It's December 16, 1972, 50 years ago. The first social cooperative in the world is born in Trieste. It was formed by 28 | dG1faTd0MjBIY0w1U1k
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00:00This is the park of San Giovanni, the former provincial psychiatric hospital of Trieste.
00:20Right here, in this park, in 1972, the first social cooperative of Italy and the world was born.
00:29The cooperative Laboratori Uniti Franco-Basaglia.
00:33But what does work with the asylum have to do with it?
00:37Ergotherapy, or work therapy, designed and carried out by the pioneers Chiaruggi and Pinel and then applied by all psychiatrists,
00:45is still a fundamental element for the definitive recovery of already improved people with pharmacological shock treatment.
00:51There were teams of workers, those who worked in the kitchen, those who worked in the garden, those who worked to clean the coal.
01:01The court, which had to recognize the birth of this group, did not want to know.
01:12Then everything was blocked. You don't work.
01:15In short, it was difficult to eat then, if all the madmen did not work.
01:20Threat of a strike?
01:22Done!
01:23These people, who are not even citizens, claim to be, to become workers, but to do so, they claim a fundamental constitutional right.
01:35It is said, and I think it is fair, that the mentally ill are citizens like the others.
01:43The clue is born tirelessly between 1972 and 1973 and until 1980 it remains a unique case.
01:52And do you know what is the strongest thing?
01:58That they are as they are, with tattoos, put like this, with this grotesque way of doing it, and still people stay alive for my work, you know?
02:08The way I do it, the passion I put into it.
02:11I was able to create the life I dreamed of, my hobby of playing, going to activities.
02:20Now I have just bought the new instrument.
02:23You feel satisfied because you see the person who has his dignity, who has his pay, and you are part of this path.
02:35Maybe we managed to build a sense of belonging, of not being ashamed of being, of being Clu.
02:50Today the social cooperative is a social enterprise.
03:00The world has changed, everything has changed, but the cooperative has not changed in its foundations.
03:10Welcoming.