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The Grassroots of the Antimafia

Witnesses for justice

l. 45, 13/02/2001

1991: Piera Aiello and Rita Atria

26th July 1992: Rita Atria, a young witness in a mafia investigation, committed suicide a week after the Mafia killed the prosecutor Paolo Borsellino, with whom she had been working.

LEGALITY

AND JUSTICE

Giulio Andreotti

27th march 1993: The life senator Giulio Andreotti is investigated for his dangerous links with the organization called Cosa Nostra (face to face meetings with different mafiosi).

Giulio Andreotti

Whatever he did, he did too long ago to be prosecuted under Italian law (the crime fell due to statute-barred limitations).

The Tractor and the submersion strategy of the collctive brain

The Tractor

Bernardo Provenzano was wanted for murder since 10th september 1963.

Health, construction and waste management.

1995: he became the boss of the boss.

The achievement of Provenzano is to stem the flow of defectors from Cosa nostra, thanks to the Pax Mafiosa.

11th April 2006: he is arrested

13th July 2016: he died

17th March 2017: Toto Riina died.

List of most wanted fugitives in Italy

List of most wanted fugitives in Italy

Matteo Messina Denaro, wanted since 1993

Giovanni Motisi, wanted since 1998

The antimafia

The removal of the causes that constitute the strength of Cosa Nostra can only be accomplished by the restoration of faith in public administration. No influx of financial resources, however massive, will produce beneficial effects if the State and the institutions in general are not able and do not appear to be impartial holders and distributors of the trust necessary for the free and orderly progression of civil life. Otherwise the recourse to alternative organizations that ensure materialistic advantages will continue and the consensus around them, whether expressed or passive, will continue.

Paolo Borsellino, January 1989

THE ANTIMAFIA

WOMEN GROUPS

  • 1982, Giovanna Giaconia Terranova, Association of Sicilian Women against the Mafia.
  • Michela Buscemi, civil plaintiff for her brothers.
  • 22nd July the Association of Sicilian Women against the Mafia organized a three-day vigil and hunger strike in Palermo.

Giovanna and Cesare Terranova

Michela Buscemi

THE SHEETS COMMITTEE

  • Learn to do your duty, respect your environment and preserve it from vandalism and destruction.
  • Educate your children to legality, solidarity and tolerance.
  • At work: if you suspect bribery or corruption don’t hesitate to take
  • action, go to a judge if necessary. If you are a teacher take every chance
  • to talk about the Mafia and the harm it does. If you are a student,
  • insist on punctuality from your lecturers, report them if they are
  • absent and protest about favouritism.
  • If you are in business, and you receive strange offers of protection
  • or requests, turn to one of the anti-racketeering associations. If you’re
  • already paying, go to these associations as well.

THE SHEETS COMMITTEE

4. When dealing with public administration, insist on transparency. Don’t ask for favors but for your rights.

5. Always ask for a receipt from your doctor, mechanic or in a restaurant.

6. If you witness an attack, help the authorities with their inquiries.

7. Boycott Mafia business – explain to drug-takers that their behavior

is only doing the Mafia a favor; don’t buy contraband cigarettes.

8. Refuse to exchange votes for any type of favor.

9. Intervene to prevent young people from acquiring a Mafia mentality;

discover solidarity.

THE SHEETS COMMITTEES

THE CHURCH

  • In November 1981 Cardinal Pappalardo held a Catholic mass for all victims of the Mafia which was intended as an invitation to the city of Palermo to reject the Mafia in favor of pacification and non-violence.
  • Pope John Paul II became the first pope publicly to pronounce the word Mafia when he urged bishops to become involved in the struggle to overcome Sicily’s problems, and in particular in the mafia struggle.
  • 1992, Cardinal Pappalardo: ‘It is true that the mafiosi in our territory need to be educated and evangelized, but they must also be shaken up. [...] It is not a question of excommunicating them as some ask, but of finding them and bringing them to the truth.’

Father Puglisi and Father Diana

Father Puglisi and Father Diana

  • Father Giuseppe Puglisi ran a variety of cultural, social, recreational and sporting activities for young people from the ‘Our Father’ community centre, next to his church of San Gaetano in the Palermo district of Brancaccio.
  • September 1993: Cosa Nostra killed him.
  • Campania, March 1994 in Casal di Principe, near Caserta, Father Giuseppe Diana had angered local Camorra members by his refusal to celebrate the funeral of a crime boss, and was believed to be helping magistrates with their inquiries into local criminality.

Father Luigi Ciotti

  • 1966: He founded the Gruppo Abele;
  • In February 1993 Father Ciotti launched the publication Narcomafie in association with the Sicilian Documentation Centre in Palermo and two other associations, the Observatory on the Camorra in Naples and the Observatoire Géopolitique des Drogues in Paris;
  • Against the Mafia's "psychology of dependence";

Libera

‘Libera: Associations, names and numbers against the Mafias’ was set up in 1995 to coordinate the 600 antimafia associations that had grown up around the country and to organize initiatives at national level. The president of Libera is Father Luigi Ciotti.

LIBERA

One of Libera’s first actions was to take over coordination of the campaign for a law to allocate assets confiscated from organized criminals towards socially useful projects. Father Ciotti

persuaded 23 daily newspapers to publish an editorial appeal written by him asking for signatures, and the goal of one million signatures was reached. The law (109/96) came into force in March 1996;

Librino. An urban periphery

THE ANTIMAFIA OF THE RIGHTS

1970: Kenzo Tange's project for the periphery of Catania.

A satellite of the city close to the industrial area of Catania

The end result was very different from the project

Librino described by children

Briganti Rugby Librino

  • 23rd septembre 1995: some volunteers found a community center in an abandoned cellar. They dedicated the center to Iqbal Masih
  • 2006: one day they buy a rugby ball. Shortly after the found the rugby team I Briganti (Brigands)
  • 25th april 2012: they occupy and renovate an abandoned sports complex in Librino.
  • october 2014: they founded a popular library: la Librineria inside the Club House of the team.
  • 10th january 2018: the club house is burned.
  • The club house is reborn thanks to the initiative of volunteers and aid from around the world

R. Narzisi, I. Rinaldi, A try in Librino (2012)

Briganti

The Club house after the fire

GIOVANNA RAITI

  • Sister of Salvatore Raiti, carabiniere killed in the massacre of the ring road (16th June 1982) together with Silvano Franzolin and Luigi di Barca.

  • Antimafia activist.
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