{"id":342168,"date":"2013-08-11T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T01:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/italy-young-people-and-legality\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:09:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:09:58","slug":"italy-young-people-and-legality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/italy-young-people-and-legality\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy: Young People and Legality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One young woman wrote to her peers from the Meeting 20013 at Caserta, Italy: \u201cI return home enriched with each of you in my heart.\u201d \u201cWorking shoulder to shoulder, understanding one another, struggling, dreaming, working deep into the night, feeling discouragement and beginning again, believing . . . All of this done TOGETHER has deeply united us. It\u2019s impossible to turn back!\u201d. Meeting 2013 \u201cLegality \u2013 the protagonists of our land\u201d turned out to be a benchmark event for the 500 young people who took part, due to the deep awareness and involvement. The words of Pope Francis in Rio echoed over the miles: \u201cThe youth are the window through which the future enters the world. Don\u2019t be left standing at the window of life!\u201d The participants were convinced: \u201cto trigger a change, we need to begin from ourselves.\u201d For young people from northern to southern Italy it was an opportunity to face up to the wound <\/em>of illegality that spreads throughout the country and heal it with love. Challenges and a call for proposals \u00a0emerged from the discussion with journalist Roberto Mazzarella. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> \"\"<\/a>Three afternoon sessions: \u201cLegality and the Environment; Legality and Welcome, and Legality and Work, involved a close discussion between the young people and presenters who are on the front lines in giving their witness in the struggle for Legality. Among these was Enrico Fontana, in charge of the Ecomafia <\/em>of the Lgambiente <\/em>Party; Fr. Maurizio Patriciello, parish priest from Caivano and stron defender of legality in the \u201cterra dei fuochi;\u201d<\/em> Dr. Antonio Marfella, oncologist, and Ivan Vitali, economist and director of the conVoi<\/em> Association. \u201cLegality is not the objective. It\u2019s not a value, but an instrument for reaching the goal that is justice<\/em>.\u201d These words, spoken by national president of the Libera<\/em> Party, Fr. Luigi Ciotti sent a thrill through the crowd. \u201cHow can love become connected to legality?\u201d the young people wanted to know. Strong words followed: \u201cThere\u2019s no legality without equality,\u201d \u201cif people\u2019s personal human dignity is not respected, then legality becomes an instrument of power and exclusion.\u201d He went on: \u201cA well-founded allegation is also a proclamation of salvation,\u201d but \u201cthe great sin of today is called delegating;\u201d whereas, every individual \u201cshould assume personal responsibility,\u201d which is the third leg of the democratic stool. \u201cWhat are we willing to pay for our choices to remain faithful to our ideals?\u201d asked the young people in a loud voice. The answers were measured against the events of the mornings in 11 work fields of lands confiscated from the mafia: we need to create community<\/em>, to become an us <\/em>that brings back legality. Temporary Procurator of the DDA of Bari, Giuseppe Gatti and RAI journalist Gianni Bianco gave testimony of this us <\/em>in the book they co-authored, \u201cLa legalita del NOI\u201d <\/em>(The legality of “us”).<\/strong> Sociologist Vera Araujo, from the Focolare Movement, coined a term that summarized the experience and content of the Meeting: the culture of relationships, which pre-supposes and goes beyond legality, but demands action and interaction for the building of community wherever there are people on the fringes of life. The young people also signed a manifesto<\/em> summarizing their commitments in five points. The next appointment is at \u201cLoppianoLab 2013\u201d<\/span> (September 20, 2013 \u2013 September 22, 2013) for \u201cSafeguarding Italy, creating the future together\u201d and Project \u201cSlot-Machine\u201d<\/span> which rewards civil virtues in regions that have given up gambling. This project will begin a tour of Italy at the end of September. A memento of the Meeting was left at Caserta, a 120m\u00b2 mural which the young people took turns painting for 90 hours. It depicts an explosion of colour spewing from a simple pipe. Watch video on Youtube<\/a> By Victoria G\u00f3mez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First national Meeting 2013 of Youth for a United World held in Caserta, Italy. A network of associations and private citizens with the support of high State institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}