Tag: italy

Addiopizzo

Addiopizzo (goodbye extortion money) is a grassroot antimafia movement of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay extortion money “pizzo” to the Mafia, and is based in Palermo. Addiopizzo is an open, fluid and dynamic movement, that acts from below and presents itself as a spokesman of a “cultural revolution” against the Mafia. It is constituted by all women and men, girls and boys, business owners and customers who recognize themselves in this sentence: “A whole population that pays the pizzo is a population without dignity”.

destroying the mafia in sicily. we need something like this for the mob in nyc.

Transparent Mafia

When it came down to business, Cosa Nostra could always count on fear. No more. In a rebellion shaking the Sicilian Mafia to its centuries-old roots, businesses are joining forces in refusing to submit to demands for protection money called “pizzo.”

they need some better accounting down there

Temples of Humankind

a collection of breathtaking subterranean temples decorated in several motifs stressing peaceful human collaboration. The Temples are nestled in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, 48km from the ancient city of Turin

Waterville

In order “to prevent this heritage from disappearing,” a local planning and design group, calling itself Waterpower, “asked a series of Italian and foreign designers to make projects for the renewal of the deserted water and paper mills. There was one condition: that they take the ‘power of water’ as the poetic metaphor and technological guideline of their projects, turning the valley into an eco-sustainable environment.”

repurposing mills in Valle dei Mulini with architecture