(ANSAmed) - PALERMO, JUNE 20 - After returning home from the funeral of the Italian judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and of those of his security escort - assassinated on 23 May 1992 by the Corleonesi Mafia in the Capaci bombing, on the A29 motorway near the town of Capaci -, a young woman from Palermo hung a sheet outside her balcony expressing her rage.
    "Palermo Demands Justice" was written on it.
    This was the first action in a collective uprising of consciences that shaped the 'Sheet Committee': a group formed spontaneously including intellectuals, university professors, journalists, sociologists, and professionals.
    Thirty years after that experience, the memory of it is being evoked in an exhibition sponsored by Sicily's Istituto Gramsci open from June 23 to July 23 at the Cantieri Culturali in Palermo.
    As part of the exhibition, there are materials, documents, and statements on the initiatives promoted by the committee.
    It is a sample of the documentation that the promoters (almost all of whom women) of the committee left as a way to remember the uprising.
    Alongside the documents and banners on display there are sheets. The documents and banners are from Marta Cimino, the first woman to launch the 'Sheet Committee', who died in recent years, but were organised by her daughter Caterina Cammarata.
    The painted sheets had been kept for 30 years by Marinella Fiume.
    The gesture by Cimino struck a raw nerve in Palermo at that time, leading to other sheets hanging from the balconies of homes and private and public offices in both the center of the capital of the region of Sicily and in outlying areas. The aim was to demand justice and support for judges.(ANSAmed).