Performance artist for world peace & awareness raped and killed
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Very sad story about such a good cause, awareness about the Italian artist Pippa Bacca. Truly a devastating story with a tragic end. Here are some excerpts from the NYtimes article
(full story @the link)
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“She thought that in the world there were more positive than negative people, and that it was right to be trusting,” said Rosalia Pasqualino, a sister of Ms. Bacca, whose real name was Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo. “Trust is a very human factor, and she believed that to understand people, you had to get to know them.”
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“Just read any newspaper — people get killed for playing music too loudly, and women get raped in the subway; there are fiends everywhere,” Ms. Pasqualino said. “This was not a question of Turkey or of religion.”
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Ms. Moro said she and Ms. Bacca had dreamed up the performance piece at a party last spring. Wearing different wedding dresses designed by Manuel Facchini of the fashion company Byblos, the two artists were to travel — at times together, at times separately — through northeastern Italy, Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories and Syria, before arriving in Israel. Along the way they would stop at galleries, foundations or cultural centers to meet with local artists, craftsmen and midwives.
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“In every country, including Turkey, we hitched rides with amazing people, from students to farmers to businessmen,” Ms. Moro said. “Some offered us lunch. Others didn’t even ask why we were dressed like that; they didn’t even care.”
(full story @the link)
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“She thought that in the world there were more positive than negative people, and that it was right to be trusting,” said Rosalia Pasqualino, a sister of Ms. Bacca, whose real name was Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo. “Trust is a very human factor, and she believed that to understand people, you had to get to know them.”
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“Just read any newspaper — people get killed for playing music too loudly, and women get raped in the subway; there are fiends everywhere,” Ms. Pasqualino said. “This was not a question of Turkey or of religion.”
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Ms. Moro said she and Ms. Bacca had dreamed up the performance piece at a party last spring. Wearing different wedding dresses designed by Manuel Facchini of the fashion company Byblos, the two artists were to travel — at times together, at times separately — through northeastern Italy, Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories and Syria, before arriving in Israel. Along the way they would stop at galleries, foundations or cultural centers to meet with local artists, craftsmen and midwives.
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“In every country, including Turkey, we hitched rides with amazing people, from students to farmers to businessmen,” Ms. Moro said. “Some offered us lunch. Others didn’t even ask why we were dressed like that; they didn’t even care.”
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Oh, this is so sad. It really hits home here. My heart to her family and friends...
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- WorldPeaceTV
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To quote Mr. Marley, “Conquer the devils with a little thing called love”
It is heartbreaking that an individual standing up for trust would have her message so horribly tainted. She stood to humanize others, strangers, and now her death only recommits us to a culture of fear.
E' un peccato. She will be missed. -
I send my condolences to her family. But we as a community must pick up her torch for peace and help start the wave to change our world.
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she was hitch hiking across europe and the middle-east...alone. I don't think the pope would even have great odds with that.
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Truly devastating. As you've quoted, she thought that there were more positive people than negative ones and despite the horror of how she was let go from this world, she proved her theory right.
There were more individuals willing to open their doors, feed her, give her a ride to her next destination and connect with her than to hurt her. I realize that may sound weird but I definitely believe she had more positive encounters than negative ones. It just so happens that the negative is what took her life.
I pray for her family and that they continue to strive for peace despite this. And I hope for others as well willing to take up the cause of peace. There are more of us good ones than the bad ones. To outnumber them is to truly conquer them. -
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I hope the stinging urge to murder whoever did that to her doesn't make me one of the bad ones.
This is very sad. -
Trust, it is such a fundamentally human thing, but so is murder, unfortunatelly.
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