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Giuseppe was born on 5 January 1948 in Cinisi in the province of Palermo, into a mafia family. His father Luigi had been sent into internal exile during the fascist era, and was a close friend of mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti. His father's brother-in-law, Cesare Manzella, was a major mafia boss who was killed in car bomb attack in 1963.
Still an adolescent, he breaks off relations with his father - who kicks him out of the house - and initiates a series of political and cultural anti-mafia activities. In 1965 he founded the newsletter L'Idea socialista and joined the left-wing PSIUP party. And from 1968 onwards he takes a leading role in the activities of the new revolutionary groups. He leads struggles by Cinisi peasants whose land had been expropriated to build the third runway at Palermo airport, as well as disputes involving building workers and the unemployed. In 1975 he sets up Music and Culture with other young people in Cinisi, a group which organises debates, film, theatre and music shows. A self-financed radio station named Radio Aut is created in 1976, with which he exposes on a daily basis the crimes and dealings of mafiosi from Cinisi and Terrasini, principally the mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti, who were playing a major role in international drug trafficking through their control of the nearby airport. The most popular programme was Crazy Waves, a satirical broadcast in which he mocked politicians and mafiosi.
In 1978 he stood as a candidate in council elections for Proletarian Democracy, but was killed during the election campaign on the night of 8-9 May, by a charge of TNT placed under his body, which had been stretched over the local railway line. (to have more information visit the fallowing website http://www.peppinoimpastato.com/)