Emilio Lonardo
Emilio Lonardo (born 14 December 1958 in Avellino, Italy) is an Italian writer, politician, ecologist.
Biography
Emilio Lonardo was born in Avellino, a town near Naples, on 14 December 1958, the third child and son of two teachers. In 1971 his family moved to Bologna, where his elder brothers attended the University of Bologna School of Medicine and Surgery. He attended the upper-school focusing on humanities “Marco Minghetti” and received a degree in Political Science before earning a master's degree in European Union law.
Ecology
In 1980, Lonardo helped found Legambiente, the largest Italian ecologist association and based in Rome. He was for two years on the editorial staff of the monthly "La Nuova Ecologia", which was based in Milan. From 1987 to 1996 he was the chairperson of a public utilities group that has become one of the largest Italian utilities sector companies, HERA S.p.A.. He has been the chairperson of the Municipality of Bologna Commission, primarily involved in city planning and the environment.
Meditation
After the turn of the century he met John Earl Coleman, a prominent Vipassana meditation teacher, and became a follower of the traditional Burmese teacher Sayagi U Ba Khin.
Politics
In the 1970s he was General Secretary of Federazione Giovanile Socialista di Bologna. He joined the youth movement , and lead the delegation of Federazione Giovanile Socialista at the funeral of the student Francesco Lorusso, who was shot and killed during a street meeting on March 11, 1977 by a bullet fired by a policeman. In 2004 he was elected in the Bologna Municipal Council for Democratici di Sinistra Party. In 2009, his re-election was marked by support from more than just the party receiving the third highest vote that election to the council. But his battles about the transparency of political privileges prompted the Democratic Party to work against his nomination in the next election. He is also member of the Fabian Society. In 2017 the Congress of Democratic Party elects him in its National Assembly.
Books
His first book, Sulla rotta dei ribelli, analyzes the causes of the Italian ruling class political crisis and presents potential solutions expressed through the biographies of political rebels and the recollections of his journeys in Cuba and in South-East Asia. This book reaches the second edition after a few months since it had been published. In the book it is worth noting the theory expressed by the author on the meaning of two important episodes that preceded the attacks of 11 September 2001 in New York and Washington. According to the author, the destruction of the "twin" Buddhas of Bamyan by the Taliban would herald the destruction of the twin towers of New York by the Al Qaeda bombers. Likewise, the killing on 9/9/2001 by Ahmad Shah Massoud, former Minister of Defense of Afghanistan and head of the Northern Alliance fighting the Taliban, had announced the air attack on the Pentagon, as well as eliminating the greatest Afghan military genius to which the Western reaction would certainly have been linked to the 9/11 attacks. In other words, Bin Laden and Mullah Omar would have given two signals to indicate symbolically where they would have struck 11 September 2001.
Biography
Emilio Lonardo was born in Avellino, a town near Naples, on 14 December 1958, the third child and son of two teachers. In 1971 his family moved to Bologna, where his elder brothers attended the University of Bologna School of Medicine and Surgery. He attended the upper-school focusing on humanities “Marco Minghetti” and received a degree in Political Science before earning a master's degree in European Union law.
Ecology
In 1980, Lonardo helped found Legambiente, the largest Italian ecologist association and based in Rome. He was for two years on the editorial staff of the monthly "La Nuova Ecologia", which was based in Milan. From 1987 to 1996 he was the chairperson of a public utilities group that has become one of the largest Italian utilities sector companies, HERA S.p.A.. He has been the chairperson of the Municipality of Bologna Commission, primarily involved in city planning and the environment.
Meditation
After the turn of the century he met John Earl Coleman, a prominent Vipassana meditation teacher, and became a follower of the traditional Burmese teacher Sayagi U Ba Khin.
Politics
In the 1970s he was General Secretary of Federazione Giovanile Socialista di Bologna. He joined the youth movement , and lead the delegation of Federazione Giovanile Socialista at the funeral of the student Francesco Lorusso, who was shot and killed during a street meeting on March 11, 1977 by a bullet fired by a policeman. In 2004 he was elected in the Bologna Municipal Council for Democratici di Sinistra Party. In 2009, his re-election was marked by support from more than just the party receiving the third highest vote that election to the council. But his battles about the transparency of political privileges prompted the Democratic Party to work against his nomination in the next election. He is also member of the Fabian Society. In 2017 the Congress of Democratic Party elects him in its National Assembly.
Books
His first book, Sulla rotta dei ribelli, analyzes the causes of the Italian ruling class political crisis and presents potential solutions expressed through the biographies of political rebels and the recollections of his journeys in Cuba and in South-East Asia. This book reaches the second edition after a few months since it had been published. In the book it is worth noting the theory expressed by the author on the meaning of two important episodes that preceded the attacks of 11 September 2001 in New York and Washington. According to the author, the destruction of the "twin" Buddhas of Bamyan by the Taliban would herald the destruction of the twin towers of New York by the Al Qaeda bombers. Likewise, the killing on 9/9/2001 by Ahmad Shah Massoud, former Minister of Defense of Afghanistan and head of the Northern Alliance fighting the Taliban, had announced the air attack on the Pentagon, as well as eliminating the greatest Afghan military genius to which the Western reaction would certainly have been linked to the 9/11 attacks. In other words, Bin Laden and Mullah Omar would have given two signals to indicate symbolically where they would have struck 11 September 2001.
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