LIVORNO City Day for Peace dedicated to Life and Women. On Tuesday 28 May Livorno will remember the massive bombings that destroyed the city during the World War, sowing death and destruction. A memory that gave birth to the city Day for Peace established, thanks to the collection of signatures launched by the Community of Sant’Egidio, and approved by the Municipal Administration in 2004. From that year, even during Covid although in a reduced form , this memory has always resisted to remember together with the war of the past, the wars, the violence, the destruction of today but to reiterate the need for peace, for a culture of peace to educate the young generations.
This year the day, as the title indicates, will be dedicated in particular to women, considering the painful evidence of violence against them in the past year.
A tribute therefore to all the women who, in war and in many difficult situations, even in their own homes, express with their voices the necessary resistance to violence, continuing to make life grow, feeling the responsibility to protect it, especially in the weakest. and in the little ones.
They are the symbol of what we can all do: demonstrate our commitment to combat war and oppression, for life, to make it grow more, rather than deny it. For peace, without which we cannot live.
The meeting is in the civic square at 5pm. From there the event, organized by the Community of Sant’Egidio in collaboration with the Diocese of Livorno, the Municipality and Istoreco, will wind through the streets of the city centre, stopping for a few stages , up to the D’Azeglio airports, where the over 200 victims who were trapped and died under the bombs of May 28, 1943 will be commemorated.
Along the route, which begins with the voices of the elderly people of Livorno, children during the world war, it will be possible to listen to the testimony of women who wanted to counter the logic of violence both in the city and international scenarios.
