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Theresa Maggio

Sicily

Tough job

April 29, 2016
Tags: Palermo, crime, cops, police, crowd, encircle, prevent, capture, burglars, escape, shots, fired, air, gun, tough, job, support, mafia
La Repubblica uses static generic file photos of cars and building facades to illustrate stories for which they have no photos. Saves on costs.
From this morning's La Repubblica.

Residents of La Kalsa, the ancient Arab-founded neighborhood of old Palermo and several businessmen helped a burglar pursued by police to escape. The police were encircled by the crowd and the thief got away with 10,000 euros he and three others had just robbed from a market  Read More 
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Sicily show at the British Museum

April 25, 2016
Tags: sicily, Culture, conquest, British, museum, curated, island, Engand, history, multi-cultural, treasure
A stone Sicilian altar c525BC depicts a lion mauling a bull. Photograph: © Regione Siciliana. Click here to read story.
A great review in the The Guardian of the British Museum's show, Sicily: Culture and Conquest.
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The heart of Palermo: city hosts parents of wounded refugee Yusupha Susso

April 22, 2016
Tags: Yusupha Susso, Gambia, shot, head, parents, heart, Palermo, immigrants, boats, mediterranean, rescue, ships, Fear, drowning, trouble, Africa, sicily, Italy.
The Gambian parents of Yusupha Susso are greeted at the airport by Palermo Mayor Leoluca Orlando with a bouquet of flowers.
Remember my blog about Yusupha Susso, the young Gambian refugee in Palermo who was shot in the head by a mafioso who wanted to prove he owned the territory the young man and his friends were standing in? Yusupha survived after five days in an induced coma. He speaks five languages, is the son  Read More 
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Daily News has story of 500 disappeared African immigrants but uses a photo of WHITE people in trouble

April 20, 2016
Tags: immigrants, boats, mediterranean, rescue, ships, Fear, drowning, trouble, Africa, sicily, Italy.
The NY Daily News used a picture of white people to illustrate a story about African immigrants.
The caption says:
"Yannis Behrakis/REUTERS
Some 500 refugees, not shown, were feared dead after a shipwreck in the Mediterranean."

Why do you think the Daily News used a photo of white people in trouble at sea when the disappeared immigrants were all from African countries? There are plenty of file photos of black immigrants being saved.

Here is the story from the NY Daily News: Read More 
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Tragic rescue of African survivors today

April 18, 2016
Tags: immigrants, boats, mediterranean, rescue, ships, Fear, drowning, trouble, Africa, sicily, Italy.
Six dead bodies were at the bottom of this raft full of sub Saharan immigrants to Italy.
From the Giornale di Sicilia:
They said they left Libya on a rubber raft carrying 130-140 people. 108 f them were rescued by the Ship Aquarius of the SOS Mediterranean non profit group. Two drowned, six bodies were found on the bottom of the raft which had bent into a V shape, disabled, the motor  Read More 
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Alarm in the Mediterranean: 500 immigrants missing

April 18, 2016
Tags: immigrants, boats, mediterranean, rescue, ships, Fear, drowning, trouble, Africa, sicily, Italy.museum, brtish museum, artifact, current culture, european
Immigrants in trouble on the Med. Some 500 souls have been lost from a single boat that left Egypt three days ago.
There is a boat carrying 500 immigrant missing in the Mediterranean. The boat left Egypt three days ago and nothing has been heard of them since.
The alarm was given by the Rome-based Eritrean priest Musie Zerai, for years a reference point for immigrants who find themselves in trouble in the Mediterranean sea. A few of the  Read More 
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HUndreds more immigrants arrive Sicily today

April 17, 2016
Tags: immigrants, boats, mediterranean, rescue, ships, Fear, drowning, trouble, Africa, sicily, Italy.
Nearly 500 Immigrants arriving Siracusa today, some from Iraq and Syria
33 immigrants were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard near Noto. According to La Repubblica they were probably Iraqis, Syrians, Afghanis and Somalians who left Turkey four days ago on a merchant ship who were then made to get off the ship and onto a motorboat after midnight last night.
Meanwhile the ship Orion which took aboard 464 immigrants rescued in the Strait of Sicily n four separate rescue operations by the Orion (106) the ship Bettica (118), the motorboats Aquarius (116) and Gaz Victory (124) Read More 
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900 African immigrants arrived Sicily yesterday.

April 14, 2016
Tags: immigrants, boats, mediterranean, rescue, ships, Fear, drowning, trouble, Africa, sicily, Italy, suit jacket, bow tie, child, voyage, party, delusion
900 arrivals from Africa
It took all night to process the nearly 900 African immigrants saved from the Mediterranean Sea by the Norwegian ship Siem Pilot. Among them were 138 unaccompanied minors. Four people fell into the sea during the crossing, two were saved, two drowned. Story from La Repubblica.
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Update on Fra Biagio Conte

April 11, 2016
Tags: Fra Biagio, biagio conte, mission, Hope and Charity, protest, letter, Pope, president, Via Archrafi, sheds, promise, Palermo
Candlelight ceremony in Brancaccio, a poor, mafia-ridden section of Palermo before Fra Biagio sets off.
Fra Biagio Conte, the self-made brother who started a new religious order in Palermo to serve the poor, homeless and refugees, who feeds and houses a thousand people a day, is about to set off on a journey to Rome by foot, carrying a wooden cross, to see the pope about getting some support  Read More 
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Palermo's solidarity with wounded immigrant; mayor at head of protest march

April 9, 2016
Tags: immigrant, bulling, mafia, wounded, gunshots, The Gambia, Mayor, Leoluca Orlando, protest, racism, immigration, Africa, Palermo, sicilia, sicily, incident, March
Mayor Leoluca Orlando heads up a protest march in Ballaro` against racism and mafia-type bullying in his city. The banner says, "You cannot turn off the sun by shooting at it." They marched in the pouring rain.
A young man from Gambia was peacefully talking on a street corner with friends from his native Gambia when a mafioso-type jerk from the neighborhood came up to them and started insulting them. Usually, the immigrants will turn and run. But Yusupha Susso, a 21-year-old Gambian stuck up for himself and for his friends.  Read More 
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Yussupha plays

April 9, 2016
Tags: immigrant, bulling, mafia, wounded, gunshots, The Gambia, Mayor, Leoluca Orlando, protest, racism, immigration, Africa, Palermo, sicilia, sicily, incident, March, music, marimba, survivor, strong, noble, tradition, nomad
Yusupha plays. Click here for video of him playing an African instrument if the embed code did not work.
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