Addiopizzo, Sicily

Addiopizzo (Goodbye Pizzo) is a grassroots movement established to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay "pizzo" –Mafia extortion money. It is a grassroots social-conscience motivated consumer movement analogous to Fair Trade. The group, led by a generation whose adolescence was characterized by the murders of anti-Mafia judges, journalists and businessmen, operates in the Palermo metropolitan area, traditionally a Mafia stronghold.

Addiopizzo Travel provides ethical tours of Sicily,  taking tourists to those businesses who have said “no” to the Mafia’s requests for protection money

                   

jpr: This in a land where women have been murdered for stealing lemons.