Showing posts with label Roberto Saviano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roberto Saviano. Show all posts

Saturday, October 31, 2020

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Italian writer Roberto Saviano will talk about why Italian people are rallying around everywhere in the country on Sunday, November 1, 2020 at L’Espresso online — offering a narrative diametrically opposed to the mainstream media’s accounts: “Just stop with the rhetoric of a working health system. Stop denying social injustice. Stop enforcing political consensus through anti-virus laws”. For further details and access to it please go to https://espresso.repubblica.it/.

Saturday, August 8, 2020

An Officer and a Gentlewoman


Italian writer Roberto Saviano, through the columns of la Repubblica, asked the Chief of the Staff of the Italian Navy not to adopt disciplinary measures against the female lieutenant who, at the oath-taking ceremony in the Italian Navy’s NCO School of Taranto, improvised a choreography on the notes of Master KG’s hit Jerusalema, dragging the soldiers into the dance. “I ask Commander Giuseppe Cavo Dragone to deny rumours of disciplinary measures, because that dance in the barracks powerfully showed the soldiers’ humanity. The lady officer is deserving of praise rather than of blame”, Saviano said.

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

The Saga of the Aryan Dwarfs

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/19/italy-war-migrants-fear-civil-rights
The wave of hatred whipped up against Africans who haven’t yet even set foot in the country is being visited on the migrants who are already living here. Italians are going backwards, socially, amid an upsurge of nationalism that displays racist animus against anything perceived to be an alien body. [Read more].