Hi guys, my name's Federico Pistono and I'd like to talk about something I really care
which is the Italian political situation, also because I think that we're really trough an historical moment,
and we could be an example for all the civilized world.
As you know I'm a 5 Stelle activist since the beginning, and what's going on now is crucial.
So, everyone's talking about doing or not doing the deal, [blah blah] which are the points.
I don't want to talk about that, I'd like to talk as I've been doing for years and
in particular some months ago with a video I made, about the method, that is:
even though the M5S talks about collaboration, participation and choice from the base
this does happen in municipalities and regions where M5S has some representants
and this is something extraordinary, that NOBODY ELSE does
however at the national level this thing doesn't happen, and this is why we have these
huge discussions: 10.000 comments on facebook, 20.000 comments on Grillo's blog
450 answers on "La Cosa"'s videos, others on twitter...
Is it really possible that we still don't have a national platform like Liquid Feedback, Airesis, or a wiki
where we can discuss together about the program, projects and decisions?
I mean, they've been saying for years that "we'll do that!"(3x) and it still didn't happen.
It was already a shame that we didn't have it to lay down the electoral program, and now that
we have people going into the parliament and represent us, and we've become the
first political power in the country, and that we've made all our electoral campaign saying
"there will be democracy from the base, participated"
well we still don't have these instruments and decisions are taken...
well, we don't know how
one or two people that say "we do that way" or the other, and then 50.000 people lost in the blog
and people goes crazy when somebody starts a petition
they say "ohh she's from Pirate Party", and then actually she...
this is what's called "character assassination"
we attack this poor woman that, by the way, from what I've seen belonged to the other Pirate Party
the one that has many points in common with M5S
and that by the way Rick Falkvinge, who started swedish Pirate Party, baptised M5S
when it was created. So I don't know if you get it, they looked for her address, they said they'd kill her,
really crazy things! Guys, let's take a deep breath
let's say: "we need to make some decisions together"
"in a collaborative way", we had this need years ago, it was a HUGE need few months ago, and now
it's unacceptable that we don't have such a platform.
In the last post Beppe said "they're working on it"...
4 years they've been saying that, and also, who is working on that?? Casaleggio and so on...
Let's make it in community, managed by the community like Wikipedia. Is it that hard?
There are hundreds of people offering their efforts for free.
We made some encounters, talked with activists from Bergamo, Sicily, Puglia,
and also developers from Airesis who said they'll change their platform DEPENDING on M5S needs,
for free. We have a great knowledge and intellectual power, immense, that we can use for free
and we're not using it because the staff won't answer our requests.
We've written to hundreds of M5S activists, among which some are in municipal or regional councils,
and we've talked even to people elected into the parliament, and everyone agrees with us that
we need a platform of this kind, and that it must be managed by the community
NOT that Casaleggio will make it someday, with his servers, his ways, his timings
who knows where, how, who manages it.
It must be made by the community, managed by the community
we need it now, we have to do it together
and we have to stop to focus on what a random guy says or does, it's foolish,
we have to talk about the system and the community. So let's get together and say:
Staff.. Beppe, I agree with 99% of what you say. What you say is not what you do!
Because you say that the movement makes decision all together, from the base, we discuss,
but it's not happening and this thing must change. So please, guys, we have to make them listen us and
say: do we all agree? so we have to do it all together as a community.
We've created a FB group to discuss and participate, the link is in the video description.
Participate, there's a tweet, @DemLiquida (?), which is going around, let's make it Top Trend
so that it.... it will explode(!) and come on, let's make us heard, and take the leads of this Italy.
I don't know what's the future of Italy and I don't know what decisions we'll take.
But the one thing I know is that if we want to do the right things, we have to take them together.
Bye.