Solidarity campaign for Fabrizio Acanfora, train worker
On 25th November 2004 at Rome's Civil Court, the trial will commence in the case brought by Trenitalia [Italian train company] against Fabrizio Acanfora, a syndicalist and member of the Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici [Federation of Anarchist Communists - FdCA]. Having refused arbitration at the Provincial Labour Office, the company brought a case against Fabrizio in order to obtain recognition of the legitimacy of its disciplinary measures handed down to Fabrizio (10 days' suspension from work) in August 2003 by the regional department of Trenitalia. Fabrizio, who is a train conductor from Genoa, had sent a letter to a national newspaper, "Il Secolo XIX", in which he demonstrated his solidarity both with the public who are forced to put up with chronicly bad services and with his colleagues who work on the trains who for months have had to put up with insults in the newspapers and at work and who find no support whatsoever forthcoming from the train company.
Fabrizio, who at the time of the events was an elected union representative, was disciplined by the train company for having exercised his constitutionally guaranteed freedom of _expression and for carrying out his duty as a workers' delegate.
We, the undersigned workers, citizens and public service users, agree with the contents of the letter sent on 16th July 2003. We too fight for an efficient public transport system and we fully support Fabrizio in his fight.
On 25th November we will all be in the courtroom. We will demonstrate that we have not forgotten and that we will not allow ourselves be intimidated. We will show that by punishing one, they hit a hundred. And a hundred will reply!
Genoa, 6th October 2004 Português_
Committee for Solidarity with Fabrizio Acanfora
· Simona Penco - Trenitalia train crew, Genoa · Patrizia Lazzari - Trenitalia station staff, Genoa · Elvira De Luca - Trenitalia station staff, Genoa · Aldo Gnecco - Ferservizi, Genoa · Ernesto D’Acunto - RFI, Genoa
For further information, see:
http://www.fdca.it/fabriziounodinoi
Please support Fabrizio by sending an email to:
fabriziounodinoi@fdca.it
with the subject "solidarietà a fabrizio". In the body of the mail you can leave a message of support.
