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The art of silence: communicating by keeping silent

Inspired and dedicated to the poetic force of women in black (in 1988 in a square of Jerusalem by the meeting of seven Israeli women who stay silently for an hour every Friday with signs that say “STOP THE OCCUPATION” to the Israeli Government’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, borns a wave that propagates into other twenty-four cities including Tel Aviv, Haifa, London, Amsterdam, New York, Rome. The movement of DiN (women in black) becomes the symbol, the stimulus for the establishment of women’s groups in different parts of the world that feature this desire to build peace, embracing the expression of their methodology: present in body and soul dressed in black, silent impose themselves and confront the looks of the people. The art of communicating in silent.
“Only later learned the art of silence. That useful weapon!. ” (women of Belgrade October 12, 1996)
“(…) a vision of a world that has the ability to choose and to change this company founded on oppression and on power, on the economic and social injustice. The desire to be protagonists of this change. ” (Luisa Morgantini) “