Nuoveradici.world Young lawyer, creator and promoter politically of social inclusion, Othmane Yassine is in his second term as a municipal councillor of Fermignano, a small town in the Marche region. He was one of the speakers at the workshop organized by NRW in Genoa “Diversity leadership in active politics” He began to do politics following his restless spirit as a 25-year-old in a region governed for the last ten years by the Northern League Moved also by a feeling of social rejection that he had never experienced before he says he “arrived from Casablanca in ’97 and as a single foreigner in practically every context of everyday life I experienced a forcibly rapid integration” someone from the Northern League of Fermignano put a leaflet in his hand that read “Give Italians boys preferential access to the gym” a gym that a year earlier had been requested by the Islamic community to pray at the end of Ramadan This was the starting point for his sense of identity but above all the beginning of his political career: “For the first time I felt the rejection of who I am It made me ask the first questions about identity and politics.” Othmane Yassine decided to approach the PD which at twenty-five offered him the chance to run on a civic list linked to the party as often happens to those who live the richer singularity also carries a double weight on its shoulders “I accepted with the anxiety of responsibility knowing that if I were successful with my ideas I would become a positive and replicable model but if I failed I would hamper the way to other foreigners in politics Everyone would use my example to say: Remember what a disaster it was when we nominated Othmane Yassine?” he recalls That symbolic role certainly weighed on him especially during the election for his first term, “There are so few of us of foreign origin in politics that, when we run, ethnic minorities necessarily feel represented”. But Othmane is also the face of a politics that does not only represent a niche. Like other young politicians that NRW has followed the real change lies in representing everyone in making social inclusion without blinders and being the representatives of all citizenship Yet Othmane is very aware of the importance of coming from a minority and the political responsibility that comes with it of a certain sensitivity towards needs that an indigenous person does not see We see things that those born with the fundamental rights already guaranteed by their predecessors who created their society according to their cultural needs Othmane has been a councilor of Fermignano for five years now and in recent years he has tried to bring the concept of diversity into a wide-ranging policy which makes Fermignano an example to follow Three years ago he created the charter of mayors for social inclusion in the Euro-Mediterranean area  He explains how this is an idea “born from the fact that municipal offices and administrations suffered the phenomenon of migratory arrival without knowing it both from a linguistic point of view and at the level of service provision” He then decided to involve the department of sociology of the University of Urbino and conduct an analysis of the needs of the region “From there we asked the university to draw up an action plan that we brought to the municipal administration The project then involved 24 mayors of the region who participated in the conference and signed a charter in which they committed themselves to implementing the recommended actions The mayors’ charter was also presented in Brussels and won the Amif (Asylum Migration and Integration) fund of the European Union through the PISTE (Participation in small and medium-sized towns: Experiences “putting diversity in the position of subject is already a change We of the second generation have never done much in politics.” Among the initiatives launched in these 5 years was the opening of the first official mosque in Pesaro Urbino “and that had never been perceived by other councilors or by previous administrations” With the blockade of national and regional borders and in the absence of an Islamic cemetery in the region those who had a faith other than Christian did not know where to bury their loved ones In Fermignano we opened the first provincial Islamic cemetery At the workshop Othmane spoke of I for diversity “a diversity no longer internal to nations but European where he gets married and has a child in turn» “imposes a different discourse and a different policy instead of providing a certain culture and identity” We have to get used to a broader concept of citizenship an administrative tool that grants you certain rights a politics that detaches itself from the identity dimension and does not defend only an ethnicity which for the new generations of Italians seems to be already on the agenda the less progressive or less attentive to social change How to make diversity in politics a non-niche discourse  “Everything will change when diversity is not seen as a luxury IBAN: IT80I0303201602010000164262 CARTA DI CREDITO Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker has chosen to end his suffering once and for all by means of deep and continuous sedation Ridolfi has been confined to his bed for the last 18 years because of tetraparesis, a condition which means he cannot move his legs and arms The decision was announced by Ridolfi himself in a video broadcast by the Luca Coscioni Association He said that he fulfils all the conditions for assisted suicide however the state was ignoring him He was therefore choosing deep sedation even if it prolongs the pain for his loved ones The Association explained that the decision was announced after the Regional Health Service in the country took 40 days to communicate the decision by the Ethical Committee about the use of medicine which can lead to euthanasia it did not indicate which type of medicine could be used and how much the dose should be Fabio’s lawyers said that according to the sentence of the Constitutional Court he had the right to choose assisted suicide but was being denied this right because of delays and continuous obstacles by the state “which although it declared that he had fulfilled all the requirements of the Constitutional Court “Fabio deserves every respect…and should not be ignored by the state which is cruelly allowing him to suffer continuously by not guaranteeing his legal rights Every day that passes is a day of suffering for Fabio and he has therefore decided that he does not want to wait anymore but will proceed with deep sedation and stop all treatment which is keeping him alive”