-Epidemia 01:
Gli ulivi di Puglia al tempo della Xylella

Nel 2013 il batterio Xylella fastidiosa, subspecie pauca è stato rilevato in Puglia, e la sua presenza è stata subito messa in relazione ai disseccamenti degli ulivi segnalati dagli agricoltori nelle campagne di Gallipoli, nel Salento. Secondo le leggi dell’Unione Europea la Xylella è un “patogeno da quarantena”, cioè un organismo da tenere fuori dello spazio comunitario in ogni sua forma, poiché è ritenuto una causa potenziale di danni enormi all’ecosistema e all’economia di interi territori.

-The LILT of Lecce

The LILT (Lega Italian Lotta ai Tumori) is an association of cancer doctors, patients and former patients. Its provincial chapter of Lecce is especially active, putting in place a vast range of activities from high-level cancer care both in hospitals and at home, to awareness spreading, fundraising and even investigating the environmental causes of cancer, for example through an analysis of pollution levels in the soil of one of Italy’s worst “clusters” of high cancer rates and mortality.

-Taranto, protest against the steel factory

4th of May, 2019: Protest against the former ILVA steel factory in Taranto. The protest was organized by a group of young activists from the city, many of whom are living or studying somewhere else, together with a wide coalition of environmentalist and territorial groups from all across Italy.