Word: dolci
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sicily's angriest and least violent man, Danilo Dolci, 38, was staging a Gandhi-style fast to dramatize the need for a dam across the lato River, which could irrigate some 25,000 acres of parched, stingy land in the northwest. The government assigned funds for the dam two years ago. but, Dolci laments, "Not one stone 'has been turned." Danilo and the government had counted without Sicily's most implacable foe of progress: the Mafia...
...practical idealist, beefy Danilo Dolci quit his career as an architect to come to Sicily's "triangle of hunger" in 1952. He battled hard against poverty, unemployment and disease and, in the process, has stirred Italy's conscience. "In the last two years," he says, "more than 2 billion cubic meters of water have been wasted in the sea in western Sicily alone. Figuring what the land would have been worth if it was watered, that's a loss of $160 million-while poverty continues to erode hundreds of thousands of families." At week...
...local and national governments have given Dolci little except harassment. Indeed, when asked what the government has done for him, Dolci usually answers, "I was in prison and they fed me for two months." His passport was lifted at one time, and one of his books was officially condemned as "obscene." As his staff prepares its regional development plans for all of the area covered by the five centers, it seems inevitable that Dolci's principle of non-violence will meet a real test. As he himself says, "The political, social, criminal, and reliigous authorities are one and the same...
...Dolci is in this country seeking trained personnel (especially anthropologists interested in cushioning the impact of technology), advice, and financial aid. Characteristically, he rejects offers of volunteers without some special skills: "the Peace Corps is sending five people over to us, but it is to train them, not to help us." He is disappointed with the lack of any current regional planning projects in America--"you had TVA once, but that is over...
...Whether Dolci is a Mad Apostle remains to be seen. Certainly there is hard calculation and a method in his madness, but just as certainly he is attempting peaceful change of a people that does not really understand what change is. Perhaps "change" is a wrong word--what he says he is trying to do is "give them spectacles to see with...