va applicata
Ma come si combatte il caporalato? Per Bilongo la risposta è semplice: applicando la normativa di cui l’Italia si è dotata.
«La legge 199 del 2016 sul caporalato prevede un impianto repressivo, ma anche di prevenzione. E se i dati sui contenziosi non accennano ad arretrare nonostante le forze a contrasto insufficienti, la prevenzione, purtroppo, non decolla», dice il sindacalista.
Bilongo, in particolare, fa riferimento alla Rete del lavoro agricolo di qualità, l’organismo autonomo istituito dalle legge 116/2014 che punta ad arginare il caporalato in agricoltura attraverso la creazione di una lista di imprese virtuose.
La legge sul caporalato del 2016 ha potenziato la Rete, prevedendo l’istituzione di sezioni territoriali in ogni provincia. Ma a fine 2021, le sezioni attivate sono solo 21. E le aziende iscritte alla Rete sono 5.978 su un potenziale di 250 mila (dati Osservatorio Placido Rizzotto – Quaderno n. 1 Geografia del caporalato).
Qual è il motivo di numeri così bassi? «Il caporalato è una via facile per avere manodopera da discount ed è ormai una modalità consolidata. Eppure la soluzione è lì perché se un’azienda non ha niente da rimproverarsi può iscriversi alla rete ed essere certificata come sana. Dobbiamo rivendicare la necessità di fare prevenzione attraverso la Rete», afferma Bilongo.
In Friuli-Venezia Giulia ci stanno provando, ma, come precisa Zanotto, «spesso le controparti partecipano agli incontri ma poi finisce lì. Eppure ciò che vediamo noi dovrebbero vederlo anche loro e rendersi conto che chi utilizza questa forma di manodopera rappresenta una concorrenza sleale per le aziende in regola».
Sindacato di strada: ecco come si combatte il caporalato oggi
Nei luoghi di lavoro, in quelli di aggregazione o di preghiera, nelle piazze dove avvengono gli ingaggi giornalieri, la Flai Cgil da alcuni anni ha scelto di reinventarsi come sindacato di strada per poter incontrare i lavoratori, distribuire materiale informativo e contratti in diverse lingue, segnalare i servizi del territorio, sostenere chi vuole denunciare.
«A Pordenone è stato grazie al lavoro del sindacato di strada che abbiamo scoperto quello che stava e sta accadendo», dice Zanotto.
Con il camper dei diritti – presente in Campania, Sardegna, Puglia, Piemonte, Basilicata, Calabria, Sicilia, Veneto – sono stati avvicinati molti lavoratori che, per paura o problemi di natura logistica, non riuscivano a entrare in contatto con il sindacato.
«I braccianti agricoli lavorano dall’alba al tramonto e quando rientrano il sindacato è chiuso. Abbiamo rovesciato il paradigma andando loro incontro per intercettare bisogni, farci carico delle criticità, infondere consapevolezza. Questo significa recarsi di notte nei luoghi da cui partono per andare nei campi, o la domenica nei mercati o in moschea. È un lavoro costoso ma efficace. Nel 2018 a Latina quasi 5 mila braccianti indiani sono scesi in piazza. Il coraggio per farlo è il frutto del lavoro del sindacato di strada che, per anni, ha presidiato quella zona», conclude Bilongo.
▻https://www.osservatoriodiritti.it/2023/04/03/caporalato-friuli-venezia-giulia
#Italie #exploitation #main_d'oeuvre #travail #agriculture #braccianti #migrations #vignobles #migrants_roumains #Pordenone #loi #legge_199 #industrie_agro-alimentaire
Una terra di caporali
▻https://www.larevuedessineeitalia.it/2023/02/07/una-terra-di-caporali
#caporalato #Italie #agriculture #exploitation #Latina #migrations #Sikh #migrants_indiens #travail #braccianti #Marco_Omizzolo #Latium #Agro_Pontino #agrimafia #mafia #Circeo #drogues #camorra #grève #résistance #loi #travailleurs_étrangers #progetto_dignità #Dignità-Joban_Singh #Joban_Singh
Exploitation, vulnérabilité et résistance : le cas des #ouvriers_agricoles indiens dans l’Agro Pontino
De nombreuses représentations trompeuses continuent à peser sur l’exploitation des ouvriers agricoles étrangers en Italie, rendant difficile la compréhension du phénomène et l’intervention sur ses causes réelles. Cet article tente de questionner les principaux lieux communs sur le sujet, en analysant un cas particulièrement éclairant : celui de la communauté #Pendjabi de #religion_sikh employée sur l’Agro Pontino, dans le Latium. Cette étude de cas permet, d’une part, de faire ressortir les conditions d’exploitation systémiques, masquées derrière des mécanismes apparemment légaux ; de l’autre, il révèle que même les individus les plus vulnérables peuvent résister à l’exploitation et revendiquer activement leurs droits.
▻https://www.cairn.info/revue-confluences-mediterranee-2019-4-page-45.htm
In Migrazione è una Società Cooperativa Sociale nata nel 2015 dalla volontà di persone impegnate nella ricerca, nell’accoglienza e nel sostegno agli stranieri in Italia.
Diversi percorsi professionali e umani che hanno attraversato un ampio spaccato di esperienze diverse e che con In Migrazione si sono uniti per dare vita ad un soggetto collettivo, innovativo, aperto e trasparente.
Una Cooperativa nata per sperimentare nuovi progetti di qualità e innovative metodologie al fine di interpretare e concretizzare percorsi d’aiuto efficaci verso i migranti che vivono nel nostro Paese situazioni di disagio e difficoltà. Esperienze concrete che sappiano diventare buone pratiche riproducibili, per contribuire a migliorare quel sistema di accoglienza e inclusione sociale degli stranieri.
Le nostre ricerche e le concrete sperimentazioni progettuali mettono al centro la persona, con i suoi peculiari bisogni, aspettative e sogni.
Mettiamo a disposizione queste esperienze e le nostre metodologie alle altre associazioni, cooperative, Enti pubblici e privati, professionisti e volontari del settore, convinti che nel sociale non possano e non debbano esistere copyright.
Progetto “Dignità-Joban Singh”, contro la schiavitù dei braccianti
Una serie di sportelli di accoglienza, ascolto e sostegno, ma anche di assistenza legale, sociale, di formazione e di informazione, in tutta la provincia di Latina. Un progetto per dare voce alle vittime di lavoro schiavo, in memoria del giovane di origini indiane, morto suicida il 6 giugno 2020 a Sabaudia
Si chiama Dignità-Joban Singh ed è il progetto in corso organizzato dall’associazione Tempi Moderni contro le varie forme di schiavismo e sfruttamento che mortificano e riducono in schiavitù migliaia di persone, immigrati e italiani, indiani e africani, uomini e donne, in questa Italia fondata sul lavoro ma anche su una persistente presenza di razzisti, violenti, mafiosi e di sfruttatori che mortificano la democrazia ed esprimono chiaramente la loro natura predatoria.
Joban Singh, di appena 25 anni e residente nel residence “Bella Farnia Mare”, nel Comune di Sabaudia, in provincia di Latina, il 6 giugno scorso è stato trovato senza vita all’interno del suo appartamento. Joban decise di impiccarsi dopo essere entrato in Italia mediante un trafficante di esseri umani indiano, essere stato gravemente sfruttato in una delle maggiori aziende agricole dell’Agro Pontino e aver subito il rifiuto da parte del padrone alla sua richiesta di emersione dall’irregolarità mediante art. 103 del Decreto Rilancio (D.L. n. 34/2020) del governo.
Dedicare questo progetto alla sua memoria, per non dimenticare ciò che significa vivere come uno schiavo in un paese libero, è un impegno che viene sottoscritto da Tempi Moderni ma che può camminare solo sulle gambe di tanti, o meglio di una comunità di persone responsabili e ribelle contro i padroni e i padrini di oggi.
In questa Italia ci sono, secondo il rapporto Agromafie e caporalato dell’Osservatorio Placido Rizzotto della Flai-Cgil (2020), tra 400 e 450mila lavoratori e lavoratrici che solo in agricoltura risultano esposti allo sfruttamento e al caporalato. Di queste ultime, più di 180mila sono impiegate in condizione di grave vulnerabilità sociale e forte sofferenza occupazionale. Secondo il sesto Rapporto Agromafia dell’Eurispes, il business delle agromafie, che comprendono le forme di grave sfruttamento, vale 24,5 miliardi di euro l’anno, con un balzo, nel corso del 2018, del 12,4%.
Un fiume di denaro che è espressione di un’ideologia della disuguaglianza penetrata nei processi culturali delle società occidentali e troppo spesso relazione fondamentale del mondo del lavoro, in particolare del lavoro di fatica. È questo un sistema che produce lo schiavismo contemporaneo, come più volte il “Rapporto Italia”, ancora dell’Eurispes, ha messo in luce.
Ancora nel 2019, ad esempio, l’Eurispes aveva esplicitamente dichiarato che lo sfruttamento è una fattispecie criminale le cui principali vittime sono i migranti provenienti dall’Europa dell’Est, dall’Africa, dall’Asia, dall’America Latina. Lo sfruttamento, infatti, risultava più diffuso nei comparti più esposti alle irregolarità, al sommerso e all’abuso, dove chi fornisce prestazioni lavorative è in condizione di maggiore vulnerabilità.
Si registrano dunque casi più numerosi, ancora secondo l’Eurispes, nell’agricoltura e pastorizia, a danno di polacchi, bulgari, rumeni, originari dell’ex U.R.S.S., africani e, in misura crescente, pakistani e indiani; nell’edilizia, a danno di europei dell’Est; nel settore tessile e manifatturiero, a danno di cinesi; nel lavoro domestico (soprattutto come badanti), a danno di soggetti provenienti dall’Europa dell’Est, dall’ex U.R.S.S., dall’Asia e dall’America del Sud.
Insomma, uomini e donne a cui viene violata la dignità ogni giorno, costretti ad eseguire gli ordini del padrone, a sottostare ai suoi interessi e logiche di dominio. Quando questo potere si esercita nei confronti delle donne, lo sfruttamento assume caratteri devastanti. Ci sono infatti anche casi di violenza sessuale, di subordinazione delle lavoratrici immigrate alle logiche di dominio del boss, del padrone, del capo di turno.
In provincia di Latina e precisamente a Sabaudia, appena poco prima di Natale, un’operazione denominata “Schiavo” e condotta dalla guardia di finanza, ha permesso di liberare dallo sfruttamento 290 lavoratori, soprattutto di origine indiana, che da anni venivano retribuiti con salari mensili inferiori anche del 60% rispetto a quelli previsti dal contratto provinciale, senza il riconoscimento degli straordinari, con l’obbligo di lavorare anche la domenica, impiegati senza le necessarie misure di sicurezza.
Dunque, cosa fare? Avere il coraggio di capire, organizzarsi e agire collettivamente. Non si hanno alternative. La povertà, lo sfruttamento, la schiavitù, la violenza, non si abrogano per decreto. Non basta una legge. Serve un’azione collettiva espressione di una volontà radicale di contrasto di questo fenomeno mediante innanzitutto l’accoglienza e l’ascolto delle sue vittime, la costruzione di una relazione orizzontale con loro, dialettica, professionale e anche in questo coraggiosa, perché si deve prevedere l’azione di denuncia dei padroni insieme a quella della tutela.
Ed è questa la sintesi perfetta del progetto Dignità–Joban Singh che ha organizzato e avviato una serie di sportelli di accoglienza, ascolto, sostegno e anche di assistenza legale, sociale, di formazione e di informazione, in tutta la provincia di Latina. Si tratta di sportelli che hanno il compito di accogliere e di fornire assistenza legale gratuita alle donne e agli uomini gravemente sfruttati, di qualunque nazionalità, vittime di tratta e caporalato, di violenze, anche sessuali, obbligati al silenzio o alla subordinazione.
Insomma, un progetto realizzato grazie all’ausilio di avvocati di grande esperienza e con mediatori culturali affidabili e professionali, fondato sulla pedagogia degli oppressi di Freire e gli insegnamenti di Don Milani, Don Primo Mazzolari e Don Sardelli. Un progetto che vuole anche contrastare le strategie (razziste) mediatiche, politiche e sociali di stigmatizzazione, stereotipizzazione ed esclusione di coloro che sono considerati antropologicamente diversi.
Un progetto che però ha bisogno del sostegno della maggioranza di questo paese, donne e uomini che non vogliono vivere sotto il ricatto delle mafie, dei violenti, degli sfruttatori, dei neoschiavisti, dei razzisti, in favore di un’Italia che merita un futuro diverso, migliore.
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Marco Omizzolo
Marco Omizzolo is a sociologist, researcher and journalist, who has been documenting and denoucing human rights violations against Sikh migrant workers exploited in the fields in the province of Latina (central Italy). In a context where “agrimafia” is rampant and many farms are controlled by criminal organisations, migrants have to work for up to 13 hours a day in inhumane conditions and under the orders of “caporali” (gangmasters), they earn well below the minimum wage and they have to live in cramped accommodation. To document their situation, Marco has worked undercover in the fields and he also went to Punjab (India) to follow an Indian human trafficker, where he investigated the connections between human trafficking and the system of agrimafia. Marco is also one of the founders of InMigrazione, an organisation that supports migrant workers informing them about their rights, helping them organise and fight for labour rights, and giving them the legal support they might need. In 2016, Marco and some Sikh activists managed to organise the first mass strike in Latina, joined by over 4000 workers.
Because of his work - and particularly because of his investigations denouncing the criminal organisations involved in the agribusiness and the local food industry - Marco Omizzolo has been receiving serious threats. His car has been repeatedly damaged, he is often under surveillance and he has been forced to relocate because of the threats received.
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The Indian migrants lured into forced labor on Mussolini’s farmland
Gurinder Dhillon still remembers the day he realized he had been tricked. It was 2009, and he had just taken out a $16,000 loan to start a new life. Originally from Punjab, India, Dhillon had met an agent in his home village who promised him the world.
“He sold me this dream,” Dhillon, 45, said. A new life in Europe. Good money — enough to send back to his family in India. Clothes, a house, plenty of work. He’d work on a farm, picking fruits and vegetables, in a place called the Pontine Marshes, a vast area of farmland in the Lazio region, south of Rome, Italy.
He took out a sizable loan from the Indian agents, who in return organized his visa, ticket and travel to Italy. The real cost of this is around $2,000 — the agents were making an enormous profit.
“The thing is, when I got here, the whole situation changed. They played me,” Dhillon said. “They brought me here like a slave.”
On his first day out in the fields, Dhillon climbed into a trailer with about 60 other people and was then dropped off in his assigned hoop house. That day, he was on the detail for zucchini, tomatoes and eggplant. It was June, and under the plastic, it was infernally hot. It felt like at least 100 degrees, Dhillon remembers. He sweated so much that his socks were soaked. He had to wring them out halfway through the day and then put them back on — there was no time to change his clothes. As they worked, an Italian boss yelled at them constantly to work faster and pick more.
Within a few hours of that first shift, it dawned on Dhillon that he had been duped. “I didn’t think I had been tricked — I knew I had,” he said. This wasn’t the life or the work he had been promised.
What he got instead was 3.40 euros (about $3.65) an hour, for a workday of up to 14 hours. The workers weren’t allowed bathroom breaks.
On these wages, he couldn’t see how he would ever repay the enormous loan he had taken out. He was working alongside some other men, also from India, who had been there for years. ”Will it be like this forever?” he asked them. “Yes,” they said. “It will be like this forever.”
Ninety years ago, a very different harvest was taking place. Benito Mussolini was celebrating the first successful wheat harvest of the Pontine Marshes. It was a new tradition for the area, which for millennia had been nothing but a vast, brackish, barely-inhabited swamp.
No one managed to tame it — until Mussolini came to power and launched his “Battle for Grain.” The fascist leader had a dream for the area: It would provide food and sustenance for the whole country.
Determined to make the country self-sufficient as a food producer, Mussolini spoke of “freeing Italy from the slavery of foreign bread” and promoted the virtues of rural land workers. At the center of his policy was a plan to transform wild, uncultivated areas into farmland. He created a national project to drain Italy’s swamps. And the boggy, mosquito-infested Pontine Marshes were his highest priority.
His regime shipped in thousands of workers from all over Italy to drain the waterlogged land by building a massive system of pumps and canals. Billions of gallons of water were dredged from the marshes, transforming them into fertile farmland.
The project bore real fruit in 1933. Thousands of black-shirted Fascists gathered to hear a brawny-armed, suntanned Mussolini mark the first wheat harvest of the Pontine Marshes.
"The Italian people will have the necessary bread to live,” Il Duce told the crowd, declaring how Italy would never again be reliant on other countries for food. “Comrade farmers, the harvest begins.”
The Pontine Marshes are still one of the most productive areas of Italy, an agricultural powerhouse with miles of plastic-covered hoop houses, growing fruit and vegetables by the ton. They are also home to herds of buffalo that make Italy’s famous buffalo mozzarella. The area provides food not just for Italy but for Europe and beyond. Jars of artichokes packed in oil, cans of Italian plum tomatoes and plump, ripe kiwi fruits often come from this part of the world. But Mussolini’s “comrade farmers” harvesting the land’s bounty are long gone. Tending the fields today are an estimated 30,000 agricultural workers like Dhillon, most hailing from Punjab, India. For many of them — and by U.N. standards — the working conditions are akin to slave labor.
When Urmila Bhoola, the U.N. special rapporteur on contemporary slavery, visited the area, she found that many working conditions in Italy’s agricultural sector amounted to forced labor due to the amount of hours people work, the low salaries and the gangmasters, or “caporali,” who control them.
The workers here are at the mercy of the caporali, who are the intermediaries between the farm workers and the owners. Some workers are brought here with residency and permits, while others are brought fully off the books. Regardless, they report making as little as 3-4 euros an hour. Sometimes, though, they’re barely paid at all. When Samrath, 34, arrived in Italy, he was not paid for three months of work on the farms. His boss claimed his pay had gone entirely into taxes — but when he checked with the government office, he found his taxes hadn’t been paid either.
Samrath is not the worker’s real name. Some names in this story have been changed to protect the subjects’ safety.
“I worked for him for all these months, and he didn’t pay me. Nothing. I worked for free for at least three months,” Samrath told me. “I felt so ashamed and sad. I cried so much.” He could hardly bring himself to tell his family at home what had happened.
I met Samrath and several other workers on a Sunday on the marshes. For the Indian Sikh workers from Punjab, this is usually the only day off for the week. They all gather at the temple, where they pray together and share a meal of pakoras, vegetable curry and rice. The women sit on one side, the men on the other. It’s been a long working week — for the men, out in the fields or tending the buffaloes, while the women mostly work in the enormous packing centers, boxing up fruits and vegetables to be sent out all over Europe.
Another worker, Ramneet, told me how he waited for his monthly check — usually around 1,300 euros (about $1,280) per month, for six days’ work a week at 12-14 hours per day. But when the check came, the number on it was just 125 euros (about $250).
“We were just in shock,” Ramneet said. “We panicked — our monthly rent here is 600 euros.” His boss claimed, again, that the money had gone to taxes. It meant he had worked almost for free the entire month. Other workers explained to me that even when they did have papers, they could risk being pushed out of the system and becoming undocumented if their bosses refused to issue them payslips.
Ramneet described how Italian workers on the farms are treated differently from Indian workers. Italian workers, he said, get to take an hour for lunch. Indian workers are called back after just 20 minutes — despite having their pay cut for their lunch hour.
“When Meloni gives her speeches, she talks about getting more for the Italians,” Ramneet’s wife Ishleen said, referring to Italy’s new prime minister and her motto, “Italy and Italians first.” “She doesn’t care about us, even though we’re paying taxes. When we’re working, we can’t even take a five-minute pause, while the Italian workers can take an hour.”
Today, Italy is entering a new era — or, some people argue, returning to an old one. In September, Italians voted in a new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. As well as being the country’s first-ever female prime minister, she is also Italy’s most far-right leader since Mussolini. Her supporters — and even some leaders of her party, Brothers of Italy — show a distinct reverence for Mussolini’s National Fascist Party.
In the first weeks of Meloni’s premiership, thousands of Mussolini admirers made a pilgrimage to Il Duce’s birthplace of Predappio to pay homage to the fascist leader, making the Roman salute and hailing Meloni as a leader who might resurrect the days of fascism. In Latina, the largest city in the marshes, locals interviewed by national newspapers talked of being excited about Meloni’s victory — filled with hopes that she might be true to her word and bring the area back to its glory days in the time of Benito Mussolini. One of Meloni’s undersecretaries has run a campaign calling for a park in Latina to return to its original name: Mussolini Park.
During her campaign, a video emerged of Meloni discussing Mussolini as a 19-year-old activist. “I think Mussolini was a good politician. Everything he did, he did for Italy,” she told journalists. Meloni has since worked to distance herself from such associations with fascism. In December, she visited Rome’s Jewish ghetto as a way of acknowledging Mussolini’s crimes against humanity. “The racial laws were a disgrace,” she told the crowd.
A century on from Italy’s fascist takeover, Meloni’s victory has led to a moment of widespread collective reckoning, as a national conversation takes place about how Mussolini should be remembered and whether Meloni’s premiership means Italy is reconnecting with its fascist past.
Unlike in Germany, which tore down — and outlawed — symbols of Nazi terror, reminders of Mussolini’s rule remain all over Italy. There was no moment of national reckoning after the war ended and Mussolini was executed. Hundreds of fascist monuments and statues dot the country. Slogans left over from the dictatorship can be seen on post offices, municipal buildings and street signs. Collectively, when Italians discuss Mussolini, they do remember his legacy of terror — his alliance with Adolf Hitler, anti-Semitic race laws and the thousands of Italian Jews he sent to the death camps. But across the generations, Italians also talk about other legacies of his regime — they talk of the infrastructure and architecture built during the period and of how he drained the Pontine Marshes and rid them of malaria, making the land into an agricultural haven.
Today in the Pontine Marshes, which some see as a place brought into existence by Il Duce — and where the slogans on one town tower praise “the land that Mussolini redeemed from deadly sterility” — the past is bristling with the present.
“The legend that has come back to haunt this town, again and again, is that it’s a fascist city. Of course, it was created in the fascist era, but here we’re not fascists — we’re dismissed as fascists and politically sidelined as a result,” Emilio Andreoli, an author who was born in Latina and has written books about the city’s history, said. Politicians used to target the area as a key campaigning territory, he said, but it has since fallen off most leaders’ agendas. And indeed, in some ways, Latina is a place that feels forgotten. Although it remains a top agricultural producer, other kinds of industry and infrastructure have faltered. Factories that once bustled here lie empty. New, faster roads and railways that were promised to the city by previous governments never materialized.
Meloni did visit Latina on her campaign trail and gave speeches about reinvigorating the area with its old strength. “This is a land where you can breathe patriotism. Where you breathe the fundamental and traditional values that we continue to defend — despite being considered politically incorrect,” she told the crowd.
But the people working this land are entirely absent from Meloni’s rhetorical vision. Marco Omizzolo, a professor of sociology at the University of Sapienza in Rome, has for years studied and engaged with the largely Sikh community of laborers from India who work on the marshes.
Omizzolo explained to me how agricultural production in Italy has systematically relied on the exploitation of migrant workers for decades.
“Many people are in this,” he told me, when we met for coffee in Rome. “The owners of companies who employ the workers. The people who run the laborers’ daily work. Local and national politicians. Several mafia clans.”
“Exploitation in the agricultural sector has been going on for centuries in Italy,” Giulia Tranchina, a researcher at Human Rights Watch focusing on migration, said. She described that the Italian peasantry was always exploited but that the system was further entrenched with the arrival of migrant workers. “The system has always treated migrants as manpower — as laborers to exploit, and never as persons carrying equal rights as Italian workers.” From where she’s sitting, Italy’s immigration laws appear to have been designed to leave migrants “dependent on the whims and the wills of their abusive employers,” Tranchina said.
The system of bringing the workers to Italy — and keeping them there — begins in Punjab, India. Omizzolo described how a group of traffickers recruits prospective workers with promises of lucrative work abroad and often helps to arrange high-interest loans like the one that Gurinder took out. Omizzolo estimates that about a fifth of the Indian workers in the Pontine Marshes come via irregular routes, with some arriving from Libya, while many others are smuggled into Italy from Serbia across land and sea, aided by traffickers. Their situation is more perilous than those who arrived with visas and work permits, as they’re forced to work under the table without contracts, benefits or employment rights.
Omizzolo knows it all firsthand. A Latina native, he grew up playing football by the vegetable and fruit fields and watching as migrant workers, first from North Africa, then from India, came to the area to work the land. He began studying the forces at play as a sociologist during his doctorate and even traveled undercover to Punjab to understand how workers are picked up and trafficked to Italy.
As a scholar and advocate for stronger labor protections, he has drawn considerable attention to the exploitative systems that dominate the area. In 2016, he worked alongside Sikh laborers to organize a mass strike in Latina, in which 4,000 people participated. All this has made Omizzolo a target of local mafia forces, Indian traffickers and corrupt farm bosses. He has been surveilled and chased in the street and has had his car tires slashed. Death threats are nothing unusual. These days, he does not travel to Latina without police protection.
The entire system could become even further entrenched — and more dangerous for anyone speaking out about it — under Meloni’s administration. The prime minister has an aggressively anti-migrant agenda, promising to stop people arriving on Italy’s shores in small boats. Her government has sent out a new fleet of patrol boats to the Libyan Coast Guard to try to block the crossings, while making it harder for NGOs to carry out rescue operations.
At the end of February, at least 86 migrants drowned off the coast of Calabria in a shipwreck. When Meloni visited Calabria a few weeks later, she did not go to the beach where the migrants’ bodies were found or to the funeral home that took care of their remains. Instead, she announced a new policy: scrapping special protection residency permits for migrants.
Tranchina, from Human Rights Watch, explained that getting rid of the “special protection” permits will leave many migrant workers in Italy, including those in the Pontine Marshes, effectively undocumented.
“The situation is worsening significantly under the current government,” she said. “An army of people, who are currently working, paying taxes, renting houses, will now be forced to accept very exploitative working conditions — at times akin to slavery — out of desperation.”
Omizzolo agreed. Meloni’s hostile environment campaign against arriving migrants is making people in the marshes feel “more fragile and blackmailable,” he told me.
“Meloni is entrenching the current system in place in the Pontine Marshes,” Omizzolo said. “Her policies are interested in keeping things in their current state. Because the people who exploit the workers here are among her voter base.”
And then there’s the matter of money and how people are paid. A few months into her administration, Meloni introduced a proposal to raise the ceiling for cash transactions from 2,000 euros (about $2,110) to 5,000 euros ($5,280), a move that critics saw as an attempt to better insulate black market and organized crime networks from state scrutiny.
Workers describe that they were often paid in cash and that their bosses were always looking for ways to take them off the books. “We have to push them to pay us the official way and keep our contracts,” Rajvinder, 24, said. “They prefer to give us cash.” Being taken off a contract and paid under the table is a constant source of anxiety. “If I don’t have a work contract, my papers will expire after three months,” Samrath explained, describing how he would then become undocumented in Italy.
Omizzolo says Meloni’s cash laws will continue to preserve the corruption and sustain a shadow economy that grips the workers coming to the Pontine Marshes. Even for people who once worked above the table, the new government’s laissez-faire attitude towards the shadow economy is pushing them back into obscurity. “That law is directly contributing to the black market — people who used to be on the books, and have proper contracts, are now re-entering the shadow economy,” he said.
Tranchina, from Human Rights Watch, explained that getting rid of the “special protection” permits will leave many migrant workers in Italy, including those in the Pontine Marshes, effectively undocumented.
“The situation is worsening significantly under the current government,” she said. “An army of people, who are currently working, paying taxes, renting houses, will now be forced to accept very exploitative working conditions — at times akin to slavery — out of desperation.”
Omizzolo agreed. Meloni’s hostile environment campaign against arriving migrants is making people in the marshes feel “more fragile and blackmailable,” he told me.
“Meloni is entrenching the current system in place in the Pontine Marshes,” Omizzolo said. “Her policies are interested in keeping things in their current state. Because the people who exploit the workers here are among her voter base.”
And then there’s the matter of money and how people are paid. A few months into her administration, Meloni introduced a proposal to raise the ceiling for cash transactions from 2,000 euros (about $2,110) to 5,000 euros ($5,280), a move that critics saw as an attempt to better insulate black market and organized crime networks from state scrutiny.
Workers describe that they were often paid in cash and that their bosses were always looking for ways to take them off the books. “We have to push them to pay us the official way and keep our contracts,” Rajvinder, 24, said. “They prefer to give us cash.” Being taken off a contract and paid under the table is a constant source of anxiety. “If I don’t have a work contract, my papers will expire after three months,” Samrath explained, describing how he would then become undocumented in Italy.
Omizzolo says Meloni’s cash laws will continue to preserve the corruption and sustain a shadow economy that grips the workers coming to the Pontine Marshes. Even for people who once worked above the table, the new government’s laissez-faire attitude towards the shadow economy is pushing them back into obscurity. “That law is directly contributing to the black market — people who used to be on the books, and have proper contracts, are now re-entering the shadow economy,” he said.
The idealistic image of the harvest was powerful propaganda at the time. Not shown were the workers, brought in from all over the country, who died of malaria while digging the trenches and canals to drain the marsh. It also stands in contrast to today’s reality. Workers are brought here from the other side of the world, on false pretenses, and find themselves trapped in a system with no escape from the brutal work schedule and the resulting physical and mental health risks. In October, a 24-year-old Punjabi farm worker in the town of Sabaudia killed himself. It’s not the first time a worker has died by suicide — depression and opioid addiction are common among the workforce.
“We are all guilty, without exception. We have decided to lose this battle for democracy. Dear Jaspreet, forgive us. Or perhaps, better, haunt our consciences forever,” Omizzolo wrote on his Facebook page.
Talwinder, 28, arrived on the marsh last year. “I had no hopes in India. I had no dreams, I had nothing. It is difficult here — in India, it was difficult in a different way. But at least [in India] I was working for myself.” His busiest months of the year are coming up — he’ll work without a day off. And although the mosquitoes no longer carry malaria, they still plague the workers. “They’re fatter than the ones in India,” he laughs. “I heard it’s because this place used to be a jungle.”
Mussolini’s vision for the marsh was to turn it into an agricultural center for the whole of Italy, giving work to thousands of Italians and building up a strong working peasantry. Today, vegetables, olives and cheeses from the area are shipped to the United States and sold in upmarket stores to shoppers seeking authentic, artisan foods from the heart of the old world. But it comes at an enormous price to those who produce it. And under Meloni’s premiership, they only expect that cost to rise.
“These days, if my family ask me if they should come here, like my nephew or relatives, I tell them no,” said Samrath. “Don’t come here. Stay where you are.”
▻https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/indian-migrants-italy-pontine-marshes
Bracket Carousel: Discovering the Next Generation of Bracket #Design
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Another year, another successful March Madness! From renowned bracketologists, to casual bettors, and even former Presidents, millions of people embark on a quest to achieve..
Le loup rouge est au bord de l’extinction pour la deuxième fois | National Geographic
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Ils ne sont plus que vingt. Les loups les plus menacés du monde sont retranchés dans une unique région qui s’étend de la rivière Alligator au refuge national de Pocosin Lakes, dans l’est de la Caroline du Nord.
Mieux connu sous le nom de « loup d’Amérique », le loup rouge (Canis rufus) est l’unique superprédateur dont l’aire de répartition naturelle se trouve exclusivement aux États-Unis (du Texas à la Nouvelle-Angleterre). Petit à petit, la chasse a restreint l’habitat de ces loups, jusqu’à ce qu’on les déclare éteints en 1980. Dans le cadre d’une expérience révolutionnaire (et couronnée de succès), huit loups élevés en captivité ont été réintroduits en Caroline du Nord en 1987 et ont fini par engendrer une population de plus de 100 individus. Mais ils ont été décimés par le braconnage et les différentes politiques mises en œuvre par le Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), l’agence fédérale américaine en charge de la faune.
Bracelets électroniques : des milliers de dispositifs de contrôle en panne pendant plusieurs heures lundi / Aucun incident n’a toutefois été signalé, a assuré l’administration pénitentiaire. (...)
« Allo, le pénitencier ? Mon bracelet est tombé en panne... »
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#justice #France #bracelet #électronique #gag #contrôle #shériff #farce #politique #humour #vangauguin
Bracelet électronique : le remède aux maux de la prison ?
La surveillance électronique est en plein boom. Alors qu’il stagnait autour des 10 000 depuis 2013, le nombre de bracelets a augmenté de plus de 47% ces deux dernières années, pour atteindre les 16 200 en juin. Une hausse qui s’est accélérée en 2021 : 5 034dispositifs ont été mis en circulation rien que sur ces six derniers mois.
Et ce n’est qu’un début : « Pour la période de juillet à décembre 2021, 7 500 bracelets ont été commandés, avec un planning de livraison de 1 000 à 1 500 par mois », indique la Direction de l’administration pénitentiaire (Dap).
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Les hockeyeuses en lice aux Mondiaux à Calgary doivent porter un bracelet électronique qui permet de contrôler leurs mouvements. La raison : le covid, évidemment. Cyrill Pasche
Munies d’un bracelet, les filles sont surveillées en permanence
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Muni d’un bracelet permettant le traçage, les hockeyeuses sont surveillées 24 heures sur 24 aux Mondiaux.
« Au début, on a juste envie de prendre une paire de ciseaux et de s’en débarrasser », explique l’internationale helvétique Sarah Forster. C’est que toutes les hockeyeuses – ainsi que les membres des staffs des différentes équipes nationales et les arbitres – doivent porter 24 heures sur 24 un bracelet permettant de contrôler leurs mouvements et différents déplacements. Et ce durant toute la durée de la compétition.
https://cdn.unitycms.io/image/ocroped/2001,2000,1000,1000,0,0/O-e6MuqpIY4/EbxmS45dKahAAzXRlPhU3Q.jpg Même pendant les matches
Alors qu’elle va entamer son quatrième et avant-dernier jour de quarantaine isolée dans une chambre d’hôtel à Calgary, la Jurassienne s’habitue gentiment à ce bracelet imposé par les organisateurs du tournoi (lire l’encadré). « Au bout d’un moment, on ne le remarque plus vraiment, on l’oublie un peu. C’est un peu comme si on portait une montre, en fait. »
Muni de capteurs, ce bracelet permet de contrôler les déplacements des joueuses et d’éventuelles infractions au règlement.
Les participantes aux Mondiaux – qui sont d’ailleurs testées tous les deux jours – devront même porter leur bracelet durant les entraînements et les matches ! Une information que confirme le président de l’IIHF, René Fasel. « Pour les matches, les filles seront équipées d’un autre bracelet muni d’un velcro, plus souple et plus confortable pour la pratique du hockey sur glace ».
Pour organiser cette compétition mondiale qui a déjà été annulée à deux reprises (en 2020 après l’apparition du coronavirus à l’échelle planétaire, puis à la dernière minute en mai 2021), l’IIHF et les organisateurs canadiens ont imposé des règles bien plus strictes que lors du Mondial des hommes en Lettonie au printemps, qui eux ne devaient par exemple pas porter de bracelets… « Nous devons aussi prendre tous nos repas en étant divisées en deux groupes », fait remarquer Sarah Forster. Pas terrible pour la vie d’équipe.
#Canada #Femmes #discrimination #sport #surveillance #bracelet_électronique Les #cinglés de la #surveillance sont au pouvoir, #algorithme #bigdata #géolocalisation #reconnaissance #police #covid-19
‘They track every move’ : how US parole apps created digital prisoners
▻https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/04/they-track-every-move-how-us-parole-apps-created-digital-prisoners
Is smartphone tracking a less intrusive reward for good behaviour or just a way to enrich the incarceration industry ? In 2018, William Frederick Keck III pleaded guilty in a court in Manassas, Virginia, to possession with intent to distribute cannabis. He served three months in prison, then began a three-year probation. He was required to wear a GPS ankle monitor before his trial and then to report for random drug tests after his release. Eventually, the state reduced his level of (...)
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#Tadaaaa ! Vous en rêviez, le voici en bracelet d’amitié ! Celui-ci a déjà son poignet mais vous pouvez retrouver le modèle-motif sur mon compte « kolavalk » chez braceletbook.com ()
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Google réaffirme ses ambitions dans la santé
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2021/02/05/google-reaffirme-ses-ambitions-dans-la-sante_6068882_3234.html
La caméra du smartphone du groupe américain permettra à l’utilisateur de mesurer son pouls ou sa fréquence respiratoire. Mesurer son pouls en plaçant le bout de son doigt sur la caméra de son smartphone ; connaître sa fréquence respiratoire en filmant sa poitrine avec l’appareil photo de son téléphone… Deux fonctionnalités que Google proposera « d’ici quelques semaines ». Les annonces ont été faites, jeudi 4 février, lors d’un tour d’horizon du groupe de ses activités dans la santé. Dans ce domaine, (...)
#Apple #Fitbit #Google #bracelet #montre #capteur #smartphone #biométrie #pouls #santé
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Coronavirus : une entreprise souhaite munir ses salariés d’un boitier anti-rapprochement physique
▻https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/coronavirus-une-entreprise-souhaite-munir-ses-salaries-d-un-boitier-anti-rapp
Le groupe suédois Essity souhaite équiper ses salariés français de colliers émettant un son de 85 décibels dès que la distanciation sociale ne serait plus respectée. Les salariés refusent. « C’est complètement anxiogène, ça infantilise les salariés » : le groupe suédois Essity souhaite équiper ses salariés français d’un boîtier qui sonnerait en cas de rapprochement physique trop important, une initiative qui indigne la CFDT, syndicat numéro un dans l’entreprise. C’est "un système comparable à celui qui (...)
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European Commission green lights Google and Fitbit merger in a game-changing and disappointing decision for the rights of millions of Europeans
▻https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/4351/press-release-european-commission-green-lights-google-and-fitb
The European Commission has today concluded its review of Google’s proposed acquisition of Fitbit. Privacy International is disappointed that the Commission has decided to let the merger go through, allowing Google’s extraordinary power to expand into wearables and sensitive health data. Key points The European Commission has today approved a merger between Google and Fitbit, the fitness tracker company. PI is disappointed with the decision, as it will significantly impede effective (...)
#Fitbit #Google #bracelet #biométrie #domination #santé #PrivacyInternational
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Amazon Halo surveille votre cœur, votre graisse, et le ton de votre voix
▻https://korii.slate.fr/tech/amazon-halo-bracelet-connecte-surveille-coeur-graisse-ton-voix-humeur
Nouvel arrivant dans la gamme des wearables d’Amazon, le Halo est sans doute le plus étrange et le plus invasif de tous les petits mouchards intimes du marché. Connaissant le goût des GAFAM pour la moisson à grande échelle de nos données personnelles, la chose a de quoi inquiéter. Vendu 99 dollars [81 euros], accompagné d’une application sur smartphone et relié à un abonnement mensuel de 3,99 dollars [3,30 euros], il se porte au poignet, surveille les battements de votre cœur (un classique), monitore (...)
#Amazon #algorithme #bracelet #biométrie #pouls #santé #surveillance #voix #émotions
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Autoriser la fusion de Google et Fitbit serait une catastrophe pour les droits humains
▻https://www.amnesty.be/infos/blogs/blog-paroles-chercheurs-defenseurs-victimes/article/autoriser-fusion-google-fitbit-catastrophe-droits-humains
Dans les jours qui viennent, la Commission européenne semble sur le point de donner le feu vert à l’acquisition de Fitbit par Google. Cet accord est une menace majeure pour les droits humains et doit être stoppé net jusqu’à ce qu’une investigation approfondie et adéquate soit menée sur l’impact de la fusion sur les droits humains. Se contenter de moins reviendrait à faire clairement savoir à la Silicon Valley – et à des milliards d’internautes – qu’en dépit de ses propos musclés [1], l’Union européenne (...)
#Fitbit #Google #bracelet #biométrie #domination #BigData #santé #Amnesty
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Amazon’s Halo Band wearable tracks your voice and body fat, but isn’t helpful
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/10/amazon-halo-band-review
The Halo Band asks you to strip down and strap on a microphone so that it can make 3-D scans of your body fat and monitor your tone of voice. After all that, it still isn’t very helpful. Amazon has a new health-tracking bracelet with a microphone and an app that tells you everything that’s wrong with you. You haven’t exercised or slept enough, reports Amazon’s $65 Halo Band. Your body has too much fat, the Halo’s app shows in a 3-D rendering of your near-naked body. And even : Your tone of (...)
#Apple #Fitbit #Amazon #bracelet #montre #biométrie #température #données #sexisme #pouls #profiling #santé #sommeil (...)
Des militaires français compromettent la sécurité de leurs opérations sur les réseaux sociaux
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/101220/des-militaires-francais-compromettent-la-securite-de-leurs-operations-sur-
Alors que l’armée interdit à ses militaires de poster des informations sensibles en ligne, Mediapart a retrouvé, via différentes applications, plus de 800 profils de soldats français déployés à l’étranger et plus de 200 profils de membres des forces spéciales. L’état-major reste évasif sur les mesures prises pour endiguer un problème pourtant susceptible de mettre en péril la sécurité des forces militaires. Lorsqu’il a fini sa journée de travail, Alexandre* aime enfourcher son vélo, une monture de course (...)
#Facebook #Strava #géolocalisation #militaire #données #SocialNetwork #bracelet #montre
Holiday Tech Gift Guide : 2020’s Most Creepy Surveillance Gifts
▻https://debugger.medium.com/a-gift-guide-to-this-holiday-seasons-creepiest-surveillance-gadgets
Let your loved ones decide what privacy means to them One of the best things about the holiday season is that you get to force your own privacy preferences on others. Maybe your family member wouldn’t normally buy a watch that tells Google when they’re asleep or a doorbell that helps them inform on their neighbors. But during this brief window each year, you can make a whole variety of fraught privacy decisions for them through gift-giving ! They’ll be forced to live with your privacy (...)
#Clearview #Fitbit #Google #Huawei #Mozilla #Nest #Ring #Amazon #algorithme #robotique #bracelet #CCTV #drone #sonnette #géolocalisation #pouls #santé #surveillance (...)
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Saudi Arabia ramps up surveillance at holiest sites
▻https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/mecca-holy-sites-surveillance
A new government app threatens Mecca’s undocumented residents Aziz Ali Naeem first came to Mecca in 1948 to perform Hajj, a pilgrimage that is compulsory for all able Muslims once in their lives. Within days of his arrival, he decided he was not going back home to Hyderabad in newly independent India. Although Naeem, who died in the early 1980s, wasn’t fluent in Arabic, he managed to find work at a small company that catered to pilgrims journeying by sea from South Asia. Three years later, (...)
#algorithme #bracelet #smartphone #SmartCity #biométrie #contactTracing #géolocalisation #migration #technologisme #religion #COVID-19 #Islam #santé #surveillance (...)
Ce matin je me suis dit que profiter du soleil calme avant la tempête était une bonne idée... Apparemment mini-Roux et Roux-Blanc aussi !
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Le bracelet d’automne est de sortie 🍁🍂🌰
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Pensées particulières ce matin pour les personnes à qui j’ai offert des bouts de ce fil bleu et qui continuent, ensemble ou séparément, à pousser les murs, ouvrir les portes, bannir les frontières et venir en aide à celles et ceux qui n’ont plus rien...
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Avec son bracelet Halo, Amazon veut mesurer nos émotions
▻https://www.letemps.ch/economie/bracelet-halo-amazon-veut-mesurer-nos-emotions
Le géant américain lance, aux Etats-Unis d’abord, un accessoire capable, selon ses dires, d’analyser la voix, mais aussi la graisse via des photos de l’utilisateur. De quoi soulever de nombreuses questions De cette image se dégagent tranquillité et sérénité. Un smartphone blanc, posé sur une table en bois, avec juste à côté un petit bracelet argenté. Sur l’écran du téléphone sont affichées plusieurs valeurs. De quoi donner l’impression à l’utilisateur qu’il aura le contrôle total. Mais c’est un contrôle un (...)
#Amazon #bracelet #biométrie #émotions #écoutes #santé #surveillance
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Fitbit Unveils New Stress Detecting Features as Google Awaits Acquisition
▻https://sociable.co/technology/fitbit-unveils-new-stress-detecting-features-as-google-awaits-acquisition
‘Biometric data & computing power are key to hacking humans’ If successful in acquiring Fitbit, Google may soon know even more intimate details about your emotional states as Fitbit today launches its new generation of health smartwatches that can measure your stress levels and a whole lot more. “To hack human beings you need a lot of biological knowledge, a lot of computing power, and especially a lot of data” — Yuval Harari Last November, Google entered an agreement to acquire (...)
#santé #émotions #biométrie #bracelet #publicité #Fitbit #Google #Alphabet
