We live in a period of epochal transformations, which involve a revolution of our world and a reorganization of global power relations. There are three planetary emergencies that are growing and connected to each other: wars, climate change, inequalities. These three emergencies are the result of and correspond to a situation of traumatic political and cultural climate change. They also represent the main drivers of an ever-increasing movement of people that affects a large part of the planet. A crucial and decisive role will be that of cities, in fact municipalities will have a great responsibility in conveying information, the social, political and cultural promotion of exchanges and cultural diversity as an asset for our communities.
What tools do they have at their disposal? What can Europe do to support this work and facilitate a method of reception and inclusion with common characteristics for all? We like to imagine these cities as democratic spaces in which people of different origins can live together and create new forms of solidarity and connections.
With an interdisciplinary approach, this panel, curated by Fondazione Studio Rizoma and in the context of Transeuropa Festival, aims to offer a virtual compass, new lenses to orient oneself in today’s debate, to interpret the present and imagine the future by going beyond the confines of mainstreaming and providing alternative ideas and food for thought.
On this occasion, the activists of Natura Comune will present the popular initiative law proposal ‘Xenia’ on the reception of migrants.
With Erion Veliaj (Mayor of Tirana), Clare Hart (Vice-President of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole), Mimmo Lucano (Mayor of Riace and MEP), David Yambio (Pact for Equality Advocate and spokesperson for human rights), Leoluca Orlando (MEP). Moderated by Letizia Tortello (Journalist La Stampa).