Happy 25th April, Festa della Liberazione!
I will not comment on the fascist billboards appeared in Rome in these days. In several posts we discussed how different is the approach in Germany and in Italy to such initiatives. In Germany the perpetrators go to jail. In Italy they go to Parliament.
I’ll rather talk about the Festival delle Resistenze Contemporanee taking place in Bozen in between April 25th and May 1st:
La cornice di questo evento è quella che emerge dalla lettura sempre attuale dei principi fondamentali della nostra Costituzione.
Resistere è da sempre un pensiero e un agire caratterizzata dal coraggio civile di opporsi a fenomeni di ingiustizia e sopruso. Resistere implica il mettersi in gioco, l’andare controcorrente, il pensare liberamente e adoperarsi per superare le ingiustizie.
Per questo abbiamo voluto proporre una serie di incontri in piazza aperti a tutta la cittadinanza per promuovere la partecipazione attiva alla vita pubblica e per essere protagonisti consapevoli del futuro della nostra società.
Like Triest, Bozen is a land where memory of the 20th century is not being erased easily by the media and easy slogans. The poster is great, it hints to the cross-generation link. Once again, something which is actually cultivated in Germany, as our friend D. in Berlin tells us. A child during WWII, she is frequently invited in schools in order to communicate and share her memories with the teenagers.
ANPI since a few years focuses a lot on the cross-generational link. It’s not just old gentlemen meeting among themselves and going through their memories, they include more and more students in order to pass the message on. These women, these men who fought for freedom in Italy are getting older, it is important that their stories, the energy of those early post-war years is not going to be lost.
For this reason this year I will give my 5×1000 to ANPI, the national partisan association of Italy. Because when it comes to education, probably ANPI is the only one who defends our Constitution.
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