Italian farmers have planned a National Day of Action for Oct. 10 In Cosenza, Italy. Organizers say farmer delegations will join from throughout the country. Meanwhile, famous actress Ornella Muti and her daughter Neike Revelli have joined the protest.

Mrs. Muti, whose grandmother is of Russian origins and is very popular in Russia, has come under criticism for her support to Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite the fact that she has publicly said that the war in Ukraine is “unjust.” However, given her high popularity, they did not succeed in shutting her up or isolating her as they did with other pro-Russia artists. Both she and her daughter have recently filed a request for Russian citizenship. In a video with protest leader Antonio Zancari, she says. “Farming is our life, and it is absurd that people do not understand that.”

Meanwhile, the first signers of the Schiller Institute message of support to the Italian farmers have come from Mexico. They are: Eraclio Rodríguez, National Front to Save the Mexican Countryside (FNRCM); Baltazar Valdés, United Farmers of Sinaloa; Alejandro Gómez, Michoacán Grain Producers Union; Emigdio Taboada E., Dignified Agriculture Tlaxcala; Alberto Vizcarra, Sonora Citizens’ Movement for Water; Marco Reyes, National Union of Agricultural Workers (UNTA) in Guerrero; Horacio Gómez, Baja California Wheat Producers State Council; Marino Cázares F., Eastern Morelos Basic Grains Producers’ Front; Norma Alatorre, Irapuato Peasant Agricultural Movement and Rural Development Association (AC).