Libera a Londra: l’iniziativa “Free from Mafia”

Libera is an Association, founded in 1995, to fight against mafia and to promote legality and justice, cooperating with over 1600 organisations and in coordination with more than 4500 schools. Libera so far has worked on the law on the social use of goods confiscated from the mafia, education, the pledge against corruption, support to the victims of mafia, anti-mafia formation camps, anti racket and anti usury activities.

Attilio Bolzoni writes for Italian newspaper La Repubblica. In 2009 he was awarded the prestigious É Giornalismo prize for journalism, in recognition of his long career reporting on the mafia and camorra. His book White Shotgun – the Sicilian Mafia in Their Own Words (MacMillan) is a powerful anthology of rare interviews, court proceedings and transcripts of phone taps that together capture the essence of this most hidden of secret societies.

Gabriella Stramaccioni has co-founded Libera with Don Luigi Ciotti in 1994. She has been for many years on the front line against social injustices and bearer of messages of peace around the world, from the Italian poorest areas to Nairobi’s shanty town, a voluntary worker in prisons and among refugees and victims of war in Sarajevo.

Marco Gambino is a Sicilian, London-based actor, writer and voiceover artist. His play Words of Honour is the result of a collaboration with Attilio Bolzoni, premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 2009, then staged in London. The Italian version of the play was staged in Rome in November 2009 and has been touring ever since.

In collaboration and with the support of Libera, Bocconi Alumni Association and
The Italian Bookshop.

A cocktail reception offered by Libera will follow
free event, booking essential

The Italian Cultural Institute 39
Belgrave Square London SW1X 8NX
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