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On Roberto Saviano, Italy's Anti-Mafia Struggle, and Italian-American Anti-Defamation Activism

George DeStefano

In the first of a series of commentaries by Italian-American intellectuals on Roberto Saviano's recent talk about Mafia at the New York University, George DeStefano holds that...

FULL VIDEO! Saviano at NYU with Roubini. Criminal Economy and Mafia.

Luca Delbello

Gomorrah's writer met with students, professors and journalists at New York University's Paulson Auditorium. He talked about mafia and its impact on the financial crisis.

Massimo Ciancimino: Dynamite in the Garden of Justice

Judith Harris

The three years of Ciancimino's testimony in three separate Mafia trials risk being compromised

On Both Sides of the Atlantic, Pride in Anti-Mob Action

Judith Harris

While in New York nearly 125 are arrested in “the largest mob roundup in F.B.I. history," Italian Senator and former governor of Sicily Salvatore Cuffaro is sentenced to 7 years...

Giancarlo Caselli: Sciascia and the Palermo anti-Mafia Pool

Judith Harris

In the article "The Anti-Mafia Professionals", appeared on the national daily Il Corriere della Sera, Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia attacked Borsellino when he requested a...

Darrell Fusaro's "The Basement" at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles

On Saturday, October 16th, from 3pm - 5pm, the IIC LA will host a screening of THE BASEMENT with the film's Producers, Darrell Fusaro and Jeff Trujillo, in attendance. The event...

Games, Media, and Politics. Does "Mafia II" Defame Italian Americans? Interview with Andre' DiMino

Ottorino Cappelli

Several Italian-American organizations are staging an anti-defamation campaign against the videogame "Mafia II" on the ground that it offends and stereotypes Italian Americans as...

Falcone and Borsellino Die Again

Judith Harris

On July 18, the day before the l8th anniversary of the murder of Judge Paolo Borsellino, the statues commemorating him and another emblematic victim of the Sicilian Mafia, Judge...

Panto Remembered

Joey Skee

A new book about the New York City waterfront recalls the Italian-American fight against organized crime.

"I Remember" at the UN. A Docu-Film to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary from the Convention of Palermo

Umberto Lucentini*

The Screening of "Io Ricordo" (I Remember), a film that recounts the story of anti-Mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino as well as many other victims of the Mafia,...

Palermo, Sicily. A "Civic Escort" for Anti-Mafia Magistrates

Umberto Lucentini

A "civic escort" for judge Antonio Ingroia and for anti-mafia magistrates such as Nino Di Matteo and Sergio Lari will be set up by a group of citizens of the city of Palermo. The...

Mafia, Kinds of Applause & Saviano's Quotes

Judith Harris

A confusion of applause: ovation at Perugia for Italy’s heroic Roberto Saviano and hurrahs at Reggio for arrested ’Ndrangheta boss Giovanni Tegano

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