il manifesto: A Milano la kermesse di Fdi per il sì, tra “fascio” e fashion

Mentre i relatori flash – una manciata di minuti a testa – stanno ancora parlando in tre distinti spazi del teatro Parenti, sorta di Speaker’s corner diffuso aperto e chiuso […]
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In Milan, Fdi’s event for yes, between “fascist symbol” and fashion

While the flash speakers – a handful of minutes each – are still speaking in three separate areas of the Parenti theater, a kind of diffused Speaker’s corner, open and closed […]
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#Milan #Parenti #first

https://ilmanifesto.it/a-milano-la-kermesse-di-fdi-per-il-si-tra-fascio-e-fashion

Il Fatto Quotidiano: Il fuoriprogramma che imbarazza Giorgia Meloni. Un uomo sale sul palco a Milano, le consegna un libro e dice: “Aspetto le dimissioni di Mattarella”

Fuoriprogramma sul palco della kermesse per il Sì al referendum del 22 e 23 marzo organizzata da Fratelli d’Italia al teatro Parenti di Milano, dove la presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni era da poco arrivata per il suo intervento. Mentre la premier al microfono stava salutando e ringraziando le persone presenti in teatro, un uomo è salito sul palco e si è avvicinato presentandosi: “Musumeci, Orazio Musmeci”. Lei, visibilmente sorpresa, ha ricambiato il saluto e lo ha ringraziato, ma lui, non ancora soddisfatto, ha aggiunto: “Aspetto le dimissioni di Mattarella”. Quindi è sceso dal palco e si è allontanato. A quel punto la premier si è guardata intorno cercando forse qualche spiegazione, ma nessuno è intervenuto e quindi, con una espressione tra l’interrogativo e lo sconcertato, ha aperto le braccia, si è sistemata i capelli e ha cominciato il suo intervento. L’uomo è stato identificato dalla Digos dopo l’episodio. Poche ore prima aveva annunciato in un video: “Sono in partenza per Milano per un faccia a faccia con l’onorevole Meloni, per la prima volta la incontro e le farò questa sorpresa”.
L'articolo Il fuoriprogramma che imbarazza Giorgia Meloni. Un uomo sale sul palco a Milano, le consegna un libro e dice: “Aspetto le dimissioni di Mattarella” proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

The off-script moment that embarrasses Giorgia Meloni. A man gets on stage in Milan, hands her a book and says: “I hope for Mattarella’s resignation.”

Off-script on the stage of the event for “Yes” to the referendum on March 22nd and 23rd organized by Fratelli d’Italia at the Parenti theater in Milan, where Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had just arrived for her speech. While the premier was greeting and thanking the people in the theater, a man climbed onto the stage and approached her, introducing himself: “Musumeci, Orazio Musmeci.” She, visibly surprised, responded to his greeting and thanked him, but he, not yet satisfied, added: “I await the resignation of Mattarella.” He then stepped off the stage and walked away. At that point, the premier looked around searching for perhaps an explanation, but no one intervened, and so, with an expression between question and astonishment, she opened her arms, adjusted her hair, and began her speech. The man was identified by the Digos (General Directorate for Internal Security) after the incident. A few hours earlier, he had announced in a video: “I am departing for Milan for a face-to-face meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Meloni, it is the first time I meet her and I will give her this surprise.”

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#GiorgiaMeloni #Milan #Mattarella #Fratellid’Italia #Parenti #OrazioMusmeci #Digos #Meloni #first #IlFattoQuotidiano

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The Power of Literacy - Michael Parenti

https://peertube.cif.su/w/phsChJY8CSnemg1j9VsJxi

Michael Parenti was a public intellectual, an iconoclast, antiauthoritarian, a brilliant writer and thinker, a dazzlingly articulate and passionate public speaker, and personal hero.

#parenti #radical #memorial

https://open.substack.com/pub/letsmakethempay/p/rest-in-power-michael-parenti-and?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

PSA: I not only block but report, on sight, any form of #Russian invasion apologism — even if it claims not to be following the #Putin party line. This includes any discourse that blames the war in #Ukraine on anyone but the invaders, or so much as hints that #Ukraine is wrong to fight back.

I've already had enough of that vile manipulative bullshit to last a lifetime, when I was on eX-Twitter. To my shame, I even followed accounts that spouted it. In my defense, I didn't know nearly as much then about the #Russian propaganda infrastructure as I do now. I now wonder how many of those "anti-imperialist" anti-Ukraine accounts on the birdsite were Russian bots/trolls. But even if sincere, rationalization of a brutal invasion by a ruthless #dictatorship is disgusting behavior. Even when the invader is not the #USA.

And more generally: I no longer have any patience at all with the kind of "anti-imperialism" that is a euphemism for blaming essentially 100% of the evil in the world on the #USA — even if that claim is not used specifically to rationalize the #Russian invasion of #Ukraine. It isn't 1947 anymore; as #Trump is finding out, our superpower status no longer includes the kind of total world dominance we once had. Michael #Parenti and others like him are SO fighting the last war. The #USA still has plenty of crimes to answer for, but that doesn't serve as the basis for any grand unified theory of world events.