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...Danilo Dolci is a Christian with deceptively simple ideas about living his faith. Last winter, noticing the bad condition of the roads near the town of Partinico and the great numbers of unemployed in the town itself Dolci decided to kill two bad birds with one stone. He gathered together some 200 of the unemployed fishermen and farmhands and went to work on the roads. They would work without pay, he said, in the hope that the government would later reward them. When cops objected to this unauthorized labor, Danilo Dolci refused to stop and was clapped into jail. Last...
...Blood is frequently spilled in Italy in clashes between Communists and police," wrote Journalist Vittorio Gorresio of Turin's influential La Stampa. "Peasants occupy land; workers occupy factories. But nothing happens. No one is indicted. But against Dolci, who has never had recourse to violence, there has been an obstinate, merciless fury of authority...
...Bell. Last week, after almost two months in prison, Danilo Dolci was dragged, in chains, into the large hall of Palermo's Lo Steri to stand trial for his illicit road-repairing...
Three weeks ago Dolci gathered 200 jobless fishermen and farm hands armed with picks and shovels, and set to work on a local road in need of repair. "We are, not asking to be paid for our work," he insisted. "But of course we hope that when it is completed, the authorities may agree it was necessary and give us something...
Instead, the authorities sent truckloads of carabinieri out to stop the work and haul Danilo Dolci off to jail. There, charged with "subversive agitation," he languished last week awaiting trial amid cries of protest in press and parliament. The Communists of course tried to claim his cause as theirs. But, said Italy's highly influential newspaper, Corriere della Sera, though Dolci's social ideas might be a "bit oversimplified," they are undoubtedly Christian-"the duty of all to help personally those who suffer...