“Our objective is to make active memories, not to retreat into the memory of a glorious past. The festival was also born with this aim”. Primo Minelli, Anpi provincial president of Milan, as well as of the Legnano section, thus illustrates the meaning of the first edition of “Anpi Alto Milanese in festa”, which will be held on Saturday and Sunday at the Pertini social center, in via dei Salici 9. One two days of testimonies, book presentations, banquets and concerts. “In addition to the Legnano section, the sections of Canegrate, Cerro Maggiore, Dairago, Nerviano, Parabiago, Villa Cortese, Rescaldina, San Giorgio su Legnano and San Vittore Olona will be present, with their gazebos – continues Minelli –. It had been developing for some time in our groups the desire for an expanded celebration. The occasion was the eightieth anniversary of the association, born in still occupied Italy”.
Minelli underlines the urgency of not forgetting the past. “The electoral campaign recently ended and we saw and heard people calling for the Decima Mas, the autonomous military formation aligned with fascists and Nazis. For us the theme of defense of the Constitution will be increasingly central. We thus want the demonstration of weekend you speak to the city, to young people, and it is also a moment to support membership”. The program. It starts on Saturday at 4.30pm with the speech of Carlo Ghezzi, national deputy vice-president of Anpi, at 5pm presentation of the book “United in the same struggle. Memoirs of Matteotti”, by Tommaso and Stefano Catone. Then dinner and a concert at 9pm. Sunday at 12.30 Anpi social lunch, at 4 pm presentation of the books “Mauro Venegoni ei brothers of him” by Renata Pasquetto and “La bestia di Bolzano” by Stefano Catone. Giuliano Celin’s speech at 6pm, then dinner and the concert at 9pm. Silvia Vignati
