User talk:Progressi

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Biography

Grandson of an Italian-Eritrean activist, who was shot dead by the Shifta terrorists in Asmara in 1950 due to his fight for the independence of eritrea from Ethiopia.

He started his journalistic career in 1990s as a labour writer in Marche region, central Italy, where he reported about employment-related diseases and accidents, and wrote a book about about steelworkers exposure to Asbestos in the 1980s. He had his degree in Economic Sociology at Urbino University and his Master's in Society and the New Media at the University of Leicester (UK). In 2001 he started to contribute to UK's daily The_Guardian from the G8 in Genoa, and he for Italy's daily il Manifesto writing a weekly column "Pianeta Lavoro" for about six years.

Since 2007 he trains journalists and media professionals from developing countries about international labour standards on behalf of the International_Labour_Organization (ILO) and more recently on Sustainable Development Goals for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. As a journalist he writes about human rights, migration and international affairs for Repubblica.it with his own blog Lavoro Dignitoso blog, for The_Guardian and The New York Times.

In 2012 he founded and edited the international news site Equal Times in Bruxelles creating a network of over 70 correspondents especially in developing countries, so to offer a news source alternative to the mainstream news agencies. The same year he had his first book published by Policy Press "The Immigrant War".

In Geneva, since 2014 he has coordinated communications and campaigns of Public Services International, to promote quality public services with a keen interest in energy democracy, tax justice, universal access to healthcare, as he did with the Ebola case in Western Africa .

Activism in Italy

Back in Rome at the end of 2015 he launched a campaign to defend human rights in Eritrea , with the Eritrean Priest and Nobel Peace Prize candidate Mussie Zerai. In Italy he also founded the NGO noprofit Progressi launching over 40 online campaigns and mobilizing more than 150,000 people on the issues of climate change, civil unions, refugees' rights, fair pensions, casual work, earthquake prevention. He is also committed to obtaining the right to citizenship for Eritrean descendants of Italians during the colonial era. He also involved in the networks of African-European descendants against rampant racism and discrimination .