Laura E. Ruberto

I didn’t know the artist and was intrigued enough to go down a wormhole so thank you for posting it!! 😊🙏

Great stuff but he was Armenian not American 😊

ICE Agents Grab Five-Year-Old Boy, Use Him ‘As Bait To Knock On the Door’ To Find Immigrants Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took a five-year-old boy named Liam Ramos – and his father – who had just arrived home from the child's school.

It shouldn’t be controversial to insist that Democrats vote to rein in this lawless and sadistic agency.

Demand that your Members of Congress use their leverage with the upcoming Homeland Security funding bill to get ICE Out For Good: act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

More than 5,000 people here in Powderhorn Park protesting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis.

#FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump

Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940

Now that these works have entered the public domain, put them to good use in our annual Public Domain Film Remix Contest: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

Submit your short film by 11:59pm PST on January 7.

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history

"One protesting strategy has been shown time and again to be most effective in the US: nonviolence" 🙄

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.

The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

My recent review of Chasing the Lung Block directed by Stefano Gabbiani and co-written by Stefano Morello and Ilaria Tonelli

Out in the Italian American Review

@veritas44.bsky.social

Parlare inglese non è cosa nostra: gli italiani ultimo Paese in Europa per conoscenza della lingua
https://www.repubblica.it/economia/2025/11/19/news/parlare_inglese_non_e_cosa_nostra_gli_italiani_ultimo_paese_in_europa_per_conoscenza_della_lingua-424990989/?rss

DHS now terrorizing Charlotte NC

Italy’s centenarians grow in number as another 2,000 reach the milestone The southern European country has more than double the number of people aged over 100 than it did in 2009 The number of people in Italy living to aged 100 continues to grow sharply, with more than 2,000 reaching the milestone age in 2025, the vast majority of them women. There are now 23,548 residents in Italy who are 100-years-old or over, compared with 21,211 in 2024, according to the latest figures from Istat, the national statistics agency. Italy has more than double the number of centenarians than it did in 2009, Istat said. Continue reading...

Italy’s centenarians grow in number as another 2,000 reach the milestone

Cover of Italian American Review, Volume 15, Issue 2, Summer 2025 Multi-colored yellow background featuring the art work of Vincent Baldassano—an abstract house design.

Italian American Review 15.2 is now available! Check it out for a new article, new notes, book reviews, and a film review. Featuring contributions from @bgfirmani.bsky.social, @laura-e-ruberto.bsky.social, and more. cc: @calandrainstitute.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/iar/issu...

Trump defends troops in US cities after Hegseth decries military DEI efforts President and defense chief delivered pair of incendiary speeches to a crowd of hundreds of generals and admirals

Rolling out fascism

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

Italian American Review Vol. 15, No. 1, a special issue on periodicals in the Italian Diaspora, also contains three new book reviews and a film review. cc: @calandrainstitute.bsky.social and @josephsciorra.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/iar/issu...

Heavy scuffles in #Milano during the strike for #Gaza (via x . com)

Milano, caos al corteo per Gaza: assalto alla stazione, scontri pro Pal-Polizia | Piantedosi: "Isolare i violenti ma non vieteremo i cortei"
http://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/25_settembre_22/milano-manifestazione-gaza-pro-pal-scontri-stazione-0a42d9bc-02c2-44fd-a68a-8080ec949xlk.shtml

MILANO, 50.000 IN PIAZZA PER GAZA

Folla oceanica oggi al corteo dello sciopero per la Palestina. Assedio alla Stazione Centrale con violenti scontri

#FreePalestine
#StopBombingGaza
#CeasefireNow
#StopGenocide
#GlobalSumudFlotilla

Check out the 3D model of the Calandra Institute's exhibit "Creativity and World War II Italian POWs in the United States" curated by Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra. @laura-e-ruberto.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social

Cover of Italian American Review, Volume 15, Issue 1, Winter 2025 Multi-colored yellow background featuring the art work of Vincent Baldassano—an abstract house design.

In Italian American Review 15.1, Marcella Martin focuses on a late 20th-century periodical published at a time when many were predicting the end of the Italian ethnic press in the US. cc: @calandrainstitute.bsky.social and @josephsciorra.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/iar/arti...

How the Italian anthem 'Bella Ciao' is connected to Charlie Kirk's killing From its association with workers' rights in the 19th century to its inclusion in a video game, the famous old Italian song "Bella Ciao" has an evolving legacy.

Yes of course I figured 😊 - here’s a good piece @npr.org ran Friday in case you / others missed it www.npr.org/2025/09/12/n...

Yes! I (and others) have !

www.google.com/books/editio...

Happy to share that the exhibit I curated w/ @josephsciorra.bsky.social , Creativity and World War II Italian POWs in the United States, has been extended through November 26, 2025. Check it out!

Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm
25 W 43rd St Fl 17, New York, NY
@calandrainstitute.bsky.social

💜 seeing this! #Italianpows

Thanks to all these people and more for your advocacy around her history continuing to be remembered and studied @anteenuke.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @monicabee.bsky.social @ewingbrooks.bsky.social and others who I’m missing on Bluesky right now !

Overlooked No More: Tina Modotti, Whose Life Was as Striking as Her Photographs

Glad the @nytimes.com finally recognized Tina Modotti by running an obituary of this immigrant activist and artist.

I—along with others—have been submitting her to their “Overlooked No More” series

I’d love to know how they ultimately decided to run one
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

“Martin Scorsese” di Lorenzo Marmo (a cura di) Marsilio, 2025 - Un'immersione nel cinema del grande regista, fra i suoi film di denuncia sociale e riflessione sul senso di fallimento e del peccato, che hanno fatto della violenza un campo di indagi...

nuovo libro a cura di Lorenzo Marmo su Scorsese con un capitolo mio sul film "Domenica in chiesa, lunedì all'inferno" / New book out edited by Lorenzo Marmo un Scorsese with a chapter of mine on "Mean Streets" - Marsilio Editori
www.sololibri.net/Martin-Scors...

very cool to see this 3-D version of the exhibit I curated with @josephsciorra.bsky.social -- on view in person until September 26 in NYC @calandrainstitute.bsky.social

Asylum-seekers thought they were following the rules. Now some are told to start over NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters notifying them that their asylum cases have been dismissed because they have not yet received a screening interview.

NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters notifying them that their asylum cases have been dismissed because they have not yet received a screening interview.