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Ateo-114-2017-5.Pdf Bimestrale – Poste Italiane s.p.a. – Spedizione in Abbonamento Postale – D.L. 353/2003 (conv. in L. 27/02/2004 n° 46) art. 1, comma 2, DCB Firenze n. 5/2017 (114) B € n . i 4 m 5 , L e 0 / 2 s 0 E t 0 r 1 a U l 7 e A N A ( d R 1 e O 1 – l U 4 l ’ n U ) i S o A n e A T d R e R g l i A E t e i e d B e g l i A A g n T o s t T i c i R A a z i G o n a l i s L t i I S I S N E 1 1 2 9 - 5 6 6 X 2 n. 5/2017 (114) L’ATEO n. 5/2017 (114) COMITATO DI REDAZIONE “L’ATEO” È IN VENDITA ISSN 1129-566X Feltrinelli Ancona: Corso Garibaldi 35 Stefano Bigliardi Bari: Via Melo da Bari 119 EDITORE [email protected] Bologna: Piazza Ravegnana 1 UAAR – Via Francesco Negri 67/69 Caserta: Corso Trieste 7 Enrica Rota Cosenza: Corso Mazzini 86 00154 Roma [email protected] Ferrara: Via Garibaldi 30/a Tel. 065757611 – Fax 0657103987 Firenze: Via de’ Cerretani 40/R www.uaar.it Stefano Scrima Genova: Via Ceccardi 16-24/R [email protected] Lecce: Via dei Templari 9 Milano: Via Foscolo 1-3; Piazza Piemonte 1 DIRETTORI EDITORIALI Modena: Via Cesare Battisti 17 Francesco D’Alpa Napoli: varco Corso A. 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Vigilio 23 Udine: Edicola Carnevaletti, Via Bartolini 14 Nell’interno vignette di: pag. 3, 41: Turco (Maria Turchetto); pag. 3-5, 6, 8, 10-12, 18, 43: UAAR Vicenza: Galla Libreria 1880, Corso Pal - (https://www.uaar.it/ ); pag. 7, 20, 23-26, 28-29, 37-39, 44: fonte ignota; pag. 14: IHEU; pag. 15: Ser - ladio 11 gio Staino; pag. 16: Joshua Held (da www.aduc.it ); pag. 22: Gava (da gavavenezia.it ); pag. 30: Vauro; Vittorio Veneto (TV), Libreria Fenice, Via - pag. 32: da Don Basilio ; pag. 34: da L’Asino ; pag. 40: Enzo Apicella; pag. 42: Moise le della Vittoria 79 (www.flickr.com/photos/moisevivi/ ); pag. 44: AGJ ( http://vignetteagj.blogspot.it/ ); Viterbo: Libreria dei Salici, Via Cairoli 35; Etruria Libri, Via Cavour 34 pag. 45: Giancarlo Colombo; pag. 46: Gianni Carino. n. 5/2017 (114) 3 EDITORIALE 19 ottobre 1987 : pide che vi ho detto – avere quella tes - no, per portarle avanti, a parte l’UAAR. nasce informalmente l’associazione. sera in tasca. Poi venne L’ATEO , la rivi - Insomma mi persuasi che nell’UAAR si Il segretario è Martino Rizzotti. sta mi arrivava a casa (infatti ho la col - potesse portare avanti una giusta e uti - (da https://www.uaar.it /uaar/storia/ ) lezione completa dal n. 0), la leggevo con le militanza. Così diventai attiva, parte - piacere e mi venne voglia di scrivere cipai a varie iniziative, scrissi altri articoli. qualche articoletto. Non l’avessi mai fat - Lettori cari, amici, micioni, to! Baldo mi prese di mira – e quando lo E poi ecco – altra casualità – proprio in fa, credetemi, è impossibile sfuggirgli. occasione del mio cinquantesimo com - Eccoci a festeggiare il trentesimo com - Cominciò a chiedermi articoli e io glieli pleanno, mi propongono di dirigere L’A - pleanno dell’UAAR! In alto i calici! E scrivevo, insomma prese il via una col - TEO . Ve l’ho già raccontato, ero in an - magari leggetevi tutta la cronistoria laborazione abbastanza regolare. Intan - no sabbatico, ero rilassata, ero conten - contenuta nel sito citato in esergo: è in - to, coinvolta com’ero, mi misi a riflette - ta (i miei amici mi avevano tributato un teressante! festeggiamento fantastico): accettai. Accettai con piacere. Ed eccomi anco - Questa del trentennale UAAR è ra qui, con voi, a sostenere LE NOSTRE proprio l’occasione per rivelarvi BATTAGLIE. una cosa che finora non ho detto a nessuno (la sa Bal - Ma davvero, basta parlare di me. do, il caro redattore capo, Anzi scusatemi, mi sono fat - ma gliel’ho detta solo il ta un po’ prendere la mese scorso). Sapete da mano dai ricordi. Ve - quanto tempo sono niamo al numero, de - iscritta alla nostra be - dicato appunto alle neamata associazione? nostre battaglie, raccon - TRENT’ANNI! Sì, me li so - tate da chi ne è stato promotore, or - no fatti tutti e trenta, fin dal - ganizzatore e protagonista. l’inizio. Ab origine . Sì, sono un fossile umano. Delle primissime ci parla Romano Oss, cui si deve l’idea di dotare l’as - Non l’ho mai detto a nessuno: pri - sociazione di una rivista: è il papà mo, per non figurare troppo vec - de L’ATEO , insomma, rivista nata – chia; secondo, per non tirarmela come Romano ci racconta – tra le po - col prestigio dell’anzianità di ser - lemiche e ancora viva e vegeta. Gior - vizio; terzo, perché la mia così ri - gio Villella ci racconta invece della salente adesione all’UAAR non è campagna dell’ Ateobus , campagna poi così meritevole. È casuale ! Ma io il che a causa dei veti e delle censure non caso lo amo, ben più della provvidenza. giunse all’attuazione ma di cui hanno parlato giornali di tutto il mondo (devo Ecco come sono andate le cose. Mia so - aggiungere tra parentesi che Giorgio rella Margherita buon’anima ( absit iniu - Villella è un vulcano di idee feconde: a ria verbis ) era collega e grande amica di lui si devono tra l’altro i Darwin Day e il Martino Rizzotti buon’anima ( absit iniu - Premio Brian ). E poi i tanti altri nostri ria verbis ). Quando a Martino venne la impegni: per l’ora alternativa all’IRC, per grande idea di fondare l’UAAR, mia so - lo sbattezzo, per la “scrocifissione” dei rella non solo me ne informò, ma mi fe - luoghi pubblici, per la stipulazione di ce immediatamente la tessera, pensan - un’Intesa con lo Stato, per la solidarietà do che la cosa mi sarebbe piaciuta.
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