Even the Quirinale statue is getting into it

As U2's Bono asked of us: "We're not asking you to put your hand in your pockets but we are asking people to put their fist in the air. This is your moment. Make history by making poverty history."

Making History in the Belly Button of the World

July 2nd 2005
Those of you on my email lists probably could have seen this blog coming, but even had I not been fanatical about getting everyone I know to sign the One or Live 8 petitions, I would still have to write about this concert. Because this day stands out as the single greatest event I have ever participated in, and just as I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and where I was on September 11, 2001, I w ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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