The presentation to Più Libri Più Liberi of ‘This book is illegal. Contains words that undermine security’, a volume edited by Osservatorio Repressione e Volere la Luna, scheduled for today at 7pm, will not be held. The associations announced it on social media together with the speakers Federica Borlizzi, Antonello Ciervo and Giovanni Russo Spena. «The decision was taken as a firm act of protest against the participation in the demonstration of the Passaggio al Bosco publishing house – we read – which disseminates openly Nazi and fascist content in its texts. We are not available to share any cultural space with organizations that promote and spread ideologies based on hatred, discrimination and violence.”
Edizioni Tlon has also communicated that some of the events organized by them will not be held or will have a different form from that initially planned. «This year at the Più Libri Più Liberi fair there is a publisher who publishes texts apologizing for Nazism – they write -. We at Edizioni Tlon consider this a very serious fact, and even more serious is the lack of responsibility demonstrated by the Italian Publishers Association in response to the letter of protest that we signed together with other publishing houses, male and female authors.” For them, “setting a boundary” is not “censoring, but taking on the responsibility of saying that not everything is equivalent.” Therefore, «the meeting on ‘Senza legge’ (today at 1.30 pm) will also be open to talking about the matter. The ‘Mozart in Rock’ meeting by Loredana Lipperini (scheduled for tomorrow at 4pm) will be converted into a place of public assembly” and “at 3pm we will join the protest carried out by some publishing houses and to further demonstrate our dissent we will darken our stand for half an hour”.
While «the initially scheduled presentation of the book ‘All men (can change things)’ by Irene Facheris (scheduled for today at 5.30 pm), as per her choice, is cancelled”; contacted by ANSA, Facheris limited herself to declaring: «I don’t share spaces with fascists».
«I am with Zerocalcare. And I’m with Augias. I too, in my own small way, will not be at Più Libri Più Liberi today, where I was supposed to speak at the Arena Repubblica Robinson” at 5.30 pm, and «I too, like Michele and like Corrado, do not expect Passage to the Bosco to be closed by force due to its declared neo-Nazi-fascist and anti-Semitic sympathies. But I too refuse to share the same agora». Thus begins the long letter with which Massimo Giannini announced in Repubblica his intention not to participate in Più Libri Più Liberi today. «The right has a very unscrupulous way of asserting the ‘new hegemony’ – he writes – they invoke free speech but in alternating current. Aping Trumpian America in the fight against Wokism and political correctness, the Brothers of Italy claim the right to say and do any atrocity, from the historical ramblings of La Russa to the macabre celebrations of Acca. Larentia”. “The ‘legitimate impediment’ to inhabiting the same public space with those who exalt the Blut und Boden, praising the sovereignty of blood and soil and the superiority of the nation and the race – says Giannini – for me does not arise from ‘fear’ but from culture. In this case not the political one but constitutional respect, that is, of a system of values and principles in which we all decided to recognize ourselves, when in 1948 we signed the pact that signed us. league.”