Andrea De Lotto

Several flash mobs have been held in Milan to denounce the genocide in Palestine, but one in particular has not only been repeated many times but has also been held by citizens in other Italian cities. The organizers were very…

What is 49 times 365? 17,885. It would be 17,885, but he also had 13 leap years… Leonard is still in prison. Biden signed on January 20, 15 minutes before leaving the president’s chair, but, you know, bureaucracy takes time.…

Men and women who have been thinking for months about what to do in response to this endless loss of life, respect, love, joy, and humanity. How to oppose, how to be heard, seen, how to put grains of sand…

Next June 10 is an important date for Leonard Peltier and for all the committees calling for his release. A committee in the U.S. may decide on house arrest because of his health condition; Leonard is almost 80 years old…

Saturday, March 9, 2024, 8 p.m., Teatro alla Scala. The contemporary ballet “Madina” is about to be performed. The theater is full, but strangely the orchestra is not in its “pit.” Darkness, silence. From the side of the still-closed curtain,…

Dear pilot of the Israeli army, We’ve never met; my name is Andrea, I am an elementary school teacher, and I live in Italy. Here on my side of the Mediterranean, we watch what happens on the other side as…

Leonard Peltier, a native american, member of the American Indian movement, accused in 1975 of having killed two FBI agents, was condemned to two life sentences without any proof. Since then, even the judges themselves have asked for him to…

This event had been launched a few days earlier by an international network that invited people to count down to New Year’s Eve by asking that the fire cease, by calling for a ceasefire in many squares. In Milan, they…

Piazza Santo Stefano, 4 pm on January 1st, on the occasion of the 57th World Day of Peace, called by the community of Sant’Egidio, at least 200 people arrive, a good part of them immigrants. They remember the violence in…

La Scala Theatre in Milan, Saturday, Dec. 23, 2 p.m., dress rehearsal for the Christmas concert. Orchestra and choir are “in plain clothes,” the audience is “popular,” no one has paid. Now and then the conductor stops the orchestra players,…