Graziano Cecchini is an Italian artist and activist best known for his works of "vandalism" art.
Davide Cesare
Davide Cesare, also known as Dax was an Italian anti-fascist activist from Rozzano, who was stabbed to death by two far-right activists in Milan, the night of March 16, 2003. Cesare was brought to the hospital but died in the ambulance.
Luca Casarini
Luca Casarini is an Italian activist and former proponent of the Tute Bianche movement. Casarini was influential in the development of the "white overalls" movement, that practiced social and civil disobedience while dressed in white overalls and padding.
Nicola Chiaromonte
Nicola was an Italian activist and writer. In 1934 he fled Italy for France, after opposing Benito Mussolini's fascist government. In Paris he contributed to Giustizia e Libertà. During the Spanish Civil War, he flew in André Malraux's squadron, fighting against fascist supported General Francisco Franco.
Gino Strada
Gino was an Italian war surgeon, human rights activist, peace activist, and founder of Emergency, a recognized international non-governmental organization.
Antonio Stango
Antonio is an Italian political scientist, an expert of human rights at international level, a writer and editor. After leading several non-governmental organizations, he is currently the President of the Italian Federation for Human Rights.
Teresa Sarti Strada
Teresa was an Italian teacher, pacifist and philanthropist who, together with her husband Gino Strada, founded Emergency, an NGO dedicated to providing free medical treatment to the victims of war, poverty and land mines. She was the organization's first president
Ginetta Sagan
Ginetta was an Italian-born American human rights activist best known for her work with Amnesty International on behalf of prisoners of conscience
Domenico Lucano
Domenico is an Italian politician, who served as the mayor of Riace between 2004 and 2018. He gained international recognition for settling refugees in his village, which was experiencing population decline.[1][2] In 2021 he was sentenced, in first degree, to 13 years and 2 months in prison for white-collar crimes "committed for personal enrichment, at the expense of the migrants
Chiara Lubich
Chiara was an Italian teacher and author who founded the Focolare Movement, which aims to bring unity among people and promote universal family.
Ferdinando Imposimato
Ferdinando was an Italian magistrate and the honorary president of the Supreme Court of Italy
Mariateresa Di Lascia
Mariateresa was an Italian politician and writer, activist, human rights' supporter and advocate of non-violence.
Sergio D'Elia
is an Italian politician, activist and former left-wing terrorist, now a human rights supporter and advocate of non-violence. D'Elia spent 12 years in prison for his affiliation to the terrorist organization Prima Linea; in 1986 he abandoned the armed struggle and Marxist ideology by adopting a left libertarian position, and soon joined the Radical Party (a socially liberal and libertarian political organization. Then, he founded in Rome (1993), with his first wife Mariateresa Di Lascia, Marco Pannella and former EU commissioner Emma Bonino (all politicians of Radical Party), the non-government group Hands Off Cain ("Nessuno tocchi Caino"), which fights against the death penalty and torture in the world.
Vittorio Arrigoni
was an Italian reporter, writer, pacifist and activist. Arrigoni worked with the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in the Gaza Strip, from 2008 until his death. Arrigoni maintained a website, Guerrilla Radio, and published a book of his experiences in Gaza during the 2008–09 Gaza War between Hamas and Israel. Arrigoni was the first foreigner kidnapped in Gaza since BBC journalist Alan Johnston's abduction in 2007. He was subsequently killed by Palestinian Salafists] His murder was condemned by various Palestinian groups.
Nicola Lamberti
Among the Italian activists is Nicola Lamberti (twenty-four years old), a student of Environmental and Territorial Engineering, and also a green influencer. On instagram, Lamberti tells us that his intent is to “explain how to protect what we do not want to give up”. It is here that he opened the column Che stagione è, where he initially gave dietary indications on fruit and vegetables, but which he then expanded into a column on sustainable nutrition. In November 2021, the product of his collaboration with Utilitalia was released: Green Dream is a journey through Italy of services and renewable energy. It is a web series that talks about Italian excellence in the field of sustainability, and which sees him as the protagonist, together with Margherita Granbassi, as host.
Federico Mascolo
Federico Mascolo is a climate policy analyst, and works at the Climate Action Network Europe in Brussels. He is also the creator and editor-in-chief of Duegradi.
Caterina Sarfatti
An expert in urban development, local environmental policies, and international policies on migration and climate, Caterina Sarfatti is director of the Inclusive climate action program of the international organization C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. The intent of the program is to provide support to cities to plan and implement interventions against the climate crisis. In particular, we focus on creating plans that are fair and inclusive: which therefore take into account the needs of all strata of the population (not just the privileged classes). According to the United Nations, it is the vulnerable and marginalized categories that suffer most from the consequences of the climate crisis, risking to slip below the poverty line.
Mariasole Bianco
Mariasole Bianco is a marine biologist, and is a national and international reference point for policies related to the protection of the marine environment and sustainable development. In 2013 he founded Worldrise , an ONLUS that develops projects for the conservation and enhancement of the marine environment through a path focused on awareness, creativity and education. The projects are carried out by involving young students and recent graduates, to facilitate the acquisition of professional practical knowledge, with the aim of training new generations of activists.