'' I wear these boots - a symbol of the suffering and hope of the Royal Country that enters the Chamber with me to legislate - in memory of those who died from work, those who are discriminated against and those who are hungry.
With his feet in the mud of reality and the spirit in the sky of hope '',
Aboubakar Soumahoro
writes on his twitter profile .
Italian-Ivorian trade unionist committed to the defense of the 'invisible', migrants and laborers exploited in the fields and forced into ghettos without services and without rights,
Soumahoro
was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on the Green and Left Alliance lists
I wear these boots - a symbol of the sufferings and hope of the Royal Country that enters the Chamber with me to legislate - in memory of those who died from work, those who are discriminated against and those who are hungry.
With feet in the mud of reality and the spirit in the sky of hope. # Noiora pic.twitter.com/If6rG4zoaH
- Aboubakar Soumahoro (@aboubakar_soum) October 13, 2022
Born in 1980 in the Ivory Coast, he arrived in Italy at the age of 19 and graduated in Sociology from the 'Federico II' University of Naples with full marks with a thesis on the condition of migrant workers in Italy.
At the forefront against the exploitation of laborers and the hiring first with the Usb and then with the Lega Braccianti of which he is co-founder, he is very present in Puglia in particular in the 'ghettos' of Foggia where thousands of seasonal laborers find refuge in precarious conditions. in harvesting in the fields.
Soumahoro has been the promoter of numerous demonstrations since in August 2018, 16 migrants crammed into some vans on their way back from the fields died in two separate road accidents.
In July 2019, after yet another act of violence against some migrants who were going to work, at the helm of about sixty laborers, he symbolically occupied the Basilica of San Nicola in Bari to ask for "decent working and living conditions, a house, compliance with contractual rules, issue and renewal of residence permits within certain times ".
The protest ended after a meeting with the bishop who assured his commitment to support their requests.
But Soumahoro's union activities have been numerous.
When a farmhand was killed in Calabria in June 2018, he asked for and obtained from the Conte government the creation of the operative table to combat illegal hiring and exploitation in agriculture.
Among other things, he chained himself near Montecitorio to ask for a meeting with the Prime Minister, he organized and promoted in 2020 in Piazza San Giovanni, in Rome, the Popular States of the Invisibles.
In Borgo Mezzanone, in the Foggiano area, on the occasion of the birth of the Labor League, he founded the first "Giuseppe Di Vittorio House of rights and dignity".
He also wrote a book, 'Humanity in Revolt.
Our fight for work and the right to happiness '', published by Feltrinelli.