Day of remembrance and commitment
21 March, first day of spring, Free (associations, Nomi e numeri contro le Mafie) celebrates the Day of memory and Commitment in memory of the innocent victims of the mafia, for in the day of awakening of nature, you renew the spring of truth and social justice ...
From 1996, every year in a different city, There is a national event in which reads a list of about 900 names of innocent victims, the presence of widows, children without fathers, mothers and siblings. There are the relatives of known victims, those whose name calls for a strong emotion, and the families of the victims whose name says little or nothing. For this reason it is a civic duty remember them all and to always remember that in those names and their families we have to the dignity of the whole Italy.
The most significant national demonstration in Locri in the presence of President of the Republic and Luigi Ciotti, President of free; also in Naples were held major celebrations and very crowded with students, teachers, representatives of associations, citizens and representatives of institutions.
Significant was the simple initiative ofIC IN. Ristori, in the historical centre of Naples which houses many students from Fork neighborhood notorious for the strong presence of organized crime;
A Plexus of the Institute which is on the main road to Fork was devoted to young Annalisa Durante (student) killed by mistake in 14 years, the 27 March 2004 during a shootout between Camorra, right in the main street of the neighborhood.
Middle School guys with the flag and the flag of the school paraded along the streets of the neighborhood, you are then arranged along the path up to the Annalisa Durante, on either side of the road, forming a sort of double security cordon, holding a sign with the name of one of the many people murdered by crime.
After a short, between the two wings of middle school students, you removed the procession of children/elementary school and bringing in your hands, each of them, a small map of flowers depicting the life and hope. Protected by the greatest, the children are then entered in the schoolyard During, a forest of children, hands, colorful flowers and voices ....
The older kids have read the MIC slowly the names of the dead killed by crime and each of them has handed a note with the name of a victim and he applied with the help of a toothpick, on the plan of an elementary school child, who will care throughout the school year ... this way the memory of the killings will remain alive over time ...
The people of the neighborhood, This has met with silence and respect this display of affirmation of life and love in an area characterized by violence and abuse of power that, for a day, became a symbol of life, of memory, of hope
