Angelo Boccato

Last month, Dutch pastor Derk Stegeman finally concluded a 97 day, 24-hour per day “mass marathon” at the Hague’s Bethel Church. The exceptionally long church service was a legal and clerical experiment to protect Hayarpi Tamrazyan, an Armenian refugee that has lived in the Netherlands for nine years. After being denied political asylum, she and her family were facing deportation.
Eventually, it was successful—at the end of January, Tamrazyan and ...

The return of Christian Masset, the French Ambassador in Italy on Friday 15 February has not been the end of Italian diplomatic crises.

European Parliament president Antonio Tajani and Italy’s deputy prime minister and minister of the interior, Matteo Salvini were accused by Slovenia of “historical revisionism” following last Sunday’s celebration in Basovizza, near the Slovenian border, during National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe. Croatia also protested following the two Italian poli...

Music collector Ollie (Rory Culkin) and his boisterous Russian friend/partner-in-crime Nikolai (Robert Sheehan) travel to the Ollie’s family estate in order to steal a valuable jazz record. Their plans go awry when Ollie’s estranged grandmother Charlie (Mary Beth Peil) unexpectedly arrives at the estate accompanied by her neighbour Marlena (Elizabeth P...

Sulla mia pelle, il film sugli ultimi sette giorni di vita di Stefano Cucchi diretto da Alessio Cremonini, viene proposto stasera dal Festival dei Diritti Umani di Milano, alle 20, al cinema Anteo (ingresso gratuito, prenotazione obbligatoria). E nell’occasione saranno presenti, tra gli altri, anche la sorella di Stefano, Ilaria Cucchi e l’avvocato Fabio Anselmo.
Il film è già uscito su Netflix, dopo esser stato presentato in anteprima lo scorso 29 agosto al Festival di Venezia, nella sezione...

The meeting between deputy prime minister and minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini and Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbàn for the launch of their anti-migration manifesto, has deep ramifications, on both a European and national scale.

The Salvini-Orbàn press conference in Milan last week revealed the pair’s desire to strengthen the borders of Fortress Europe, as the two party leaders congratulated each other on their respective “successes”.

The two then presented the rhetoric of an “antti-globalist and anti-elite” front against the globalist one.......

Directorial debut by iconic Black British actor deals with criminality in Jamaica, Windrush and a very groovy Hackney in the 1970s and 1980s - in cinemas Friday, August 31st.

It’s the first time that Idris Elba gets behind the camera. And it’s only natural that cinema-lovers are very curious to see what he makes of the eponymous novel by the Jamaica-born British writer Victor Headley, published by X Press in 1992. The Hackney-born actor-turned-director transports us to 1973 in Jamaica in order...

I was born to an Italian father and a Dominican mother in Santiago de Los Caballeros, and raised by my white Italian family in a village of 4,000 people in Northern Italy.
While I have not experienced racist attacks in my life so far, I have known racist verbal abuse. The mother of a childhood friend of mine once called me “dirty n****r”, after I inadvertently stepped on the flowers in her garden; I was 6 or 7 years old, and that shocked me.
And whenever I have been stopped by policemen or ca...

Would Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements have reached the same audience if they had not supported by the widespread use of hashtags on social media? Also, how important and significant is the online space provided by social media for marginalised groups?

The Pew Research Center published a report “Activism in the Social Media Age” claiming that “roughly half of black social media users say these platforms are personally important to them when it comes to expressing their ...

Karl Marx, del quale ricorre quest'anno il duecentesimo dalla nascita, morì a Londra nel 1883 e, proprio a Londra, da oltre trent’ anni, ha luogo un festival a lui dedicato. Organizzato dal Socialist Workers Party e fondato nel 1977, il Marxism Festival ha cadenza annuale e si svolge sull'arco di quattro giorni.

Diversi i temi affrontati poco meno di un mese fa: dai rifugiati all’ islamofobia, dalle politiche di Trump alla Palestina, con ospiti provenienti non solo dall’ Europa, ma anche da A...

There have been many TV and cinema comic-book adaptations featuring members of marginalised groups in lead roles. “Black Panther” movie based on Marvel Comics character of the same name, featuring predominantly black cast, “has demonstrated the strong economic power of diversity and inclusion on screen.”

But will “Batwoman” prove that a lesbian superhero can be a commercial and critical success?

When it comes to on-screen adaptations, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and ...

It is almost over. There have been some surprises and many disappointments, many fantastic goals. The only unknown now is whether French or Croatian footballers are going home as champions. But what is not leaving the world of sport and sports journalism is racism, sexism and homophobia.

According to anti-discrimination experts advising FIFA, sexism has been a bigger problem than racism at the World Cup in Russia. Fans harassing female broadcasters while they worked are among a...

The American President Donald Trump suspended his policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border after some media and public figures clearly expressed their outrage.

There were also publications that supported Trump’s policy while a photograph taken at the border with Mexico ended up at the cover of the Time magazine showing a child, Trump and the headline “Welcome to America”.

Photographer John Moore captured the image of a two-year-old Honduran...

Everyone is talking about Matteo Salvini, as the new Italian Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, he recently called for a census on Roma people with plans to deport non-Italian Roma. “Unfortunately, we have to keep the Italian Roma,” says Salvini, a leader of the far-right party Lega.

He also made headlines by refusing docking rights to the NGO-run Aquarius rescue boat, which had 629 refugees and migrants on board. Last week the international media analysed his far-right, ...

The British Parliament Home affairs select committee called for a hardship fund to be set up by the government in order to help victims of the Windrush scandal who have fallen into financial difficulties.
“Members of the Windrush generation, who arrived in the UK from 1948, as well as their children, have been wrongly targeted and in some cases left destitute by Theresa May’s “hostile environment” policies, which require employers, NHS staff, private landlords and other bodies to ...