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Theresa Maggio

Sicily

anti-immigrant ship hassled in Cyprus

July 28, 2017
Tags: immigrants, drowning, sicily, Africa, trouble, border, Europe, death, immigration, flow, people, Africans, rescue
The C Star was accused of harboring illegal immigrants. Click here to read the ful story in The Guardian.
The crew of a ship hired by a European far-right movement aiming to disrupt migrant rescues in the Mediterranean have reportedly been deported from Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus for alleged people-smuggling after 21 south Asians were found onboard.
The crew of the C-Star were taken off the vessel at the port of Famagusta, and appeared in court on Thursday, alongside the ship’s Swiss owner.
They were accused of preparing and circulating false documents, but were later released for lack of evidence. Read More 
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Original Mattanza on e bay, the second of fifteen copies

July 23, 2017
Tags: mattanza, first edition, first printing, author signed, personalized inscription, eBay, Favignana, book, first, nonfiction, giant bluefin tuna, fishermen, tonnaroti, tradition, gone, extinct, history
Benito Ventrone, buon'anima. Tonnaroto of Favignana. He always wore a half pound of gold around his neck.
I am selling fifteen copies of the original Mattanza book. The second copy is on sale now at ebay. Click on the link at right to go to it.
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Sit in at Catania port to protest racist group trying to disrupt rescues of migrants at sea

July 22, 2017
Tags: immigrants, drowning, sicily, Africa, trouble, border, Europe, death, immigration, flow, people, Africans, rescue, sit in, Catania
Sit-in at Catania port to protest the arrival of the fascist ship C Star. Click here to read the full story in Italian in La Repubblica.
From La Repubblica this morning:
The anti-racist non profit associations of Sicily are on the brink of "war." Today at Catania's port they protested against the idea of letting the ship C-Star dock there. The C Star is a ship rented by by the extreme right group Generazione Identitaria,
( Identity Generation), an extreme right multinational group formed in 2012 and made up of French, Italian and German members. Alfonso Di Stefano, representative of the Catania Anti-racist Network, said, " We are expressing our unconditional solidarity with the precious work that the humanitarian ships do and we will stand vigil in the port until the docking of the C-Star does not happen here nor anywhere in Sicily. We know that up until yesterday evening it was blocked in the port of Suez. It seems that it is going to leave or it has already left and it will take from five to six days to arrive here.
The C Star intends to lend support to the Libyan Coast Guard in its operations in which they stop vessels loaded with migrants and turn them back to Libya.
At the sit-in at the Catania port were thirty representatives of the non- profits that comprise the Network, who showed banners with the saying: "No more shipwrecks. The right to European refuge in order not to die," and Freedom, not Frontex," and " The right to asylum and humanitarian corridors." Read More 
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Sicilian mayor moves to block far-right plan to disrupt migrant rescues

July 21, 2017
Tags: immigrants, drowning, sicily, Africa, trouble, border, Europe, death, immigration, flow, people, Africans, rescue, Catania, Mayor, far right, block
Desperate immigrants swimming for their lives.
Sicilians feel empathy for people not of their race, true empathy.
From The Guardian today:
A Sicilian mayor is seeking to block a ship chartered by a group of far-right activists attempting to disrupt migrant rescues in the Mediterranean.

Enzo Bianco, the mayor of Catania, has urged authorities in the port city on the island’s east coast to deny docking rights to C-Star, a 40-metre vessel hired by Generation Identity, a movement made up of young, anti-Islam and anti-immigration activists from across Europe, for its sea mission to stop migrants entering Europe from Libya.

The ship is expected to arrive on Saturday, and the group intends to launch its mission next week. Read More 
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Nothing to do with palermo

July 21, 2017
Tags: denmark, capitalism, socialism, Happiness, Bernie Sanders, ideal, 2020, wish, president, change, Revolution, yes we can
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25th anniversary of Mafia/State murder of Paolo Borsellino

July 19, 2017
Tags: Paolo Borsellino, judge, investigator, anti-mafia, assassination, escorts, 25th anniversary, mafia, state, people, sorrow, Grief, Hero, martyr, honest
Cardboard cututs of Borsellino and fellow victims on the balcony of his mother's apartment in Via D'Amelio, Palermo
After the church bells tolled, after the minute of silence at 4:58 p.m., the moment the car bomb exploded twenty-five years before, the assassinated Judge Paolo Borsellino's brother read the names of the victims:
Paolo Borsellino
Agostino Catalano
Emanuela Loi
Walter Eddiee Cosina
Claudio Traina
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Temporary humanitarian visas

July 19, 2017
Tags: immigrants, drowning, sicily, Africa, trouble, border, Europe, death, immigration, flow, people, Africans, rescue
Austria would close its border. Click here to read the story in The Guardian.
From The Guardian:
Italy has confirmed it is considering issuing temporary humanitarian visas that would allow tens of thousands of migrants who have arrived in the country from Libya to travel around the European Union.

The move would provoke an immediate Austrian response, including the closure of the border with Italy at the Brenner Pass.
Austrian troops to stop migrants crossing border with Italy
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The chances of Italy being able legally to grant unilateral humanitarian visas in this way is slight, but the threat is intended to concentrate minds in the EU after Italy failed to win clear practical support from Germany and France to take more people that have been arriving in increasing numbers from Libya. Read More 
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mafia profits from immigrants' suffering

July 18, 2017
Tags: migrants, mafia, Suffering
Immigrants starve while priest and mafia feast. Click here to rad the full story in the NYT.
From the New York Times:
ISOLA DI CAPO RIZZUTO, Italy — The government provided millions of euros to care for the migrants who had arrived at the reception center at Italy’s toe after traveling across deserts, war zones or choppy seas. But on many days, they were served little more than rancid chicken. Some did not eat at all when the food ran out.

At the same time, the priest who founded the local branch of the charity managing the center was spending money on expensive hotels and restaurants, splurging on fine wines and stashing thousands of euros in three safes at home, the authorities say. His business partners — mobsters and their associates — outfitted their bathtubs with golden taps. Some hid thousands of euros in vacuum-sealed plastic bags tucked in their fireplaces. Read More 
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Sicilians offer swimming, diving lessons to refugees traumatized by their sea crossing

July 16, 2017
Tags: trauma, Fear, water, swim, scuba, dive, immigrants, sicilians, warm, heart, empathy, compassion, refugees, crossing, mediterranean
Diving lessons in Messina, Sicily for two immigrants. Click here to read the story in the Wa Po.
From the Washington Post:
By Michael Birnbaum July 15 at 7:12 PM
MESSINA, Italy — Abdoulie Jallow lives on the Sicilian coast, but until recently, looking at the Mediterranean Sea filled him with dread.
The azure water reminded the 17-year-old Gambian of his journey from Libya last year, a middle-of-the-night departure on an overcrowded dinghy in which he had to abandon himself to his faith in God. Read More 
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slideshow of the Feast of Santa Rosalia

July 15, 2017
Tags: santa rosalia, Palermo, patroness, Protector, photos, procesion, feast, 2017
In one of the side streets off Corso Vittrio Emanuele across from the cathedral. Click here to see the slidshow in La Repubblica.
Here is a slideshow of the Festino from Igor Petyx of the newspaper La Repubblica. Click on the photo caption to see it.
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7300 rescued immigrants to arrive southern Italy tomorrow

July 13, 2017
Tags: immigrants, drowning, sicily, Africa, trouble, border, Europe, death, immigration, flow, people, Africans, rescue
Rescued immigrant landing on Italian soil.
From La Repubblica Palermo online today:
Seven- thousand- three- hundred immigrants rescued in the Strait of Sicily in the last 48 hours will disembark from ten rescue ships tomorrow in Sicily, Campania and Puglia, Italy's southern provinces.
This morning another 386 reached the Sicilian port of Trapani, including 71 children and 55 women, ten of whom are pregnant.

According to the latest data from Frontex, the European Union's border police, in June 24,800 migrants crossed the Mediterranean Sea, with an increase of eight percent over the previous month of May. And that number is 21 percent higher than the same period of last year. In the first six months of 2017, 166,000 migrants crossed the sea to reach the European Union. Read More 
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