A good Friends' Grandmother, Emmeline Pankhurst, fought last centuries' most amazing battle for women's rights. She won! Women got right of vote, starting from New Zealand in 1917, then around the world. Even our neighbours Canton Schweiz women have the right to vote since a few years. 
Typically, while being arrested, Emma Pankhurst would shout 'Votes for Women'
I know it is unconcievable yet, I am not nearly so strong as my friends' grandmother, on top of it I'm twice as heavy to say the least. So, in pity of the policeman and in fear the 'cruels on TV' that rule us might instead forbid women votes again, I did not dare ask even my son to publish this on his musical webiste. I did not publish it under the Humoristic section in Italian, it is a grave matter, urresolvable.
Versione Italiana di seguito all'Inglese.
No, Italians can’t
The common as well as media and learned Italian word to indicate new Italians is invariably ”extracomunitari”, equivalent to “non community members”, originally from a bureaucratic term to do with the former European Community. Almost ten years after the raise of the European Union the typical language use “extracomunitari and east Europeans” bares out the deep racist tone of the word, in a Country that has four million recent migrants who see no hope to become recognised citizens within at least one generation, no sign in sight for a right to vote even for their sons and daughters, living in a political and social limbo.
Our refusal to recognise right of vote to long time residents, let alone nationality to new Italians is the obvious cause of so much trouble and of the regrettable rebirth of racism, we thought as a distant past tied to the fascist regime. Migration is caused by a poverty we knew a generation ago, but now too rapidly remove from our minds and consciences.
No one noted the October crack down on Camorra, that brought many mayors in areas around
Marco Viganò, 5 Nov. 2008
ITALIANO
In Italia anche i giornalisti più titolati continuano a chiamare i nuovi Italiani “extracomunitari”, circa dieci anni dopo la fine del termine burocratico ‘Comunità Europea’, tanto che spesso si accaniscono a distinguere “extracomunitari e europei dell’est”. La parola è davvero offensiva, e limitativa del nostro paese. Perché non solo intrinsecamente razzista, ma testimone di una realtà politica inquietante. Quattro
milioni di nuovi Italiani vivono nel limbo, non avranno per una generazione cittadinanza, non possono votare né essere votati. Peccato. Perché ne abbiamo bisogno.
Gli stranieri sono una finestra che dovrebbe aprirci su un mondo che cambia. Noi
La sinistra che governava non Varese, ma il Paese prima non ha visto né capito che la microcriminalità venuta spesso dall’Est scatena il rifiuto, paura diffusa e la situazione di disagio reale che troppi ora cavalcano, a danno di tutti.
Invece, la sola via per star bene insieme, tutti, è dividere diritti e doveri di cittadini.