di Manlio Dinucci
L'aeroporto militare di Pisa diventerà l’ Hub nazionale delle forze armate , ossia l’unica base aerea da cui transiteranno tutti i reparti inviati nelle diverse «missioni internazionali»: lo ha annunciato il portavoce della 46a Brigata aerea, maggiore Giorgio Mattia. I lavori inizieranno il prossimo maggio e, entro il 2013, the Hub will become operational. The work of expansion of the airport provide a structure for about 30 thousand men fully equipped for a period of at least a month. The structure, said the spokesman, and will reflect all the major hub for all civil-service check-in and check out, baggage handling and other ground service equipment which may be operated by civilian companies.
The difference is that tourists do not go through it with T-shirts and fishing rods, but soldiers with machine guns and camouflage.
The project is presented as an important investment, boosting the strategic role of the base of Pisa, will have significant economic impact territory. "The new wealth for Pisa military airport," headline Il Tirreno (August 3), providing that the Hub can handle up to 30 thousand soldiers per month, will create a significant induced a capacity, including family members below, is estimated to be 50-60 thousand people. This in a city that does not reach 90 thousand residents. This project, which distorts the tourism of the area by focusing on the military, is imposed on the entire city without its people have been consulted. Surely, however, it has received the enthusiastic ok the city administration, headed by Mayor Mark Filippeschi (Pd).
E 'was Filippeschi last November, to announce that the U.S. base of Camp Darby, between Pisa airport and the port of Livorno, has "important opportunities" and that "Americans believe this settlement is very important and want to continue to invest." Meanwhile you invest the Tuscany Region and the municipalities of Pisa and Livorno that expanding the Canal Navicelli, allow the base to speed up connections to the port of Livorno and increase its capacity so as to supply more land and air forces rapidly in the Mediterranean, African and Middle Eastern. In the same framework is part of the project, the Hub of Pisa: the fact that it will be capable of handling up to 30 thousand military month, three times as many expatriates, Italy, indicates that the structure can also be used by U.S. forces.
It is silent, however, that the environmental pollution is already at the limits of sustainability. The 46th Brigade, equipped with C-130J aircraft from Lockheed Martin to continue carrying troops and equipment in Afghanistan and other theaters, carries over 10 thousand annual movements of military aircraft, which are added to those made on behalf of Camp Darby, the whose number is secret. At the same airport, which is managed military movements take place over 40 thousand a year of civil airplanes. Increasingly, C-130J and other aircraft flying at low altitude residential areas, regardless of pollution they cause and that the authorities usually ignore. The same time increases the risk of incidents like that which occurred last November , when a giant C-130J, as amended in air tankers to refuel fighter jets in flight, crashed on a railway line just after takeoff, which may lead a massacre. The implementation of the Hub, a veritable city within the city's military, which will require more space and the likely demolition of civilian buildings, dramatically increase this impact.
We are therefore faced with the draft of a militarization of the territory, which exceeds ampiamente quello del raddoppio della base di Vicenza, da cui potranno trarre vantaggio alcuni settori economici locali, ma non l’economia né tantomeno la cittadinanza nel suo complesso. Una «grande opera» militare, il cui enorme costo fagociterà altro denaro pubblico, mentre anche a Pisa si tagliano i fondi per l’università, la sanità e altri settori. Un altro investimento sulla «risorsa guerra», dietro il paravento delle «missioni umanitarie».
DAL "il manifesto", 4 agosto 2010
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Monday, August 9, 2010
Pisa will be a great aircraft carrier
For Mayor (pd) is "an honor" announced
shock: the airport is a hub for all military missions
Francesco Ruggeri
military airport Pisa will become a national hub for the armed forces, "the only place where you leave for international missions." A spokesman for 46th Aviation Brigade (10 thousand flights a year in Afghanistan on behalf of Italy and a number of secret services on behalf of Camp Darby) explained that the work will begin in the spring to prepare the airport by 2013 which will focus on military flights and a logistics facility that can accommodate and equip, in less than a month, up to 30 thousand men, plus any other family members for 50-60 thousand people. Vicenza, by comparison, is a no brainer. All this in a city of 90 thousand inhabitants in 2004, proclaiming "City of Peace, cheat - with the then governor tocano on the need to recover that piece of Mediterranean occupied by Camp Darby in the name of a tourist area and ambition of the pacifist policies of the government of the territory.
"Instead, there will be a military structured for the offensive role of Italian troops in a foreign policy designed to neo-colonial adventures, missions international, for a permanent war, "explains the Cobas Pisa who have brought out the news from the areas while the local press, a few miles away, work is continuing to expand the channel of the ship to provide the basis for US-Born in the mouth Sea Camp Darby asked for by Uncle Sam to the municipalities of Livorno and Pisa and the Region.
seem centuries that separate us from those when the City Council voted to Pisa motion for the conversion of Camp Darby . The expansion of the Pit of the spacecraft (to manage the area is the Spa Navicelli, publishes 100% of the shares equally divided between the Municipality, Province and Chamber of Commerce) is not only to increase the depth the channel and create a large area for industrial activity but also direct connection by boat to Camp Darby, the largest logistics base in the U.S., with the port of Livorno, where a dock is reserved for years already in the U.S. and NATO. "To make it all possible, there are various sources of funding and supervision of municipal technicians - told Liberation, the local spokesman of Cobas, Federico Giusti - would it be to ask the directors and consistency to the parties that supported the anti-war motion, it would the case that the sleepy political and social realities of Pisa is activated against the militarization of the area unless we want Pisa is transformed into a war zone. If not now when? ". But Marco Filippeschi the mayor of Pisa on behalf of the Democratic Party, at the time of the motion deputy DS, the birth of the hub is placed between the good news: "To Pisa can only be an honor to accept the structures that will allow the military airport to be the reference point, logistics and aviation, for peacekeeping missions that our armed forces will be called upon to play. Without underestimating also possible and interesting implications for employment. " Commenting on the news, the mayor wanted to emphasize that "the coexistence of the civilian airport and military base, in recent years marked by excellent relations with the city of Pisa, is guaranteed and effects as was the case for the project ' extending the runway. " Useless say that the city did not know about and the council has never discussed the hub. Only in the last session before the summer break has been said of any negative effect of expansion of the airport of Florence. Communist Refoundation has learned of the advance hypothesis of militarization of St. Just alone in the press. "And there is in total disagreement, the idea that while essential services are cut, they are money for the war, the overbuilding and the pollution of an entire airport into the city," says Luca Barbato, Secretary of Pisa Rifondazione that appeals to business and political fabric of the city not to do "like the crack in front of the rubble Aquila: there will be enriched economy of war. " There is a good bet that the city will respond. The resources are there. Unique, the ' University of Pisa has a degree in Peace Studies . And in May, when the town wanted to send children on a trip in paratrooper school, there was a massive mobilization of public opinion - first of all teachers and parents - to make it a flop.
"free" 05/08/2010, p. 5
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Press release from
Cobas Confederation Pisa
Military Airport and Camp Darby: how do you militarize the territory of Pisa
The military airport of Pisa will become a national hub for the armed forces, "the only place from where you start to international missions. " He says the press spokesman of the 46th Aviation Brigade, announced that, for spring 2011, the start of work to be completed by 2013. But those who think only to a strengthening of the tracks are wrong. Pisa
logistics will become a structure of primary size in Europe, a military nerve center that can accommodate and equip, in less than a month, up to 30 000 men. A military base structured for the offensive role of Italian troops in a foreign policy designed to neo colonial adventures, to international missions, for a permanent war. A few miles away and work is continuing to expand the channel of the ship to provide the basis
U.S. \\ NATO almar outlet that prompted the U.S. to the towns of Pisa and Livorno and the Tuscan Region. Years ago the City Council passed a motion of Pisa for the conversion of Camp Darby, for months have now begun work to extend the Fosso Navicelli (to manage the area is the Spa Navicelli, public spa with a 100% shareholding equally divided between the Municipality of Pisa, Pisa Province,
Chamber of Commerce of Pisa). The objective not only increase the depth of the channel and create a large area for industrial activities, the objective is to widen the canal to allow the military base of Camp Darby
direct connection by water to the port of Livorno from where years, a dock is reserved for U.S. and NATO military activities. To make it all possible funding from various sources and the supervision of municipal technicians. It should be allowed to apply consistency to the directors and parties that supported the anti-war motion, would be the case that the sleepy political and social realities of Pisa is active against the military business and the militarization of the area unless we want to be transformed in Pisa area of war. If not now when? Cobas Confederation Pisa
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