Criminal Colonialism. Ethiopia 1935-1941: Voyage to the shadowy heart of Italy

Public debate

Assembly / Debate on Friday 24 April 2009 - at 5.00pm at the Università La Sapienza, Faculty of Physics (old building), Rome, on Italy's colonial past and its effects today. Speakers: Mulu Ayele (Ethiopian community), Loredana Baglio (Corrispondenze metropolitane) and Nancy Aluigi Nannini (anthropologist). [Italiano]

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Criminal Colonialism

Ethiopia 1935-1941: Voyage to the shadowy heart of Italy

"Looking back on the war in Ethiopia today means having to deal with the way we are today: with the myth that is the popular saying, "the Italians are good", always useful whenever there is an aggressive foreign war; with those prejudices that exist against anyone different which are also a product of a colonial past that has never been properly criticised; with the arrogant return of patriarchal ideas and the separation of the roles of the sexes.
But if we deal with this, we must deal with it fully, seeking to understand it from the point of view of those Ethiopians, both men and women, who opposed the barbarity that called itself civility."

Speakers:

• Mulu Ayele (Ethiopian community): Ethiopian women in the resistance to the Fascist colonialism;
• Loredana Baglio (Corrispondenze metropolitane): Colonialism and women;
• Nancy Aluigi Nannini (anthropologist): The colonial origin of prejudices.

Photographic exhibition (photos by A. Imperiali)
Portions of the films "Fascist legacy" and "Tempo di uccidere" will be shown.

Assembly / Debate

Friday 24 April 2009 - at 5.00pm
at the Università La Sapienza, Faculty of Physics (old building), Rome

Organized by:
Laboratorio Sociale "La Talpa"
Corrispondenze Metropolitane
Comunità etiopica in Italia
Exodus (Ethiopian Cultural Service)
Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici
Unione Sindacale Italiana