Raccogli e passa
Political Activism and Cultural Politics
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July 21, 2008
Mujeres Migrantes Italianas
Exhibit Poster, "Mirades de luz" (Argentina)
An exhibit in Argentina highlights the role Italian immigrant women in Buenos Aires played in the development of Argentina’s past and present.
June 30, 2008
The European Union’s Immigration Policy and Italian Immigrants in Latin America
Immigration Authorization Stamp, Argentina
Invoking Italy’s history of emigration, activists and politicians in Latin America condemn the European Union’s latest anti-immigration stand.
May 6, 2008
Gli intellettuali rispondono alla crisi in Italia
Brianza Popolare
Antonio Gramsci
Sulla scia di Gramsci: gli intellettuali di oggi e la crisi italiana
April 13, 2008
A Gramscian Podcast on Women Workers and Migration
photo, Anna Collette
Book cover, "Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women's Work in Italy and the U.S."
Podcasting on Gramsci, immigrant women, labor, and the history of San Diego's cannery workers.
March 8, 2008
Bread and Roses or “Mimose”?
"Per te mondina" (Cgil magazine)
1949 Strike (braccianti and mondine)
Where has over 100 years of honoring women gotten us?
January 1, 2008
Peppino Marotto, Poet, Activist, Gramscian
Song about Gramsci by Peppino Marotto
Revolutionary poet and activist shot and killed at 82 years.
January 12, 2008
Emile de Antonio's documentaries and radical art
Underground, documentary by Emile de Antonio, Mary Lampson, and Haskell Wexler
The documentary films of Emile de Antonio, another chapter in Italian American radicalism.
January 23, 2008
On the Anniversary of Gramsci’s Birth, a Few Words about Writing Letters
Antonio Gramsci
In re-reading Antonio Gramsci's letters from prison in memory of his birthday, one can't help but wonder about the current state of cyberwriting.
February 1, 2008
Blogofascism and the Cybermob
Grand Lake Theater, Oakland, California
Meta-bloggando on the (virtual) use of fascism.
March 1, 2008
Gramsci, Cinema, Photography and Music
Casa del Cinema, Villa Borghese, Rome
Listening, watching, and thinking about culture as a political tool.
August 19, 2008
Breastfeeding Breasts!
Tina Modotti
"Baby Nursing" (1926)
In honor of my two young children and World Breastfeeding Month, a few thoughts on the work of women’s breasts.
March 4, 2008
Love Costs: Filipinos in Italy and the Movie, "Milan"
"Milan" (Star Cinema)
Poster from "Milan" directed by Olivia M. Lamasan, 2004
What better place than Italy for immigrants to find both a job and a lover?
October 26, 2008
Radical Espresso: Mario Savio and Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement
Mario Savio's "operation of the machine" speech, Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley, December 2, 1964
What happens when a Berkeley café lays claim to an Italian American free thinker?
December 24, 2008
“Ti abbraccio teneramente,” Christmas from Prison
Antonio Gramsci
A selection of Antonio Gramsci’s Christmas letters from prison.
January 6, 2009
I’ll Have Some Pancetta with My Mob Reference, Please
Leon Panetta
Leon Panetta
With Leon Panetta’s potential return to Washington, comes a new focus on his Italian connections.
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