Pasina Residents Protest Truck Traffic, Call for Action

Ruggero Morghen, Rivano librarian and author of numerous publications, has interpreted the banners displayed in Pasina by the frustrated residents protesting truck traffic in an original way, and even more so by the government’s indecisiveness, as it has yet to offer a clear solution to the issue.

It is precisely on these “hesitations” that Morghen reflects in the following letter.

The Residents of Pasina’s Reasons

“The residents of Pasina, frustrated by what they see as a penalizing road system, have placed banners along the road on their properties: this is another attempt to make their voices heard, but also a form of communication that is diverse, concise, and undoubtedly effective.”

The central message repeated is: “Get the trucks out,” but it is also worth noting the other contents represented in the banners.

Such as, here, the awareness of an imbalance, a disparity of treatment between the city center and the outskirts; the perception of a public action aimed at electoral consensus and therefore unjustly fragmented; and the memory of a long-standing lack of local interventions.

Reflections on Practice and Politics

There is also a note, so to speak, metadialogical: the primacy that, over theory, must be given to practice—not so much in a Marxist sense, but rather as a call to Christian realism.

What matters is who, among the two siblings invited to work, ultimately “steps into the field.” Of course, this has nothing to do with Berlusconi, since it is precisely politicians who often forget the ancient Jewish Teacher’s invitation: that our speech should be simple and frank, and that we must embody what we say.

Like those who simply say: “Yes, yes; no, no.” The residents of Pasina, with their banners, teach us this.