South Pagoda

(Trailer)
In 1979, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
decided to deploy Cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe
as a response to the modernization of Soviet medium-range nuclear forces.

A popular international movement
against this deployment swept across Europe,
including the sicilian town of Comiso, at the souther tip of Sicily,
the heart of the most productive agricultural area of Southern Italy:
the projected deployment site for 112 Italy's missiles.

Construction of the Comiso base began in 1982.
At the same time, thousend of anti-nuclear activists descended on Comiso
to establish huge international summer peace camps.

In April 1982, more than 60,000 demonstrators from all over Europe converged on Comiso.
Most were young people carring out direct nonviolent protest actions at the site of the military base.
Rev. Jinyu Morishita, of the Nipponzan Myohoji buddhist order, was one of them.

After almost 20 years living in Comiso, in 1998 he has finally finished building a "south" peace Pagoda right there on a small hill dominating the Comiso valley and the old military base, as a sign of every day effort for peace.

A Mon Amour Film Documentary Film Project
Director: Gabriele Gismondi
Photography: Ruggero Di Maggio & Gabriele Gismondi
© 2009 Mon Amour Film

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Peace
• South
• Pagoda
• Buddhist
• Comiso
• Sicily
• Sicilia
• Morishita
• NATO
• nuclear
• war
• Soviet
• Union
• Hiroshima
• Nagasaki
• Mon
• Amour
• Film

[maunacenter]

‎"La pace è una armonia con gli altri… La pace è una gioia lieve senza distinzioni…senza divisioni… La pace è una forza che non vede ostacoli… La pace è una sinfonia di colori senza limiti… Come il silenzio,la pace è la tua voce interiore,che ti avvolge…Possa ogni uomo e donna sulla terra sentire armonia… Possa il nostro cuore,creare pace,dentro e fuori… Possa la pace prevalere sulla terra… (Sasha e Renato - Maunacenter)