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Michael Leonardi is a long time political activist originally from Toledo Ohio. His activist work has included serving on the national council of the Green Party of the United States in the early years of its formation and working on past Nader campaigns. He has campaigned for a plethora of ecological causes, including anti-nuclear work around the Davis Besse and Fermi 2 Nuclear power plants. Michael has lived in Italy for the past 8 years where his activist work has continued. He served on the coordinating committee of the United Citizens for Peace and Justice organization in Roma working against the terror wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and calling for an end to the inhumane and brutal occupation of Palestine. With US citizens for Peace and Justice Roma, he has also been active in the campaign to stop the expansion of the Dal Molin United States military base in Vicenza. Michael now lives in Calabria in the South of Italy with his wife and baby girl. He became the proud father of Gaia Valmaree on July 15 of 2008. Michael currently teaches English for the faculty of Political Science at the University of Calabria in Cosenza and at the Vocational high school for training hotel and restaurant workers on the coast of Maratea in Basilicata. His activist work is continuing in the south of Italy where the story of an ecological catastrophe under the waters of the Mediterranean is coming to light.
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