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...Italian government officials, Danilo Dolci's methods for helping the poor of Sicily have always been embarrassingly direct. Sicilians were hungry, so Social Worker Dolci became a hunger striker. When they were sick, he converted a three-room apartment into a clinic. To give jobs to jobless fishermen and farm hands, Dolci set them to work on one of the island's tattered roads in the hope that the government would pay them later; he was arrested and convicted of "invading government ground" (TIME, April 9, 1956). Most recently, in his crusade for decent housing, 33-year...
...anarchist," Dolci testified. "I am a man who desires that all his fellow humans participate in a minimum of civilized life. When winter came 13 persons committed suicide out of despair. Another murdered his brother to eat his brother's store of food. Hunger-driven men became thieves ... If I am wrong, please correct me, but I believe that for men to stay un-working with folded arms for six months in the year is a crime against society and against its foundation unit, the family. The Italian constitution states that men have a duty and a right...
...judge interrupted: "When Police Chief Di Giorgi ordered you to suspend work on the road, why did you make no answer?" "If someone ordered me to kill you, Mr. President,'' Dolci replied softly, "I would not obey. To fill up the holes in a road in Partinico is a good, useful, almost indispensable act. That is why I didn't stop...
...Insult. A battery of Italy's leading intellectuals, among them Authors Carlo (Christ Stopped at Eboli) Levi, Alberto (The Woman of Rome) Moravia, Ignazio (Fontamara) Silone, declared openly for Dolci. "The world of culture is on Danilo's side," said Silone. But the world of authority was not: the public prosecutor demanded eight months' imprisonment for Danilo Dolci...
After five hours' deliberation, the court acquitted Dolci and his two dozen co-defendants of resisting and insulting the police, but sentenced them to 50 days' imprisonment (time they have already served) and a 20,000 lire ($32) fine for "having invaded ground that belonged to the government...