April 25, from the square to the balconies: the Liberation Day in the cities of Italy

No procession will be held, but a party in the sign of unity – even if at a distance – on the day of the 75th anniversary of the Liberation. On April 25 this year is celebrated ‘behind closed doors’ due to the health emergency for Covid 19 and even more so, recalls the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, becomes a symbol of restart.THE SPECIAL 75th anniversary of the Liberation
The Resistance and the end of the Nazi-Fascist “madness” represent an “ethical reserve, of extraordinary civil and institutional value – says the president – which today, once again, must provide the country with that powerful common energy to face the recovery phase together” .

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Today flowers and laurel wreaths will be placed alone in the cities of Italy, in accordance with the provisions of the lockdown. To celebrate the Anpi proposes a collective “Bella Ciao” from the windows and via the web today at 3 pm. Many virtual squares will host initiatives with music, interventions, fundraisers for Italy in difficulty.

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From the virtual procession of April 25 #iorestolibero to the direct RepTv: “And this is the flower”

by LAURA PERTICI

While from 2.30 pm it will be possible to follow the live broadcast of RepTv on the Facebook page and on the 25aprile2020.it website, where for half an hour #iorestolibera #iorestolibero, a procession of voices will be broadcast. It is the appointment with the large virtual square wanted by Carlin Petrini. Then, the flashmob of the Anpi to sing “Bella ciao”, with which the live conducted by Gad Lerner starts.

TO Bologna the notes of Paolo Fresu’s trumpet have awakened the city with “Bella Ciao” played in Piazza Nettuno. It will be a party followed by balconies, terraces and gardens. All the Municipalities of the province have online initiatives and so in the Region (the calendar on the MemoriaNovecento portal).In Tuscany the mayors of many municipalities, – including Fiesole, Scandicci, Bagno a Ripoli, Livorno, Pisa, Vinci, Carmignano, Prato and Follonica – will place a laurel wreath on the fallen, in a ceremony closed to citizens, but live on local TV and social. TO Florence, where the ceremony should have taken place at the Auschwitz Italian Memorial, the celebrations will take place instead in the symbolic places closed to the public. But the virtual celebrations are open to everyone: Arci launches a four-hour live Facebook (from 4 pm) with guests Francesca Chiavacci, president of national Arci, Piero Pelù and Bobo Rondelli.

Dozens of events on the web to join a thousand distant voices are expected to Genoa. TO starting from the national flash mob at 3pm with the singing of “Bella Ciao”, promoted by the national president of Anpi Carla Nespolo and relaunched by the website of Republic, which will begin immediately after the live broadcast with Gad Lerner and numerous guests, while from 11 am the solidarity interventions of the # 25aprile2020 project, which will raise funds for Caritas and the Red Cross, will alternate. Live from 10 also the virtual square promoted by Anpi and the Goodmorning Genoa community (you can also follow from the Republic of Genoa), with what speeches, music and words, in addition to the institutional ceremony from the monumental bridge shrine, at 10.30, with the deposition of the crowns, with the mayor Marco Bucci, the president Anpi Massimo Bisca and the governor Giovanni Toti.

TO Milan the restricted ceremony to the Major Cemetery with Archbishop Monsignor Mario Delpini, in the presence of the deputy mayor of the Municipality of Anna Scavuzzo, of the President of the Jewish Community of Milan Milo Hasbani and of the President of the Provincial Committee of the Anpi Roberto Cenati. The city responds with the tricolors to the window and a myriad of virtual initiatives to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Liberation, in compliance with the safety rules for Covid 19.

Naples sing “Bella Ciao”: at 3pm the mayor Luigi de Magistris and the partisan Antonio Amoretti will sing from the balcony of Palazzo San Giacomo. IS Republic invites readers to send your own video to celebrate Liberation Day from the balconies together.

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“The post-pandemic will have to see a civil and social regeneration similar to that of the post-war period. We will not have to bring up material but social and economic rubble, rejecting the risk of an obstacle to political and social dialogue”, writes Pino Gesmundo, in a speech general secretary of the CGIL Puglia. To remember the places of April 25 of Bari is Gigia Bucci, CGIL Bari secretary with the anti-fascism map.

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Partisan Rossana, 95, wants to go back to embracing “I dedicate the 25 April to the boys”

by GIORGIO RUTA

TO Parma the royal square becomes virtual and shows its widespread union overlooking houses and palaces. But the anniversary will not be reduced to a private matter: “The importance of this day remains whole. Only the way of living it changes: this year will be an April 25 lived in the houses but not for this a private April 25. It remains the sense of a collective feast “, so the president of the provincial section of the ANPI, Aldo Montermini.

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TO turin not only a sharing of online memories and not only “Bella Ciao” from the balconies, but many small ‘family’ parades or in any case very small groups from the front door to the nearest partisan tombstone: a proposal that combines the desire not to give up going down on the street for April 25, but at the same time he respects the anti-coronavirus restrictions.