THE COMMUNICATIONIST NOGAYE NDIAYE, THE CARTOONIST TAKOUA BEN MOHAMED, THE HISTORIAN VANESSA ROGOI AND THE JOURNALISTS DONATA COLUMBRO AND GIAMMARCO SICURO
Twenty thousand students connected from all over Italy with EMERGENCY to understand the scenario current conflicts and express one’s voice of dissent. So Thursday 18 April at 10:00 am at Casa EMERGENCY in Milan “C3SS4T3 THE FU0C0. POINT0. 4 C4P0 – Take part and shout it out loud”: you start itThe NGO’s annual activity dedicated to high schools to understand the ongoing wars and how important it is to put an end to them.
In this new edition of the event, they will be present two classes of the third and fourth year of IIS Cattaneo And Cremona from Milan who, together with others 20 thousand students connected via streaming in schools throughout Italy, they will be able to listen and talk with Nogaye Ndiayehuman rights advocate, writer and popularizer, cartoonist Takoua Ben Mohamedthe historian Vanessa Roghithe writer-journalist and “data humanizer” Donata Columbrothe journalist and Rai correspondent Giammarco Sicuro and the Head of Communications of EMERGENCY, Simonetta Gola.
“No war is inevitable and all are inhumane. Telling it is important – explains EMERGENCY -. Because war is the problem and not the solution and, whether on the border of Ukraine, in the center of Gaza or in the heart of Sudan and wherever, civilians are the first victims, Always. And even when the information spotlight on the emergency of a conflict turns off, the war continues to cause victims and have serious consequences for the country that is the theater of it”.
The meeting will open with testimonies from the guests: all people who have chosen to take part with comics, facts, numbers or words. The guests will be introduced and moderated by Nogaye Ndiaye, who will launch polls to present the topics of each speech to which the students connected via streaming will respond. Questions and answers will also stimulate the speakers and the debate that will take place in the room with different opinions, reflections and points of view.
Moving from an immediate language such as comics to a historical perspective, from the role of numbers in the story of a war to a reflection on the complexity of the topics linked to the story of a conflict and the difficulties of informing in a neutral way, the initiative will be a stimulus to delve deeper into the reasons and the need to put conflicts out of history. For exampler finally get to a world without more war.
