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War and Other Deserts | Francesca Borri | TEDxBari


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the world in which I live our gray

strange beauty in the morning in the mists or

gray gray pearl world of cement

when it collapses with cement dust

mine a desert of rubble you walk to

aleppo for kilometers and kilometers

you walk on the series there’s nothing left

walk like on a pebble beach

the pebble beach after one

sea ​​storm because they are not just things of

cement the glass of lighthouse mine but series

they are feet hands arms test and again

they concern the newspaper from time to time

publishes a war picture starts again and

the debate began it makes sense to show

the corpses blood or maybe maybe

you get the opposite perhaps the reader

instead of reading, it portrays those on

you are not even dead to argue about

true real dead and does not enter one

not all photos in a frame

d one piece is the dead that evening you

find yourself on top of the idea of ​​the

You’re never wearing clothes with mud

saw nothing of the war for this

believe that there can be war

right in the war sometimes it can be

a necessary evil can free one

Libya by Gaddafi in the afghanistan

Taliban can defend you from the cai dens

in the war you die enough I am

graduate in international law the

International law is based all

on the distinction between civilians and

fighters on this idea of ​​war

like a clash between armies they have me

taught that in war more or less yes

it is from here or from there that it is there

a front line that civilians are the

collateral damage instead of damage

collateral are the target soldiers

we are the front is not a line in

air and the area of ​​the battle who is there

there is

because the one in which I live and also one

desert of rules and rules is striking

everything and everything 12 10 holy times either

and it is a desert of logic there is not one

rationality dinner at home

israel bombarda bombarda bombarda notte

and day and think I take refuge in a typo

of the UN then you think or maybe not maybe

perhaps Israel proves that it is capable of

also bomb a gold shelter

do you think three brands think maybe it’s better

a low house, a two- storey house

otherwise if it is centered it will collapse

in the head a whole palace those you think

instead maybe not better a house

high otherwise it collapses on you too

with a cannon shot even with a grenade

there is no logic there is no salvation

because my own and also is also a

desert of responsibility mori ecocity

gone nobody will pay anyone in

Just love war and he also died badly

yet yet in February at the first

cease fire mediated by the nations

united

the first hour of the first day of the first

if you are the sirens sirens fire from

time they are back in piazza magri

malconce exhausted decimated

but first of all after five years e

500 thousand Syrian dead are back in

square

the only difference is that now they are both

against the room against al Qaeda five

everything has changed in the years and 500 thousand deaths

we have lost everything or al

bottom I’m still telling the same

history even though now there is one

war around but I’m still telling

a battle for freedom and

dignity has not changed anything because

for one who shoots in both for one and

bomb that makes a desert others

100 leave desert between al qaeda sa di

Syrians have chosen have chosen to

go away the refugees who land on

our coasts fleeing from the thousand series

of the world fleeing from poverty wars

persecution are not desperate to

the opposite are those that are not

they are surrendered, they are not the most fragile

the strongest are those that

nobody will stop any weapon

frontier because they have a dream because

they seem the victims seem those who

they undergo adrift at the mercy of the sea

of events and instead are those

tired of suffering energy they have

character have determined

no intention to sit in

fate want a different life I want

a better life are those that

in front of the desert they say I’m not there

the desert the desert for me here

they told of mubarak in tahrir square

these brilliant guys exclusive everything

a degree and a doctorate an Englishman

perfect and no work were waiters

mechanical taxi drivers street vendors

with their doctorate in astrophysics

fry fries on the street me

they told not so much about unemployment

how much the inequality was told

corruption nepotism il

cronyism the talent that counts zero

only the family you come from counts

friends you ‘ve seemed seemed

tell Italy

apart from the police repression that

in Italy you should not ask

to us but the immigrants to the stefano

cucchi and federico aldovrandi but apart

this from an economic point of view and

social was the same thing

we have not failed just because they do not

we have never dared to

try

the iraq contrasts are a correspondent

of war and yet of the many countries mentioned

I wrote the most difficult was the

greece athens

here behind dawn at the port at Piraeus

it was mooring a ferry coming

from the islands

the Syrians and Iraqis the Afghans

they were going fast towards the subway

towards the center to leave immediately for

the north of germany for sweden

after after a couple of hours in the streets

the sun is still around on the ground

sleeping south and cardboard not

the thin Greeks remained

this battered skin was worn

they simulated small change selling everything

what they found in the old attic

old radio phones old clothes

shoes broke down a hair dryer a paddle a

drill a bottle of perfume

consumed halfway here behind Piraeus a

noon they were all lined up in front

in front of the church in front of the table

all all the same careful not

speak with the low look with the all

star and the zanet uisp has like yours

red evening

there was this distinguished gentleman who

He looked like a university professor with

the gray suit is the leather folder

a girl

the girl who had not more than

14 years with black hair glasses

a book under the arm the air had

the air of a pass of there at the exit

from school passed to beg his

pan of rice and chicken and a piece of

bread back here and it’s not like at war

because in war you think I’m one

other and all temporary a certain point

everything ended also in Syria but in

greece no greece you understand that structural

that today there is simply no space

for everyone, someone remains outside

it is not long before the Serbs are in line

Sunni Croats and the Shiites are not there

no peace to negotiate they tell you and the

crisis of capitalism what do you do with the

crisis of capitalism from where you start and

it is not greece and my generation is there

Ap generation always say they are not

resources for a report from musulin

Italy will pay you 120 euros for

an investigation on regions here is Italy

that says we are proud of Julio regions

we are proud of you in Italy where

an investigation on your kitty you have to pay

on his murder to pay from your own pocket

because for a newspaper giulia regions

worth 120 euros

they tell you we’re sorry but it’s the

globalization the transition to

digital china is a complicated thing

then general manager of the Rai

earns 650 thousand euros a year is not

a complicated thing

yet no one speaks, no one says there

I’m

everyone seeks individual salvation

eighty percent of news today

80 percent of everything you read

look in the newspapers on the internet in

80 percent radio television

he comes from freelance as without a medium

right

I said do not tell about it for 120 euros

it does not repay me but also the ticket

Erio immediately said yes to another

convinced that sooner or later release in

editorial no you will free a place one

only the 10 of their own past

then no, a place will free itself and then

one says yes yes to everything to stay

ready there

that day we all work instead

below a year big three years up

the day when we end up in the bank

red and we are replaced this

journalism today this is mine

generation

this is the desert in which we live but

nobody says I’m not there

and the most senseless thing that is not

that in recent years we have redistributed

wealth is not that we have become

poorer because others could

be less poor to manufacture

our iphone

assange is 50 thousand Chinese work

twelve hours a day with the healthy of

tiredness on assembly lines

they sleep in the stores and so on

bangladesh so in brazil in india

romania so everywhere in exchange for the

our wealth we have created not

wealth but poverty and war in libya

half of the yellow writers come from Tunisia

they leave as they used to leave for

lampedusa for italy for europe in

job seekers do not want the

caliphate want the salary because

I’m hungry

a kasserine a city that has no chance

the highest rate both of already seen is

of unemployed a month ago there was the

attempted mass suicide of graduates

boys graduate and desperate the economy

in Tunisia is based on tourism is a

tourism dominated by operators

foreigners from these low-cost operators

that offer a week between center and

when you pay 300 euros flight included each

so much so when someone explodes in the

ask your restaurant how much

your waiter is paid

ask yourself what life is yours

waiter if we want to stop the

jihadists in libya does not make sense

bomb libya we do not have to

intervene in Libya we must

intervene 62 billionaires in Tunisia

today they have 62 the same wealth

of half the population of

planet one percent richer than the

world today is richer than all the others

others of all of us together and we are

at his service we are his infantry

it’s hard for me to be here tonight

hard to talk are they are days that

I do not sleep aleppo and under siege is being

to fall you live

after five years it is about to fall you live

herbal herbs roots rain water one

average of one bombing every two

minutes each of these ted

it is eighteen minutes for every 39 deaths

dead 9 while you listened to me this

these aleppo now though

but that desert those rubble

I saw those streets crumble

a one to those houses collapse a one

in all the wars I’ve seen I do not have

never seen Sunnis and Shiites Christians e

muslim or ancestral I saw ho

seen only men only single men

with their actions and their decisions

their choices one after the other

single cruelty single dullness

single and fears actions and reactions

and reactions to reactions in the wars

they live are wars of maxims

systems are never quite wars of

small miseries wars that happen not

because they are inevitable unstoppable

expression of the deep forces of the

history of the darkest instincts

of the human soul do not happen because

they are left to fall from the small ones

complicity from small vigliaccherie

the little silences the big ones in

differences often ask me, but what is it?

the solution solution comes from solver e

solve from here also resolve

decide to resolve you must

choose which side to stay on

every time you do not say I’m not there

once you adapt uniforms each

once you do not make an exception to beijing

rules instead of common sense and not

why it is more just like that but why

it’s more comfortable so whenever you do not

do nothing with the excuse that not so much

it would be enough every time while

wait for a solution to be found

the global solution is the solution

final in the meantime in your little one

continue to contribute to the problem each

Once you know the whole day a shoulder a

shoulder with a sniper and that always

he takes a picture of you out of his pocket

son of a brother killed and tells you

I would never be here I am against it

violence

I fight because nobody is over

forced to fight he always tells you

because no one else had what I have

lived I break down the first one passes a

son a brother

whose father whose brother the next day

he will be there on the other side of the front

with a photo in his pocket and a shotgun

hand breaks down the first passing yes

turn on a cigarette and tell you I am

against violence but you tell yourself you see

another solution maybe

yes sure that yes the solution is you

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