November 4, 2007
Understanding Italian Politics: Forleo in History
Clementina Forleo
We are lured away from our exploration of electoral politics by the fog-bound current case of magistrate Clementina Forleo. She has already made her mark on history. ...
REJECTION. Rome As Calcutta. "Let's Free Ourselves of These People..."
This video is from Circolo Roma Liberale, a grass-roots organization affiliated with Berlusconi's right-wing party Forza Italia. One comment on it's YouTube page demands punishment for "those who bring these poveracci in our city".
MEMORY. "Italian ... Nobody's Perfect"
In "Pane e cioccolata" (1973), the popula actor Nino Manfredi plays an Italian immigrant in Switzerland who is questioned by the police and confronts not only stereotypes and prejudices, but a clash between different cultures and habits...
MEMORY. The Struggle of Boston's Italian Immigration
A National History Day Documentary about the many hardships of Boston's Italian Immigration. Created by three young people in their college age and posted on YouTube, it is based on archive material and real-life inteviews.
MEMORY. "Questo paese è stranzo!"
A short video made for a high school Italian class purports to illustrate an Italian family emigrating to the U.S. in the 1920's. Despite its uncertain Italian, it captures the difficulty of settling down in a different and even hostile environment.
MEMORY. No Italians Wanted
Excerpt from a one-man show by San Francisco performer Tommi Avicolli Mecca. "Contrary to popular belief, no immigrants were ever welcomed to America. Like the Irish and Eastern Europeans, Italians weren't considered white. The best way I know how to deal with all this is through satire."
Maratona di NYC. Baldini a due minuti dalla vittoria. 3000 gli italiani in gara
Non ce l’ha fatta per poco più di due minuti. Stefano Baldini, il campione olimpico di Atene 2004, ha mancato di un soffio la vittoria alla maratona di New York. A poco è serivito il grande tifo che ha spinto il 36enne emiliano fino al traguardo di Central Park. Da Williamsburg alla Fifth Avenue, oltre le transenne, centinaia di tifosi hanno urlato “Vai, Stefano!”, ma il successo è andato al keniano Martin Lel, 29 anni e gia’ vincitore a New York nel 2003. Gli italiani in gara quest’anno erano circa 3mila.
REJECTION. Basta! Italy Belongs to Italians
A collection of anti-immigrant posters, leaflets and pictures used by Italy's political movement Lega Nord and other minor right-wing organizations to demand expulsion of "zingari" - who are all associated with theft and rape...
REJECTION. "They Invade Rome and Terrorize Our Neighborood at Nights"
An exasperated young father shot this video to expose Romanian gipsies who "install themselves under these bridges, undisturbed, and during the night come and steal from my store..."
Interview: Tenor Giuseppe Giacomini - I - Published on YouTube by Agatarco
Tenor Giuseppe Giacomini released an interview on July 8th 2006 that has been divided in five parts and published on YouTube by Agatarco. The interview, of course, is in Italian. But we found people who wished it be translated in English to make it accessible to a larger audience...
SOLIDARITY. From Eritrea to Lampedusa: A Tragic Journey
August 2006. Dozens of illegal migrants reach tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa. Several are reported missing. Many of the illegal immigrants are Eritrean people. A YouTube netcast by Italy's Erietinet TV Eritrea.
Libri. "La Casta". Ma i "palazzi" tremano veramente?
All’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York, lunedì scorso la sala era pierna per la presentazione del libro più venduto d’Italia. E' il caso editoriale italiano degli ultimi anni: "La Casta. Così i politici italiani sono diventati intoccabili” (Rizzoli 2007), scritto a quattro mani dai giornalisti del Corriere della Sera Gian Antonio Stella e Sergio Rizzo, da circa sei mesi fa tremare i Palazzi della politica italiana.
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