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News - 17 Luglio

When the Term “Italian American” Means the Worst of Both Worlds

It is no mystery that some segments of the Italian-American community share the rest of the nation's view of African-American's shortcomings as due to "moral flaws": their endemic laziness, the parasitism that makes them dependent on social welfare, the propensity to crime. Paradoxically, these are exactly the same vices that, in Italy, sum up the northern prejudices towards southerners which make up the majority of the Italian diaspora in America.

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News - 25 Giugno

Free Speech, Opinions and Ignorance. Where to Draw the Line?

With the right of free speech comes the duty of taking responsibility for what is said. The fact that we are free to express our own opinions doesn’t make these automatically right and true. In fact, what is an opinion? We all have the same rights and you can’t discriminate against an individual or a whole category of individuals on the basis of sex, religion, social class, disability or the color of their skin. The human being originated from primates (a gorilla’s evolution to be precise) between 7 and 5.8 million years ago and you know where? In Africa.

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News - 22 Giugno

My Reflections as a White Italian Woman on the Protests of Black People in the U.S.

For the first time, I heard the narrative of the struggle for civil rights in the United States from the side of the oppressed: when in the course of one's life, every other possible means has been explored, patiently and constantly, if the only way to make one's cry heard is to protest with force, then force it must be.

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News - 17 Giugno

In America’s “Novel”, Italian-Americans and Columbus Are “Cheated” and “Beaten”

In Italiano It’s almost like a Pirandello play: loves and hatreds, admiration and disdain for a similar situation, but seen from different points of view, simply to remind us that absolute truth does not exist. And this very sick America, angry and instigated, takes it out on its symbols, its memories, its past–but not with […]

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News - 12 Giugno

Megalomania and Greed: These Are Trump’s Calling Cards

The division that has rent this country in ways that feel unforgivable will have to be forgiven. The country is divided, but not geographically; our neighbors will still be our neighbors, our friends will (maybe) still be our friends. Our family will still be our family. We will all have to work together.

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News - 11 Giugno

My Children Explained to a Racist: a Mother Deals With Racism in Italy

"The only way is through empathy, putting yourself in someone else’s shoes – the foreigner that risks his life to save his children, or a child that returns silently home because his friend told him, ‘I can’t play with you anymore because you’re black’, and perhaps even replied, ‘I’m sorry’.”

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New York - 7 Giugno

Antifa, the American Movement with Italian Roots and the Same Enemy: Fascism

Unable to denounce the Constitutionally-granted right to peaceable assembly and free speech (although some have tried), the reactionary forces in America have constructed a straw man in Antifa. The Trump administration is now threatening to classify Antifa as a terrorist organization. Mussolini did the same with Carlo Roselli's Giustizia e Libertà...

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News - 6 Giugno

Covid-19 Pandemic, Racism and Riots: Is God Asleep at the Switch Or is He Angry?

The axiom not to discuss politics or religion is a boundary to which religions should not adhere. Particularly in this election year, it becomes imperative to be discussing which of the candidates might best lead our country. Christians are commanded to become workers for peace in our society. As Doctor Martin Luther King Junior encouraged, we all need to feel the fierce urgency of now. This is no time for apathy or complacency.

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News - 1 Giugno

America Burns? Long Live America, Its Cyclical History Remains in Motion

Shattered windows and stores looted even in New York? These acts of violence of a small group of people certainly don’t represent the entire protest movement, but we prefer to reserve most of our anger and outrage for George Floyd’s final words, “I can’t breathe, Mama help me!”: it is the echo of his final words that should make us nervous, not the sounds of shattered windows.

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English - 14 Febbraio

Are Racists Born or Raised? If You’re a Racist Don’t Blame It on Your DNA

Even if science tells us that we are hard-wired to one extent or another to mark differences and to judge those we meet, don’t blame your DNA if you’re a racist. Human beings are not slaves to their biological impulses, in the chain of life they are distinguished by their ability to reason and to control their behavior.

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