“Tonight we returned to the streets of Palermo to renew a tradition that has accompanied us for two decades and to relaunch a new message.” Thus, in a note published on their social channels Addiopizzothe association that twenty years ago started a campaign against the extortion racket by putting up posters in the city with the words “A people who pay protection money is a people without dignity”, but also by launching a series of initiatives to assist entrepreneurs and traders who decided to report requests for protection money. “Over the course of these twenty years – we read in the note – there have been countless moments in which we have carpeted the city of Palermo in the middle of the night. From the historic center to Brancaccio, from Noce to San Lorenzo passing through Resuttana, Pagliarelli and many other areas of the city with messages and contents that also wanted to stimulate reflection. Twenty years later, the night just gone by saw us return to the streets, through the historic center of Palermo between Via Maqueda, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Via Emerico Amari and Via Isidoro La Lumia. Places where in the last ten years there has been an urban, productive and social change whose impact is unprecedented in the history of Palermo. A change which has generated a new and important economy which has its pivot in the tourist use of the places in the historic center”.
“Streets from which – explain the guys from Addiopizzo – tonight in addition to renewing the historical message we want to ask and share a question, anything but rhetorical, with the public opinion, the economic fabric and the political class of this city. Without claiming to give answers but with the will, once again, to open a reflection. What economy for these streets of the city?”. Today the exhibition “Addiopizzo 20” al No Mafia Memorial course Victor Emmanuel of Palermo.
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