"We want to try to unite different paradigms of two social sciences that have always been complementary: anthropology and economics. On the one hand, Vito Teti's research on the meaning of abandoned places, his breadstones that speak of the past but also of the future, slow relationships, the interior landscapes of those who remain in uninhabited Italy and uncultivated lands; on the other, the visions of Stefano Zamagni, Luigino Bruni, Leonardo Becchetti and Sister Alessandra Smerilli for a new Economy at the service of man and territories, a new Economy 4.0 that responds to the real needs of women and men in the era of crazy consumption, energy and food waste and speculative finance, an Economy that is the mainstay of contemporary civilization, centered on community bonds, and not a muscular exercise aimed at excluding vulnerable people and territories. Staying does not mean, therefore, surrendering to the progress that advances and passes over the heads of the populations of depopulated lands, but an extraordinary effort for new dreams. No longer the dream made of industrial warehouses to offer new opportunities for income and work, but dreams generated by new productive and cohesive forms for the enhancement of landscapes and the genius loci, for a circular economy, for a distribution of wealth and resources that does not create the imbalances that we experience today between the very rich and the very poor. The small rural communities want to talk about all this, those who have decided to be Welcome, to be ports in the land and not walls raised to divide from fake invasions. The Small Municipalities of Welcome return to question themselves to question Italy and the West. They are small, but their questions of meaning belong to everyone, their questions are stones of bread thrown into reality 4.0 so that someone, picking them up, can review the road to take”.
From 27 to 29 September 2019, the third edition of “Porti di Terra”, the “Welcome and Welfare Festival”, will take place.
Usually held in the month of May, this year PortidiTerra welcomes us in September, the month of wine and the wait for oil, of the new beginning of the working, school, academic year. September is the month of programs, good intentions, projects. It is the month of the first cool after the summer heat and before the great cold.
September is therefore the right month for this year's PortidiTerra.
We started from the flood of mud and hearts of 2015, from the action of Chiesa in uscita of Caritas Benevento and in 2017 we made the first PortidiTerra.
We arrived at PortidiTerra 2018 with the “Manifesto for a Network of Small Municipalities of Welcome”, with which we wanted to launch an “alert” to the Mayors and administrators of small municipalities in Italy so that they could look at possible and already funded social planning to support their communities and to rethink them in terms of territorial development.
PortidiTerra 2019 is, today, the “place” where this pastoral action first and then political, the people, the scholars, the Mayors, the citizens, the Associations, the fragile people and the people brought back to life, the mothers, the students, the migrants, the young graduates who have not fled from our villages, meet again.
To plan a new dream of the future. To start again. To start again from the “small”.
Great revolutions happen in the small. It is in the small that “dreams” are transformed into “signs”. It takes courage to dream a dream. It takes heart for a dream to become a sign.
In this pastoral and political action two numbers are important: 255 and 22. The first is a number composed of three numbers and 255 people. The second is a number composed of a proximity distance.
The “Salt of the Earth” women and men are two hundred and fifty-five. If you put them in a circle they embrace the Duomo of Milan. And instead they have chosen the small squares, the lands, the small communities, to dream and make a dream come true.
It is from the “small”, therefore, that we must start again. From the “economy of relationships” that in the “small” finds expression and capacity. Because there is another very small number that for us takes on an enormous value: 22. Sennett was right: beyond 22 meters of distance, we are no longer able to distinguish, and therefore recognize, the face of a person.
We have invested in this: in “small big numbers”.
Ten years of abuse and control over his ex-partner: a 40-year-old man arrested in Benevento.
This is yet another instance of gender-based violence in the Campania region. A 40-year-old man, resident in Benevento, has been arrested and placed under house arrest on charges of aggravated mistreatment of his ex-partner, whom he stalked and assaulted for over ten years. The order was issued by the investigating judge of the Court of…
Milan – Stopped in a supermarket forecourt with a suspicious backpack, without identification, and using a false name. This marked the end of yet another criminal activity for a 22-year-old man from Benevento, arrested Wednesday in Milan for aggravated fraud against an elderly woman. This is his eighth arrest in recent months in various cities…
Benevento - "It's a nightmare. Don't touch the children." These are the words of the mother of two one-and-a-half-year-old twins who, until yesterday, attended the Benevento nursery school that has become the subject of a serious judicial investigation. The woman is one of approximately thirty people gathered outside the facility's entrance after the discovery...
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