Giorgio Fidenato

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Giorgio Fidenato
Born (1961-03-07) March 7, 1961 (age 64)
Mereto di Tomba, Udine, Italy
Occupation Farmer. Co-founder and Coordinator of the Movimento Libertario. Secretary of Futuragra. President of Italian Federated Farmers.

Giorgio Fidenato (born Mereto di Tomba in Province of Udine, 7 March 1961)[1] is an Italian libertarian farmer, co-founder and coordinator of the Movimento Libertario[2] and secretary of Futuragra[3] a cultural association of Pordenone for technological innovation, business culture, defense of private property and free markets in agriculture.

He is also president of Agricoltori Federati - Italian Federated Farmers.[4]

Italian Federated Farmers

In December 2005 in San Quirino assembly of the Confederation of Italian Agricultures (CIA in Italian acronym) of Pordenone approve the split by the National Confederation of Agricultures proposed by President of local association Giorgio Fidenato.

The CIA became therefore Federated Farmers to emphasize its independence and its willingness to "treat the expectations of farmers, concrete expectations and not smoke or political system".

The Italian Agricultures Confederation of Pordenone now Federated Farmers includes about 600 members in western Friuli, it was "Commissioner" by the national president in August 2005, but the measure was immediately challenged by the provincial president Fidenato that contrary to claims of national leaders, had firmly maintained the self-organization of Pordenone, in fact so as to prevent the Commissioner.

The case has landed in the classroom with a first court ruling in favor of Giorgio Fidenato, the rejection of the injunction requested by the National president of CIA, and pending the proceedings, the CIA Pordenone was split: one part met in assembly and elected their leaders, while others is now called with the name of "Federated Farmers".[5]

Italian Federated Farmers has borrowed its name from New Zealand Federated Farmers, a farmers associations in New Zealand.

In a difficult economic situation of the agricultural sector occurred in 1985 similar to the present, before the dismantling of interventionism in agriculture wanted by the New Zealand government, Federated Farmers had the courage to support that government policy and say enough interventionism in agriculture because they realized that more incentive measures would produce surplus production that would have lowered the price of agricultural products below production costs.

Italian Federated Farmers believes that in order to defend the interests of its members, the necessary measures to be implemented immediately to immediately exit from this intolerable situation of economic crisis is to call a halt to government support in agriculture at European level in order to balance supply demand and because the agricultural policy is supported by the VAT paid by the taxpayers of member states, we consider it urgent to reduce the VAT rate to a level lower average current that coincides with the abandonment of public financing policy CAP.[6]

The right to sow GMO maize

In the second half of 2006, Giorgio Fidenato decided to sow transgenic seeds on his land.

Since cultivating transgenic products is possible by virtue of European legislation but was not yet implemented in Italy, in early 2007 the Italian Ministry of Agriculture said no, because there is no plan for coexistence between GMO and non-GMO crops for the region (Friuli).

Fidenato with Silvano Dalla Libera and their association Futuragra supported by the Movimento Libertario,[7] immediately went to the Regional Administrative Court, but the appeal was rejected in a preliminary ruling by the lack of citation of the subject most closely concerned in the proceedings in question, namely the region Friuli Venezia Giulia.

In 2008, the appeal to the Italian Council of State on 19 January 2010 ruled in favor of Fidenato.

According to the Italian Council of State, the fact that the region of Friuli had not prepared the plan for coexistence can not obstruct the right of Fidenato to sow his land with GMO, because GMO crops are allowed within the European market.[8]

Furthermore, the plan deals with the coexistence of the socioeconomic aspects (e.g. distance of the crops the adjoining land) and not issues related to environment and health.

With this ruling, then, the Italian Council of State gave notice to the Italian Ministry of Agriculture within 90 days to give permission to Fidenato to sow his land with GMO.[9]

On 19 January 2010 the ruling of the Italian Council of State forces a rethink of policies in the agricultural field.[10]

The Fidenato-GMO ruling has been described in Italian newspapers including Corriere della Sera,[11] Avvenire,[12] and radio broadcasts of national importance like Radio Radicale.[13]

In March 2010, the Italian minister of agriculture Zaia before resigning from his ministerial role to run in the Italian regional elections had signed a decree denying the cultivation of GMO maize.

On 29 April, Fidenato, Movimento Libertario and Futuragra they state in a public conference[14] that the ministerial decree does not incorporate any of the directions of Council of State and are keen to act through the courts.[15]

Despite strong oppositions of environmentalists and no-global movements, partially of Italian government[16][17] and some opposition political forces[18] the first cultivation of GMO maize in Italy has been sown before of 30 April 2010 (date initially established) in Vivaro (a town in Province of Pordenone) in Friuli,[19][20][21][22][23][24] when the ruling of the Italian Council of State comes into effect.[25][26][27]

The date of sown was anticipated on simbolic Italian date of April 25, 2010 (Liberation Day),[28][29][30][31] for avoid the direct protests of environmentalists and no-global group during the sowing.[32]

Despite the precautions to avoid violence, anyway Fidenato and Italian Federated Farmers were insulted and threatened in their headquarters by a group of environmentalists and anti-globalization protesters.[33][34][35][36][37][38]

Giorgio Fidenato in collaboration with Leonardo Facco, will make public photos and videos of the plant growth of GMO maize on the website of the Movimento Libertario.[39][40]

Following the incidents, Elisabetta Zamparutti Italian Radicals member of Italian Parliament in Environment Committee turned her solidarity to the Movimento Libertario, Federated Farmers and Giorgio Fidenato, claiming their action of nonviolent civil disobedience, arguing the need to open Italy to the cultivation of GMOs.[41][42]

Another message of solidarity to Giorgio Fidenato came from Italian Radical Domenico Letizia Secretary of the Luca Coscioni Association (for freedom of scientific research) of Caserta, in the message Letizia supports freedom research and choice of Italians farmers and consumers about GMO foods.[43]

On May 4, 2010, Italian Radicals parliamentaries Elisabetta Zamparutti, Marco Beltrandi, Rita Bernardini, Maria Antonietta Farina Coscioni, Matteo Mecacci e Maurizio Turco (Lista Emma Bonino in the Italian Democratic Party have deposited (and publishing the following day) a parliamentary question written to Italian Minister of the Interior, Roberto Maroni and to the new Italian Minister of Agriculture, Giancarlo Galan to know what they are going to do on possible new attacks in the future headquarters of Italian Federated Farmers and on the issue of GMOs.

In the Italian Radicals parliamentary questions there are refers threats to person and property that Giorgio Fidenato and Italian Federated Farmers received by environmentalists, anti-globalization and communist movements.[44][45]

Parliamentary questions mentions also that the Italian government still does not recognize to Giorgio Fidenato, the Italian Federated Farmers, the Movimento Libertario and Futuragra the right to sown GMO maize, as determined by decision of the Italian Council of State and European Community Directive.

The role in the Movimento Libertario

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Giorgio Fidenato with Leonardo Facco and Marcello Mazzilli have founded officially the Movimento Libertario[1] as an Italian libertarian anarcho-capitalist political subject in September 2007, to defend life, liberty and property of each individual within a strong liberist system of free market, against any kind of aggression and/or coercion.[1]

Actually he is a coordinator of the Association.

Against the withholding tax

In January 2009, Fidenato began paying his six employees the entire gross sum of their wage without paying taxes and contributions on their behalf.[46][47][48]

The taxes, if the workers want to pay them, will have to paid by the worker directly.[49]

Fidenato believe that the Italian Constitution in the articles 23[50] prevents anyone from being forced to work for free for the State, and to paying the taxes on behalf of others is a burden:

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No obligation of a personal or financiai nature may be imposed on any person except by law. - article 23 in Constitution of Italian Republic

"We believe that to not work for free for the state is a "natural" right, that no sovereign and no absolute majority in parliament can deny us" said Fidenato.[51]

Denouncing himself, at the Tax Office of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance and to the National Institute of Social Security (INPS), Fidenato began a legal battle[52][53] against the withholding tax with a mix of civil disobedience and Tax resistance.[26][54][55]

The Fidenato case has been reported in Italian newspapers[56] including Corriere della Sera,[57] Il Giornale and radio broadcasts of national importance including Radio 24[58] and Radio Radicale.[59]

Supported by the Movimento Libertario and applauded by the former Italian Minister of Defense, the economist and liberist politician, Antonio Martino,[60] he has received support also by the Italian Radicals[61][62] of Marco Pannella and others association in the battle over the withholding tax.[63][64]

Fidenato, as representative of the Movimento Libertario, was invited to discuss his case at the national conference of the Italian Radicals in Chianciano Terme (in Province of Siena) in November 2009.[65]

A first interim hearing on withholding tax was held in Pordenone on November 19, 2009.[66]

On 28 January 2010, the second and decisive hearing was held in the Labor Court of Pordenone.[67]

On 6 March 2010, Giorgio Fidenato was invited together the Movimento Libertario to discuss about withholding tax at the presentation in Rome of Confcontribuenti (Confederation of Italian taxpayers).[68][69][70]

In this context, he received supports from Confcontribuenti members for the day of the verdict of the court.[71][72]

On 1 April 2010,[73] the Movimento Libertario organized in Pordenone a peaceful sit-in with others associations and organizations that supports Giorgio Fidenato's battle.

Leonardo Facco (Managing Director of the Movimento Libertario) have organized a rally and distributed free copies of the book Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, pending output of Fidenato from the halls of the court with details of the judgment.[74]

The judgment pronounced by the court defined as "irrilevant" the issue of unconstitutionality over the withholding tax presented by Giorgio Fidenato.[75]

Officially the judge did not to decided yet about the legal basis of withholding tax, the reason of the judgment will be pronounced on February 3, 2011.

For the moment the judge declined to exercise an effective assessment on the appeal by Fidenato;[76] actually he do not to recognize to Fidenato the right to appeal to the Italian Constitutional Court to defend the issue of unconstitutionality of the withholding tax (a right recognized by the Constitution and Italian law).

The intentions of Giorgio Fidenato with his lawyer is to continue the legal battle in the future with the tax resistance and the civil disobedience until the judiciary and the government authorities will do not to recognize the individual rights enshrined in the Italian Constitution.

The Movimento Libertario in waiting of the judgement on Giorgio Fidenato, wants to promote other similars cases like the Giorgio Fidenato case for continue the legal battle against the withholding tax.[77]

Ebook

Un agricoltore contro lo Stato (Bergamo: Leonardo Facco Editore, 2007)

References

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