by Valerio Viale

Recently, at City Hall East, Press Conference Room, it was held a discussion among representatives from the Indigenous Community and the Italian-American one, in Los Angeles. The first motion, filed by L.A. Council member Mitch O'Farrel (who represents the 13th District of the City) in November 2015, aims at establish Indigenous People's Day as a legal City holyday.

As an implicit side effect, the city holyday of Columbus Day, held the second Monday in October, seems destined to be wiped out from the calendar and replaced by the newly instituted holyday. Los Angeles would not be the first to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous people's Day. Other US cities, the likes of Berkeley, in California, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Seattle, Washington, Phoenix, Arizona (just to name a few), took the same measure.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano