Women from Modica, Ragusa, Pozzallo, and Scicli also took to the streets for peace.

A tenacious weave of threads, colors, and civic engagement to oppose armed violence that inflames the Middle East and threatens the planet.

On Saturday, March 28, in Modica, Pozzallo, Ragusa, and Scicli, the participants in the national network “10 100 1000 squares of women for peace” will take to the streets with their handmade creations: tapestries, flags, carpets, and sheets.

The initiative, which will simultaneously involve over 125 municipalities across Italy, is not just a demonstration, but the result of weeks of shared work.

To sew, embroider, and weave together has become a political act: to oppose the ethics of care to the destructive logic of war.

The path initiated in the Sicilian squares will culminate on June 20 in Rome, where thousands of women of all ages and backgrounds will gather for a large national mobilization.

The knitted, crocheted, or painted works – the fruit of “being together” – will be united in a single, immense collective message.

“Women, those who daily sustain life, do not surrender to dehumanization and resist the false and deadly idea of the inevitability of war,” say the promoters of the Iblea network.

The document released by the women of Modica, Pozzallo, Ragusa, and Scicli expresses deep concern for the international military escalation.

The cry that will rise from the squares on Saturday, March 28 is a call to responsibility against what they describe as a “tide that threatens to overwhelm every life.”

The goal is clear: to transform fear into action; to overcome the anguish for Middle Eastern scenarios through participation; to challenge patriarchal logic and oppose the strength of relationships and justice to the law of the strongest; to urge the Government's commitment, demanding a clear stance for an end to rearmament and the rejection of war as a means of conflict resolution.

The squares of southeastern Sicily will become open-air laboratories: citizens are invited not only to observe but to “finish together” the displayed works, adding their own point to a weave that aims to be, above all, a powerful signal of hope.

“We want, we demand, we will ensure that life goes on!” is the slogan that concludes the appeal of the Women for Peace of the area, determined to demonstrate that care is the only true alternative to destruction.