Joseph De Marzo

Born in Bari in 1973, Giuseppe De Marzo is the Director of the Gea School and founder of the eponymous association. He is an activist, economist, journalist, and writer. He worked for ten years in the field with Latin American social movements, alongside indigenous and rural populations, and was arrested in Ecuador for his activities against multinational oil companies in defense of the rainforest. In 2003, he founded the association A Sud and in 2007 the first Documentation Center on Environmental Conflicts. In 2011, he was among the coordinators of the referendum campaign for public water and against nuclear power. In Italy, he worked for Libera and Gruppo Abele, and from 2015 to 2025, he was the national coordinator of the Rete dei Numeri Pari (Even Numbers Network), which unites hundreds of social organizations fighting against inequality and organized crime. In 2020, he was the scientific coordinator of the research project "The Fullness of the Void," a study and analysis of the practices of mutual solidarity of the Rete dei Numeri Pari (Even Numbers Network), together with the Inequalities and Diversities Forum, developed by the Gran Sasso Science Institute. He promoted the creation of the Stefano Rodotà House of Solidarity in Rome, located in a property confiscated from the mafia, where various social organizations provide free help desks and services for those in need. He is a columnist for l'Espresso, and his publications include Radical Choc (2020), For the Love of the Earth (2019), The World Goes That Way (with Gianni Minà, 2017), Anatomy of a Revolution (2012), and Buen Vivir (2009).