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On October 13, the day of the solemn vote at the Assembly on the comprehensive law against sexual violence, a collective of feminist associations is calling on women to suspend their activities to mobilize and make their voices heard on this crucial issue. #LoiIntégrale #ViolencesSexuelles #MobilisationFéminine (translated)

In the federal parliament, several associations and unions oppose the bill on home visits, deemed dangerous and unnecessary, which challenges the inviolability of the home and could criminalize solidarity towards people without residence permits. #VisitesDomiciliaires #Solidarité #DroitsHumains (translated)

A new Climate March in Brussels, scheduled for October 11 under the slogan "everyone is going," will bring together associations and citizens to demand ambitious political actions in the face of global warming and its impacts, particularly on health, energy, and agriculture. #MarchePourLeClimat #RéchauffementClimatique #CoalitionClimat (translated)

The author announced that he would put an end to almost all agencies and other organizations that he deemed harmful. He also indicated a desire to reduce government spending, particularly those devoted to urban policy, associations unrelated to the general interest, and public development aid. https://t.co/q5sAHrIUhg #Économie #Politique #Réformes #None (translated)

"We want to put one last pressure, we want to push the deputies to vote on the text in its entirety, not to distort it," commented Anne-Cécile Mailfert from the Foundation for Women, one of the associations behind this mobilization. #ViolencesSexistes #Mobilisation #LoiIntégrale (translated)

The author stated that mutilating weapons and dangerous immobilization techniques were used against children. He added that the spokesperson for the ATTAC association, who is also a parent and a teacher, had launched a petition to ban them and called for people to sign it. (translated)

The author wrote that he had gathered at the Villa Masséna in front of the memorial for the victims of the July 14, 2016 attack, alongside associations of victims and the Acadèmia Nissarda. He indicated that an entire space of the Villa would be dedicated to them and that it would be inaugurated on a date specified in a link. https://t.co/l9MDv2uCs4 #Nice #Mémoire #Solidarité #FR (translated)

The author of the message indicated that associations and personalities concerned about the "lightning-fast" development of artificial intelligence were calling for demonstrations to demand the establishment of a citizens' convention. https://t.co/fiRC3DDfyP #IntelligenceArtificielle #Manifester #ConventionCitoyenne #FR (translated)

The author said Moldova was pursuing EU membership with determination and had made concrete progress on reforms. They wrote that €157 million had been released under the Growth Plan at the 10th Association Council to support roads, schools and job creation. https://t.co/l3RpyemXoM #Moldova #EUMembership #Reforms #MD #EU

CIVICO 33 — “ORTA NOVA SOUND LAB”: FROM CAPITANATA TO “BROADWAYWORLD”, THE “COMMUNITY BAND” PROJECT CONQUERS NEW YORK SOURCE: https://www.civico93.it/orta-nova-sound-laab-dalla-capitanata-a-broadwayworld-il-progetto-banda-di-comunita-conquista-new-york/ The social laboratory promoted by ANBG and the Ministry of Culture has landed on the world’s largest theatre network, thanks to the article co-authored by Chris Rabinowitz and the Orta Nova-born author Luciano Magaldi Sardella. There is a brass thread linking Piazza Mario Frasca to Broadway. It is called “Orta Nova Sound Lab” — the Community and Social Regeneration Band through Music — the project officially presented on 21 September last at the C-Lab MAO FM 19.77 of brothers Luca and Erminio Ferrandina, which is enjoying unprecedented media coverage for a band-cultural initiative born in the Province of Foggia. Its journalistic success was sealed on 28 September last by its arrival on BroadwayWorld, the world’s most authoritative portal dedicated to theatre and live performance, based in New York with over 1.5 million global monthly visits. A result that was by no means a foregone conclusion, which projects a story from the Apulian periphery into the international cultural news circuit. The article, entitled Orta Nova Sound Lab Launches Youth Community Band in Southern Italy, is jointly by-lined by New York editor Chris Rabinowitz, journalist for the American publication, and his Italian co-author Luciano Magaldi Sardella, an international author originally from Orta Nova, engineer, academic journalist, and researcher active between Italy and abroad. The dual Italo-American by-line symbolises how a “local good practice” can become global news when it is recounted with expertise and rootedness. The Project: The Band as Social Regeneration “Orta Nova Sound Lab” is promoted by the Associazione Nazionale Bande da Giro (ANBG), chaired by Benedetto Grillo, and was admitted for funding under the public call of the Ministry of Culture pursuant to Director General Decree of 7 April 2026, reg. no. 149, aimed at the “Strengthening of research activities and dissemination of musical practices in peripheries and in areas of high social vulnerability”. It is realized with the support of the Comune di Orta Nova and with the collaboration of a solid civic network: A.P.S. MAO FM 19.77, the Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “A. Olivetti”, the Istituto Comprensivo “Sandro Pertini”, the Music Art association, and the C.I.S.A. of Foggia. As BroadwayWorld itself emphasised, this is the first initiative in Italy to reinterpret the distinctive tradition of touring bands (bande da giro) and youth orchestras within a ministerial call dedicated to urban peripheries and social vulnerability. A model that dialogues explicitly with the spirit of the so-called “Caivano Decree” (Law Decree 123/2023) for combating youth distress, educational poverty, and juvenile crime. The idea, in its disarming simplicity, was summarised by the project director for ANBG, Antonella Spagnoletti: “The band is aggregation! The band is cohesion. Bringing these youngsters together, educating them, and enabling them to live in a manner different from the social-media world is among the primary objectives of our association.” A concept reiterated by the Mayor of Orta Nova, Eng. Domenico Di Vito: “This is an important project that can certainly make a difference compared with the past, because all the ingredients are there to network the entire cultural and social world that exists in Orta Nova and that must be valorised. The administration’s commitment is to ensure sustainability, structure, and continuity over time.” Taking part in the launch press conference, moderated by journalist Giuseppe Di Bisceglie, in addition to President Grillo, Director Spagnoletti, and Mayor Di Vito, were Regional Councillor Grazia Maria Starace, Councillor for relations with the third sector Sebastiano Battista, Councillor for Culture Vittoria Mastrogiacomo, and educational professor Alfredo Coppola, contact person for the Olivetti Institute. Why the Story Went International The “Orta Nova Sound Lab” band project demonstrates that when a project has anti-mafia roots, pedagogical value, and a credible institutional network, the press responds. From local and national titles such as Cassa Armonica, Ansa Puglia, TGNorba, Corriere della Sera Bari, RaiNews TGR Puglia, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, Amica9TV, Brindisi In, Blasting News Italia, TRM Network, Secolo XIX, FoggiaToday, PlayNews24, Stato Quotidiano, and many others, which thoroughly documented the conference, the coverage reached “Broadway World”, which read the Orta Nova experience as a “social laboratory” capable of answering the mafia with music. This change of scale derives from joint work and also from the liaison work carried out by Luciano Magaldi Sardella, who, together with New York editor Chris Rabinowitz, succeeded in translating for an Anglophone audience the profound meaning of a town band which, in Apulia, is not folklore, but a civil garrison, a concrete alternative to the screen and to social disintegration. In a South often narrated only for its emergencies, Orta Nova chooses to be recounted for its capacity to generate community. And this time, the news has travelled around the world, starting from a piazza in the Daunia. The Calendar The pathway, which is entirely free of charge, provides instrumental workshops for wind and percussion, ensemble music lessons, and collective rehearsals with qualified teachers and conductors, open to aspiring musicians, families, schools, and citizens. The programme that has attracted the attention of the national and now international press is structured as follows: October 2026: parade of marching bands through the streets and public spaces of Orta Nova, to recover the historic value of the band as a popular and identity-based expression. November–December 2026: high-profile concert season with the Gran Concerto Bandistico di Conversano and the Gran Concerto Bandistico “Biagio Abbate” Città di Bisceglie, an artistic training ground for young pupils. Inclusion Focus: a special evening dedicated to women in music with the Orchestra Note di Puglia, an ensemble composed entirely of professional women musicians, to reinforce the values of equal opportunities. January 2027: first official concert of the newborn Community Band of Orta Nova, a foundational act and public restitution of the work accomplished. (translated)

Mikaa Blugeon-Mered wrote that the president of the France-Algeria Association could not, in her opinion, criticize Algiers without risking the loss of stays and VIP receptions at the El Aurassi Hotel, which she described as the most upscale five-star hotel in the city. She described this situation as corruption. #Algérie #Corruption #Politique (translated)

Five people have been placed under investigation in France on suspicion of financing Hamas through humanitarian organizations, which they dispute, and three of them are under judicial control, according to the national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office. #Hamas #financementterroriste #justicefrançaise (translated)

Nathanaël Combary stated that he had received hundreds of insulting and threatening messages in recent hours in response to his commitment to high school students. He indicated that he was a member of Renaissance, a commitment he said he had never hidden. He recalled that Renouveau lycéen was founded in 2021 by young people from various parties, including LFI, NPA, LR, PS, and Renaissance, as well as by young people without political affiliation. According to him, its members gathered around a common charter and defended the success of students all over France, without requiring them to choose a political side. Combary specified that he had been a student since the start of the 2026 school year, but that he continued to represent high school students due to the lack of newly elected representatives. He explained that the leaders of high school organizations were usually renewed after the elections of the Student Life Councils, citing the presidents of the Union Syndicale Lycéenne and the association Les Lycéens! He also denied being a spokesperson for Minerva. He said he had started an internship there on August 31, 2026, but had ceased that activity before his first speech. Finally, Combary stated that he would continue to defend his convictions and the cause of high school students with the freedom allowed to him by Renouveau lycéen, contrary to what was happening, according to him, everywhere. #Lycéens #Engagement #Renaissance (translated)

Several thousand people gathered in Gaillon, in the Eure, to protest against the use of pesticides by joining the Syngenta factory in Saint-Pierre-la-Garenne, in a movement supported by associations and involving various professional sectors. #Pesticides #Manifestation #Agriculture (translated)

Manès Nadel expressed indignation that Renouveau Lycéen was disqualified on the grounds that its president was campaigning for Attal. He wrote that the association claimed to bring together high school students from all backgrounds, highlighting that its vice-president was campaigning for Retailleau. He also noted that the association came away delighted from its exchanges with the ministry. #Politique #Éducation #Lycéens (translated)