Some words have a power to evoke unexpected compared to the size of the object they describe.
"Dust" is one of those words.
The mental image of the powder is related to static in the past, to neglect, abandonment. If we want to take this aspect of smell, we can evoke the scent of a summer rain that washes the asphalt hot, the aroma of a floor in which they were packed years of life in the form of items no longer useful, the smell a huge library of old wooden shelves too high to expect that the elderly bookseller to climb a ladder to evict the mites that have colonized the upper shelves. Among the old
of my country, "the puvri" Dust, is a disease, sometimes fatal.
In my mind, the powder is odorless, has the voices of people I met and that there are more and has an unusual form; the profile of a factory.
I was born in a city where the district stands at the entrance of a banner that identifies a project to regenerate the same and where the end of that quarter dominate the "spoils" of the factory that should have guaranteed to the inhabitants of the city for a sustainable welfare .
In my town everyone knows the name of that factory and that project, even children.
In my city, the factory has produced for 80 years and in 1986 was closed.
The factory has killed, to date, hundreds of my fellow citizens.
Factory owners have tried to give a monetary value to the lives of dead people, hoping to escape un processo che appurasse le loro responsabilità in questa strage silenziosa che si sta ancora compiendo.
I miei concittadini non hanno venduto la dignità dei loro famigliari e non hanno accettato di lavare il ricordo col denaro.
Sono nata a Casale Monferrato è insieme ai miei concittadini condivido la peculiarità di avere una probabilità di circa 300 volte superiore alla media nazionale, di ammalarmi di una patologia polmonare letale: il mesotelioma pleurico.
Insieme ai miei concittadini condivido la tragedia di avere avuto mediamente una vittima di questa patologia ogni 4 famigliari.
Insieme ai miei concittadini I fight for justice.
Along with my fellow citizens will not let the dust hiding the truth and the memory.
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