Emma Bonino passed away today. A lifetime spent fighting for rights, for the dignity of people, for a Europe worthy of its ideals. Radical, secular, a free woman, with that rare freedom of someone who has never stopped choosing which side to be on. (translated)
Today at the Treccani Culture Foundation the Salvador Allende Award. On September 11, 1973, the Chilean armed forces overthrew the government democratically elected by Allende, who died defending the freedom of his country. Together with Rodrigo Diaz, honored to award Joan Manuel Serrat. (translated)
"There is something that remains constantly unchanged and it is the complex of values that give meaning to life and the human condition: the dignity of the person, the common good, respect for others, the responsibility towards those we live with." (translated)
"Talk about the mafia. Talk about it on the radio, on television, in the newspapers. But talk about it." July 19, 1992. 34 years ago Borsellino and his escort were assassinated by those who thought that killing a man meant killing his ideas. Those words still ask us for something. (translated)
250 years ago Jefferson signed the Declaration of Independence. "All men are created equal. From this equality derive inalienable rights: life, liberty, happiness." Words to found the USA, values that the world should still confront today. (translated)
#MarcBloch entered the Panthéon yesterday. Historian, resistor, shot by the Nazis. "The Apology of History" opens with a question: "Dad, what is the use of history?". That book shaped me. When I ask myself why culture matters, I still find part of the answer there. (translated)
In the West Bank, Israeli settlers have occupied a Roman site in the Jordan Valley, filling it with water taken from Palestinians to make it the "Herod's pool," supported by the far-right minister Eliyahu. UNESCO protests have been ignored by the Israeli government. (translated)
Thirty years of research to collect music composed in concentration camps on notebooks, burlap, postcards, or remembered on trains to unknown destinations. Preserving them means granting the writer an inheritance that no violence has been able to erase… (translated)
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