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Here in Venice, being actively against the large cruise liners means doing much more than fighting an environmental battle.In this city, where street are waterways, fighting to protect the lagoon ecosystem means actively reclaiming our right to the city, defending public spaces and avoiding the destruction of a unique lifestyle, precious heritage for all.Standing Rock ... »

For more than a thousand years Venice has been the city symbol of the balance between Man and Nature; its magic comes from and lives in the extraordinary co-penetration of art and nature, stone and water, city and Lagoon.  This fragile equilibrium is seriously threatened by the industry of mass tourism, of which the mega cruise ships are one of the worst aspects: over-sized ... »

It was hard for our ears to get accustomed again to normal noises of a European city again. Back from the “four days of Hamburg”, it feels strange not to hear the never-ending roar of the helicopters in the sky, the earsplitting sirens of police and special forces vans, the screech of tires.A range of sounds usually not included into the daily life of a metropolis, but ... »

Rome, Porta San Paolo - h. 14.00 [Italian version]It's not difficult to see why people mistrust Europe nowadays. We don't even need to remind the crisis anymore. The whole set of international treaties which has shaped the EU founding project brought to the renouncement of the democratic pattern as the key of the political construction of Europe.The integration project began ... »

«To create networks we have to consider the technical difficulties of the net(work)»  some people  joke at the meeting’s table. Clearly there are some problems of connections: we’re talking about a global meeting about war that connects activists, intellectuals and journalists literally from every part of the globe, except Oceania (whose oceans have been, indeed, touch ... »

Aleppo’s horror is under everybody’s eyes. Another, maybe the greatest, humanitarian tragedy since the beginning of the Syrian conflict is taking place right now, while the international community isn’t reacting and thousands of people are trapped in that hell. The definitive conquer of the East part of the city, an important passage to the West and a commercial and ... »

Migrations are becoming day by day more relevant in the European political and socio-economic scenario. On the onehand, the EU  is managing the arrivals from outside the continent trying to stop them through criminal agreements with Erdogan's terrorist Turkey, as well as with many African dictators. These agreements endorsed by the neoliberal élites are also giving power to ... »

An illegal migrant for Turkey for each regular migrant in Europe. A country paid for the “disposal” of refugees towards the hell of war and persecutions, rewarded for the dirty work of illegal refuse with which they would close the entry to the European space. A human being market of the worth of 6 billions of euros. This is the core of the shame signed with the agreement ... »

There are over 1500 kilometers between the Brenner Pass and Idomeni. There is an history, far and close, that affects the deep distance between the core of Tirol and the stripe of land situated between the Balkans and the North-Western of the Mediterranean sea. But there is an history of borders and passages of people that connects these two places, like many others in Europe, ... »

Today more than 40 Italian activists from the Agire Nella Crisi network staged a flash mob and press conference in front of the Tyrolean Parliament. The activists presented the action planned on the next 3rd of April when hundreds of people will demonstrate at the Brenner, the Austrian-Italian border that the Austrian authorities would like to close to keep migrants out. What ... »