Follow the Money

A public debate titled Fake News: How to Combat It and Get Correct Information was staged on Saturday, February 5, 2001 in Turin, Italy, organised by the cooperative Generazioni Future and the Studenti Contro il Green Pass Torino collective, with the special participation of Enrica Perrucchietti and Ugo Mattei.

Benefit of Doubt

Professor Ugo Mattei, one of the founders of the “Commissione Du.Pre (Dubbio e Precauzione)” (“Doubt and Precaution Commission”), announced today from the stage at Piazza Castello in Turin, Italy — where a mass rally was taking place against the government’s authoritarian drift — the birth of the “National Liberation Committee”, which takes its name from the homonymous political umbrella organisation that channeled the Italian Resistance in the Second World War, and is likewise aimed at freeing the country from oppressors. Photo: la Repubblica Torino.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Professor Ugo Mattei, one of the founders of the “Commissione Du.Pre (Dubbio e Precauzione)” (“Doubt and Precaution Commission”), in an interview to Mariachiara Giacosa for la Repubblica of December 31, 2021, called the introduction of the super green pass on buses and trains “a further unconstitutional act: prohibiting access to essential services such as public transport to unvaccinated people means tarnishing the Article 3 of the Constitution and legality on the whole. Now it is time for the Resistance to rise up”. When asked what kind of resistance, Mattei responded, “For example, taking the bus refusing to show the pass, very similarly to what Rosa Parks did in Montgomery, Alabama”.

Rosa Parks with Martin Luther King Jr. in the background (ca. 1955). She is best known for the Montgomery bus boycott, which gained her worldwide recognition as an icon of African-American resistance to racial segregation. Courtesy of Ebony Magazine.