Since 2003 Italy and Europe have asked Libya to stop the African migrants. What are the Libyan police really doing? What do thousands of African men and women suffer? And why does everybody pretend they do not know about it. Giving voice to the Ethiopian refugees living in Rome, the film “Like a man...
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Like a man on earth
-90 to European Election Days
The countdown to the European election days is started, maybe owing to the economic crisis, but it is not an interesting topic for our media: after the decision of the barrage to the 4% for parties (and we may discuss about the utility of this barrage, as in Europe there is not a problem...
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GlobalVoicesOnline – Italy: In Defense of the “Right to dieâ€
This post was written by Bernardo Parrella and co-authored by me. UPDATE: Eluana Englaro died few hours after this post was written. A legal battle over a young woman’s ‘right to die’ after 17 years in a coma has spurred both vast online commentary and activism in Italy. Mostly in defense of “Eluana Englaro’s...
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Blog Action Day 2008, Poverty!
I cannot miss today’s date with Blog Action Day, this year dedicated to poverty, adding these lines to the more than 9000 blogs around the world that today are joining to this initiative. I learned so many interesting thing since last august, when I knew about this day. There are so many things that...
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Genoa, July 2001
I am just bit late for celebrations, but this year as in 2001, on July I was on my holidays summer. In 2001 I was on holidays in Salento (in the South of Italy, near Otranto, a really lovely place); we are listening at the radio the chronicle of what is happening in Genoa,...
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Global Voices Online – Summit
-1 day to leaving! In this month of “training”, I translated some articles and I also learned again to concentrated myself on reading, a skill that I was loosing and I also experienced again the enthusiasm of my first days on Internet, about 15 years ago, when sending an email and receiveing an answer...
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Arrakis e Documentario Poetico
Chi si è collegato ieri a questo blog ha avuto modo di vedere il bellissimo e poetico documentario realizzato da Andrea, tributo “alle vittime del progresso”. Andrea, ha realizzato questo video come tesi per la sua laurea breve in “Linguaggio dei mediea” e ha pensato anche ad un lancio collettivo “dal basso” attraverso un...
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Vive la difference
L’appuntamento annuale con la presentazione dell’annuario statistico regionale – Piemonte in cifre 2008 – ha richiamato oggi a Torino, circa 450 persone . La novità di quest’anno è rappresentata dalla presenza dei dati relativi all’Euroregione, che comprende Piemonte, Liguria, Valle d’Aosta, Rhone Alpes e Paca, un territorio che conta circa 17 milioni di abitanti...
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Mai più senza
Un titolo che e’ una citazione, per segnalare questo servizio avviato de un amminisrazione pubblica per avvicinae i cittadini; ecco a voi “milano semplice” se vi sembra che assomigli a “torino facile” (come qualcuno faceva notare) e’ cosi. Si tratta dell’idea di fornire al cittadino un’identità elettronica. Ma “Milan l’e’ gran milan” e quindi...
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