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Andrea De Lotto

Marina di Carrara, Open Arms: this is the captain speaking to you!

I’m in Marina di Carrara these summer days and I take the opportunity to try and meet the crew of the Open Arms, which is stopped in port by the decision of our government. Overcoming some difficulties and after an…

Open Arms, a nurse tells

Finally, I managed to get on the Open Arms, after the misadventures of the day before. I first meet the captain and then have a long chat with the nurse who is in her med-box taking inventory. We sit down…

Marina di Carrara, Open Arms blocked while people are dying at sea.

Why don’t we dare to say it? Better one migrant dead at sea than one more who disembarks. Period. But not having the courage to say this simple truth, they make some word games, even propeller games. Four or five…

Free Leonard Peltier, Racing Against Time

A year is always a year, but when you’re almost 79 and you’ve been locked up in a maximum security prison for 47 and a half years, time hangs really heavy. 26th of June was the 48th anniversary of the…

Leonard Peltier: native delegation from US to Europe for his release

From October 1 to 5, 2022, a delegation from the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee will be in Italy as part of a series of European meetings, which will culminate in a meeting at the UN in Geneva. The public…

The garrison of San Didero (Valsusa) named after Leonard Peltier

They had promised and they did it. At the end of a very touching event dedicated to Leonard Peltier that took place on June 24th at the garrison of San Didero, in the Susa Valley (Piedmont Region) from 30 years…

Free Leonard Peltier and all political prisoners, meetings to break the silence

On the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the Oglala events, which took place on June 26, 1975 in the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, numerous initiatives were held to remember the story of Leonard Peltier and demand his…

Collective murals from Chile to Italy. Interview with Eduardo “Mono” Carrasco

We had the opportunity to interview Eduardo “Mono” Carrasco, a famous Chilean muralist exiled in Italy since the military coup. He still lives in a small village in the province of Alessandria and, although held back by Covid, he is…

Hassana Aalia, the long struggle of the Saharawi people

On 8 November eleven years ago, the experience of 28 days of peaceful encampment in Gdeim Izik ended with the violence of the Moroccan army. We interviewed one of the young protagonists of that experience. I met Hassana Aalia a…

Moni Ovadia’s cry: Freedom for Leonard Peltier!

Following up on the recent campaign launched by the Centre for Peace in Viterbo, we asked the actor Moni Ovadia to make a statement in support of Leonard Peltier. We hope it will be the first in a series that…

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