Republic together, a construction site of ideas for the future of Palermo

The many realties of Palermo meet, starting at 5 PM, at the Santa Cecilia theater for Republic together, a work of ideas for a possible city. An agora that gathers managers, administrators, mayors, rectors, public prosecutors, and volunteers to shape a certain idea of Palermo, real, feasible, possibly better. To open the session of meetings is the documentary film by Ezio Mauro "Republic 50", with the intervention of director Stefano Cappellini. Then it will be time for debates: the first, at 5:40 PM, "A heritage to (re)establish", with the interventions of Luca Bianchi, director of Svimez, Angelo Luca, director of Ismett, Annalisa Tardino, president of the Palermo port authority, and Nico Torrisi, at the Catania airport. The moderator is the vice-editor of Palermo Massimo Lorello. This is followed by the dialogue between the architect Mario Cucinella and the vice-director of "Republic" Stefania Aloia to talk about "The cities of the future". At the end, "The struggle to regenerate cities" with the chronicler Claudia Brunetto, the mayor Roberto Lagalla, the rector of the University of Palermo Massimo Midiri, the superintendent of cultural heritage Selima Giuliano, and the director of the jurisprudence department of the University Lumsa Giampaolo Frezza will dialogue. At 6:45 PM, there will be a discussion on security with the chief public prosecutor of Palermo Maurizio de Lucia and the deputy editor of Palermo Emanuele Lauria. At 7 PM, "The gamble of the suburbs": the correspondent Salvo Palazzolo will moderate the meeting with the president of the Laboratorio Zen Insieme association Fabrizio Arena, the president of the Padre Nostro Center of Brancaccio Maurizio Artale, and the principal of the Pertini-Sperone institute Antonella Di Bartolo. The program continues with the debate on the topic "The crossroads of elections in the coming year" with Davide Faraone, group leader of Italia viva in the Chamber, Peppe Provenzano, MP, and Carolina Varchi, MP for Brothers of Italy. The political and deputy chief service reporter and moderator is Antonio Fraschilla. To conclude the work "The future starting from the roots," with the journalist and writer Eleonora Lombardo who will address the topic along with Stefania Auci, author of the bestseller saga "The Lions of Sicily", and singer-songwriter Lello Analfino. Cappellini: "Republic newspaper is different, the story of the cities is fundamental for the growth of Scalfari's project" "The live story of the cities with the presence of local offices was a fundamental moment in the growth of Republic and Eugenio Scalfari's project - notes the director of Republic, Stefano Cappellini when opening "Republic Together" - Republic was born as a different newspaper, which, in addition to reporting the facts, tries to explain why they happen. It did so during the tragic period of terrorism, with the advent of spectacle politics." For Cappellini there is now another challenge for the newspaper: "This also concerns democracy. I believe there has never been a moment in the second post-war period when the very concept of democracy has been so under attack as it is now. Wars have returned to be the solutions to solve the problems of autocracies. From Ukraine to Gaza, the hotbeds of war are spreading and the United States, which have always been the bastion of democracy, see a president in charge whose lucidity can be doubted but not his rapacity. A short circuit that sees Western democracies struggling more and more, with citizens increasingly in difficulty while autocracies move forward launching the message that one man in charge solves the citizens' problems better than democracies."