The year 2010 is the year of the citizen with the helmet. Every day a witness statement. Every day an action. This year we have to retake for ourselves the State and the right to be happy. The mothers are as ever in the front line. In Milan they are fighting the New Herods: Mortizia Moratti and Monatto Formigoni. Every day 73 citizens go to hospital for the smog, and many of these are children. Some die. The air in the city is an outlaw, this is why Milan wants to honour Craxi the thief. The pollution limits set by Europe are massively exceeded: by once by twice by thrice the values. Every action by the public administration is pulling our leg. Bicycles without cycle tracks. The right to pollute called Ecopass, instead of Smogpass: if you pay you can shoot shit into the lungs of the people. The city is cementified and is full of new car parks that attract private vehicles. Mortizia’s parading with the Ligresti constructor and she rewards with the “Ambrogino” the entrepreneur Marina Berlusconi, president of Mondadori purchased thanks to the corruption of judges.
Milan is the mirror of degenerated Italy. It’s not possible to keep going like that. Put your helmet on. The year 2010 has begun. Get in contact with the “Associazione Genitori Antismog” {Association of Parents against Smog}. If it doesn’t yet exist in your city, start a group! But why is Mortizia Moratti the mayor and not Elena Sisti?

Interview with Elena Sisti, Associazione Genitori Antismog
“I am Elena Sisti and I am from the “Associazione Genitori Antismog” in Milan. The “Genitori Antismog” began in 2001, in fact it was called “Mamme Antismog” {Antismog mothers}. At that time, mayor Albertini asked mothers, so as not to expose their children to the risk of smog, to keep them in the house. The mothers decided that it was time to say “enough” to this attitude in relation to the smog and they presented themselves with empty pushchairs in front of Palazzo Marino {Town Hall in Milan}.
From that moment on, we have never stopped campaigning about the issue of the smog in Milan and to work on two fronts: on the one hand, to raise the awareness of the citizens and thus the parents about the risk, the danger and the seriousness of the smog and on the other hand to lobby the Public Administration. Among the projects that we have carried out up until now there has been Eurolifenet, that was in collaboration with the High Schools. It was a really great project: for a few weeks the youngsters went around with a dust-measuring metre and they had the perception of how they were exposed during every moment of the day. In the years that followed, we promoted a petition that led to free travel on public transport in Milan for children. Today those up to the age of ten travel free. Whereas when we put in the request, they had to pay as soon as they were taller than one metre. Thus it became more expensive for any family with more than two children to move around on public transport. The latest great project happening in Milan is: "Siamo Nati per Camminare" {We are born to go on foot} - that is aimed at raising the awareness of those who are moving around every day about how walking is better for our health and the health of other people and for our city. And we are asking the Public Administration to take the necessary steps. The fine particulate that comes out of the exhaust of our cars, 70% of this is caused by the movement of traffic in Lombardy. PM10 and PM2.5 are really fine particles that get into our organism and cause a series of consequences like the reduction of lung capacity, the reduction of the cognitive capacity of children, and chronic bronchitis. Those of us living in Milan are convinced that it’s something natural but that’s not true. As soon as we move out of Milan, this continual infection of the airways is reduced, and this is also true for heart attacks and strokes.
Every day in Milan, 73 citizens go to hospital for problems connected to the exposure to smog. 73 is really a lot and above all they are children. The children are the ones who suffer the most and the elderly people, thus we could say the most vulnerable people in our city. This Administration has attempted to give a positive signal in relation to this by bringing in the Ecopass and the “bike sharing”. The idea is that sustainable mobility, a different type of mobility is possible. At times people say we are fanatics. We think we are people who are saying things that in other countries are considered to be normal and no one would even dream of contradicting us. When you think that just in Milan, 100,000 cars are occupying the public space on the sidewalks. In Milan there is no network of cycle tracks where you can freely move around on a bicycle without the risk of accidents. In Italy there are 9,000 deaths that can be put down to pollution in some way and above all, there is a notable reduction in life expectancy.

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