Ligabue’s rock, back in Piazza San Giovanni after 17 years, Tananai’s enthusiasm, Lazza’s engaging strength, Emma’s ability to inspire, Francesco Gabbani’s lightness, Mr. Rain’s sweetness. And lots and lots of rain on the evening of the May Day concert in Rome. In the issue dedicated to the Constitution by the unions, also with the introduction of the hashtag #ildirittochemimanca, fearing that it could be an issue of political controversy and attacks on the government, it was more of a return to the music party and the demand for labor and women’s rights.
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Three hundred thousand visitors in the square who were not discouraged by the rain that continued throughout the day. Hostess Ambra Angiolini, for the sixth consecutive time (and it’s a record), flanked by Fabrizio Biggio. Excited at the opening, she recalls Lorenzo Parellithe 18-year-old who died in January 2022, on the last day of his transition from school to work.
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Still excited, she remembered the kids who don’t feel like superheroes and can’t handle the pressures of life. She has always been the spokesperson for (denied) women’s rights. “Lawyer, engineer, architect. All those vowels at the end of words are going to be weapons of mass distraction? They make us lose sight of the facts and the facts are that one in five women does not work after having a child earning one fifth less than a man holding the same position. Take back the vowels at the end of words, but give us 20% salary back.”
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Among the interventions “spoken” on the concert stage was that of the physicist Karl Rovelliwho continued the attack on military spending and “war instrument sellers” who build instruments of death “to kill each other”. “We are heading towards a war that is mounting and instead of looking for solutions, countries are challenging each other, invading, stoking the flames of war and international tensions have never been higher,” the science communicator said at the time pointed, without naming him directly, the finger at Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, who in the past was President of the Federation of Italian Aerospace, Defense and Security Companies: “In Italy, the Defense Minister was very close to one of the largest arms factories of the World, Leonardo”. A little later, Ambra intervened to emphasize that “there is no censorship here. I am sorry that since this is not a political debate, when someone is attacked, as in Professor Rovelli’s speech, there should be a debate that there wasn’t.”
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But the bad weather has not discouraged thousands of people (ANSA)
The orchestraccia has the burden of christening the stage first with a revised version of the Italian anthem and with the ubiquitous Bella Ciao. In the afternoon, artists like Aiello, Wayne, Rose Villain, Gaia, Alfa, and construction site took turns. The climax the evening before with Ligabue, who introduced his Il sale della Terra with a tirade against the hunger for power “the oldest drug in the world”. “In general, the one who has more wants more and, like almost any drug addict, is often capable of anything to avoid falling into withdrawal symptoms. Faced with an overdose of a certain power that he is capable of abusing, another power is required, that of making your voice heard and not allowing anyone, for example, to try to erase and rewrite your story like they should like not to allow anyone to try to take away your right to love, always in a consensual way of course, but to love who you want, how you want, as much as you want and start a family you want and maybe able to support her with a decent salary”. Emma read a poem by Virginia Woolf, Stay alive, a dedication after a medley of her hits (Silly Joy, My Town, Looking for Love, I Am Beautiful). to the public and to herself after her recent father’s death. Lazza and Tananai did not hold back and sang in the rain. Mr. Rain, who has always been sensitive to mental health issues, wanted to take the stage to commemorate Barbara Capovani, who lived in Pisa killed psychiatrist before he sang Superheroes, while the Mare Fuori star Matteo Paolillo (denied in a controversy over some photos) he was reading a song by Pier Paolo Pasolini.