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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Piera, a resident in Poggio alla Croce
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In these last few years a lot has changed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things were different before, people were simpler
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They often came into the centre.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now they stay at home,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the village is less lived in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before we were all concentrated on my shop.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most of life took place around it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A place to meet, to understand each other,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe argue with different opinions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but still have a dialogue. That was life,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my view that really was.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Andrea, who conceived the welcoming project
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poggio alla Croce could be defined
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as “a small Switzerland”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Located in a beautiful spot
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between Chianti and Valdarno
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Residents are busy at work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and like to collaborate.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In summer a nice festival is organized
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attracting people from both valleys
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When problems arise, like with ice in winter,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,informations flow over the internet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looked like and ideal place
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then in April 2017 the “bomb” went off:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thirty migrants to be hosted in the “palace”,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a former hotel middle of village
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It sounded as if a spaceship full
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of little black men was about to land
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Piera
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black men are coming. Black men are coming.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are all with our hairs raised,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very worried, me too to be honest because
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you hear a lot of good
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also bad about these youngsters
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Andrea
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The strongest reaction, intense and wide,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was an immediate refusal,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a “belly” reaction that caused
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an immediate decision
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to collect signatures against,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in less than three days
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,230 signatures were collected
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even though the Poggio’s residents
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are around 190.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Attilia, a teacher in the the school for migrants
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A first meeting was held
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one and half year ago in summer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the migrants arrived,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we did not know them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had no face for us, they had no name
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t live in Poggio alla Croce,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I come from a nearby village
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the meeting there were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some very aggressive people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess they were sincerely scared
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Martin, parson of Poggio alla Croce
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their reaction was not due to being bad.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Behind there was also a reality
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that must be told. It must be told that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,none was pepared because none
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had been alerted that these foreigner,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these migrants were coming
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paolo, a resident in Poggio alla Croce
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone started collecting signatures,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I agreed only because I wanted to know
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where would these kids be hosted,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what did they come for then it became
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clear that this was not the reason
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they did not want to welcome them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I said my signature was extorted
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was not in agreement any more
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Luana, a resident in Poggio alla Croce
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They told us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“in a year time we’ll remind you of this..
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are scared..
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have an 18months old little girl
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who won’t be able to walk the streets anymore”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I refused to sign in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and became the black sheep
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paolo
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are black, and that may be difficult to fathom
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Integration is not easy, not easy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also on their side
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Attilia
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a bad feeling around,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a terrible atmosphere
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My legs trembled, truly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I recognized kids that I knew
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they were little children.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now as grown ups they were scared
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said they did not want the migrants
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because their life would change,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would not be possible
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anymore to go quietly around in Poggio.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No more walkabouts but they shouted
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all this in a really aggressive way..
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I started to tremble and was unable
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell what I meant,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I felt very sorry to see children
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had grown up together
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accustomed to sharing…and I remember
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were also coloured children
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our classes and they all played together
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now I was frightened
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by what they had become
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was more scared of them than
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the coming migrants because
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could sense a rage and violence
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that really frightened me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,\NAndrea
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the spaceship
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with its little black men finally landed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we managed to organize
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a first meeting in a room under
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the church that our parson Martin
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put at our disposal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the whole project.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sitting on chairs in a circle
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all mixed up some of us,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of them, we played a bit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We sticked a piece of paper on the wall
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and each and one of us started to write
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Andrea Formiconi, italian, speaks italian”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then casually pointed the felt-pen towards
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one or the other and they wrote in turn
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each and one of us wrote his name,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which country he came from,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which language he spoke,,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A simple exercise that opened
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a whole world, a universe
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it turned out that with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fourteen-fifteen of them there were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,twelve-thrteen languages spoken
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That some of them were illiterate,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could tell by the unlikely way they
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brandished the feltpen in their hands,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact they did not write but
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,drew their name. At the same time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of them attended school
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to one exreme there was one kid
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had escaped while in his fourth year
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Mathematics at university.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This helps understand the enormous
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fan of different human stories and situations
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hiding behind this stereotype that we call
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with just one name: the migrant..
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which prompts the image of one
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little black man, the same, and his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,standard story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Absolutely not like that !
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Malo’, a teacher in the school for mugrants
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three of us that embarked in this adventure
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the “little school of Poggio alla Croce”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without really knowing what to expect.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We felt the urge to do something
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help these youngsters,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we thought that teaching them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,italian language was the thing to do
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also to improve their trust in themselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we are scared of them blacks,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are scared of us whites
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are afraid of us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The funny thing is that a lot of people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were involved who had nothing .
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do with teaching.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People like Marcie who is canadian
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with very little italian but
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she taught italian.. and Willy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is still with us who reads
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and does dictation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and anything else with them