Transcript Addiopizzo

From pizzo to Addiopizzo
2004-2009
PIZZO
Definition
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Meaning: protection money
Literal translation: “beak”
PIZZO
Diffusion
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70% of the Sicilian shops
80% in Palermo*
58% of the Sicilian enterprises**
* Source: Survey by SOS Impresa & Confesercenti, 2007
** Source: “The Costs of Illegality”, Fondazione Chinnici, 2008
PIZZO
Quantification 1
Cosa Nostra’s turnover:
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351 millions of Euro (pizzo + usury)*
2.7% of the total
* Source: Eurispes 2006
PIZZO
Quantification 2
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881 Euro per month (on average)*
Like a progressive tax
“Let them pay a little but make
everyone pay”
* Source: “The Costs of Illegality”, Fondazione Chinnici, 2008
PIZZO
Quantification 3
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a street vendor: 50-100 Euro
a neighbourhood bread store: 150-250 €
a simple clothing store: 250 €
a local mini-mart: 500 €
a jeweller store: 1000 €
a hotel: 1000 €
a shopping center: 2000-5000 €
public works: 2-3% of the contract
PIZZO
Request systems
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“An offering for the jailbirds”
“Put yourself in order”
The mediator
Superglue
The “environmental intimidation”:
a request you cannot refuse
Looking for their own extortionist
Threats escalation:
symbolic > material > murder
PIZZO
Aims
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Economic aim
(enterprise syndicate)
Criminal politic aim
(power syndicate)
PIZZO
Evolution
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The origin: lemon groves’ guardians
Moving into town: selective pizzo
From the 90s: “carpet-pizzo”
Today: increase of pizzo requests and
violence
PIZZO
Typology
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in cash, monthly
“one-off pizzo”
payment in kind
imposed videopoker
imposed suppliers
imposed stipulations of subcontracts
imposed staff
imposed restrictions to the business
imposed co-partnership (>expropriation)
NO FREE MARKET
“A CRIMINAL SELECTION”
PIZZO
Vulnerable business
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traditional sectors
small size
family-based
low tech
linked to the territory
linked to public investments
PIZZO
Any benefit?
Mafia = the threat + the protector
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For “pure” victims:
a natural benefit
(pizzo like a “trading license”)
For consentient victims:
an unnatural benefit
(pizzo like a subscription to be part of a
“club” that offers illegal “facilities”)
PIZZO
Costs for the single business (micro-level)
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direct costs:
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pizzo’s amount
possible reprisals’ costs
precautionary measure’ costs
indirect costs: loss of
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custom
staff
supplier
openings for business
bank credit
PIZZO
Costs for the economic system (macro-level)
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Low birthrate of new enterprises
Low rate of growth
Loss of foreign investments
High cost of bank credit
A damage to the businness environment
PIZZO
An assessment of damage over Sicily
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1 billion of Euro per year
1.3 % of Sicily’s GRP*
* Source: “The Costs of Illegality”, Fondazione Chinnici, 2008
PIZZO
An assessment of damage over Southern Italy
Non-growth of added value of southern business caused
by the pervasive presence of Mafia is estimated as
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7.5 billions of Euro per year, that is
2.5% of Southern Italy’s GDP *
Without pizzo between 1981 and 2001, Southern Italy’s
per-capita GDP would have reached Northern Italy’s one.
* Source: Indagine Censis-Fondazione Bnc, 2003
PIZZO
Libero Grassi
Addiopizzo!
Addiopizzo
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“Farewell pizzo”
Shift in opinion + trade association + consumers’ association
Addiopizzo
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“Farewell pizzo”
Shift in opinion + trade association + consumers’ association
ADDIOPIZZO
In the beginning, there was a sticker…
“An entire people that pays pizzo
is a people without dignity”
ADDIOPIZZO
The organization
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voluntary
young
grass-roots
action-oriented
self-financing
non-party nature
monothematic
ADDIOPIZZO
The mission
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Push people to stand up to Mafia domination
ADDIOPIZZO
Brainstorming
ADDIOPIZZO
Awareness and responsibility
In Palermo, 80% of the shops pays pizzo
When I buy something, I indirectly finance Mafia
I am part of the “entire people without dignity”
What can I do? What is my power?
I am a consumer. I can choose
ADDIOPIZZO
The ethical consumerism campaign
List of
consumers
List of
shops and
enterprises
(Pizzo-free list)
“Commission of Guarantee”
ADDIOPIZZO
Ethics and advantages
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Ethic criteria
Economic criteria
ADDIOPIZZO
Putting the campaign into effect
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Advertise Addiopizzo shops
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Logo of the campaign on the shop windows
Pizzo-free “yellow pages”
Website and Newsletters
“Pizzo-free Fair”
“Pizzo-free Emporium”
Pushing public bodies
consumerism’s practices
Pizzo-free tourism
to
adopt
ethical
ADDIOPIZZO
The logo of the campaign on the shop windows
ADDIOPIZZO
Pizzo-free “yellow pages”
ADDIOPIZZO
Website and newsletters
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Pizzo-free festival and fair
ADDIOPIZZO
Pizzo-free Emporium
ADDIOPIZZO
Pushing public bodies to ethical consumerism
ADDIOPIZZO
Pizzo-free tourism
ADDIOPIZZO
Our strategies
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Listening to the environment’s needs
Creativity
Sharing
Communication
No copyright
Bottom-up
“Learning from Cosa Nostra”
Strength in numbers
ADDIOPIZZO
The ants
ADDIOPIZZO
July 31, 2007 the crucial moment
Guajana Company’s arson
The reaction of Palermo
ADDIOPIZZO
In the schools
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Education to anti-mafia values
A generation revolution
ADDIOPIZZO
Push the power
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Trade associations
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Public bodies
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to take the responsibility for a common fight
to invite their associate members to join the Addiopizzo
campaign
to adopt ethical consumerism’s practices when they spend
public money
to adopt anti-mafia measures
Politics
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to pass bills and promote tangible acts to fight Mafia
to expel from their slates “connected” or even dubious
candidates
ADDIOPIZZO
On trial
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Legal aid and advice
suing for damages in the prosecutions
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against Mafia
against shopkeepers charged with “aiding
and abetting”
ADDIOPIZZO
The Addiopizzo effect
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Since the beginning
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Sept. 1, 2007
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Sept. 18, 2007
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Nov. 10, 2007
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spotlight on the pizzo problem
Confindustria’s statement
Conticello’s testimony
“Libero Futuro”
Addiopizzo outside Palermo
ADDIOPIZZO
Conticello testifies
ADDIOPIZZO
Tools for a coral fight
Towards Mafia:
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Complaints by the shopkeepers
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Inquiries and repression by Police
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Severe punishments, certainty of law
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Suing for damages in prosecutions
Towards the shopkeepers:
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“Bonus” attitude:
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Refund victims of racket (Law 44/1999)
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State-guaranteed escort and video surveillance
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Tax relief
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Subsidized credit
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Ethical consumerism
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“Punitive” attitude:
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Incrimination for “aiding and abetting”
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Exclusion from public works and suppliers list
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Exclusion from trade associations
Towards the social context:
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Anti-mafia education at school
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Politics against unemployment
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Improvement and redevelopment of the territory
ADDIOPIZZO
Prospects for the next future
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A wider vision:
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E-commerce
A national “pizzo-free shops” network
Addiopizzo tourism
The “Pizzo-free card”:
a collective investment
ADDIOPIZZO
The big picture
Fight
pizzo
Fight Mafia
Free Sicily
ADDIOPIZZO
…
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Hope - new - change
A simple idea, looking apparently like
an utopia, comes true
The force of “We” in breaking patterns
and ties up