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April 2025 Fighting anti-Italianism, stereotypes and cancel culture: meet Andrè DiMino

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Perhaps the most important of the things we struggle to understand here in Italy, regarding the needs and struggles of the Italian American community, is the constant fight against stereotypes and cancel culture that has affected and still affects our brothers and sisters of Italian American nationality. However, this is a fundamental issue, one th...

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UNICO National celebra la comunità italoamericana durante l'incontro di metà anno a Chicago e si prepara per la prossima 102ª Convenzione Annuale Il Presidente della NIAF Robert Allegrini presenta a Roma l'accordo con la Società Dante Alighieri e il Lazio come Regione d'onore 2025 Morinello eletto presidente della New York Conference of Italian Am...

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The Italian American One Voice Coalition is calling out New Jersey Assembly candidate Romi Herrera for using offensive Mafia-related stereotypes in his latest campaign statement. Herrera maligns certain individuals as those “…who follow the lead of old white Italian men….” and for “…kissing the ring…” - a phrase unmistakably linked to the portrayal...

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The Italian American One Voice Coalition (“IAOVC”), America’s largest independent Italian American anti-bias organization, was recently advised that the Rockaway, NJ School Board would AGAIN be considering eliminating the Columbus Day holiday on the 2025 – 2026 school calendar. It was just a short three years ago that this was under consideration b...

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The Italian American One Voice Coalition (“IAOVC”), America’s largest independent Italian American anti-bias organization, has elected the New Hampshire State Legislature and Governor Chris Sununu to its “IAOVC Hall of Fame” for passage of HB 1014, which mandates, by state law, that cities and towns are now required to recognize Columbus Day on the...

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The September Solidarity Session – “Bridging Cultures Against Cancel Culture” - will be held on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 8 PM Eastern. These monthly Sessions bring different groups together in unity to oppose the cancel culture affecting so many.Leaders of the Native American Guardian’s Association (“NAGA”) and representatives of Italian Am...

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Two bills that were advancing through the Massachusetts House and Senate, seeking to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day, are now all but dead-on-arrival thanks to a viral petition spearheaded by affiliates of the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations (COPOMIAO).  COPOMIAO President Basil M. Russo, along wit...

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The August Solidarity Session will be held on Tuesday, August 20, 2024 at 8 PM EDT. Join with leaders of the Native American Guardian’s Association (“NAGA”) and representatives of Italian American organizations from around the country at the next monthly Zoom meeting to collaborate in opposing cancel culture. These successful monthly virtual sessio...

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The annual COPOMIAO meeting, held on June 1 in NYC in Little Italy's Italian American Museum, demonstrated a national coalition on the rise through the steady leadership of Basil M. Russo, who was unanimously elected to a third consecutive term by his peers. The Italian American Museum is not yet open to the public, as crews wrap up with a years-lo...

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