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TRAGEDY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA: THE CALL OF THE FONDAZIONE

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Napoli | 19 April 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Totem for Peace

The foreseen tragedy happened in the Mediterranean, which caused the death of more than 700 people who are going to be added to an already long list, has been the topic faced by an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Fondazione Mediterraneo, which is engaged for 25 years in actions of solidarity and peace and which always focused the attention on the migrants problems and the need of a more concrete involvement  by international organs.
This action was already suggested in Lampedusa in 2013, with a promise to Francis Pope: give back dignity to all the people who risk their lives searching for freedom and peace.
The “Monument with the urn of Unknown Migrant”, installed in Naples , is a sign of awareness toward these topics.
The members of the Fondazione made an appeal to President Renzi and European leaders.
The text of the appeal is:
“The bodies without life floating in the sea before our eyes must upset our consciences. These 700 people dead today (the more important tragedy for number of people dead) are going to be added to the thousand of migrants missed in the last years, to the millions of people transferred or exiled in search of dignity and peace: "urbancide" and "memorycide" are perpetrated in so many villages; many lives have been lost forever.
Human sufference mustn’t be replied by words as “I don’t care”: the globalization of indifference, the deny of solidarity, the euthanasia of hope, the dead of brotherhood shouldn’t be part of our culture, because these things kill more than the massacres. The international community should take awareness of the existence of a new nation: that one of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers.
A state without territory, without government, rules, rather a state made by people who need to have a safeguard dignity. Such dignity has been trampled on, annulled, humiliated by wars and desperation.
The protagonists of this Calvary so often don’t have name: there are so many Ahmed, Najlaa, Sumaya, Omar, Mohammed, Abdullah, Fatima and more and more, coming from  different countries and trying to run away from wars, attacks, injustices, hunger, epidemics, human miseries…
Brutality and barbarism shouldn’t be fed by indifference, idleness and negligence.
Let’s throw once again a bottle in our sea, with a common appeal addressed to the remains of our human conscience and we are addressing to You, Leaders of the Europe and the World, a warm appeal: YOU MUST ACT, even if you have not to take in account “Bureaucracy”, in order to set up a strong and clear action which could  aiming at

  1. The organization of an European meeting including also Onu in order to find solutions to stop the death  who transformed Our Sea in a cemetery, also through an European migration law based upon rights and duties and upon the number of migrants in Europe and not only in Italy
  2. The creation of  reception centres in transit territories
  3. The resolution of Libyan situation with a program of country stabilization
  4. The promotion of bilateral agreements between concerned countries

 

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MEDITERRANEAN PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY PAID HOMAGE TO TOTEM OF PEACE WITH THE URN OF UNKNOWN MIGRANT

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Napoli | 11 April 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Totem for Peace

Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (APM) – which under its sphere gathers together the Parliaments of 28 countries of Mediterranean area – paid homage to “Totem of Peace” with the urn of “Unknown Migrant”.
APM General Secretary Sergio Piazzi, during the ceremony deposited in the urn the Participation Statement and High Patronage which was shared unanimously by the Assembly.
In behalf of Parliamentarians from 28 countries the General Secretary expressed the approval for the choise of the Totem location “of high symbolic value because, in the last century, from the same place in front of Naples Maritime Station, millions of people left searching for a brighter future.”
Fondazione Mediterraneo and Port Captaincy – Coast Guard, deposited the urn with the remains of Unknown Migrants on 21 March 2015, day which since several years is dedicated to APM and Mediterranean.
The 28 red flowers which General Secretary Piazzi deposited in the urn are from greenhouses cultivated by migrants and located in terrains got back from the organized criminality.

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ARCHITECTS, TOWN PLANNERS, NOBEL PRIZES AND EXPONENTS OF CULTURAL AND CIVIL SOCIETY WORLD SUPPORT THE TOTEM OF PEACE WITH THE URN OF UNKNOWN MIGRANT.

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Napoli | 07 April 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Totem for Peace

The "Totem of Peace with the urn of Unknown Migrant" – installed in Naples Port in the occasion of 150° anniversary of Port Captaincy – Coast Guard- has been praised not only by public and tourists of cruises, but got also the approval of architects, town planners, Nobel prizes and exponents of cultural and civil society’s world.

ALGERIAN AND TUNISIAN MOTHERS WHO JOINED THE TUNIS WORLD SOCIAL FORUM PRAISED THE TOTEM OF PEACE DEDICATED TO UNKNOWN MIGRANT

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Tunisi | 27 March 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Totem for Peace

Tunisian and Algerian mothers who joined the Tunis Forum really appreciated the efforts made by Fondazione Mediterraneo in order to give back dignity to migrants who lost their lives in the sea. In particular, the installation in Naples of the “Totem of Peace with the urn of Unknown Migrant” has been praised. The president Michele Capasso, who is engaged for 25 years in the support of solidarity and peace, has declared:

“The Totem of Peace with the urn of Unknown Migrant installed in Naples Port intends to be concrete proof of respect both towards people dead in the sea and Captain Port- Guard Coast which is engaged in the rescue of human beings. The support of Algerian and Tunisian mothers is the proof which the undertaken issue is deserved homage to whom who through the loss of their lives take the attention of the world back to the issues of liberty, freedom and peace”. The topic of migrants dead in the sea has been one of the most important ones discussed at Tunis World Social Forum. The mothers of Tunisians who lose their lives after the 2011 revolution are asking again to Europe to: "Give back our children". There are more than five hundred Tunisian mothers who are in search of their "desaparecidos" during their travel to Italy. The grief of Tunisian mothers is partaken also by Middle American mothers. At Tunis there was also Marta Sánchez Soler, coordinator of Middle American Migrant Movement and which intends focus the attention to lost people in the world and build a global network between Tunisian, Algerian and Plaza de Mayo mothers yelling the hopefully slogan: “ They took them alive and we want them back alive. ”At Tunis Forum mothers partook their grief and struggled towards the institutions which are trying to distort the truth. In the pictures and in the faces which mothers hold in their hands there is the will to take identity and give it back and give human form to the data: these are the efforts of European civil society which thanks to the Forum had the occasion to become one thing. The aim is to “build a Mediterranean space and make it be a space in which dignity, social justice and rights for all are the priority”.

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