A War Fought With Weapons Of Mass Distraction

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In the era of social networks, politics has moved away from the piazza, instead flowing with the tide of the web and conditioning not only voting patterns through weapons of mass distraction, but even modes of thinking and the perception of reality. Migrants have become the enemy to be defeated by any means, and our […]

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Our Constitution Buried In Depths of the Mediterranean

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According to data gathered over the last month, nearly one thousand people have been killed by the political choices of Europe and Italy. People murdered by the choice to close the ports and appease a complicit electorate in order to hide the constant ills of politics and the inability to make the country ignite again, […]

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Sold For A Few Votes

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Last week was characterised by a small upturn in landings, with numbers that we haven’t seen for some time. The political situation in Libya and the instability of the regions in the global South – aside from the countless wars we are waging – are simply some of the causes that have seen more than […]

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It’s All Just Normal Procedure

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“We’re just following orders, we can’t make an exception, and these animals are liable to do anything. They’re so desperate they don’t have anything to lose. We can’t ask ourselves if it’s right or not, we’re paid to do this. We always see the same faces, they’re so desperate that they come back two or […]

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Free the Open Arms and the Iuventa: No One Should Be Sent Back to the Libyan Inferno

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Appeal from the Sicilian Antiracist groups. We want to break the silence and indifference in the face of the drowning of human rights. We call for demonstrations throughout Italy to demand the release of the humanitarian rescue ships the Open Arms and the Iuventa, and to submit the following appeal to the Prefectures: The ship […]

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Segregation in the Name of Security

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There are many ways to do away with someone, and the most underhand that our society uses is excluding people in the name of security. While we leave the alarm of ‘invasion’ to keep on playing like a broken record, we are sending people back to their torturers, whether they are Libyan militia or Turkish […]

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Not Everyone Has Something To Celebrate

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Even in the festive season we have the task of observing hypocritical statements, mere methods of saving face for our politicans, from Minniti to Gentiloni. At the same time, Italian politicies have been condemned numerous times in the space of a single months, first by the High Commission of the United Nations and then by […]

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A Dog Is Worth More Than A Black

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At Campobello di Mazara, a dog can be cured by a vet with the help of €2,000 from the local council, while at the same time, the money apparently cannot be found to guarantee some support – and a little dignity – for the 1,800 migrants who harvest our olives. This sliver of news found […]

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The New Slaves

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“A friend told me that I’d find work here, that I’d earn some money, given that I need to put something on the table for my wife and daughter, and I’d lost my job in Rome, where I’ve lived for many years now. They didn’t tell me that I’d be coming to a living hell.”

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The Difficulties of the Reception System in Trapani

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Requests for help have been coming in from people hosted in reception centres across Sicily, but over the past month such messages have been particularly concentrated in the province of Trapani. We understand this to be due to a number of factors, first and foremost the new contracts which have recently become active, and which […]

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