I porti del Mediterraneo dialogano a Livorno
The Community of Sant'Egidio organizes in Livorno a "two days" fixing the look on the Mediterranean port cities: scene of the former minister Riccardi, as well as activists, intellectuals and political and union leaders of Livorno, Barcelona, Smyrna, Beirut , Athens, Tunis, Tangier and Lampedusa. Andrea Riccardi, a former minister, founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio LIVORNO. Mediterranean cities, with their ports, are "bridges the fractures in the world." The definition of the Community of Sant'Egidio, which for Friday 13 and Saturday 14 puts on the agenda a series of international meetings to Livorno to say that the Mediterranean port cities, "for their history and location, for the flow of people and goods that animate them, are in some ways the pots
communication between East and West and between North and South. "Appointment to Goldonetta with" Medì ", the initiative now in its second edition: this time the title is" Cities have a soul. Common Identity and Future Challenges ".
To 17 on Friday the opening ceremony, with the introductory speech by Andrea Riccardi, historian, former minister and founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio. Followed by a comparison on immigration will be attended by, with testimonies and proposals, the Mayor of Lampedusa, Giusy Nicolini, Inma Charity Tangier (Migration Office of the Diocese of Tangiers) and Emiliano Abraham (Catania).
The next morning at 9.30 is pending the report of the mayor of Livorno Filippo Nogarin: will address "how to think the Mediterranean ports in the age of globalization". In the debate to more voices announcing the participation Adolf Romagosa (director of the company's cruise port
Barcelona) and JOHN Panagiotopoulos (University of Athens). At 11 the round table on the city and the Mediterranean culture. In the "port" of Livorno come to this comparison the writer Mehmet Coral Smyrna, sociologist Ahmad Beydoun of Beirut, the president of the association
Liaisons Mediterraneée Ridha Tilli and activist Shahinaz Abdel Salam of Alexandria. The conclusions of Medì, at 12.30, are entrusted to Vittorio Ianari.
"In the age of globalization and the crisis of nation-states - said the promoters of the initiative - the cities, in particular those of the Mediterranean, is an important topic and a major player in the future of all. The venue of the conference, Livorno , enhances the role historically played by the city and its port, in attracting opportunities of exchanges and relations between men and nations. "
In 2014 the meeting gathered ten cities of the Mediterranean and many speakers, expressions of civil society, launching a popular reflection that was punctuated with acts, in the book 'The cities want to live', published by Julian Ladolfi Publisher and outgoing on the occasion of "Medì". In this second edition - it is emphasized - the central point of comparison will be the relationship between urban settlements and their ports, considering the current situation of some port areas of the Mediterranean, from the more structured ones to be reassessed. The city, emphasizes the Sant'Egidio Community, will be represented at Medì "not only and not so much by specialists, but by men and women who first love their city and that for reasons and at different levels, have lived and worked for coexistence and pluralism, characteristic and development proposal, the original of Mediterranean civilization ".