Petition for the last chance to save Venice

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THE UNDERSIGNED

residents of Venice and others interested in saving this city, having seen the documentation collected by the Venice Public Health or personally verified the facts,

ASK

their fellow citizens, and all others who have in their heart the survival of Venice and her patrimony of art, communication and democracy, to sign the following

request to the President of the Ministers of the Italian Republic:

  1. that an emergency state, due to the imminence of catastrophe, be declared in Venice;
  2. that all regulations currently applied in the area of the "Comune" of Venice be revoked;
  3. that extraordinary powers, prescribed by law are required in this situation, must be assigned to the Public Health Committee formed by the following citizens, who are trusted by the signatories of this petition and in whom they wish to place their hopes for the salvation of Venice:
Andrea BasoAlexander BoniventoMaurizio SantonastasoUmberto Sartori

In particular, we ask that the Committee be assigned:
  1. the power to propose, have executed, and control the works necessary to safeguard Venice and her development;
  2. the power to address and control the scientific, technical and political structures instituted for the safeguarding and development of Venice, and those bodies connected with them;
  3. the full co-operation of the Prefect, the Public Security forces, and that of the Armed Forces, in order to guarantee the efficiency of, and respect for, the decisions of the Public Health Committee.
We make this democratic request in order to express the city´s demand for an end to the moral decay and poor government of the city, which are leading Venice to certain death.

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Dear Friend, thank you for your interest in Venice. If, as is possible, you arrived at this page after examining the evidence collected in ourvenice.org, we believe that our request for authority will not surprise you.
The realization of our programme requires that single-interest groups end their differences; these are obscuring the destiny of the Serenissima. It is fundamental that the commonwealth of Venetian citizenry be brought to the leading position that it needs and deserves.
To evaluate the commonwealth of Venice, a universal wisdom, overpassing that commonly defined as universitary, is required.
This must be tied to a multi-disciplinary approach able to cross the barrier that exists between humanistic and scientific knowledge and their teachers, one able to enrich technology with a magical-poetical sensibility of the genius loci

This approach, traditionally, is by artistic patrimony.

It happens that our ways converge in being the first people who have realized the extreme urgency, and recognized a path to save Venice that is difficult, but still practicable. That is due to the strength of all those who dream of saving Venice, which is increasingly revealing itself as the last and true vital strength of La Serenissima.
It happens that we recognize each other as honest citizens with the skills to realize that dream, and that we are able to form a team to undertake that work.
It happens that our whole group accepts the social engagement of art.
It happens that we cannot see any force, institution or idea working on a project that can stop the accelerating destruction of the very fabric of our city, its stonework.

We can do nothing else than offer ourselves for this mission. We see ourselves as a few of the last people able to conceive and execute it with the care and straightforwardness that Venice and her heritage require.

Our data, documented observations and our programmes are published on
http://www.ourvenice.org