Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
She’s been threatened with rape, burned in effigy, and mocked by a major party leader using an inflatable sex doll. Now Laura Boldrini, the speaker of the Italian Parliament, stays in a secret location while running for reelection.
By J. Lester Feder, Alberto Nardelli & Davide Maria De Luca from Milan for BuzzFeed.com, Feb.24
MILAN — Laura Boldrini didn’t worry much about the death threats until she received a bullet in the mail.
Boldrini, who is the speaker of the Italian Parliament and the country’s highest-ranking woman politician, gets a level of harassment that even her critics say is extreme — and even by Italian standards. Many of them are sexist and threatening comments on Facebook, but they’ve been so relentless since she took office in 2013 that she began posting the names of her harassers on her own page. “Death to Boldrini” has been scrawled on city walls across Italy, and she is closely guarded by a heavy security detail.
Boldrini lives in Rome but is now campaigning ahead of the elections on March 4 for a parliamentary seat in Milan, where she stays in a nondescript house on a graffiti-lined street; its exact location is a carefully guarded secret. This election has been one of the most tumultuous in recent history: A group of immigrants was shot at by a white nationalist, there have been attacks on fascist parties and left-wing groups, and anti-fascist protesters have clashed with police in violent demonstrations.[....]
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Italy used to be a tolerant country, but now racism is rising
The upcoming election has unleashed a tide of anti-migrant action, whose roots can be traced to the financial crisis and the country’s weakened leftwing
By Angela Giuffrida @ The Observer @ TheGuardian.com, Feb. 17
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/26/2018 - 2:49am
Sad, though worth having an idea of what's the maximum influx of unlike people who might move into an area before resistance starts to develop. Certainly has to do with how big the local population is, along with race and religion, but also the types of receiving culture between Japan and Norway and Kuwait and Germany and Texas and Italy and Hungary and California.... I remember reading about the fishing flareups around Galveston with the new Vietnamese immigrants (and a funny story about a friend who rented a flat to a Vietnamese family and found they replaced some of the cabinet doors with chicken wire to raise chickens...).
Somewhere between uncaring and cruel vs. overaccommodating and foolish lies a happy-ish medium.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 02/26/2018 - 3:31am