Marco Travaglio

For many people he's one of the very few heroes left in Italy, Beppino Englaro had been hardly fighting for 17 years, trying to gain his daughter Eluana, the right of not being "not dead  and life orphan", as Guido Ceronetti wrote.
A battle of civilization spread all over the world. His battles still carries on, thanks to "Per Eluana Foundation", to prevent other people his daughter's destiny

One of the most brillant journalists of Friuli, since very young news editor of "Messaggero Veneto", cooperates now with "l'Espresso", one of the most prestigious Italian headings. Committed in the fight for homosexual rights, he was one of the Gay Pride promoters in Venice. He published the essay "L'ingorgo", and most recently, "Affa Taffa".

Francesca Spinelli

Journalist and translator. Cooperates with Internazionale, where she has worked till 2009 as copy editor and responsible pf twp columnsm, "Italieni" and "Idee".

Mihai Mircea Butcovan

was born in 1969 in Oradea, in TRansilvania, Romania. In Italy from 1991, lives in Sesto San Giovanni and works in Milan as professional educator in the field of drug-addicts recovery and interculturality.
Poet, narrator, cooperates with Internazionale and Il Manifesto and many others.

Gabriella Kuruvilla

Born in Milan in 1969, from an Indian father and Italian mother.
Has a degree in architecture and professional journalist, cooperated with several magazines and newspapers, among wich "Il Corriere della Sera", "Marie Claire" and "D di Repubblica".
At the moment he dedicates himself only to the art of painting and narrating, publishing some novel collections like "E' la vità, dolcezza" (Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore-
2008).

Tahar Lamri

is a writer born in Algeria in 1958. He has lived in Libia, FRance and since 1986 in Ravenna, where he has a job as market consultant with foreign countries, and he's a literature and Arabic language teacher by the Italian Institute for Africa and Far East.
He published the novel "I sessanta nomi dell'amore" for Faraeditore.

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Is one of the big friend of the festival, and a faithful cooperator.
Secretary of Forum Droghe and guarantor of Firenze's prisoners, already Justice deputy secretary of the first Prodi's government, he established many civil rules of our country, for instance the one about mother prisoners and the incompatibility between jail and Aids sufferers.
Among his essays ,the most important "Never ending Justice" and "The modern State".

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Is an Italian priest, foundator and animator of San Benedetto's community, at Genova's port. It's an old festival's friend who participated many times.
It's always very committed into peace and emarginated's recovery, for example helping Italian homosexuals. He Has been a leader spirit of many anti-prohibitionist protests.

Ilaria Cucchi

Stefano Cucchi's sister, the poor guy dead in prison after he's been arrested for 20g of cannabis, whose post-autopshy pictures, spread by the parents, show the corpse signed by evident wounds, traumas and fractures. Especially following the terrifying declaration of the deputy secretary of PDL Carlo Giovanardi, who claimed Stefano died because of "drugs", as he was "anorexic, drug addict, and HIV positive".
Ilaria from the day of her brother's death fight to obtaind jutice and truth.

Furio Honsell

The mayor of Udine. IT expert, mathematician and academician, since 2001 "Magnifico Rettore" of Udine's university. Usual guest of the TV programme "Che tempo che fa?" he published several essays about science

it's the director and the foundator of Affaritaliani.it, which is the first online Italian newspaper with an average of 100.000 daily; Born in the far 1996 with a big advance about the times of web-spreading.