#Spike_Lee a produit une très courte #vidéo d’une minute et demi, qu’il n’a publiée que sur son compte twitter : 3 Brothers - Radio Raheem, #Eric_Garner and #George_Floyd. Très forte :
▻https://twitter.com/SpikeLeeJoint/status/1267269978320826368
#Violence_policière #Violences_policières #brutalité_policière #Assassinats_policiers
#Eric_Garner c’était sous Obama. Voter Biden ne changera rien.
Les huit minutes de l’agonie de George Floyd
►https://www.arretsurimages.net/chroniques/le-matinaute/les-huit-minutes-de-lagonie-de-george-floyd
Je n’ai pas rendu la vie, ce matin, à George Floyd, en regardant ces huit minutes. Ces huit minutes ne m’ont rien" appris". D’une certaine manière, c’est toujours la même histoire. La même histoire que la mort d’Eric Garner, en 2014, à New York. La tête d’un Noir plaqué au sol, le corps du policier maintenant son cou, un autre policier impassible empêchant d’approcher les passants qui filment l’homme qui répète ""I can’t breathe""
Cette nuit j’ai très mal dormi. Je n’en ai pourtant vu que deux minutes. Je n’ai pourtant rien appris mois non plus... Mais je venais de passer deux jours à ressurgir et rassembler des témoignages de violences policieres.
Alors ce matin, une musique, UNE, litanique, obsédante, hommage qui ne ravive que la sourde sensation, trompeuse, que rien ne change.
I can’t breathe... I CAN’T BREATHE !
▻https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=PsIiwHHiT3o
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsIiwHHiT3o
seenthisé aussi par @reka : ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/856453
#Musique_et_politique #Eric_Garner:
Cody ChesnuTT - Experiment Number One
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDfXpD0Mjpc
Pussy Riot - I Can’t Breathe
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXctA2BqF9A
India.Arie - Breathe
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v-bsi5dyOE
Ledisi - I Can’t Breathe
►https://soundcloud.com/therealledisi/i-cant-breathe
#Violence_policière #Violences_policières #brutalité_policière #Assassinats_policiers #USA #racisme #black_lives_matter #racisme_systémique
Toujours sur le même thème, une chanson de Durand Jones & the Indications - Everybody’s Got a Right to Live:
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvwgdjJ_OJg
Je suis Charlie ? ! (HK, 2019)
#charlots
C’est sûr, #HK ça ne vole pas toujours très haut, mais c’est fédérateur... Et y a quand même aussi #Amine_Bentounsi, #Adama_Traoré, #Zyed_et_Bouna, #Zineb_Redouane, #Ali_Ziri, #Rémi_Fraisse...
Les Pussy Riot (Russie), Parcas, Dillom et Muerejoven (Argentine) - 1312
►https://seenthis.net/messages/858643
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1wkT1vgH0
Les Goguettes - Les gens qui meurent (France)
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/858694
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYY15t9XjP8
merci pour cette précieuse compilation @sinehebdo <3
Siedah Garrett - The New Frontier (Say Their Names)
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/860147
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8jowOzmw_c
Thee Sacred Souls - Give Us Justice
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/860515
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCiTJbp3iGo
Sheila E. avec Lynn Mabry, Sy Smith et Angela Davis - Yes We Can Can
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/861459
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqDcPc_CIC4
Trois de plus:
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/861786
Jarrod Lawson - Embrace What We Are
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNetDaN523Y
HER - I’m Not OK
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DYiZgahAk4
Tank and the Bangas and Friends - What The World Needs Now Is Love
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNwVBFguaeE
Et encore:
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/862020
Candi Staton - I Wonna Holla
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSPcnbet6eE
Alicia Keys - Perfect Way To Die
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0zcjBlVbU
Jon Batiste - WE ARE
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1tVtz61zYc
Christian McBride - Medgar Evers’ Blues
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJQsjbTKaes
The Harlem Gospel Travelers - Fight On!
►http://youtube.com/watch?v=M7cRAvPZmGo
Encore 3
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/862173
Anderson Paak - Lockdown
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgItkJCm09c
PUBLIC ENEMY - State Of The Union
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQvDRe79F8k
Et je retrouve ce titre de Human Spirit - Police (1992)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbpJIduAdms
Brown Sugar - Black Pride (UK, 1977)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7ZWT3YkTVs
Terry Ellis - Angry Black Woman (USA 2020)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rusYoQijKqw
H.E.R. - I Can’t Breathe (USA)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRZWiqBHYaY
Shakura S’Aida - Takin’ It To The Streets (USA, reprise des Doobie Brothers)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNK-mpNB3z4
Melissmell et Didier Super - CRS (France)
►https://seenthis.net/messages/863290
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf0LsmoBQ3E
Tarrus Riley - Healing (Jamaïque)
►https://seenthis.net/messages/863343
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLHdA-kLqi0
Leon Bridges - Sweeter (USA)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35AWgksymtA
Tomi Jenkins - Whatever It Takes (USA)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euCajQ3Cyzc
Black Artists for Black Lives - Feeding Off the Love of the Land (USA, reprise de Stevie Wonder)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKGxHzNSdPo
Salaam Remi, Sandra Bland, Black Thought, Cee-Lo Green, Anthony Hamilton, Syleena Johnson & Stephen Marley - Is It Because I’m Black (USA, reprise de Syl Johnson, le papa de Syleena)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSCK8zsPLUg
Dean Parrish - Its Time (Wars Foreign and Domestic) (USA, sur sa page facebook il dit qu’il a écrit cette chanson dans les années 1960, qu’il l’a enregistrée en 2007, mais qu’il tient à la sortir maintenant)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTfUk_Xwsq8
The Whispers - How Long (USA)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uURydZ1HYiA
Rien à voir avec George Floyd, mais au passage je redécouvre une chanson de plus à ajouter sur ma compil consacrée à la #violence_policière :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/576637
Lunatic - Les Vrais Savent (France, 1997)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE8bMbxuak8
Skip Marley, HER & Wale - Slow Down
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/867828
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxljkoKJsqQ
Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, 9th Wonder, Robert Glasper et Phoelix - Sleepless Nights
►https://seenthis.net/messages/867846
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVp4yL043Kc
YK Musics - Vies Volées, Version hommage (2020)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxdkNqoNEcA
Xan Der - I Can’t Breathe ! (2020)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktYV_e1PcSU
Mal Elevé - Police (2020)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFVxXMLOMtw
Swiss - Can’t breathe (2020)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lla9BulNbbY
Brandon Lewis - Black Man
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wl62VqsW0Q
Mica Paris - Broad Daylight
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPH10TCot0
Trois de plus:
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/870713
Dumpstaphunk – Justice/Stand
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI9292TbdYM
Jorja Smith - By Any Means
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq81getV30I
Shirley Jones - There Are No Differences
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdoiJp6lQZE
Clark King - People Make The World (UK, reprise de Wilson Pickett)
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-DsK1bkNgg
Abdel-Rahman al-Shantti, 11 ans, rappeur de #Gaza, en hommage à George Floyd:
Khris Royal & Dark Matter Featuring Nigel Hall - I Can’t Breathe
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT-HG2i0i2U
L’icône punk berlinoise s’associe au pape du funk sur un titre de dub cosmique en hommage au mouvement Black Lives Matter.
▻https://www.fip.fr/reggae/unity-le-dub-militant-de-nina-hagen-et-george-clinton-18346
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20gUpEULbXs&feature=youtu.be
New release out > African Electronic Diaspora : Black Lives Matter fundraiser compilation, 28 tracks !
▻https://www.rebelup.org/new-release-out-african-electronic-diaspora-black-lives-matter-fundraiser-compilation-28-tracks/?v=11aedd0e4327
Public Enemy revient avec un nouveau Fight The Power avec Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, Jahi, YG et QuestLove !
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/874792
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNUl8bAKdi4
ALA.NI - Lament for Emmett Till
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/875190
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdliG5boGwQ
A compilation benefitting the Black lives matter movement. 100% of the proceeds will go to the Black Visions Collective.
Released exclusively on Bandcamp, this collection gathers unreleased tracks, live recordings, vintage cuts, demos, and previously released songs from some of the artists we work with. We put a call out for songs on May 30th and in less than a week this was the amazing response we got.
▻https://roughtradepublishing.bandcamp.com/album/talk-action-zero-a-compilation-benefitting-black-live
Un collectif « African American Expat Singers In Paris » chante un mix de You’ve Got a Friend, What’s Going On et Lean On Me, au moment du confinement et de Black Lives Matter :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/876308
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMMebGf48TQ
Janelle Monae - Turntables
►https://seenthis.net/messages/685655
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CFrCk6_0rM
Samora Pinderhughes - For Those Lost, For Those Taken
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/876533
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krrpfp53c0k
Stevie Wonder - Can’t Put It In The Hands of Fate
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/880893
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgdfxeh0WtE
Cory Henry - Black Man
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIGPdhMJ_9c
The PLAYlist, avec Aloe Blacc - Hands Up, Don’t Shoot
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksa6V6drpDI
Maya Azucena - You Matter
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBQw-CduaFY
Tracks - Black Lives Matter et le post-colonialisme dans la culture pop
▻https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/093211-019-A/tracks
La mort de George Floyd et le mouvement de contestation Black Lives Matter marquent un tournant dans l’histoire culturelle américaine : une deuxième génération de militants, artistes et intellectuels afro-américains fait puissamment entendre sa voix. Au-delà de la simple dénonciation, l’Amérique fouille sa mémoire pour interroger les racines du racisme systémique de la police
Anthony Hamilton et Tamika D. Mallory - Mercy
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVJ9I6ceOY8
Izzy & the black trees - I Can’t Breathe
▻https://izzyandtheblacktrees.bandcamp.com/track/i-cant-breathe
L.E.D. and Archie Love - When?
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIg7dK4_Ekw
The Lucky Losers - Godless Land
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSAr0GeGSbc
Third Man Records is proud to release a black vinyl pressing of Dave Chappelle’s viral video, 8:46.
▻https://thirdmanstore.com/products/846
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MkSIRVNVP4
“When I was a student at Duke Ellington, the teachers instilled in me the notion of activism through art,” said Chappelle. "We need more soldiers for great causes on the stage.”
23 Ways You Could Be Killed If You Are Black in America
Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Jennifer Hudson, Pink, Bono, and others explain why it’s time to take action to heal the long history of systemic racism in America.
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_VaNhI4CLo
vidéo qui date de 2016
1. Failing to signal a lane change: #Sandra_Bland (#Alicia_Keys)
2. Riding in your girlfriend’s car with a child in a back: #Philando_Castile (#Beyoncé)
3. Running to the bathroom in your own apartment: #Ramarley_Graham (#Chris_Rock)
4. Selling cigarettes outside of a corner store: #Eric_Garner (#Pink)
5. Riding a commuter train: #Oscar_Grant (#Talib_Kweli)
6. Walking home with a friend: #Gregory_Gunns (#Janelle_Monae)
7. Making eye contact: #Freddie_Gray (#Chance)
8. Selling CDs outside a supermarket: #Alton_Sterling (#Taraji_Henson)
9. Wearing a hoodie: #Trayvon_Martin (#Pharell)
10. Walking away from police: #Mario_Woods (#Common)
11. Walking toward police: #Laquan_McDonald (#Queen_Latifah)
12. Missing a front license plate: #Samuel_Dubose (#Kevin_Hart)
13. Holding a fake gun in the park in Ohio: #Tamir_Rice (#Rosario_Dawson)
14. Driving with a broken brakelight: #Walter_Scott (#Swizz_Beatz)
15. Sitting in your car before before your bachelor party: #Sean_Bell (#Lenny_Kravitz)
16. Walking up the stairwell of your apartment building: #Akai_Gurley (#Zoë_Kravitz)
17. Calling for help after an accident: #Renisha_McBride (#Asap_Rocky)
18. Holding a fake gun in West Virginia: #India_Beaty (#Jada_Pinkett_Smith)
19. On the way to Bible study: Clementa Pinckney, Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Myra Thompson (#Charleston_church_shooting) (#Bono)
20. Holding a fake gun in Walmart: #John_Crawford (#Jennifer_Hudson)
21. Laughing: #Rekia_Boyd (#Van_Jones)
22. Holding a wallet: #Amadou_Diallo (#Tracee_Ellis_Ross)
23. For attending a birthday party: #Jamar_Clark (#Adam_Levine)
In other words, just for being black in America and...
“Doing absolutely nothing.” (#Maxwell)
These everyday actions can be seen as...
“Not servile enough.” (#Rihanna)
Go to weareheremovement.com to tell President Obama and Congress that the time for change is now. We demand radical transformation to heal the long history of systematic racism so that all Americans have the equal right to live and to pursue happiness. (Alicia Keys)
Je l’ajoute aux #statistiques sur les assassinats policiers, principalement en France mais aussi dans d’autres pays :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/601177
#Violence_policière #Violences_policières #brutalité_policière #Assassinats_policiers
When Big Tobacco Invoked Eric Garner to Fight a Menthol Cigarette Ban - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/nyregion/fur-menthol-bans-lobbyists.html
Le cynisme sans fin des lobbies...
With San Francisco banning menthol cigarettes last year, and the Food and Drug Administration considering a nationwide ban, it seemed like the time was ripe for New York to follow suit.
Then Reynolds American, the tobacco giant, got to work. It enlisted the Rev. Al Sharpton and his group, the National Action Network, as well as the boss of the Manhattan Democratic Party, Keith L.T. Wright, a former 12-term assemblyman from Harlem, to fight the ban proposed by the City Council.
In closed-door meetings with Council members in May, they argued that a ban would disproportionately affect black New Yorkers. They invoked Eric Garner, who was killed on Staten Island by police officers enforcing cigarette regulations, and suggested such encounters could increase if menthol cigarettes were to go underground.
The bill has since been set aside.
The effort to stop the menthol ban was centered on a longstanding but increasingly prominent and effective strategy for waging political warfare in New York: Deploy the concerns of black residents as a weapon to sway the Democrat-heavy Council toward a stance favored by corporate clients.
Superbe. Ce qui me fait penser à cette vieille chanson des Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, « Amos and Andy »...
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cog54BHoKR8
On screen or off we can be rented to perform any feat
And we reflect the images presented by the media’s elite
Positive or negative attention is viewed as success
U.S.D.A. African American Beef is seen as progress (...)
Being kicked in the mouth or smiling with no teeth
They’re both choices, yes, but it’s impossible to eat
Uneducated, underdeveloped, undisciplined but mostly unaware
We join the flavor of the month club
We swallow the flavor of the month
Well, holding our crotch was the flavor of the month
Bitch this bitch that was the flavor of the month
Being a thug was the flavor of the month
Then no to drugs was the flavor of the month
Kangol was the flavor of the month
Rope gold was the flavor of the month
Adidas shoes was the flavor of the month
Then bashing Jews was the flavor of the month
Gentrification was the flavor of the month
Isolation was the flavor of the month...
Opinion | Why Hasn’t the Officer Who Killed Eric Garner Been Fired Yet? - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/opinion/eric-garner-pantaleo.html
Given the facts of the case, it’s hard to see his continued employment by the Police Department as anything but an insult to the people of New York.
Mr. Garner, who was unarmed and supposedly selling loose cigarettes, which is illegal, died because Officer Pantaleo used a chokehold. The Police Department banned the use of chokeholds in 1993 amid a rise in deaths linked to the maneuver.
In searing testimony at the departmental trial this year, the medical examiner said the chokehold triggered an asthma attack that led to Mr. Garner’s death, which he ruled a homicide.
A police internal affairs investigator also testified that he recommended disciplinary charges against Officer Pantaleo in 2015. None came until last year.
While the judge will decide if Officer Pantaleo’s actions violated departmental rules, they clearly violated good sense and demonstrated the kind of overly aggressive policing that has led to many controversial deaths. He chose to escalate an encounter, involving several officers, with an unarmed man over a minor violation, then used a dangerous and banned maneuver. Video of the episode, viewed by millions, shows the officer with his arm across Mr. Garner’s throat.
Even before Mr. Garner’s death, the Civilian Complaint Review Board had substantiated four allegations of abuse against him in previous cases.
Why should an officer like Officer Pantaleo remain on the force, diminishing the trust of New Yorkers?
WOW ?
«Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful)»
by Marc Ribot (feat. Tom Waits)
from the album ’Songs Of Resistance 1942 - 2018’
▻https://youtu.be/50GvkAO0OIg
Triple wow !!!
Si les paroles sont générales, le clip est clairement anti-Trump
L’album entier semble intéressant :
Songs Of Resistance 1942-2018
▻http://marcribot.com/latest-news/14279452
▻https://www.amazon.com/Songs-Resistance-1942-Marc-Ribot/dp/B07DLK7ZCH?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ2JPVFTMZGHMZXNQ&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creati
Portions of the album’s proceeds will be donated to The Indivisible Project, an organization that helps individuals resist the Trump agenda via grassroots movements in their local communities. More info on The Indivisible Project can be found at www.indivisible.org.
#Musique #Musique_et_politique #Tom_Waits #Marc_Ribot #USA #Bella_Ciao
Deux autres extraits :
Marc Ribot - « The Militant Ecologist (based on Fischia II Vento) » (feat. #Meshell_Ndegeocello)
Marc Ribot - « Srinivas » (feat. #Steve_Earle & Tift Merritt)
Trump n’a qu’à bien se tenir !
Récentes chansons contre Trump :
Eric Bibb
►https://seenthis.net/messages/721203
Janelle Monae
►https://seenthis.net/messages/685655
Wow, les paroles de Srinivas :
▻https://genius.com/Marc-ribot-srinivas-lyrics
Dark was the night
Cold was the ground
When they shot Srinivas Kuchibhotla down
It was in Austin’s Bar and Grill
But it could’ve been most anyone
A madman pulled the trigger
Donald Trump loaded the gun
My country ’tis of thee
Srinivas was an engineer
Sunayana was his wife
Like so many here before them
They come here to build the life
They were plannin’ their first child
But it was not to be
But a stranger shot Srinivas down
Screamin’ “Get out of my country!”
My country ’tis of thee
I was born in America
And it’s right here I intend to stay
But my country’s hurtin’ now
There’s a few things I need to say
If you fly a flag of hate
Then you ain’t no kin to me
And to Srinivas Kuchibhotla’s surviving family
My country ’tis of thee
My country ’tis of thee
My country ’tis of thee
My country ’tis of thee
My country ’tis of thee
My country ’tis of thee
My country ’tis of thee
My country ’tis of thee
My country ’tis of thee (Kuchibhotla!)
My country ’tis of thee (Eric Garner!)
My country ’tis of thee (Heather Heyer!)
My country ’tis of thee (Susie Jackson!)
My country ’tis of thee (Tywanza Sanders! Ethel Lee Lance!)
My country ’tis of thee (Freddy Gray! Tamir Rice!)
My country ’tis of thee (Frankie Best! Amadou Diallo!)
My country ’tis of thee (Michael Brown! David Simmons!)
My country ’tis of thee (Myra Thompson! Sharonda Singleton!)
#Black_Lives_Matter #Srinivas_Kuchibhotla #Eric_Garner #Heather_Heyer #Susie_Jackson #Tywanza_Sanders #Ethel_Lee_Lance #Freddy_Gray #Tamir_Rice #Frankie_Best #Amadou_Diallo #Michael_Brown #David_Simmons #Myra_Thompson #Sharonda_Singleton
6 mois plus tôt, il attaquait déjà Trump avec le titre Never Again (Muslim Jewish Resistance), avec le groupe Ceramic Dog :
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP7bdigwRgU
Marc Ribot ne fait pas que de la politique ou du jazz, il a longtemps été guitariste accompagnateur, y compris du grand Solomon Burke, et connaît donc ses classiques de soul, comme ici le I Found a Love de Wilson Pickett, avec Buddy Miller :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smHBuUodbAY
Encore une « chanson » anti-Trump, ou plutôt une Fugue, Donald Trump is a Wanker :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/722115
Je viens d’acheter le CD. Le livret est super, avec de très beaux textes engagés et en colère de Marc Ribot. Et comme il a oublié d’y inclure les « détails » techniques, les musiciens etc., il a décidé de les ajouter sur une version pdf du livret qui est du coup entièrement disponible ici :
▻http://media.virbcdn.com/files/6a/929905becc73ee8e-MarcRibot_SongsofResistance_DigitalBooklet.pdf
A propos de la chanson Rata de dos patas, il précise :
Due to the fears that Trump regime retaliation would threaten her visa status, the vocalist on this recording of Rata De Dos Patas has requested that we delete all reference to her identity. We believe her fears are entirely justified, and have complied with her wishes.
We thank her for her wonderful performance, and for her great courage in making the recording at all. And we look forward to a day when political and artistic expression is no longer under the shadow of such vindicative and racist repression. Venceremos!
BELLA CIAO
Italian traditional; Arranged by Marc Ribot
& Tom Waits; Translated by Marc Ribot
One fine morning / woke up early
Bella ciao, bella ciao, goodbye beautiful
One fine morning / woke up early
To find a fascist at my door
Oh partigiano, please take me with you
Bella ciao, bella ciao, goodbye beautiful
Oh partigiano, please take me with you
I’m not afraid now anymore.
And if I die a partigiano
Bella ciao, bella ciao, goodbye beautiful
Please bury me up on that mountain
In the shadow of a flower
So all the people, people passing
Bella ciao, bella ciao, goodbye beautiful
All the people, the people passing
Can say: what a beautiful flower
This is the flower / of the partisan
Bella ciao, bella ciao, goodbye beautiful
This is the flower / of the partisan
Who died for freedom
THE MILITANT ECOLOGIST
[based on FISCHIA IL VENTO]
Written by Marc Ribot (Knockwurst Music);
Inspired by the Italian traditional
The wind it howls, the storm around is raging
Our shoes are broken, still we must go on
The war we fight, is no longer for liberty
Just the possibility / of a future.
Underground, the militant ecologist
Like a shadow emerges from the night
The stars above, guide her on her mission
Strong her heart swift her arm to strike
If, by chance, cruel death will find you
Know your comrades will revenge
We’ll track down the ones who hurt you
Their fate’s already sealed.
The wind is still, the storm is finally over
The militant ecologist blends back into the shadows
Somewhere above, the earth’s green flag is flying
We don’t have to live in terror
Somewhere above, the earth’s green flag is flying
The only flag that matters now
Somewhere above, the earth’s green flag is flying
And if its not...
there’s nothing more to say.
Son premier texte, où il se pose des questions sur la possibilité de résister en tant que musicien :
My grandparents lost brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles in the Holocaust, and I’ve toured and have friends in Russia and Turkey: we recognize Trump, and it’s no mystery where we will wind up if we don’t push back.
Its not that things before Trump were any picnic: the many victims of racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and war under earlier presidents – some of them Democrats—are not forgotten; and even among the politicians for whom I voted, few were willing to address the structural causes of these problems.
But even the most pissed off of my activist friends knew right away that Trumpism was seriously wrong, and that resistance—not just protest, which by definition acknowledges the legitimacy of the power to which it appeals—had to be planned.
I’m a musician, so I began my practice of resistance with music.
Normally, I practice by studying the past (“Ancient to the Future!” as the Art Ensemble of Chicago put it—and as Hannah Arendt might have if she’d been a jazz musician), and then blowing on or reconstructing or simply misreading those changes until they become useful in the present.
So, I went back to archives of political music known for years and listened again—trying to find what was useful now. I found songs from the World War II anti-Fascist Italian partisans (“Bella Ciao,” “Fischia il Vento”), the U.S. civil rights movement (“We’ll Never Turn Back,” “We Are Soldiers in the Army”), a political song originally recorded by Mexican artist Paquita la del Barrio, had disguised as a romantic ballad (“Rata de Dos Patas”).
I also wrote songs: things I heard at demonstrations, and newspaper and television stories that I couldn’t process any other way wound up as lyrics. I changed these found texts as little as possible: much of “Srinivas” is a metered version of news articles on Srinivas Kuchibhotla a Sikh immigrant murdered in February 2017 by a racist who mistook him for a Muslim. And “John Brown” really did “kill... five slaveholders at the Pottawatomie creek”).
By March 2017, I had the material for Goodbye Beautiful/Songs of Resistance.
I make no claims of historical “authenticity” about the arrangements of archival songs on the record— although I hope they work on more than one level, the arrangements and composition songs on this CD were written and performed, without apology, as agitprop. I borrowed from, referenced, and quoted public domain song as much as I could, wanting to harness the power of our rich traditions to the needs of the current struggle wherever possible. For the same reason, I altered texts and arrangements freely, as political song makers have always done.
The underlying politics of this recording is that of the Popular Front: the idea that those of us with democratic values need to put aside our differences long enough to defeat those who threaten them.
Although this approach has its frustrations, it worked last time around (1942-45).
Coordinating a multi-artist recording like this wasn’t easy: although the artists involved were without exception enthusiastic and helpful.
But the madness of the past year kept us moving when things got bogged down: we recorded Justin Vivian Bond’s “We’ll Never Turn Back” literally while Donald Trump was delivering a friendly speech to anti-gay hate groups in Washington DC. Tom Waits’ “Bella Ciao” was recorded near Santa Rosa, in the haze of smoke from 1,500 homes destroyed by wildfires attributed partly to global warming.
Not a day goes by that I don’t think about the fact that we’re living through what may be the last years of possibility to lessen the degree of catastrophic climate change which will be experienced by our kids.
And what I think is that thinking isn’t enough.
The same can be said of singing.
Profits from this CD will be donated to The Indivisible Project, a 501c4 organization creating a political response to Trump. They now have chapters in EVERY congressional district, and work to build the local and national networks we need. I have a lot of friends who think that ANY kind of politics isn’t cool. I appreciate the sentiment, but: we need to get over it, roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty if we’re going to survive this thing.
I want to thank all the Artists and musicians who sang or played on this cd, not only for their time and great performances, but for their critiques and insights, musical and political, that shaped this recording at every stage.
Although my intention in organizing this recording has been to express solidarity with everyone victimized by the current regime, finding a way to express that solidarity without repeating old patterns of oppression is not easy. I hope the dialogue and spirit of solidarity begun among the performers on this recording will continue with its listeners and spread even further...
M Ribot
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Son deuxième texte, où il se pose des questions sur les défauts de la musique engagée :
Post Script:
The question of ‘the good fight’—how to fight an enemy without becoming it—hangs over “political” art (as the question of truthfulness hang over art claiming to have transcended the political). Indeed, Left and Fascist song do share musical commonalities. (Armies fighting for causes good and bad all need songs to march to).
This recording won’t resolve that question.
But I’ve noted a difference between the marching songs of fascism and those of the partisan and civil rights movements: a willingness to acknowledge sadness:
“We are soldiers in the army...
We have to fight, we also have to cry.”
“And if I die a partisan,
Goodbye beautiful, goodbye beautiful, goodbye beautiful,
Please bury me on that mountain, in the shadow of a flower.”
“I am a pilgrim of sorrow, walking through this world alone.
I have no hope for tomorrow, but I’m starting to make it my home.”
“...a thousand mill lofts grey
are touched by all the beauty
a sudden sun exposes
Yes it is bread we fight for, but we also fight for roses.”
These songs’ acknowledgement of human frailty, of the fact that “we have to cry” even as “we have to fight”, is for me a sign of enormous strength. Their vision of a beauty beyond victory is for me a sign of hope, a reminder that we at least have something worth fighting for.
M Ribot
November, 2017
A mettre sur la compilation de chansons contre #Donald_Trump
►https://seenthis.net/messages/727919
#Erica_Garner, Black Lives Matter activist, dies aged 27 | US news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/30/erica-garner-dies-black-lives-matter-eric-garner-daughter
The Black Lives Matter activist Erica Garner has died, after a week in hospital following a heart attack. She was 27. Garner was the daughter of Eric Garner, a man who died in a police chokehold in New York in 2014.
Among tributes, Senator Bernie Sanders said that although Garner “didn’t ask to be an activist, she responded to the personal tragedy of seeing her father die … by becoming a leading proponent for criminal justice reform and for an end to police brutality”.
#Eric_Garner #I_can_t_breath #meurtre #police #états_unis #impunité
Activist Erica Garner, Daughter of Eric Garner, Dies at 27 After Heart Attack
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/activist-erica-garner-daughter-of-eric-garner-dies-at-27-after-heart
Activist Erica Garner, the eldest daughter of police chokehold victim
Erykah Badu accompagne India Arie sur son « Breathe » lors de la cérémonie des Soul Train Awards
▻http://www.soulbounce.com/soul/2016/11/erykah-badu-india-arie-perform-acoustic-trap-soul-let-it-breathe-at-the-
Le clip original :
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/524586
#Musique #Musique_et_politique #India_Arie #Erykah_Badu #Black_Lives_Matter #Eric_Garner
India Arie inspirée par Black Lives Matter : « Breathe »
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v-bsi5dyOE
#Musique #Musique_et_politique #India_Arie #Black_Lives_Matter #Eric_Garner
India Arie rend ici hommage à Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, avec des images de Black Lives Matter etc.
What If
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae-i31wWxEo
En 2011 elle chantait en israel en duo avec l’un des pires fachos israéliens Idan Raichel, fier supporteur de l’armée et du gouvernement israélien... Elle a même enregistré un disque avec lui, « Open Door », qui n’est jamais sorti...
Une chanson de Noël par Aloe Blacc, mais, fait assez inhabituel pour ce chanteur, est éminemment politisée, liant les assassinats de noirs américains par des policiers, et les attentats de Paris, pour constater un Noel triste pour de nombreuses familles endeuillées :
Merry Christmas Mr. Brown, Aloe Blacc, November 27, 2015
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvf6NKJCKwY
#Musique #Aloe_Blacc #Noël #Michael_Brown #Eric_Garner #Sandra_Bland #Trayvon_Martin #Freddie_Gray #Oscar_Grant #VosGuerresNosMorts #Black_Lives_Matter #Musique_et_politique #Brutalité_policière
Songs We Love : Aloe Blacc, ’Merry Christmas Mr. Brown’
Kris Ex, NPR, le 10 décembre 2015
▻http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459109275/songs-we-love-aloe-blacc-merry-christmas-mr-brown
Eric Garner Case Is Settled by New York City for $5.9 Million - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/14/nyregion/eric-garner-case-is-settled-by-new-york-city-for-5-9-million.html?_r=0
New York City reached a settlement with the family of Eric Garner on Monday, agreeing to pay $5.9 million to resolve a wrongful-death claim over his killing by the police on Staten Island last July, the city comptroller and a lawyer for the family said.
The agreement, reached a few days before the anniversary of Mr. Garner’s death, headed off one legal battle even as a federal inquiry into the killing and several others at the state and local level remain open and could provide a further accounting of how he died.
Still, the settlement was a pivotal moment in a case that has engulfed the city since the afternoon of July 17, 2014, when two officers approached Mr. Garner as he stood unarmed on a sidewalk, and accused him of selling untaxed cigarettes. One of the officers used a chokehold — prohibited by the Police Department — to subdue him, and that was cited by the medical examiner as a cause of Mr. Garner’s death.
▶ Blood Orange : « Do You See My Skin Through the Flames ? » | Tracks | Pitchfork
▻http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/17559-blood-orange-do-you-see-my-skin-through-the-flames
Within the insular internet music world, and the realm of pop in which #Blood_Orange’s music often moves, #Dev_Hynes stands out as a beacon of dissent, anger, courage, and empathy. His social media presence flickers with notes on injustice in pop culture and society, writ large. Last year, he was assaulted by security at Lollapalooza after a set in which he spoke out against police brutality whilst wearing a T-shirt bearing the names of black men and boys murdered by law enforcement: #Trayvon_Martin, #Eric_Garner, #Jordan_Davis, and #Oscar_Grant.
On the somber, pulsating vocal collage “Do You See My Skin Through the Flames?” he connects these percolating thoughts and attendant, mushrooming feelings of isolation and exhaustion through music for the first time. “I have nothing left to give when you don’t notice what’s wrong,” he sings, “Charleston left me broken down but it’s just another day to you.” It follows a voicemail snippet from Talwst, a Toronto artist and curator of Trinidadian descent, telling Hynes, “I understand what you’re going through being surrounded by friends of privilege who don’t get it.” So yes, on this song Hynes is thinking about institutions that perpetuate incidents like Charleston and McKinney and kill black people like Tamir Rice and Rekia Boyd and dehumanize artists like Kanye West, but, more powerfully, he pulls back and names his immediate community—fans included—as complicit as well. The message is simple: A gun-toting racist is deadly, but so is your silence.
Merci pour cette découverte :
▻http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18736-blood-orange-cupid-deluxe
celle-là elle tue : ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO6y1-erVEw
et ça
"I decided to visit Georgetown, Guyana for the first time, the town where my mother is from. She, herself has not been back for 30 years, 3 years before I was born. I tracked down family members, including my 92 year old grandfather, who I had never met before. In this video you will see our first ever meeting.
The wonderful female vocals on this track are performed by Caroline Polachek from the band “Chairlift”. Special thanks to Yulandi, Tyrese Gomes, Samantha Urbani, The Crandons & Adam Bainbridge.
This is the first single from my new Blood Orange album titled “Cupid Deluxe”. Enjoy."
Bilal - Satellites (avec une allusion à Eric “I Can’t Breathe” Garner):
#Pussy_Riot - I Can’t Breathe - YouTube
Pussy Riot’s first song in English is dedicated to #Eric_Garner and the words he repeated eleven times before his death. This song is for Eric and for all those from Russia to America and around the globe who suffer from state terror - killed, choked, perished because of war and state sponsored violence of all kinds - for political prisoners and those on the streets fighting for change. We stand in solidarity.
Pussy Riot’s Masha and Nadya are being buried alive in the Russian riot police uniforms that are worn during the violent clashes of police and the protesters fighting for change in Russia. A pack of “Russian Spring” brand cigarettes is on the ground at the beginning. “Russian Spring” is a term used by those who are in love with Russia’s aggressive militant actions in Ukraine, and the cigarettes are a real thing.
“I Can’t Breathe” was recorded in New York in December 2014 during the protests against police brutality together with Pussy Riot, Richard Hell, Nick Zinner, Andrew Wyatt, Shahzad Ismaily (The Ceramic Dog) and Russian bands Jack Wood and Scofferlane.
Les Pussy Riot lancent une chanson en hommage à Eric Garner
▻http://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/201502/18/01-4845302-les-pussy-riot-lancent-une-chanson-en-hommage-a-eric-garner.php
Deux membres du groupe punk Pussy Riot ont lancé un nouveau vidéoclip dédié à Eric Garner, un homme non armé qui est mort étranglé par le policier qui l’avait arrêté à New York.
Eric Garner’s last words: Get away [garbled] for what? Every time you see me, you want to mess with me. I’m tired of it. It stops today. Why would you...? Everyone standing here will tell you I didn’t do nothing. I did not sell nothing. Because everytime you see me, you want to harass me. You want to stop me [garbled] Selling cigarettes. I’m minding my business, officer, I’m minding my business. Please just leave me alone. I told you the last time, please just leave me alone. please please, don’t touch me. Do not touch me. [garbled] I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.
#Eric_Garner #Black_Lives_Matter #Musique #Musique_et_politique
Why we can’t breathe
▻http://africasacountry.com/why-we-cant-breathe
Unlike with the protests after George Zimmerman’s acquittal of #Trayvon_Martin’s shooting death in 2013, the nationwide protests following the grand jury decision not to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo for.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY ##ICantBreathe #Eric_Garner #police_brutality
There is a second Eric Garner video. It may be more disturbing than the first. - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/05/there-is-a-second-eric-garner-video-it-may-be-more-disturbing-than-the-first/?hpid=z4
There is a second Eric Garner video. It shows not the now-infamous scene that ultimately led to his death — the confrontation with New York Police Department officers, one grabbing Garner around his neck, Garner’s body thrown to the ground — but the aftermath. For seven minutes, a disgusted bystander continues to film as Garner lies, unmoving, on the sidewalk, police officers involved in the incident milling around him.
Black Death and Revolution
▻http://africasacountry.com/black-death-and-revolution
In the days leading up to the grand jury decisions in the separate murders of Mike Brown in #Ferguson, MO, and #Eric_Garner in Staten Island, there was a certain.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY ##BlackLivesMatter ##ICantBreathe #racism #United_States
#ICANTBREATHE
▻http://africasacountry.com/icantbreathe
One morning last semester at John Jay College in #New_York City, I asked my students how many of them had ever been stopped by the police. All of them.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #activism #African_Americans #EDITORIAL #Eric_Garner #I_Can't_Breathe #Justice #POLITICS #Stop_and_Frisk #United_States
Deux nouveaux titres de soul moderne pour Ferguson :
Glory, de John Legend, en duo avec Common, pour la BO du film Selma (il lie donc la lutte pour les droits civiques dans les années 1960 et Ferguson) :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3hPXqjGSAE
et We Gotta Pray, de Alicia Keys (et, oui, j’ai remarqué que dans les images du clip on trouve deux allusions à la Palestine, à 0’26" et à 1’00", elle lie donc Ferguson à la Palestine...) :
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReK4t3Pfdpo
Encore un artiste scandalisé par les affaires de Ferguson et de New-York... Stevie Wonder (aux côtés de India Arie et Frédéric Yonnet) : "Pouvez-vous croire que, en un mois, deux grands jurys secrets ont refusé d’inculper deux policiers pour le meurtre de deux hommes noirs ? Je ne comprends tout simplement pas. Je ne comprends pas pourquoi un système juridique choisirait le secret quand il y a tellement de méfiance sur ce qu’ils disent. Je ne comprends pas pourquoi il n’y aurait pas pu avoir un procès public où nous serions en mesure d’entendre tous les côtés... J’ai entendu, de mes propres oreilles, Eric Garner dire « je ne peux pas respirer". Et bien qu’il se soit excusé, je ne comprends pas pourquoi le policier ne s’est pas arrêté... Je comprends que quelque chose est mauvais, très mauvais. Et nous, en tant que familles, Américains, de toutes les couleurs, devons régler cela rapidement, très bientôt. Cette chanson est malheureusement toujours d’actualité... Living for the City"
John Legend et Common, Glory, version live:
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IytPXZDpq98
Experiment Number One, par Cody ChesnuTT, avec une allusion à Eric Garner (Breathe... don’t choke nobody else):
(probablement) le meilleur moment de la cérémonie des Oscars hier soir :
John Legend et Common, Glory :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25bAn6iAkcc
#BlackLivesMatter: America’s Racial Degeneracy and Cowardice
▻http://africasacountry.com/blacklivesmatter-americas-racial-degeneracy-and-cowardice
The names are added to the long hall of infamy with sickening, stultifying regularity. The latest include #Trayvon_Martin, #Michael_Brown, #Eric_Garner, #Tamir_Rice, and all those black boys.....
#DeconstructingFerguson and lessons for black South Africa in black America
▻http://africasacountry.com/deconstructingferguson-and-the-lessons-for-black-south-africa-in-bl
There were more people at Chumley’s sports bar during Saturday’s #Ohio_State University game against archival Michigan than there were days later at the Ohio Union nearby on Thursday night.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY ##BlackLivesMatter #Eric_Garner #Ferguson #Michael_Brown #NYPD #police_brutality #Staten_Island #Tamir_Rice