Category: Current Affairs
Format: Essay/Paperback
Dimension: 15 cms x 23 cms
Pages: 200
Price: 16 €
Year: 2021

Review

Written by jacabook

Fingers in the pasta tells the story of the cooperatives that work on the land confiscated from the Mafia bosses near Corleone and Palermo, from the beginning until today. The story of a splendid adventure that brings dignity back to the lands impoverished by the mafia practice, both in the South and in the North of Italy. In 1995 the "Libera, names and numbers against the mafias" Association began, in Corleone, the collection of signatures for a law that required the confiscated assets of mafia bosses to be used for social purposes; the signatures collected were more than a million and in March 1996 the law 109/96 was approved at the end of the legislature. It is thanks to this law that many cooperatives have been created with public tender. The Municipalities can assign them the assets, especially real estate, taken away from organized crime. These assets remain the property of the State, which grants the cooperatives a loan for free use. The "stuff" illegally accumulated by the mafia is confiscated and returns to the public good of the community. The products of the work of these lands are then transformed to become pasta, oil, biscuits, tomato sauce, dried legumes, flours, jams, fruit juices and citrus liqueurs. In 2005 the Centopassi winery was also created, named in honor and memory of Peppino Impastato, victim of the mafia. Since 2001, the year in which the "Placido Rizzotto - Libera Terra" cooperative was founded, a lot has been done: new cooperatives were born, many people were involved as members, as workers and consumers.

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