(Associations, Numbers and Names against Criminal Organizations) Coordination of more than 1500 organizations, groups, schools, grassroots, geographically committed to fostering a culture of legality.
Published in Chapter:
Legality, Citizenship, and the Constitution in the Earthquake Area
Angelo Venti (Libera L’Aquila, Italy) and Cristina Iovenitti (Libera L’Aquila, Italy)
Copyright: © 2013
|Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2122-0.ch038
Abstract
Libera (associations, numbers, and names against criminal organizations) and Liberainformazione, following the earthquake of 6 April 2009 that devastated the city of L’Aquila, have created a local chapter of “Libera L’Aquila,” and journalists and local volunteers are engaged in investigations of criminal infiltration in the management of the emergency and reconstruction and also in the training courses for legal education and active citizenship in secondary schools located in the earthquake area. The project is divided into three sessions for each group, and the topics relate mainly to the analysis of democratic values and constitutional principles, social antimafia and mafia roots, the value of memory and the meaning of the common good, the role of information and the active participation of citizens functional to the redevelopment of the whole area. The experience, unique of its kind in this area, is ongoing and continuously evolving.