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V-day in 5 continents
V-day will be celebrated in all 5 continents with an awareness raising operation using flyers and then walks. - Barcelona (Spain) 14.00 hours (2:00pm) in front of the Italian Consulate.- Calgary (Canada) 15.00 hours (3:00pm) in front of the Italian Consulate.- Chicago (USA), 14.00 hours (2:00pm) in front of the Italian Consulate.- Dublin (Ireland) 14.00 hours (2:00pm) at the end of Grafton Street in front of St Stephen's Green shopping centre.- Las Palmas de Gran Canarie (Spain) [Walk], at 19.30 hours (7:30pm) starting at calle Leon y Castillo, in front of the Italian Consulate, and arriving at Piazza Cattedrale.- Lausanne (Switzerland) 14.00 hours (2:00pm) in front of the Italian Consulate.- Madrid(Spain) 18.00 hours in front of the Embassy in Madrid, Calle Lagasca, 98- Neuchtel (Switzerland) the morning in front of the Italian Consulate: 3, Faubourg de l'Hopital.- New York (USA) 11.30 hours (11:30am) Union Square- Oakland (USA) 18.00 hours (6:00pm) Fort PointMarine Drive...

Italys straightjacket
photo of HoudiniI suspect that Italy doesnt exist. That it is, as Metternich said, a geographic expression. A harlequin costume on a peninsula of people and cultures that are different from each other. A straightjacket that holds together a country recognised by the UN, but repudiated every day by its inhabitants. I suspect that from this dream, or nightmare, with eyes open, all our problems are born. Soviet communism wrote the history books for Polish, Czech, Latvian, Georgian and Ukrainian students. The same was done by Nazi-ism for the Germans, by Franco-ism for the Spanish, by fascism for the Italians. Text book, State truth, even now, in our schools.Was Italian unification an historical error? Perhaps not, but do we want to start talking about it after almost 150 years? The Bourbons were legitimate rulers. Naples one of the most flourishing capitals of Europe. Francis II loved by his subjects and the mafia hardly existed. Does someone still believe that the Savoys liberated...