All Events and Initiatives || Year by Year

The "United States of the World" promoted the "International Volunteer Day" in various cities on 5 continents:
The president of the Commission "Volunteering and human rights" Giuseppe Lumia stated in his message:
“Modern volunteering is a concrete experience that deeply marks life. Heal ourselves from a thousand evils that often brutalize us: apathy, loneliness, boredom, selfishness, indifference. It also exalts the beautiful virtues that, digging, digging, we all have inside and that we often overlook: proximity, desire to do, gift, gratuity, dedication, altruism, ability to "emerge from difficulties together." Modern and organized volunteering is also the right experience to cure the ills of society which are unfortunately many: hatred, discrimination, violence, wars, inequalities, climate change, but also disengagement towards each other and towards the social and environmental context.
In fact, modern and organized volunteering promotes participation, sharing, planning, fraternity and relationships.
This is why modern and organized volunteering brings into play high democratic and political profiles in a participatory way that wants to remove the causes of the discomfort or marginalization to which we passionately dedicate ourselves.
My teacher and brotherly friend, Luciano Tavazza, has always testified: "not heroes, but citizens". That's no small thing, especially in these troubled times.
I recommend reading two books: "The city of joy", by Dominique Lapierre, whose disappearance we mourn today, and precisely "Not heroes, but citizens", by Luciano Tavazza.
I also remember the link to sign the appeal to the President of the Republic - prepared by the Luciano Tavazza association, connected to the "United States of the World" - to relaunch the role of organized volunteering".

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As every year, the President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Prof. Michele Capasso, addressed his End of the Year Message to all the peoples, taking stock of the activities carried out: in particular those related to the project of the UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD.
In the text, President Capasso retraced the essential stages of thirty years of activity at the head of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, characterised by what seemed to be a dream: the Constitution of the UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD, proposed by the Fondazione in 1990 by an intuition of Gustavo Rol, which in this year 2021 has been implemented with the involvement of many countries: from Tunisia to Kyrgyzstan, from Morocco to the United States of America.

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The President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, delivered the last message of his seven-year term on the unified networks, emphasising the "super partes" role of the President of the Republic.
"He said goodbye with an anti-rhetorical speech - said President Capasso in his commentary - a hymn to duties, to respect for the rules, but also to confidence in one's own means. We are what we do and in this difficult moment in the history of mankind - concluded Capasso - it is essential to assume ethical responsibilities towards young people and the weaker sections of society".

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Since March 2020, the Fondazione Mediterraneo has addressed - through seminars, webinars and international conferences - the development of the COVID 19 pandemic and its consequences for the future of humanity.
The assessments have been rigorous and validated by men and women of science from all over the world: free and unencumbered by any relationship with politics and with global companies producing vaccines or medicines related to COVID 19.
The resulting assessments, supported by logical analysis and irrefutable evidence, will be collected in a book that will be published when the pandemic is under full control.
The emergency and the discouragement palpable in these days - which should have concluded, at least in Italy, a year marked by more than 110,000,000 vaccinations - led the Foundation to organise an international seminar on this penultimate day of the year to understand exactly how things stand.
The result is the belief that the omicron variant could be a decisive step towards herd immunity and pandemic control. Many scientists, especially British ones, then argue that those vaccinated with more than two doses may risk immunodepression and consequences over time. This is borne out by a number of articles, including one in the Italian newspaper 'La Verità' published on 29 December 2021.
President Michele Capasso anticipated that high-level meetings between opposing parties would take place during 2022 to understand the various positions and arrive at the reconstruction of the scientific truth about the Covid 19 pandemic.

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A large number of visitors - in compliance with Covid 19 - links and contacts on the multimedia platform of the Museum of Peace - MAMT for the 40th anniversary of the death of the painter Mario Cortiello.
President Michele Capasso collected various testimonies and recalled his friendship with the painter Cortiello since 1970.
Mario Cortiello was in fact a long-standing friend of Michele Capasso who, at a young age and in his capacity as gallery owner, promoted his work with exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

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