The resistance of Casale Monferrato

What is resilience? What does it mean to be reactive? How do you fight for public health and environment protection while strongly believing in the rule of law and the public institutions? If thousands of asbestos victims, whether dead or sick because of the asbestos fibers inhaled, are still demanding justice in the courtrooms, Casale Monferrato stands out as the example of a community who did not succumb to the tragedy caused by Eternit, the biggest asbestos cement plant in Europe. Casale Monferrato becomes the symbol of a civic resistance through the memory, the asbestos removal, caregiving and culture.
A four year struggle that put back under the spotlight the issues related to public health and environment.
Nowadays where there was the factory that caused the death of thousands of people you can find the Eternot park.
Asbestos is everybody’s problem: at least 10 people die every day because of it and hundreds of thousands of public spaces in Italy, including schools and hospitals, are still contaminated.

Credits
Developed with the financial support of the Association Families and Victims of Asbestos (AFEVA ONLUS) of Casale Monferrato, under the patronage and the support of the Municipality of Casale Monferrato.
It was realized through the Cittadini Reattivi crowdfunding campaign promoted by Banca Popolare Etica on Produzioni dal Basso. The project received the support of more than 170 individual donors and associations from all over Italy: Legambiente Casale Monferrato, the Basta Veleni group of Brescia and its province, the anticorruption and monitoring citizenry group of Libera and Gruppo Abele with Scuola Common, Bicipace, Genitori Tarantini, Sportello Amianto Nazionale, Gruppo dello Zuccherificio