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| Control Arms campaign in Italy: Actions for Autumn 2005 |
After the summer break new important events and actions for the Control Arms Campaign are about to take place in Italy, where the campaign is jointly promoted by Amnesty International and Rete Italiana per il Disarmo (Italian network on arms control and disarmament), a coalition of 30 organisations.
The Control Arms campaign has had great success in the first months of action throughout Italy, mainly because was hugely spread by local groups: at the beginning of September 2005, 10 000 people had joined the Million Faces Petition.
The first two events of this programme will take place in central Italy in these days: an artistic exhibition in Rome and a “Peace Check point” during the most important italian nonviolent march in Umbria. |
Control Arms at Enzimi, 8-10 September |
Groups promoting the campaign will attend the Pop Festival held in Ostia (by the sea, close to Rome) which will be attended by thousands of people.
In the meantime, the Enzimi information point in Termini Station (Rome’s main train station) will host an art exhibition made with faces from the Italian Million Faces Gallery. The artistic performance (ten cylinders 2.5 metres high) has been created by Studio Toscani, run by the famous designer Oliviero Toscani (producer of many famous commercials e.g. Benetton).
The exhibition host also many of the famous Italian faces that have joined the campaign to date: singers, actors and filmakers, politicians, representantives from culture and civil society.
These include:
· comedian Beppe Grillo;
· TV and radio artist such as Fiorello, Le Iene, Ascanio Celestini and Sabina Guzzanti;
· singers Jovanotti, Antonello Venditti, Fiorella Mannorioa,Negramaro, Laura Pausino and Paola Turci;
· film stars such as Silvio Muccino, Carlo Rambaldi, Bellocchio, Ferzan Ozpetek and Alessandro D'Alatri; politicians including Walter Veltroni (mayor of Rome) |
Control Arms at Perugia – Assisi Peace March |
This march is the most important in the Italian nonviolent tradition (dating back to nonviolence giant Aldo Capitini in the 1960s) and usually sees some 100 000 participants.
The Control Arms Campaign will man a 'Check point', but this time made for peaceful reasons and not military ones. At a certan point during the march 100 volunteers will ask participants to pass through 'control' gates in which they won't be controlled but rather will be asked to join the Million Faces Petition.
Italian Control Arms campaign hopes this event can help to raise awareness about the need to control the indiscriminate arms trade by joining the visual petition. We are not satisfied of 10 000 faces… we want more! Now is the time to act against weapons that cause great global damage!
For more information, please contact the Rete Disarmo at
segreteria@disarmo.org
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