graduated in Philosophy (University of Padua), received a Ph.D. in European and Euro-American Political Studies (University of Turin), and is a scholar in the History of Political Thought. He is active in Italian and European social movements, from occupied social centers, to Genoa in 2001, to Blockupy Frankfurt in 2015, and NoG20 in Hamburg 2017. He was from 1997 to 2014 a city councillor and from 2001 to 2005 the deputy mayor for Social Affairs of Venice. He has been a fellow (2016) of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin and an advisor (2018) of Fondazione per l’Innovazione Urbana in Bologna. Since June 2018 he has been among the promoters of Mediterranea Saving Humans, an Italian civil society platform which manages a rescue ship (“Mare Jonio”) in the Central Mediterranean sea.
Mediterranea, a “non-governmental action” organized around a civilian monitoring and rescue ship in the central Mediterranean, is one of the most innovative initiatives deployed against the deaths of migrants at sea, in support of their freedom to move, and in defiance of the drastic policies deployed by the Italian government.
It was necessary to put in place a practice, capable of determining displacement and at least of alluding to an “offensive” move, beyond the necessarily defensive character of the resistance – why not buy a ship, put it at sea?
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