It ended in the setting of the Svevo Angevin Castle of Bisceglie, the EireneFest event, a book festival on nonviolent culturepeace, antimilitarism and conscientious objection.
The author Claudio Pozzi, with his “A slice of heaven behind bars”, recalled the passionate choice of conscientious objection well before 1972, the year of birth of the civil substitute service. Therefore, the memory of the arrest and the stay in the military prison of Gaeta. A journey of great ethical depth that Pozzi recounted in Bisceglie amidst the applause of those present.
“It was then the turn of the writer Giulio Di Luzio expose his experience as a conscientious objector in the 1980s. The journalist from Bisceglie, now a collaborator of the independent TV Byoblu and author of fifteen books including essays and novels, has exposed the political mutation that has matured in recent decades, refusing today to recognize himself as nonviolent, pacifist and antimilitarist. A change of direction illustrated by Di Luzio when, as an example, he recalled the massacre of Palestinian refugees in Sabra and Shatila in 1982, associating it with the genocide taking place in the Gaza Strip, in this he found the weakness of nonviolent thought. However, he fully vindicated the choice of that effervescent political season,” we read in the press release.
Vito Micunco of the Bari Peace Movement Finally, he reiterated the need to continue to give space to the different voices and pluralism of those who find themselves in the complex archipelago of pacifists. The meeting was moderated by Prof. Michele Lucivero and brilliantly presented by a student from the Bisceglie high school.
