FORUMS FOR LOCAL YOUNG PEOPLE, PARTICIPATION AND CONTROL? Quote 3 ½ years of silence
During this time arrived on the desks of various municipal councils of the proposal to establish local youth forum. The question that now arises is that this initiative is only a tool for pre-election become sensitive to the needs of youth in the eyes of potential voters, after three and a half years of silence on the issue of youth.
The proposal comes from the political world does not seem to reflect the real needs of young people. Those mobilize young people who do it to have space to find each other, dealing with the means, tools and methods that characterize them, not that they are designed and imposed from
But what the Youth Forum ? Municipal Youth Forum is one of the tools that the County, through Infogiovani, created and made available to local authorities and political authorities who wanted to use. The model that inspired the idea of \u200b\u200bthe Forum of Young City is the existing cantonal council of the young and already understands the limited political clout that these forums may have in fact local. In fact, apart from during the days of Council meeting in Canton, during the year is as if the body disappears from the public realm and proposals designed to put a drawer. Following the indications of Infogiovani, the forum will be convened in the hall of the City Council by a committee composed of young people. As you can compose a committee of young people by young people if it is not part of the demand for instituting a forum? By that criterion involves a particular group of young people to take the effort to establish the Committee? Moreover, with the establishment of a committee is already creating a hierarchy typical of the bourgeois system, that these forums want to play already in the reality of youth.
The forum provides for the establishment the figure of a secretary who, according to regulation, is designated by the Municipality, and is an adult. Although the secretary must be a supporting role to the Committee, in force control of the adult world and the authorities on what will be discussed and decided among young people.
addition to direct control over committee meetings, the youth interested in participating in the forum to announce his presence, camouflaged under control yet another gesture of your logistics needs.
tool "for" or a "trap" against "?
With these forums, offered in this way, young people are encouraged by the political authorities to do something they have not asked to do, to go places in their semi-strangers (Town Hall) and do not form part of their lives: the mountain that goes from Maometto.Cosi by young people is always "guests" of the institutions. If young people do not respond positively to the forum will always be their fault, who can not grasp the opportunities as well as the finger pointing. A tool that becomes filled with sound principles of control and trap type, and not least of discrimination between those who participate and who does not. Let us return then to the famous model of social classification that has given impetus to right-wing forces in recent years, white sheep and black sheep.
For the bourgeois political and social-liberal politics is control and this control needs to start immediately. This is why in some municipalities hinders the creation of youth centers and instead promote the forum. The Centre not from the real chance to the political authorities to influence and mediate new ideas and genuine young people.
The Forum has the structure of a rabbit common "open", which discusses the issues brought up by the Committee with the rules of the current system. Youth are imposed on the old system without giving them the opportunity and the freedom to create a new system. Define the innovations keep control ... pretending to do something for them.
New proposals for a policy "with"
If you want to watch the young and participate in political life must give the appropriate means, give them confidence, responsibility and ensure that you build a staff awareness about their surroundings. It is a few months ago the debate on lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 years. A proposal that the bourgeois parties continue to hinder the fear of losing control on the young. But if we understand politics as an investment and not as an instrument of control, the young people of 16 have every right to start taking the responsibility to inform themselves and express their opinions, because in most cases the decisions made during the voting or federal Cantonal direct concern their future. Rather than make a futile exercise of democratic simulation, as proposed in the forum, young people are entitled to speak about what concerns them, thus giving themselves a political weight. Another question is to give young people the opportunity to create their own culture, interests, and take new challenges. To do this we should strive for a culture open to young people, with free entry to exhibitions and cultural events, cinemas and theaters before doing so, as well as their interests even at their precarious financial condition, changing the culture from unnecessary spending freely meeting.
These are just a few requests that the MPS carries out, a society that is with young people and not for or against, the risk to leave them alone anyway. The youth must be part and parcel of the political, cultural and social and is not sticky on the pre-made templates that you create all this.
NO preset to a forum of young people.
NO to an instrument of control over young