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March 30, 2008
Why I Won’t Vote
Political Poster Supporting Italian Immigrants Right to Vote
Italian citizenship laws put me in the same spot as immigrants in Italy today—both of us without the right to vote; whose vote should really count?
March 14, 2008
What Do Pizza, Mario Merola, and the Camorra Have to Do with Ikea?
Totò Sapore e la Magica Storia della Pizza
Totò Sapore's theme song, sung by Edoardo Bennato
A long-lost relative from Brooklyn finds his way to an Italian kids' movie.
March 8, 2008
Bread and Roses or “Mimose”?
"Per te mondina" (Cgil magazine)
1949 Strike (braccianti and mondine)
Where has over 100 years of honoring women gotten us?
March 4, 2008
Love Costs: Filipinos in Italy and the Movie, "Milan"
"Milan" (Star Cinema)
Poster from "Milan" directed by Olivia M. Lamasan, 2004
What better place than Italy for immigrants to find both a job and a lover?
March 1, 2008
Gramsci, Cinema, Photography and Music
Casa del Cinema, Villa Borghese, Rome
Listening, watching, and thinking about culture as a political tool.
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