{"id":9981,"date":"2012-04-18T13:38:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danilodolci.org\/?p=695"},"modified":"2012-04-18T13:38:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:38:28","slug":"tre-giorni-danilo-dolci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danilodolci.org\/en\/events\/tre-giorni-danilo-dolci\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Days With Danilo Dolci At \u201cBenedetto Croce\u201d School In Palermo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between the 19th<\/sup> and the 21st<\/sup> of April an initiative on Danilo Dolci took place at Liceo Scientifico B. Croce in Palermo in the central building, in the building in via Imera, and in the school annex of the prison \u201cUcciardone\u201d.<\/p>\n

Danilo Dolci<\/strong> (Sesana 1924-Trappeto 1997), the Italian Gandhi, was a sociologist, a poet, a teacher, and a non-violent activist. Native of the Trieste area, from 1952 he set up in Trappeto, impressed by the social decay of that area. Here he began an untiring work of social animation and political struggle applying the instruments of non-violence with a lot of courage and coherence (hunger strikes, demonstrations, pacific marches).<\/p>\n

Amongst the more meaningful activities that he promoted, there is the \u201cupside-down strike\u201d that brought a group of unemployed farm workers to occupy an abandoned road near Partinico in order to activate it once again. This initiative, narrated and documented in the book \u201cTrial to the Article 4\u201d, costed him a trial for the unauthorized occupation of the public property and the detention in its own jail Ucciardone.<\/p>\n

The maieutic method, that comes from Socrates\u2019s philosophy, is an important characteristic of Danilo Dolci\u2019s social and educative work: instead of dispensing prepackaged truths, he thinks that no true change can prescind from the involvement and the direct participation of the people concerned. His idea of progress emphasizes the local culture and competences, the contribution of each collectivity and each person.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreative and strict at the same time, Danilo Dolci\u2019s path was able to combine project and utopia. His life and his work showed us the possibility of a hard but concrete way, for a future that differs from standardization, from breaking-up and from violence\u201d (Giuseppe Barone).<\/p>\n

Programme<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, 19th<\/sup> of April<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a09.00 a.m, auditorium of the central building of Benedetto Croce school, via Benfratelli<\/span><\/p>\n

Conference<\/strong> with Pasquale Beneduce, Alberto Castiglione, Giuseppe Barone, and Amico Dolci, for the students of \u201cB. Croce\u201d school.<\/p>\n