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Gianfranco Pancino: Ricordi a piede libero. Book presentation

Today, May 19, 2021, I begin to write. Once again, during the sleepless hours of last night, I felt the urge to start writing about my life. The fear that my memory, already diminished, might no longer support me in remembering; the fear of having lost my command of Italian, which flowed so easily forty years ago, before colliding with the obstacles of new languages. What also held me back was the sheer quantity of experiences, sensations, adventures to recount… (in Italian)

8, 9, 10 March 1974 – Women’s Bulletin No. 1

Drops of Memory.
Women’s struggles ran through the entire decade of the 1970s and beyond.
We are publishing in full the Women’s Bulletin of March 1974, produced by the Veneto Committee for Wages for Housework.
The document not only demands that the State provide a wage for domestic work carried out by women without pay, but also highlights several moments of struggle in the Veneto region.

For example, the struggles of the cleaning workers at the Faculty of Urban Planning in Venice, who fought for better working conditions and higher wages; or those of high‑school students campaigning for the abolition of the compulsory black apron.
And again, the struggles of university students living in Colleges and Student Housing who, unlike their male counterparts, were required to clean their rooms without compensation (in Italian).