Torna Medì. Le città hanno un'anima
Tuscany, Livorno, two days of international comparison on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 March in Livorno. Ports, immigration, culture coordinates to decipher to give a future to all. The protagonists: from Barcelona to Lampedusa in Izmir Livorno, Barcelona, Smyrna, Beirut ... And yet, Athens,
Tunis, Alexandria, Tangier and Catania, Lampedusa. Mediterranean cities, with their ports, bridges are fracture of the world. For their history and location, for the flow of people and goods that animate them, they are in some ways the vessels of communication between East and West and between North and South. Ports, immigration, culture are coordinates that will be considered on Friday 13 and Saturday, March 14, in Goldonetta Livorno, thanks to 'Medì', a series of international meetings sponsored by the Sant'Egidio Community in the Tuscan city and now in its second edition with the title "cities have a soul. Common identity and future challenges. "
To 17 on Friday the opening ceremony, with the introductory speech by Andrea Riccardi, historian and founder of the Sant'Egidio Community, 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). Pending the report, Saturday morning on March 14, at 9:30 am, the mayor of Livorno Filippo Nogarin on how to think the Mediterranean ports in time of globalization. The debate, many voices, will be attended by Adolf Romagosa, Director of Port 2000 in Barcelona, and Ioannes Panagiotopoulos, University of Athens.
At 11 table rotanda on cities 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 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 - the promoters explain - cities, particularly those in the Mediterranean, it 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, 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 ".