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Theresa Maggio

Sicily

Doctors without borders temporarily suspends rescues of migrants at sea

August 12, 2017
Tags: immigrants, drowning, sicily, Africa, trouble, border, Europe, death, immigration, flow, people, Africans, rescue, doctors without borders, vos prudence
Doctors Without Borders temporarily suspends rescues due to Libyan aggression. Click to read the full story in English.
From the Guardian:
Doctors Without Borders has said that it is temporarily suspending the activity of its rescue ship owing to alleged threats from Libya. The Libyan coastguard has increasingly become more aggressive in patrolling the waters off its coasts where human traffickers launch boats crowded with migrants desperate to reach Europe.

The humanitarian group said the rescue coordination centre operated by Italy’s coastguard had informed it on Friday that the Libyan threats pose a security risk. The group added that Libyan authorities declared their own rescue area, extending into international waters, the same day. Read More 
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firefighter sets fires

August 12, 2017
Tags: arson, Fire, firefighter, arrested, blaze, burn, sicily, summer, heat, heat wave
Fifteen firefighters have been arrested in Sicily on suspicion of lighting fires. Click here to read the full story in The Guardian.
From The Guardian:
Fifteen volunteer firefighters have been arrested in Sicily on suspicion of starting wildfires and reporting non-existent blazes so they could earn €10 (£9) an hour for putting them out.

Police in Ragusa province, in the south of the Mediterranean island, said the fire department became suspicious when it emerged that the auxiliary brigade had responded to 120 incidents compared with just 40 tackled by other volunteer teams over the same period.

The brigade commander, a refrigeration technician identified as DDV, was deemed dangerous enough to be held under house arrest, the Ansa news agency reported, because he was suspected off continuing to start fires after others had stopped.

Most of the remaining team members, whose private phone calls were recorded as part of the investigation, have since admitted calling the 115 emergency number or getting friends or relatives to do so.  Read More 
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the boats left behind

August 11, 2017
Tags: immigrants, drowning, sicily, Africa, trouble, border, Europe, death, immigration, flow, people, Africans, rescue
Most of the immigrants arrive in Sicily from north Africa on flimsy rubber rafts. A few lucky ones arrive on 20-foot boats. They aim to land at night on nature reserves or tiny, unknown beaches. They escape, unseen. Many run to Palermo. They leave their old boats behind rocking in the waves.
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8 cadavers on a rubber raft

August 1, 2017
Tags: immigrants, drowning, sicily, Africa, trouble, border, Europe, death, immigration, flow, people, Africans, rescue
eight cadavers were on a rubber raft loaded with migrants in the Strait of Sicily.
Eight corpses were recovered from aboard a rubber raft full of migrants coming from Libya and headed towards Italy during a rescue operation.
From La Repubblica:
Five hundred migrants were rescued at sea in four operations today, according to the Italian Coast Guard.
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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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