In France, the opposition to megadata center projects has intensified since 2025, mobilizing citizen collectives and environmental associations in response to the environmental and social impacts of these large-scale developments. (translated)
Retirees, often involved in associations and supporting their families, express their indignation at government measures that target them as being affluent, while they feel devalued and humiliated. (translated)
The end of free school meals has led to a 68% decrease in access to hot meals in disadvantaged schools in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, according to two associations that are calling for urgent refinancing of these services. (translated)
“ORTA NOVA SOUND LAB” FROM ORTA NOVA (PUGLIA) ON “BROADWAY WORLD,” NEW YORK, by LUCIANO MAGALDI SARDELLA SOURCE: https://www.broadwayworld.com/italy/article/Orta-Nova-Sound-Lab-Launches-Youth-Community-Band-in-Southern-Italy-20260928?fbclid=IwY2xjawUnzKtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMHZzU2xWWTdTNU5UMDFNY1lzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeKFYDfacdBYHnYGZu4M9ZmxOT_wnVa7M53_p_1yfAmpSZSvn3ZDHF-BXqMr4_aem_Jd46xeSFwcUn5qapLvtu8w “Orta Nova Sound Lab Launches Youth Community Band in Southern Italy” The season includes free training with instrumental workshops for winds and percussion, ensemble lessons, and more. By: Chloe Rabinowitz ‘Orta Nova Sound Lab’, a new community music project in Puglia, southern Italy, is creating a brand-new youth-driven community band through free instrumental training, ensemble workshops and a season of live performances. Promoted by the ‘Associazione Nazionale Bande da Giro (ANBG)’ and funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture, it reimagines the brass band tradition as a tool for inclusion, cultural growth and social regeneration. Since the Italian government’s 2023 “Caivano Decree” (Decree-Law 123/2023), which targeted youth distress, educational poverty and juvenile crime, attention has turned to communities in Southern Italy where culture, education and public space can be rebuilt together. Orta Nova, in the Puglia region, is part of that broader conversation as ‘Orta Nova Sound Lab’ replying to local Mafia with music: a “social laboratory” that connects young people, schools, associations and institutions around a shared, tangible goal, a band of their own. It is the first initiative of its kind in Italy, to repurpose the distinctive tradition of the ‘touring brass bands’ and youth orchestra within a ministerial call devoted to urban peripheries and social vulnerability. Its explicit aim is to offer young people a real alternative to the screen and to the youth disenfranchisement associated with the anti-mafia “Caivano model”. The project was presented on September 21 at Luca ed Erminio Ferrandina C-Lab MAO facility and is funded under the Ministry of Culture’s public call for the promotion of musical practices in suburban and socially Mafia-rooted vulnerable areas, and it is supported by the Municipality of Orta Nova. Project partners include the cultural association APS MAO FM 19.77, the “A. Olivetti” secondary school, the “Sandro Pertini” comprehensive school, the Music Art association and C.I.S.A. Foggia. At the heart of the project is a simple idea: give young people a reason to be together, in person, making something real. “A music band is aggregation!,” said Antonella Spagnoletti, ANBG project director. She explained that the band means cohesion, and that bringing young people together to train and live differently from the social-media world is among the association’s primary goals. Mayor Domenico Di Vito called it an important project that can make a real difference, with all the ingredients to connect the town’s cultural and social networks with anti-mafia roots. He added that the administration is committed to making the initiative sustainable, structured and lasting. The presentation also involved Benedetto Grillo, president of ANBG; Grazia Maria Starace, regional councillor; Sebastiano Battista, councillor for relations with third-sector organizations; Vittoria Mastrogiacomo, councillor for culture; and Alfredo Coppola, representing the Olivetti school. Journalist Giuseppe Di Bisceglie moderated. The season ahead: Free training: instrumental workshops for winds and percussion, ensemble lessons and rehearsals led by qualified teachers and conductors, open to aspiring musicians, families, schools and citizens. October: a parade of marching bands and youth orchestra through the streets of Orta Nova, Puglia, southern Italy. November-December: concerts by the Gran Concerto Bandistico di Conversano and the Gran Concerto Bandistico “Biagio Abbate” of Bisceglie, giving the young musicians a chance to learn from professional ensembles. A special evening of women’s music with the all-female Orchestra Note di Puglia, reinforcing the project’s values of inclusion and equal opportunity. January 2027: the first concert of the new Orta Nova community band. In particular, ‘Orta Nova Sound Lab (Community Band and Social Regeneration through Music)’ is a project of the ‘Associazione Nazionale Bande da Giro (ANBG),’ a national association of bands active across south-Italians regions like Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise and Puglia. Funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture and supported by the Municipality of Orta Nova, it offers free music education and live performance opportunities to strengthen inclusion, cultural growth and community cohesion.
“ORTA NOVA SOUND LAB” DA ORTA NOVA (PUGLIA) SUL “BROADWAY WORLD” DI NEW YORK by LUCIANO MAGALDI SARDELLA SOURCE: https://www.broadwayworld.com/italy/article/Orta-Nova-Sound-Lab-Launches-Youth-Community-Band-in-Southern-Italy-20260928?fbclid=IwY2xjawUnzKtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMHZzU2xWWTdTNU5UMDFNY1lzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeKFYDfacdBYHnYGZu4M9ZmxOT_wnVa7M53_p_1yfAmpSZSvn3ZDHF-BXqMr4_aem_Jd46xeSFwcUn5qapLvtu8w “Orta Nova Sound Lab Launches Youth Community Band in Southern Italy” The season includes free training with instrumental workshops for winds and percussion, ensemble lessons, and more. By: Chloe Rabinowitz ‘Orta Nova Sound Lab’, a new community music project in Puglia, southern Italy, is creating a brand-new youth-driven community band through free instrumental training, ensemble workshops and a season of live performances. Promoted by the ‘Associazione Nazionale Bande da Giro (ANBG)’ and funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture, it reimagines the brass band tradition as a tool for inclusion, cultural growth and social regeneration. Since the Italian government’s 2023 “Caivano Decree” (Decree-Law 123/2023), which targeted youth distress, educational poverty and juvenile crime, attention has turned to communities in Southern Italy where culture, education and public space can be rebuilt together. Orta Nova, in the Puglia region, is part of that broader conversation as ‘Orta Nova Sound Lab’ replying to local Mafia with music: a “social laboratory” that connects young people, schools, associations and institutions around a shared, tangible goal, a band of their own. It is the first initiative of its kind in Italy, to repurpose the distinctive tradition of the ‘touring brass bands’ and youth orchestra within a ministerial call devoted to urban peripheries and social vulnerability. Its explicit aim is to offer young people a real alternative to the screen and to the youth disenfranchisement associated with the anti-mafia “Caivano model”. The project was presented on September 21 at Luca ed Erminio Ferrandina C-Lab MAO facility and is funded under the Ministry of Culture’s public call for the promotion of musical practices in suburban and socially Mafia-rooted vulnerable areas, and it is supported by the Municipality of Orta Nova. Project partners include the cultural association APS MAO FM 19.77, the “A. Olivetti” secondary school, the “Sandro Pertini” comprehensive school, the Music Art association and C.I.S.A. Foggia. At the heart of the project is a simple idea: give young people a reason to be together, in person, making something real. “A music band is aggregation!,” said Antonella Spagnoletti, ANBG project director. She explained that the band means cohesion, and that bringing young people together to train and live differently from the social-media world is among the association’s primary goals. Mayor Domenico Di Vito called it an important project that can make a real difference, with all the ingredients to connect the town’s cultural and social networks with anti-mafia roots. He added that the administration is committed to making the initiative sustainable, structured and lasting. The presentation also involved Benedetto Grillo, president of ANBG; Grazia Maria Starace, regional councillor; Sebastiano Battista, councillor for relations with third-sector organizations; Vittoria Mastrogiacomo, councillor for culture; and Alfredo Coppola, representing the Olivetti school. Journalist Giuseppe Di Bisceglie moderated. The season ahead: Free training: instrumental workshops for winds and percussion, ensemble lessons and rehearsals led by qualified teachers and conductors, open to aspiring musicians, families, schools and citizens. October: a parade of marching bands and youth orchestra through the streets of Orta Nova, Puglia, southern Italy. November-December: concerts by the Gran Concerto Bandistico di Conversano and the Gran Concerto Bandistico “Biagio Abbate” of Bisceglie, giving the young musicians a chance to learn from professional ensembles. A special evening of women’s music with the all-female Orchestra Note di Puglia, reinforcing the project’s values of inclusion and equal opportunity. January 2027: the first concert of the new Orta Nova community band. In particular, ‘Orta Nova Sound Lab (Community Band and Social Regeneration through Music)’ is a project of the ‘Associazione Nazionale Bande da Giro (ANBG),’ a national association of bands active across south-Italians regions like Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise and Puglia. Funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture and supported by the Municipality of Orta Nova, it offers free music education and live performance opportunities to strengthen inclusion, cultural growth and community cohesion.
⚡️🇫🇷FLASH - En croisade contre la gauche, Kristell #Niasme, maire #LR de Villeneuve-Saint-Georges et proche de Bruno #Retailleau, vient d’interdire la distribution de #tracts dans sa ville. Depuis son élection, elle a aussi fait supprimer les panneaux d’#expression libre. Dans la ville la plus pauvre du Val-de-Marne, la maire de droite a aussi privé de subventions des associations #caritatives locales, dont le Secours populaire, rapportait récemment Le Canard enchaîné. Celle qui préside l’« Observatoire des villes #LFI », créé par Retailleau, est « une grande démocrate », raille l’insoumis Manuel #Bompard sur X… #Politique #France #Liberté
Aujourd’hui, les femmes victimes de violences doivent encore se déplacer entre plusieurs structures. À la Villa Paradiso, nous réunirons Pass’R’Elles, des associations spécialisées, une structure médicale du CHU et une douzaine de chambres d’hébergement temporaire. Un véritable https://t.co/tsoRFoKK1F #ViolencesFaitesAuxFemmes #Solidarité #HébergementTemporaires #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #theresponseis:
Plus d'un demi-million de personnes en Belgique dépendent de l'aide alimentaire, alors que les associations dénoncent une réduction des financements publics et appellent à un rassemblement à Bruxelles pour sensibiliser à la crise de la précarité alimentaire. #AideAlimentaire #Pauvreté #Mobilisation
Après avoir été écarté des concerts d'Ed Sheeran pour ses déclarations en faveur de la Palestine, le rappeur Macklemore a annoncé l'organisation de sa propre tournée Free Palestine en Europe, dont les bénéfices seront reversés à des associations pro-palestiniennes. #FreePalestine #Macklemore #Concerts
Après avoir été écarté des concerts d'Ed Sheeran pour ses propos en faveur des Palestiniens, Macklemore annonce sa propre tournée Free Palestine en Europe, dont les bénéfices seront reversés à des associations pro-palestiniennes. #FreePalestine #Macklemore #EdSheeran
Ecarté des concerts d'Ed Sheeran en raison de ses prises de position pro-palestiniennes, Macklemore a annoncé une tournée intitulée « Free Palestine Tour », avec des dates prévues à Londres, Paris et Dublin, dont les bénéfices seront reversés à des associations pro-palestiniennes. #FreePalestine #Macklemore #EdSheeran
Les propos de Ségolène Royal sur le conflit à Gaza, suggérant que davantage de voix israéliennes et juives devraient se faire entendre pour dénoncer la situation, ont suscité l'indignation d'associations juives qui les jugent moralement et politiquement inacceptables. #SégolèneRoyal #Antisémitisme #Élections2027
Ségolène Royal a suscité l'indignation des associations juives en déclarant qu'il est nécessaire que plus de voix israéliennes et juives se prononcent sur le conflit à Gaza pour combattre l'antisémitisme, ce qui a été perçu comme une injonction inacceptable. #SégolèneRoyal #Antisémitisme #Politique
Des associations expriment leurs inquiétudes quant à une possible sous-qualification des agressions sexistes et sexuelles dans un contexte médical, en raison d'un article de la proposition de loi intégrale qui prévoit des peines moins sévères pour ces infractions. #ViolencesSexistes #AgressionsSexuelles #Consentement
Les associations anti-sida expriment leur inquiétude face à l'absence d'une campagne de prévention cette année, malgré les dénégations du ministère de la Santé, qui affirme que la campagne ne figurait pas parmi ses priorités. #VIH #Sida #Prévention
Les associations de cyclistes à Paris expriment leur colère et leur frustration après la mort d'une cycliste renversée par un camion, dénonçant l'inefficacité des aménagements routiers et appelant à des mesures de sécurité urgentes pour protéger les usagers vulnérables. #SécuritéRoutière #Vélo #Paris
Je proposerai que le Conseil (de la Fifa, ndlr) organise une consultation directe, structurée et limitée dans le temps avec les confédérations, les associations membres et les parties prenantes concernées sur la manière de renforcer encore les processus décisionnels de la Fifa
⚡️🇫🇷INFO - 6 mois de #RN à #Carcassonne : drapeau européen retiré de la mairie, arrêté antimendicité, tenues « indécentes » réglementées, « libération de la parole raciste », communication pour l’Assomption, retour de la fête du Cochon, coupes dans la culture et pressions sur les associations et les syndicats... (Médiacités) https://t.co/W9kfBU8Pr6 #Carcassonne #Politique #France
« Je proposerai que le Conseil organise une consultation directe, structurée et limitée dans le temps avec les confédérations, les associations membres et les parties prenantes concernées sur la manière de renforcer encore les processus décisionnels de la Fifa »
Le Pays basque et le groupe Suez ont été mis en examen au tribunal de Bayonne pour des soupçons de rejets illicites d’eaux usées dans l’océan depuis 2017, suite à des plaintes d’associations environnementales et de pêcheurs. #EauxUsées #Pollution #PaysBasque
