from pizzo to addiopizzo 2004-2009. definition meaning: protection money literal translation:...
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From pizzo to Addiopizzo
2004-2009
Definition
Meaning: protection money Literal translation: “beak”
PIZZO
Diffusion
70% of the Sicilian shops80% 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:
351 millions of Euro (pizzo + usury)*
2.7% of the total
* Source: Eurispes 2006
PIZZO
Quantification 2
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 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 “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
Economic aim(enterprise syndicate)
Criminal politic aim(power syndicate)
PIZZO
Evolution
The origin: lemon groves’ guardians
Moving into town: selective pizzo From the 90s: “carpet-pizzo” Today: increase of pizzo requests
and violence
PIZZO
Typology 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)
PIZZO
NO FREE MARKET“A CRIMINAL SELECTION”
Vulnerable business
traditional sectors small size family-based low tech linked to the territory linked to public investments
PIZZO
Any benefit?
Mafia = the threat + the protector
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)
direct costs: pizzo’s amount possible reprisals’ costs precautionary measure’ costs
indirect costs: loss of custom staff supplier openings for business bank credit
PIZZO
Costs for the economic system (macro-level)
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
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
7.5 billions of Euro per year, that is 2.5% of Southern Italy’s GDP *
Without pizzo between 1981 and 2001, Southern Italy’sper-capita GDP would have reached Northern Italy’s
one.
* Source: Indagine Censis-Fondazione Bnc, 2003
PIZZO
Libero GrassiPIZZO
Addiopizzo!
Addiopizzo “Farewell pizzo” Shift in opinion + trade association + consumers’
association
Addiopizzo “Farewell pizzo” Shift in opinion + trade association + consumers’ association
In the beginning, there was a sticker…
“An entire people that pays pizzois a people without dignity”
ADDIOPIZZO
The organization
voluntary young grass-roots action-oriented self-financing non-party nature monothematic
ADDIOPIZZO
The mission Push people to stand up to Mafia
domination
ADDIOPIZZO
BrainstormingADDIOPIZZO
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 ofshops andenterprises
“Commission of Guarantee”
(Pizzo-free list)
ADDIOPIZZO
Ethics and advantages Ethic criteria Economic criteria
ADDIOPIZZO
Putting the campaign into effect
Advertise Addiopizzo shops Logo of the campaign on the shop windows Pizzo-free “yellow pages” Website and Newsletters
“Pizzo-free Fair” “Pizzo-free Emporium” Pushing public bodies to adopt ethical
consumerism’s practices Pizzo-free tourism
ADDIOPIZZO
The logo of the campaign on the shop windows
ADDIOPIZZO
Pizzo-free “yellow pages”ADDIOPIZZO
Website and newslettersADDIOPIZZO
Pizzo-free festival and fairADDIOPIZZO
Pizzo-free EmporiumADDIOPIZZO
Pushing public bodies to ethical consumerism
ADDIOPIZZO
Pizzo-free tourismADDIOPIZZO
Our strategies Listening to the environment’s needs Creativity Sharing Communication No copyright Bottom-up “Learning from Cosa Nostra” Strength in numbers
ADDIOPIZZO
The antsADDIOPIZZO
July 31, 2007 the crucial moment
Guajana Company’s arson The reaction of Palermo
ADDIOPIZZO
In the schools Education to anti-mafia values A generation revolution
ADDIOPIZZO
Push the power Trade associations
to take the responsibility for a common fight to invite their associate members to join the
Addiopizzo campaign Public bodies
to adopt ethical consumerism’s practices when they spend public money
to adopt anti-mafia measures Politics
to pass bills and promote tangible acts to fight Mafia to expel from their slates “connected” or even
dubious candidates
ADDIOPIZZO
On trial
Legal aid and advice suing for damages in the
prosecutions against Mafia against shopkeepers charged with
“aiding and abetting”
ADDIOPIZZO
The Addiopizzo effect Since the beginning
spotlight on the pizzo problem Sept. 1, 2007
Confindustria’s statement Sept. 18, 2007
Conticello’s testimony Nov. 10, 2007
“Libero Futuro” Addiopizzo outside Palermo
ADDIOPIZZO
Conticello testifiesADDIOPIZZO
Tools for a coral fightTowards Mafia: Complaints by the shopkeepers Inquiries and repression by Police Severe punishments, certainty of law Suing for damages in prosecutions
Towards the shopkeepers: “Bonus” attitude:
Refund victims of racket (Law 44/1999) State-guaranteed escort and video surveillance Tax relief Subsidized credit Ethical consumerism
“Punitive” attitude: Incrimination for “aiding and abetting” Exclusion from public works and suppliers list Exclusion from trade associations
Towards the social context: Anti-mafia education at school Politics against unemployment Improvement and redevelopment of the territory
ADDIOPIZZO
Prospects for the next future
A wider vision: E-commerce A national “pizzo-free shops” network Addiopizzo tourism
The “Pizzo-free card”: a collective investment
ADDIOPIZZO
The big picture
Fightpizzo
Fight Mafia
Free Sicily
ADDIOPIZZO
…
Hope - new - change A simple idea, looking apparently
like an utopia, comes true The force of “We” in breaking
patterns and ties up
ADDIOPIZZO