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The Associazione Nazionale Famiglie Emigrati (National Association of Migrant Families) is a not-for-profit association founded in 1947. This year, ANFE's Regional Branch of Sicily, operating since the 1950s, is participating to the Columbus Day celebrations with an outstanding delegation and remarkable events.

Created to protect and support Italian emigrants and their communities throughout the world, today ANFE is increasingly committed to promote the social and cultural integration of immigrants in Italy, and to assist them in entering the labor market.

This year the main theme of the events organized by ANFE is "Legality."
Here is ta list of the major events on schedule. They are all open to the public.

Roy Paci & Aretuska, the musical phenomenon of the moment in Sicily, perform with the sophisticated trio "The Sun" (Dario Sulis, Alessandro Palacino and Diego Spitaleri) right in the heart of Italian Brooklyn. Traditional rhythms rielaborated in a contemporaney key to promote legality and anti-mafia struggle expecially among new generations. An informal conversation among Roy Paci & Aretuska, Mauro Pagani, Marco Cappelli and "The Sun” (Dario Sulis, Alessandro Palacino and Diego Spitaleri) about their efforts to elaborate the Italian musical tradition through a contemporary eye.   Moderated by: George DeStefano and Letizia Airos Soria (www.i-Italy.org) The National Anti-Mafia Attorney Pietro Grasso presents his book "Per non morire di Mafia." The book is an intense diary written by a magistrate who has been fighting organized crime for thirty years. Its main message is that, in order to defeat Mafia, it is essential to have the exact perception of seriousness of the threat it poses.   2:00 pm Registration 2:30 pm Institutional Greetings; Opening Remarks Jeremy Travis, President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice   Min. Plen. Francesco M.Talò , Consul General of Italy in New York   Prof. Learco Saporito, Vice President of Administrative Court of Justice and National President of A.N.F.E. Hon. Raffaele Lombardo President of Sicilian Region Hon. Luigi Gentile, Commissioner of Employment and Emigration (Region Sicily)   Prof. Robert Pignatello John Jay College of Criminal Justice The Honorable A. Gail Prudenti Presiding Justice, Appellate Division Second Department   Moderator Dr. Gerardo Greco, Journalist of Rai Italian Television   Greetings by the President of the Province of Palermo Hon. Giovanni Avanti       2:50 pm Dr. Pietro Grasso, National Anti-Mafia Attorney         “The struggle against new mafias: successes and failures”   3:10 pm Don Luigi Ciotti, President of Libera         “The confiscation of mafia properties as an opportunity of growth and economic development”   3,30 pm Dr. Ivan Lo Bello President of Confindustria Sicilia         “The anti-mafia role of Confindustria Sicilia” 3:50 pm Prof. Marcello Saija, University of Messina           “Joe Petrosino: biography of an antimafia hero”   4:10 pm George Grasso, First Deputy Police Commissioner - NYPD           “NYPD and its techniques to fight organized crime”   4:30 pm Joseph Guccione, US Marshal Department of Justice, Southern District of New York           “The fight against organized crime at the federal level and at the international level together with Italy”       Roy Paci & Aretuska, and "The Sun" (Dario Sulis, Alessandro Palacino and Diego Spitaleri) present their music in New Jersey: traditional rhythms rielaborated in a contemporaney key to promote legality and anti-mafia struggle expecially among new generations.