Zinozorrus, le zine des vieux znocs
▻https://zine.lechantdesmuses.fr
▻https://toutplacid.tumblr.com/post/644372430428700672/couverture-de-zinozorrus-n%C2%BA-8-mise-en-page-et
#zinozorrus #Placid #poésie_graphique #comix #zine #bandes_dessinées
Zinozorrus, le zine des vieux znocs
▻https://zine.lechantdesmuses.fr
▻https://toutplacid.tumblr.com/post/644372430428700672/couverture-de-zinozorrus-n%C2%BA-8-mise-en-page-et
#zinozorrus #Placid #poésie_graphique #comix #zine #bandes_dessinées
Pierre Guitton est parti rejoindre ses lapins bleus | Le zine du Chant des Muses
▻https://zine.lechantdesmuses.fr/blog/pierre-guitton-est-parti-rejoindre-ses-lapins-bleus
#Pierre_Guitton était de ces artistes discrets, mais qui par leur œuvre ont marqué une époque. Avant de se consacrer exclusivement à la peinture à la fin des années 1980, il avait dessiné pour « Charlie Mensuel », « Hara-Kiri » et « (À suivre) ». Il avait surtout cofondé la revue « Zinc », l’un des fers de lance de la bande dessinée « underground » du début des années 1970. Le Chant des Muses avait récemment remis en lumière son travail. Pierre Guitton est décédé ce 20 juillet 2021.
Déconfetti | du9, l’autre #bande_dessinée
▻https://www.du9.org/breve-visuel/deconfetti
PRESQUE hebdomadaire, tous les JEUDIS (entre 16h00 et 22h00), en noir et blanc, de 20 pages à consulter sur écran et/ou à télécharger (fichier imprimable de 5 feuilles A4 recto-verso : plier l’ensemble en deux, et agrafer, de préférence sur la pliure). Bonne lecture !
Jayne Mansfield, anatomie d’un sex-symbol
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/le-reveil-culturel/jayne-mansfield-anatomie-dun-sex-symbol
« Sweet Jayne Mansfield » : hommage à l’une des plus célèbres blondes d’Hollywood, prisonnière de son image de ravissante idiote.
Tewfik Hakem s’entretient avec le journaliste Jean-Pierre Dionnet - qui en signe la préface - et le dessinateur #Roberto_Baldazzini, pour Sweet Jayne Mansfield, de Jean-Michel Dupont et Roberto Baldazzini, un album paru aux éditions Glénat.
▻https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/popopop/popopop-14-juin-2021
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/610996
Vues Éphémères – Juin 2021 | du9, l’autre bande dessinée
▻https://www.du9.org/humeur/vues-ephemeres-juin-2021
Juin 2021, l’année de la #bande_dessinée « BD 2020 » (devenue « BD 20-21 » par la force des choses) tire à sa fin, et voilà que la Ministre de la Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, lâche dans un entretien au monde cette petite phrase : « Mais on peut entrer dans la culture par le divertissement ! Par exemple, la bande dessinée permet d’entrer dans la lecture. On peut arriver à lire Kundera en commençant par lire des Astérix ! »
Un appareil censé lutter contre l’obésité provoque l’indignation
https://actu.fr/monde/pourquoi-un-appareil-pour-lutter-contre-l-obesite-provoque-l-indignation_430930
C’est la torture infligée par son père au personnage joué par Nikky Taylor dans CAMP ; ici vers la fin du film le prof de chant coupe les fils et libère la chanteuse. (C’est pas subtil du tout, mais très efficace.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLc2eqRWzPk
#Désintégration - Journal d’un conseiller à Matignon
Pendant dix-huit mois, #Matthieu_Angotti a travaillé aux côtés du Premier ministre Jean-Marc Ayrault, et c’est ce qu’il raconte ici, dans un récit percutant qui tente le pari fou de nous mettre dans la peau d’un #conseiller_politique.« Le jour de mon entrée au cabinet du Premier ministre, j’ai commencé à prendre des notes, le temps que durerait l’aventure. Les voici mises en images, dessinant le quotidien d’un #conseiller, avec ses hauts et ses bas, ses #espoirs, ses #découragements, sa #solitude parfois... Ce livre raconte la #réforme manquée de la #politique_d'intégration, comme une lucarne sur les rouages du sommet de l’état, du côté de ses discrets artisans... »
https://www.editions-delcourt.fr/bd/series/serie-desintegration-journal-d-un-conseiller-matignon/album-desintegration-journal-d-un-conseiller-matignon
#BD #bande_dessinée #livre
#plan_de_lutte_contre_la_pauvreté #François_Hollande #Jean-Marc_Ayrault #pauvreté #intégration #étrangers #Thierry_Tuot #rapport_Tuot #France
« Bella ciao, c’est un chant de révolte, devenu un hymne à la résistance dans le monde entier…
En s’appropriant le titre de ce chant pour en faire celui de son récit, en mêlant saga familiale et fiction, réalité factuelle et historique, tragédie et comédie, Baru nous raconte une histoire populaire de l’immigration italienne.
Bella ciao, c’est pour lui une tentative de répondre à la question brûlante de notre temps : celle du prix que doit payer un étranger pour cesser de l’être, et devenir transparent dans la société française. L’étranger, ici, est italien. Mais peut-on douter de l’universalité de la question ? »
https://www.futuropolis.fr/9782754811699/bella-ciao.html
#livre #BD #bande_dessinée
#Aigues-Mortes #salines #sel #travailleurs_étrangers #italiens #France #Ardèche #FAngouse #Goujouse #1893 #histoire #massacre #Compagnie_des_salines_du_Midi
Rwanda, 1994, entre avril et juillet, 100 jours de génocide...
Celui que l’on appelle « Le dernier génocide du siècle » s’est déroulé dans un tout petit pays d’Afrique, sous les yeux du monde entier, sous le joug des politiques internationales, et sous les machettes et la haine de toute une partie de la population. Sur environ 7,5 millions de Rwandais d’alors, 1,5 million de personnes ont été exterminées pour le seul fait d’appartenir à la caste « tutsi » (chiffres officiels de 2004) : hommes, femmes, enfants, nouveau-nés, vieillards... De cette tragédie historique, suite à plusieurs années de recherche dont sept mois passés au Rwanda pour récolter des témoignages, les auteurs ont tiré une fiction éprouvante basée sur des faits réels.
https://www.glenat.com/drugstore/rwanda-1994-integrale-9782356261120
#BD #bande_dessinée #livre
#Kigali #Murambi #fosses_communes #Nyagatare #FAR #génocide #Rwanda #France #armée_française #opération_Turquoise #camps_de_réfugiés #réfugiés #Goma #zone_turquoise #aide_humanitaire #choléra #entraide #eau_potable
La guerre d’Algérie, cette guerre qui n’était pas nommée comme telle, est un événement traumatisant des deux côtés de la Méditerranée. Ce récit raconte la
guerre des femmes dans la grande guerre des hommes...
Béatrice 50 ans, découvre qu’elle est une « enfant d’appelé » et comprend
qu’elle a hérité d’un tabou inconsciemment enfoui : elle interroge sa mère et son père, ancien soldat français en Algérie, brisant un silence de cinquante ans. Elle se met alors en quête de ce passé au travers d’histoires de femmes pendant la guerre d’Algérie : Moudjahidates résistantes, Algériennes victimes d’attentat, Françaises pieds noirs ou à la métropole... Ces histoires, toutes issues de témoignages avérés, s’entrecroisent et se répondent. Elles nous présentent des femmes de tout horizon, portées par des sentiments variés : perte d’un proche, entraide, exil, amour…
https://www.marabout.com/algeriennes-1954-1962-9782501121002
#BD #bande_dessinée #livre
#guerre_d'Algérie #appelés #Algérie #France #armée_française #tabou #silence #maquis #Harki #massacre #meurtres #FLN #camps #entraide #Bourg-Lastic #femmes #Cimade #La_Cimade #honte #rapatriés #mémoire #résistance #liberté #indépendance #napalm #viols #viols_collectifs #mujahidin #douars #guerre_de_la_mémoire #fellaga #genre #patriarcat #commandos_punitifs #pillages #pieds-noirs #organisation_clandestine_des_Français_contre_l'indépendance (#OAS)
La Malédiction du #pétrole
Le pétrole est devenu indispensable à l’économie mondiale, c’est sa plus grande richesse, mais aussi sa plus grande malédiction. Retraçant l’histoire de ce paradoxe les auteurs se penchent avec acuité sur le sujet.
Depuis près d’un siècle et demi, l’or noir a été le moteur de la croissance et la source des plus grands malheurs. Combien de temps cet état va-t-il durer alors que même la catastrophe écologique du réchauffement climatique ne semble pas peser dans la décision de s’en passer ? Mais à quand remonte cette course à l’abîme ? C’est ce que les auteurs entreprennent de raconter.
▻https://www.editions-delcourt.fr/bd/series/serie-la-malediction-du-petrole/album-malediction-du-petrole
#Caucase #Russie #Frères_Nobel #raffinerie #Branobel #Bakou #pipeline #steam-tanker #marée_noire #Rotschild #puits_de_pétrole #mer_Noire #Batoumi #Bnito #puits_de_Bibi-Heybat #histoire #compagnie_pétrolière #Mer_Caspienne #industrie_pétrolière #Pennsylvanie #Edwin_Drake #potion_Drake #Oil_Creek #Pithole #Devil_Bill #John_Davison_Rockfeller #Rockfeller #Standard_Oil_Company #7_soeurs #John_Rockfeller #Cleveland #raffinage #Massacre_de_Cleveland #Sumatra #Staline #Koba #grèves #Royal_Dutch_Shell #industrie_automobile #OPEP #moteur_à_explosion #Jamais_contente #Henry_Ford #Ford #Ford_Motor_Company #moteur_électrique #General_Motors #Ford_T #Detroit #USA #Etats-Unis #Indonésie #colonialisme #essence #énergie #progrès #Esso #Stocony #Socal #Gulf_oil #Texaco #Anglo-persian_oil #William_Knox_d'Arey #Perse #Plaine_du_Naphte #guerre #comité_des_vaisseaux_terrestres #tank #Irak #Compagnie_française_des_pétroles (#CFP) #Total #accords_Sykes-Picot #Moyen-Orient #simple_ligne_de_sable #désert_arabique #Rub_al-khali #Standard_oil_of_California #Ras_Tanura #Harry_St_John_Bridger_Philby #Sheikh_Abdullah #Quart_vide #Kim_Philby #Philby #Arabie_Saoudite #Saoud #WWI #WWII #première_guerre_mondiale #seconde_guerre_mondiale #Canal_de_Suez #Red_Bell_Express #Pacte_de_Quincy #Algérie #Sahara_algérien #extractivisme #CIA #Saddam_Hussein #Arabian_American_oil_company (#ARAMCO) #Ghawar #combine_en_or #Venezuela #optimisation_fiscale #Iran #ENI #Libye #Italie #Pier_Paolo_Pasolini #Enrico_Mattei #guerre_du_Kippour #choc_pétrolier #Conférence_de_Bagdad (1960) #Juan_Pablo_Pérez_Alfonzo #Abdullah_al-Tariki #King_Hubbert #Trente_Glorieuses #premier_choc_pétrolier #Exxon_Mobile #BP-Amoco #pétrole_de_schiste #plateformes_offshore #groupe_Carlyle #Carlyle #schiste #fisc
#pétrole #BD #malédiction
CRA - Centre de Rétention Administrative
En 2012, à #Toulouse - Cornebarrieu, Meybeck participe à la campagne « #Ouvrez_les_portes » organisée par Migreurop et Alternative Européenne, campagne visant à obtenir l’accès des journalistes et de la société civile aux centres de rétention pour lesquels nous n’avons pratiquement aucune information, ni sur ce qui s’y passe, ni comment sont traités les migrants, ni sur le respect de leurs droits.
https://www.desrondsdanslo.com/CRA.html
#rétention #détention_administrative #CRA #centre_de_rétention_administrative #France #Cornebarrieu #open_access_now #migrations #asile #réfugiés #renvois #expulsions
#livre #BD #bande_dessinée
#The_Avalanches - « Since I Left You »
Le collectif de musiciens / producteurs / DJs australien a repoussé les limites de l’art du #sampling et de l’#échantillonnage en produisant il y a vingt ans cet album unique.
Un disque de pop dans lequel s’entremêlent par le biais de centaines d’échantillons toute la culture musicale de ces DJs passionnés de musique au sens large : #Jazz, #Calypso, #Folk, #Country, #Bandes_Originales_de_films, #Rock, #Disco, #Pop, #Soul, #Funk, #musiques_électroniques…
▻https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/dans-la-playlist-de-france-inter/dans-la-playlist-de-france-inter-01-juin-2021
▻https://media.radiofrance-podcast.net/podcast09/15361-01.06.2021-ITEMA_22685396-2021F28411S0152.mp3
Nikita Mandryka, le créateur du Concombre masqué, est mort à l’âge de 80 ans - Le Temps
▻https://www.letemps.ch/culture/nikita-mandryka-createur-concombre-masque-mort-lage-80-ans
L’auteur de bande dessinée Nikita Mandryka, créateur du personnage comique le Concombre masqué, est mort à 80 ans, a-t-on appris lundi auprès de ses éditeurs.
Le site officiel du célébrissime concombre :
Au fil de ses nombreuses aventures éditoriales, de ses débuts dans Vaillant à son passage à Pilote, de la création de L’Echo des Savanes avec Gotlib et Brétécher à son rôle de rédacteur en chef de Charlie Mensuel, #Nikita_Mandryka a toujours traîné avec lui le Concombre Masqué, son personnage fétiche avec son univers poétique et décalé, où l’on peut regarder pousser les rochers. Rencontre (forcément) potagère, en deux parties.
▻https://www.du9.org/entretien/nikita-mandryka-i
Prisonniers du passage
Dans les #aéroports existent des espaces insoupçonnés pour les vacanciers que nous sommes.
Les « #zones_d’attente » sont des lieux de #détention, où les étrangers sont enfermés jusqu’à vingt-six jours avant d’être admis en #France, de devenir demandeurs d’asile ou d’être refoulés.
Une vraie enquête de terrain sur un enjeu de société adaptée en bande dessinée et accompagnée d’un cahier documentaire riche en chiffres, analyses, cartes et schémas.
▻https://steinkis.com/livres/prisonniers-du-passage/prisonniers-du-passage.html
#migrations #asile #réfugiés #BD #livre #Chowra_Makaremi #bande_dessinée
#aéroport #frontières #zone_d'attente #ZAPI #limbe #GTM-multiservices #privatisation #procédure_d'asile #audition #abus #mensonge
Et des mots pour décrire les personnes prisonnières du passage :
#individus_non-admis (ou aussi #inads)
#personnes_en_instance
#zapiens (habitants des #ZAPI)
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ajouté à la métaliste sur les mots / terminologie de la migration :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/414225
Moulinsart déboutée, l’artiste breton peut continuer de détourner Tintin - Auray - Le Télégramme
▻https://www.letelegramme.fr/morbihan/auray/moulinsart-deboute-l-artiste-breton-peut-continuer-de-detourner-tintin-
Le tribunal de Rennes a débouté les ayants droit d’Hergé, qui contestaient le droit à l’artiste breton Xavier Marabout d’utiliser le personnage de Tintin dans ses œuvres.
Le tribunal de Rennes a rendu son jugement ce lundi 10 mai, dans l’affaire qui oppose la maison d’édition Moulinsart à l’artiste breton Xavier Marabout, qui détourne les personnages de la BD Tintin dans sa série de peintures Hergé-Hopper. Les ayants droit d’Hergé l’avaient assigné en justice, en juin 2017, pour « contrefaçon de droits d’auteur » et demandaient 13 000 € de dommages et intérêts.
« Moulinsart est déboutée de toutes ses demandes. Les juges reconnaissent l’exception de parodie. Ils estiment que l’intention humoristique de l’œuvre de mon client est clairement affirmée et qu’elle ne présente aucun risque de confusion avec celle d’Hergé », se félicite Me Bertrand Ermeneux, l’avocat de Xavier Marabout.
« Bonne nouvelle pour la création artistique »
Le tribunal va plus loin en estimant que la société Moulinsart a « injustement dénigré » le travail de l’artiste auprès des professionnels. Il la condamne ainsi à lui verser 10 000 € de dommages et intérêts, ainsi que 20 000 € au titre de ses frais de justice. « Il s’agit d’un jugement remarquablement motivé, qui constitue une très bonne nouvelle pour la création artistique en général ». Les ayants droit d’Hergé ont un mois pour faire appel de la décision.
Xavier Marabout savoure sans attendre cette première victoire. « La guerre n’est peut-être pas terminée, mais c’est le jugement que j’espérais. Le tribunal me reconnaît dans mon droit d’artiste et dans celui d’user de la parodie, un art qui existe depuis la Grèce antique », réagit, ce lundi, l’artiste breton dans son atelier d’Auray, où il s’est fait une spécialité d’associer dans ses œuvres des univers a priori très éloignés, dans la pure tradition du mouvement « strip art ».
Un peintre français attaqué en justice pour avoir représenté Tintin dans des décors de Hopper - Le Parisien
▻https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/livres/un-peintre-francais-attaque-en-justice-pour-avoir-peint-tintin-dans-des-d
L’histoire pourrait s’appeler « Tintin au pays d’Edward Hopper » ou « Les 7 femmes de Tintin »… Elle constitue un énième épisode du feuilleton « Moulinsart attaque en justice ». Cette fois, c’est un artiste breton qui est poursuivi devant le tribunal de Rennes pour « contrefaçon » et « atteinte au droit moral » par la société représentant les ayants droit de l’œuvre d’Hergé. La première audience s’est déroulée lundi. Le tort de l’accusé : avoir imaginé le petit reporter accompagné de femmes sensuelles dans des décors de tableaux de Hopper et même – mille sabords ! – en train d’en embrasser une…
Peintre et sculpteur de 53 ans installé dans le Morbihan, Xavier Marabout suit depuis des années le même fil rouge dans ses toiles : la fusion inattendue de deux univers artistiques, comme la rencontre du loup de Tex Avery et de personnages de Picasso. En 2014, il débute une série sur Tintin. « J’ai tout de suite eu envie de le faire tomber amoureux, d’imaginer une vie sentimentale à ce héros qu’on juge asexué. Et j’ai développé cette histoire dans les toiles de Hopper », raconte l’artiste.
Les pastiches de Tintin : un exercice de style qui ne date pas d’hier. Rendus publics, ils ont invariablement fait monter les défenseurs de la morale aux créneaux de Moulinsart...
Les avocats de Moulinsart au Congo
Pappa in Afrika - Anton Kannemeyer
▻https://5c.be/5c_catalogue.html
▻https://www.actuabd.com/Pappa-in-Afrika-d-Anton-Kannemeyer-le-racisme-denonce-par-le-graphisme
Parodiant Tintin au Congo d’Hergé (1931), #Anton_Kannemeyer expose les contradictions et les paradoxes de la vie dans la post colonie. Pappa in Afrika rassemble des dessins récents, des #peintures et des #bandes_dessinées qui s’attaquent au colonialisme et à son héritage continu, adoptant Tintin, et ses multiples avatars, comme l’archétype du colon blanc.
L’artiste est aussi provocateur que ludique et ne ménage pas les politiciens, les despotes et ses voisins des banlieues verdoyantes, qu’il soumet à un examen implacable et humoristique. En plus des #dessins, des peintures et des tirages imprimés, le #livre présente des bandes dessinées dans lesquelles Kannemeyer retrace l’aube de sa conscience politique en tant que jeune Sud Africain parlant afrikaans, dont la vie est liée aux joies et aux réalités de l’Afrique. Ses bandes dessinées et autres images singulières se confrontent et réfléchissent aussi au #racisme ancré dans le langage et à la violence physique et mentale enracinée dans la société profondément divisée dans laquelle il vit. En convoquant une figure à la houppe typiquement belge, il nous renvoie à notre propre passé colonial.
▻https://5c.be/wa_files/pappa_in_afrika.pdf
▻https://www.antonkannemeyer.com
▻https://www.du9.org/entretien/anton-kannemeyer
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/131519
Un Tintin érotisé relève bien de la parodie, affirme la justice
▻https://actualitte.com/article/100275/droit-justice/un-tintin-erotise-releve-bien-de-la-parodie-affirme-la-justice
« Le tribunal a estimé que c’est un dénigrement et a ajouté 10 000 euros de dommages et intérêts pour M. Marabout et 20 000 euros de frais d’avocat », indique Me Ermeneux à l’AFP. Et l’artiste, de son côté, abonde : « Au fond de moi-même, c’est ce que j’espérais (…) Aujourd’hui, le tribunal reconnaît la liberté d’expression et l’attitude de dénigrement, c’est une victoire sur toute la ligne. »
Ils ont marché sur la thune.
Torture, Covid-19 and border pushbacks: Stories of migration to Europe at the time of Covid-19
The lived experience of people navigating the EU external border during the Covid-19 pandemic has brought into sharper focus the way border violence has become embedded within the landscape of migration. Here BVMN are sharing a feature article and comic strip from artistic journalist collective Brush&Bow which relays the human stories behind pushbacks, and the protracted violence which has come to characterise journeys along the Balkan Route. The researchers and artists spent time with transit communities along the Western Balkan Route, as well as speaking to network members Centre for Peace Studies, No Name Kitchen & Info Kolpa about their work. Combined with the indepth article (linked below) the comic strip brings to life much of the oral testimonies collected in the BVMN shared database, visualising movement and aspiration – as well as the counterforce of border violence.
Authors: Roshan De Stone and David Leone Suber
Illustrations and multimedia: Hannah Kirmes Daly
(Brush&Bow C.I.C)
Funded by: The Journalism Fund
▻https://www.borderviolence.eu/torture-covid-19-and-border-pushbacks
#push-back #refoulements_en_chaîne #asile #migrations #réfugiés #frontières #Croatie #Balkans #route_des_Balkans #dessin #BD #bande_dessinée #Slovénie #Italie #frontière_sud-alpine #Bosnie #Trieste #migrerrance #Trieste #violence
#Torture and pushbacks: Stories of migration to Europe during Covid-19
Violent and often sadistic pushbacks from Italy, Slovenia and Croatia are a damning indictment of Europe’s broken migrant policy.
Anatomy of a pushback: from Italy to Bosnia
Trieste, Zagreb – On April 13 last year, Italy’s Coronavirus death-toll surpassed 20,000, making headlines worldwide. In the afternoon on that same day, Saeed carefully packed a bag. In it, a phone, three power banks, cigarettes, a sleeping bag and a photograph of his two children back in Pakistan.
During the March lockdown, Saeed was forcibly held in Lipa camp for migrants and asylum seekers, in the Bosnian canton of Una Sana, right next to the Croatian border. Having travelled this far, he was ready for the final leg of his journey to Europe.
That night, Saeed left the camp. On the way to the Croatian border, he was joined by nine other men.
People on the move use GPS tracking systems to cross land borders far away from main roads and inhabited locations. (Hannah Kirmes Daly, Brush&Bow C.I.C)
For 21 days, the group walked through the forests and mountains in Croatia, Slovenia and into Italy, avoiding roads and towns, always careful not to be seen. Never taking their shoes off, not even to sleep, ready to run at a moment’s notice if the police spotted them.
When Covid-19’s first wave was at its peak in the spring of 2020, EU member states increased border security by sending the army to patrol borders and suspended freedom of movement as a measure to prevent the spread of the virus.
This greatly affected migration, giving migrants and asylum seekers yet another reason to go into hiding. Saeed and his companions knew this well. But as they finally crossed the final border into Italy, they assumed the worst was over.
Winding their way down the mountains, the group stopped at the border town of Bagnoli to order a dark, sweet, coffee - a small reward. Across the street, a woman looked out of her window and reached for the phone. Minutes later, police were on the scene.
As the police later confirmed, it is thanks to calls from local inhabitants living in border areas that most migrants are intercepted by authorities.
Bundled into an Italian police van, Saeed and his acquaintances were handed over to Slovenian officials, and driven back to the Croatia-Bosnia border in less than 24 hours. No anti-Covid precautions were taken, and requests for asylum were ignored.
When the van finally stopped, they were released into an open field by a river bank. Plain-clothes officers speaking Croatian ordered them to undress.
Blisters ripped open as Saeed’s skin tore off as he pried off his shoes. Two of the men were beaten with telescopic batons. Another was whipped with a piece of rope tied to a branch. “Go back to Bosnia” was the last thing they heard the Croatian officers shout as they climbed back up the Bosnian bank of the river.
On the morning of May 7, Saeed walked barefoot to the same Bosnian camp he had left three weeks before. This was his first ’pushback’.
’#The_Game'
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnU-xWNfG8M&feature=emb_logo
Trieste’s Piazza Liberta, in front of the main train station, above, is the final destination for many people on the move arriving from Bosnia.
Since the start of the pandemic, the EU border agency Frontex reported a decrease in the overall number of irregular border crossings into Europe. This has been the case on all main routes to Europe aside from one: the Balkan route, a route migrants and asylum seekers take by foot to cross from Turkey into central Europe.
On July 10, two months after that first pushback from Italy, Saeed sits in Piazza Liberta, the main square in front of Trieste’s train station.
Young men from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Eritrea, Iraq and Syria sit with him on the square’s benches, forming small groups in the setting sun. For nearly two years now, this square has been the meeting point for ’people on the move’ – migrants and asylum seekers escaping war, famine and poverty in their countries, arriving by foot from Turkey and through the Balkans.
They sit in Piazza Liberta waiting for the arrival of a group of volunteers, who hand out food, medication and attend to the blisters and welts many have on their feet as a result from the long weeks of restless walking.
Saeed is in his thirties, clean shaven and sporting ’distressed’ jeans with impeccably white trainers. He would look like any other tourist if it wasn’t for the scars across his arms.
“There are two borders that are particularly difficult to cross to reach Europe,” he explains.
The first is at the Evros river, separating Greece and Turkey. This is the only alternative to anyone who wants to avoid the risk of crossing by boat to the Greek islands, where recent reports of pushbacks by the Greek police back to Turkey are rife.
“The second border is the one between Bosnia and Croatia,” he pauses. “The road between these two borders and all the way to Italy or Austria is what we call ’The Game’.” "It is by doing The Game that I got these," he says pointing to his scars.
The Game is one of the only alternatives to reach Europe without having to cross the Mediterranean Sea. But crossing the Balkans is a similarly dangerous journey, like a ’game’, played against the police forces of the countries on the route, so as to not get caught and arrested.
With the outbreak of the pandemic, The Game has become more difficult and dangerous. Many have reported cases of sexual and violent abuse from the police.
In Croatia, police officers forced people to lie on top of one another naked as they were beaten and crosses were spray-painted on their heads. To add insult to injury, all their possessions were stolen, and their phones would be smashed or thrown in the water by authorities.
The last of thirteen siblings, Saeed wants to reach a cousin in Marseille; an opportunity to escape unemployment and the grinding poverty of his life back in Pakistan.
From the outskirts of Karachi, Saeed lived with his two children, wife and seven relatives in two rooms. “I would go out every morning looking for work, but there is nothing. My daughter is sick. I left because I wanted to be able to provide for my family.”
Despite his desire to end up in France, Saeed was forced to apply for asylum in Italy to buy himself time and avoid being arrested and sent back to Bosnia.
Under current regulations governing refugee law, Saeed’s asylum application in Italy is unlikely to be accepted. Poverty and a dream for a better future are not recognised as valid reasons to be granted status in Europe. Instead, in order to keep those like Saeed out, in 2018, the European Commission proposed to almost triple funding for border enforcement between 2021 and 2027, for an overall investment of $38.4 billion.
Despite being a skilled electrician looking for work, Saeed’s asylum application makes it impossible for him to legally work in Italy. To survive, he started working as a guide for other migrants, a low-level smuggler making the most of what he learned during The Game.
He pulls a second phone out of his pocket and takes a call. “There are 70 men crossing the mountains from Slovenia who will be here by 4 am tomorrow,” he says. The large group will be split into smaller groups once they arrive at the Italian border, Saeed explains, so as to not be too noticeable.
The mountain paths around Trieste are full of signs of life; sleeping bags, shoes and clothes scattered where groups decided to stop and camp the night before doing the final stretch to Trieste’s train station.
“When they arrive, I’ll be their point of contact. I’ll show them where to access aid, how to get an Italian sim card and give them money that their families have sent to me via Western Union.” He pauses, “I know some of them because we were in the same camps in Bosnia. I try to help them as I know what it is like, and in return they pay me a small fee.” The amount he receives varies between 5 and 20 euro ($5.8 - $23.55) per person.
All along the route there are those like Saeed, who manage to make a small living from the irregular migration route. However, it isn’t easy to recognise a smuggler’s good intentions, and not every smuggler is like Saeed. “There are also smugglers who make a big business by stealing money or taking advantage of less experienced people,” he says.
Pointing to two young Afghan boys, Saeed shrugs, “They asked me where they could go to prostitute themselves to pay for the next part of the journey. There are many people ready to make money out of our misery.”
Border violence and the fear of contagion
Since the start of pandemic, The Game has become even more high stakes. For migrants and asylum seekers on the Balkan route, it has meant adding the risk of infection to a long list of potential perils.
“If the police are looking for you, it’s hard to worry about getting sick with the virus. The most important thing is not to get arrested and sent back,” said Saeed.
Covid-19 rules on migration have had the effect of further marginalising migrants and asylum seekers, excluding them from free testing facilities, their right to healthcare largely suspended and ignored by national Covid-19 prevention measures.
This is confirmed by Lorenzo Tamaro, representative of Trieste’s Autonomous Police Syndicate (SAP). Standing under one of Trieste’s sweeping arches he begins, “The pandemic has made it more dangerous for them [migrants and asylum seekers], as it is for us [the police]."
For all of 2020, Italian police have had to deal with the difficult task of stopping irregular entries while also performing extraordinary duties during two months of a strictly enforced lockdown.
“The pandemic has revealed a systemic crisis in policing immigration in Europe, one we have been denouncing for years,” Tamaro says. He refers to how Italian police are both under-staffed and under-resourced when facing irregular migration, more so during lockdowns.
Broad shouldered, his voice carries the confidence of someone who is no stranger to interviews. “Foreigners entering our territory with no authorisation are in breach of the law, even more so under national lockdown. It’s not us [the police] who make the law, but it is our job to make sure it is respected.”
Born in Trieste himself, Tamaro and his colleagues have been dealing with immigration from the Balkans for years. The emergency brought on by increased arrivals during Italy’s tight lockdown period pushed the Ministry of Interior to request the deployment of a 100-strong Italian army contingent to the border with Slovenia, to assist in the detection and arrest of people on the move and their transfer to quarantine camps on the outskirts of the city.
“We have been left to deal with both an immigration and public health emergency without any real support,” Tamaro says. “The army is of help in stopping irregular migrants, but it’s then us [the police] who have to carry out medical screenings without proper protective equipment. This is something the Ministry should have specialised doctors and medics do, not the police.”
To deal with the increase in arrivals from the Balkan route, Italy revived a 1996 bilateral agreement with Slovenia, which dictates that any undocumented person found within 10 kilometres of the Slovenian border within the first 24 hours of arrival, can be informally readmitted to Slovenia.
“In my opinion readmissions work,” Tamaro says. “Smugglers have started taking migrants to Udine and Gorizia, which are outside of the 10 km zone of informal readmissions, because they know that if stopped in Trieste, they risk being taken back to Slovenia.”
On September 6, the Italian Interior Minister herself acknowledged 3,059 people have been returned to Slovenia from Trieste in 2020 alone, 1,000 more than the same period in 2019.
Human rights observers have criticised this agreement for actively denying people on the move to request asylum and thus going against European law. “We know Italy is sending people back to Slovenia saying they can apply for asylum there. But the pushback does not end there,” says Miha, a member of the Slovenian solidarity initiative Info Kolpa.
From his airy apartment overlooking Ljubljana, Miha explains how Slovenia resurfaced a readmission agreement with Croatia in June 2018 that has allowed an increase in pushbacks from Slovenia to Croatia.
“Italy sends people to Slovenia and Slovenia to Croatia,” Miha says, “and from Croatia, they get pushed back further to Bosnia.”
“What Europe is ignoring is that this is a system of coordinated chain-pushbacks, designed to send people back from Europe to Bosnia, a non-European Union country. And adding to the breach of human rights, no one is worrying about the high risk of contagion,” Miha concludes.
Torture at Europe’s doorstep
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t36isJ1QHA4&feature=emb_logo
A section of the border between Croatia and Slovenia runs along the Kulpa river, as shown in the video above. People on the move try to cross this river in places where there is no fence, and some drowned trying to cross it in 2018 and 2019.
As pushbacks become more normalised, so has the violence used to implement them. Because the Croatian-Bosnian border is an external EU-border, Croatia and Bosnia do not have readmission agreements similar to those between Italy and Slovenia.
As such, pushbacks cannot simply happen through police cooperation — they happen informally — and it is here that the greatest violence takes place.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8T9AFOJT2A&feature=emb_logo
People on the move have been posting evidence of the violence they are subjected to across the Balkan route. The video above was posted on TikTok in the summer of 2020, showing the beatings suffered by many of those who try and cross from Bosnia to Croatia and are pushed back by Croatian police.
Despite the Bosnian-Croatian border running for more than 900 km, most of the border crossing happens in a specific location, in the Una Sana canton, the top eastern tip of Bosnia.
The border here is a far cry from the tall barbed wire fences one might expect. The scenery cuts across a beautiful landscape of forestry and mountain streams, with winding countryside roads gently curving around family-run farms and small towns.
“I’ve seen it all,” Stepjan says, looking out from his small whitewashed home, perched less than 100 meters from the actual Bosnian-Croatian border. A 45-year old man born and raised in this town, he adds, “People have been using this route for years to try and cross into Europe. Sometimes I give them [people on the move] water or food when they pass.”
Many of the locals living on either side of the border speak German. They themselves have been migrants to Germany in the 90s, when this used to be a war zone. Asked about the allegations of physical abuse inflicted upon migrants, Stepjan shrugged, replying, “It’s not for me to tell the police how to do their job.”
“By law, once a person arrives on Croatian territory they have the right to seek asylum,” says Nikol, a Croatian activist working with the organisation No Name Kitchen on this stretch of the border. “But this right is denied by Croatian police who force people to return to Bosnia.”
Sitting in a smoky cafe in Zagreb, Nikol (a psuedonym) says she wishes to remain anonymous due to intimidation received at the hands of Croatian and Bosnian authorities punishing people providing aid to people on the move. She is planning her return to Bihac as soon as Covid regulations will allow her to move. Bihac is the key town of the Una Sana canton, the hotspot where most of the people on the move are waiting to cross into Croatia.
She knows all about the violence perpetrated here against migrants and asylum seekers trying to enter Europe. “The Croatian police hands people over to men in plain uniform and balaclavas, who torture migrants before forcing them to walk back across the border to Bosnia.”
Many migrants and asylum seekers that have managed to cross Croatia have reported stories of men dressed in black uniforms and wearing balaclavas, some sort of special unit with a mandate to beat and torture migrants before sending them back to Bosnia.
Nikol has a gallery of pictures depicting the aftermath of the violence. “There is so much evidence of torture in Croatia that I am surprised there are still journalists looking to verify it,” she says as she flicks through pictures of beatings on her phone.
Scrolling through, she brings up picture after picture of open wounds and arms, backs and bodies marked with signs of repeated beatings, burns and cuts.
She goes through a series of pictures of young men with swollen bloody faces, and explains: “These men were made to lie on the ground facing down, and then stamped on their heads to break their noses one after the other.”
Activists and volunteers receive pictures from people on the move about the beatings and torture endured while undergoing pushbacks. (Hannah Kirmes Daly, Brush&Bow C.I.C)
“These are the same techniques that the Croatian police used to terrorise Serbian minorities in Croatia after the war,” she adds.
Finding Croats like Nikol willing to help people on the move is not easy. Stepjan says he is not amongst those who call the police when he sees people attempting to cross, but a policeman from the border police station in Cabar openly disclosed that “it is thanks to the tip offs we get from local citizens that we know how and when to intervene and arrest migrants.”
As confirmed by Nikol, the level of public anger and fear against people on the move has grown during the pandemic, fueled by anti-immigrant rhetoric linked with fake and unverified news accusing foreigners of bringing Covid-19 with them.
Much of this discourse takes place on social media. Far-right hate groups have been praising violence against migrants and asylum seekers through posts like the ones reported below, which despite being signalled for their violent content, have not yet been removed by Facebook.
Hate speech and violent threats against people on the move and organisations supporting them are posted on Facebook and other social media on a daily basis. Despite being reported, most of them are not taken down. (Hannah Kirmes Daly, Brush&Bow C.I.C)
Nikol’s accounts are corroborated by Antonia, a caseworker at the Center for Peace Studies in Zagreb, who is working closely on legal challenges made against Croatian police.
“We continue to receive testimonies of people being tied to trees, terrorised by the shooting of weapons close to their faces, having stinging liquids rubbed into open wounds, being spray-painted upon, sexually abused and beaten with bats and rubber tubes on the head, arms and legs.”
In July this summer, an anonymous complaint by a group of Croatian police officers was made public by the Croatian ombudswoman. In the letter, officers denounced some of their superiors of being violent toward people on the move, suggesting that such violence is systematic.
This was also the opinion of doctors in Trieste, volunteering to treat people’s wounds once they arrive in Italy after having crossed Croatia and Slovenia. Their accounts confirm that the violence they often see marked on bodies is not just the consequence of police deterrence, but is aimed at causing long-term injuries that might make a further journey impossible.
Neither the Croatian nor the Slovenian national police have responded to these allegations through their press offices. The EU Home Affairs spokesperson office instead did reply, reporting that “Croatian authorities have committed to investigate reports of mistreatment at their external borders, monitor this situation closely and keep the Commission informed on progress made.”
And while the EU has sent a monitoring team to meet the Croatian Interior Minister, it nevertheless continues to add to Croatia’s internal security fund, sending over €100 million ($120 million) since 2015 to manage migration through visa systems, policing and border security.
Back to square one…
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc0Um3gEbzE&feature=emb_logo
Pushbacks from Italy, Slovenia and Croatia all the way back to Bosnia end with people on the move returning to overcrowded reception facilities, unsanitary camps, squats or tents, in inhumane conditions, often without running water or electricity. People in the video above were queuing at a food distribution site outside one of the IOM camps on the Bosnian-Croatian border in winter 2020.
“These people have travelled thousands of kilometres, for months, and are now at the door of the European Union. They don’t want to return home,” Slobodan Ujic, Director of Bosnia’s Service for Foreigners’ Affairs, admitted in an interview to Balkan Insight earlier this year.
“We are not inhumane, but we now have 30,000, 40,000 or 50,000 unemployed, while keeping 10,000 illegal migrants in full force…we have become a parking lot for migrants for Europe,” Ujic added.
Public opinion in Bosnia reflects Ujic’s words. With a third of Bosnians unemployed and many youth leaving to Europe in search of better opportunities, there is a rising frustration from Bosnian authorities accusing the EU of having left the country to deal with the migration crisis alone.
During the summer of 2020, tensions flared between Bosnian residents and arriving migrants to the point where buses were being stopped by locals to check if migrants were travelling on them.
Today, thousands of people in Bosnia are currently facing a harsh snowy winter with no suitable facilities for refuge. Since the start of January the bad weather means increased rains and snowfall, making living in tents and abandoned buildings with no heating a new cause for humanitarian concern.
In Bosnia around 7,500 people on the move are registered in eight camps run by the UNHCR and International Organization for Migration (IOM). The estimated number of migrants and asylum seekers in the country however, tops 30,000. The EU recently sent €3.5 million ($4.1 million) to manage the humanitarian crisis, adding to the over €40 million ($47 million) donated to Bosnia since 2015 to build and manage temporary camps.
With the start of the pandemic, these reception centres became more like outdoor detention centres as Bosnian authorities forcefully transferred and confined people on the move to these facilities despite overcrowding and inhumane conditions.
“I was taken from the squat I was in by Bosnian police and confined in a camp of Lipa, a few kilometers south of Bihac, for over a month,” Saeed says. “We had one toilet between 10 of us, no electricity and only one meal a day.”
On December 23, 2020, Lipa camp, home to 1,300 people, was shut down as NGOs refused to run the camp due to the inhumane conditions and lack of running water and electricity. This came at a time where the closure of the camp had also been advocated by Bosnian local authorities of the Una Sana canton, pressured in local elections to close the facility.
As people evacuated however, four residents, allegedly frustrated with the fact that they were being evicted with nowhere to go, set the camp on fire.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK6mqaheA3c&feature=emb_logo
The trauma of living through forced lockdown in those conditions will have a lasting effect on those who have lived it. “I still have nightmares about that place and the journey,” Saeed says, avoiding eye contact.
“Most nights I hear the sound of dogs barking and I remember the running. But in my dreams, I am paralysed to the ground and I cannot move.”
When Saeed managed to escape Lipa camp in June 2020, it took him three weeks to walk back to Trieste. “Now I spend my days here,” he gestures across, pointing his open palms at Piazza Liberta.
As he speaks, Saeed is joined by two friends. A long scar twists a line of shiny nobbled skin across the scalp of one of them: a souvenir from the baton of a Croatian police officer. The other has burnt the tips of his fingers to avoid being fingerprinted and sent back to Greece.
The absurdity of Europe’s migration policy is marked on their bodies. The trauma imprinted in their minds.
“I dream of being able to drive a car to France, like any normal person, on a road with only green traffic lights ahead, no barriers to stop me.”
▻https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/torture-and-pushbacks-stories-of-migration-to-europe-during-covid-19-45421
#game #Katinovac
Daniel Goossens : « C’est toujours difficile de savoir de quoi on se moque en BD »
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/le-reveil-culturel/daniel-goossens-cest-toujours-difficile-de-savoir-de-quoi-se-moque-en-
Dans la cour de récré de Dav Guedin – #Gonzaï
▻http://gonzai.com/dans-la-cour-de-recre-de-dav-guedin
Il taille l’hypocrisie des adultes à la hache, décrit comme personne le monde des handicapés mentaux et donne l’impression de s’être perdu dans un vieux livre de contes qui aurait dégénéré. A l’occasion de la sortie de sa nouvelle BD, Une vie d’Huissier chez Actes Sud BD, voyage dans l’univers de Dav Guedin, grand enfant perdu dans le corps d’un homme de presque cinquante ans.
Neuvième et dernier numéro de Ah ! Nana, revue tuée par la censure : interdit d’affichage , de publicité et de vente aux mineurs (couverture de Liz Bijl).
▻https://womenincomics.fandom.com/wiki/Ah_!_Nana
Le magazine Ah ! Nana : une épopée féministe dans un monde d’hommes ?
Virginie Talet ▻https://doi.org/10.4000/clio.4562
Ah ! Nana est un journal de bande dessinée publié entre 1976 et 1978. Adapté d’un magazine apparu aux USA en 1970, le Wimmen’s comix , sa spécificité est d’être réalisé par des femmes et de viser un lectorat féminin. C’est pourquoi il représente une aventure pionnière dans le monde de la #bande_dessinée française. Son contenu reflète les préoccupations féministes de son temps, pour aborder des sujets les plus délicats comme les plus tabous de la société de la fin des années 1970, parmi lesquels la sexualité féminine, l’inceste ou les différentes violences subies par les femmes. Des dossiers consacrés à une thématique particulière sont appuyés par une mise en image sans détours, crue et parfois cruelle. Il en faut beaucoup pour bouleverser les mentalités. Les femmes d’Ah ! Nana en ont-elles trop fait ? En tout cas ce projet était trop original pour survivre à cette époque. Il est un échec commercial que le poids de la #censure condamne définitivement. Mais il reste une tentative, jusqu’ici jamais reconduite en France, de permettre aux femmes de s’exprimer dans la bande dessinée et il rend compte de leurs difficultés à être publiées.
Je viens de terminer les mémoires de Jean-Pierre Dionnet « mes moires ». ce vieux monsieur va sur ses 75 printemps mais avec une mémoire d’éléphant. « Ses moires » se lisent comme une BD, une bonne bande dessinée comme il en a produit une palanquée. JPD est un vrai personnage de BD, une vie rocambolesque et un vrai passeur d’histoire. Je n’ai connu que la queue de comète de Métal Hurlant , J-P Dionnet était déjà parti ailleurs mais le feu brûlait encore dans cette revue révolutionnaire.
▻https://www.comme-un-roman.com/livre/4696571-mes-moires-un-pont-sur-les-etoiles-jean-pierre-dionnet-hors-
C’est dans ce bouquin que j’ai vu la couverture du n° 9 de « Ah ! Nana » il y consacre quelques pages et pour cause « Ah ! Nana » était l’antenne féministe de Métal Hurlant et Janic Guillerez , la rédactrice en chef était sa femme. Mais Blanche Delaborde en parle mieux que moi et aussi bien que Little Big Dionnet.
ah ! nana : les femmes humanoïdes
▻http://neuviemeart.citebd.org/spip.php?article128
Wimmen’s Comix – La Fanzinothèque de Poitiers
▻https://www.fanzino.org/fanzines/wimmens-comix
L’INTEGRALE WIMMEN’COMIX en deux volumes.
Anthologie du fanzine Wimmen’s Comix, premier fanzine dessiné exclusivement par des femmes aux états-unis dans les années 70, et traduit pour la première fois en français. Une initiative remarquable dûe à l’éditeur alternatif Komics Initiative de Mickaël Géreaume. Reproduction intégrale des 17 numéros parus entre 1972 et 1992.
A Ankara, Ursula von der Leyen fait les frais d’une faute sexiste de protocole
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2021/04/07/a-ankara-ursula-von-der-leyen-fait-les-frais-d-une-tres-sexiste-faute-de-pro
Le boys club en action.
La scène, filmée à l’occasion de la visite à Ankara, mardi 6 avril, d’Ursula von der Leyen, la présidente de la Commission européenne, et de Charles Michel, son homologue au Conseil européen, largement diffusée sur les réseaux sociaux, laisse songeur.
On y voit le président turc, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, et l’ancien premier ministre belge s’installer, tout sourire, sur deux fauteuils préparés pour la réunion, flanqués des drapeaux européen et turc. Au même moment, l’ex-ministre allemande de la défense est toujours debout, manifestement interloquée, en découvrant que les deux hommes n’ont pas prévu qu’elle rejoigne leur cercle.
On l’entend dire « hum », sans que cela suscite la moindre réaction de ses interlocuteurs masculins. Finalement, Ursula von der Leyen s’est assise sur un canapé beige, en retrait des deux hommes et en face du ministre turc des affaires étrangères.
« La présidente von der Leyen a été surprise. Elle a décidé de passer outre et de donner la priorité à la substance sur le protocole. Mais cela n’implique pas qu’elle n’accorde pas d’importance à l’incident », a commenté, mercredi, son porte-parole, Eric Mamer.
Chlordécone : une réparation impossible ?
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/le-temps-du-debat/le-temps-du-debat-emission-du-mercredi-07-avril-2021
Tropiques toxiques, le scandale du chlordécone, Jessica Oublié, Nicola Gobbi, Kathrine Avraam, Vinciane Lebrun, éd. Steinkis, octobre 2020, 22 euros. #bandes_dessinées
https://survie.org/billets-d-afrique/2021/305-mars-2021/article/a-lire-tropiques-toxiques-le-scandale
Livre FANZINORAMA La Fanzinothèque
▻https://www.la-petroleuse.com/fanzines-zine-culture/4810-livre-fanzinorama-la-fanzinotheque.html
À l’occasion des 30 ans de La Fanzinothèque, cet ouvrage présente plus de 200 fac-similés de fanzines de #bande_dessinée jamais réédités depuis leur création. Objet alternatif oscillant entre presse, publication auto-éditée, journal intime et tract militant, le #fanzine a toujours incarné une production éditoriale et artistique singulière. Animés par la volonté de faire au mieux avec très peu de moyens, les dessinateurs de fanzines ont su inventer des objets qui ont révolutionné les #arts_graphiques et les codes de l’édition. Plusieurs décennies d’histoire de la bande dessinée libre sont ici racontées à travers ces objets inclassables. Depuis 1989, La Fanzinothèque conserve et valorise des fanzines issus du monde entier. C’est à la fois un lieu d’archivage unique au monde, avec une collection de plus de 56 000 ouvrages, et un lieu de création contemporaine, à travers des expositions d’artistes et de micro-éditeurs, des workshops et un atelier d’impression.
la petite #fanzinothèque Belge
▻http://fanzinorama.canalblog.com/archives/2012/05/10/24230358.html
Un visuel signé par le talentueux Jurg qui collabore depuis depuis sa jeunesse rock n’roll et productive à différents collectifs et fanzines, parmi lesquels « Hécatombe », « Le Dernier Neurone », « l’ Horreur Est Humaine », « Kafzic », « Sausage », « Sierra Nueva », « Holà », « George », « Minette », « La Gazette du Rock », « Jukebox » etc... ) avec humour et générosité !
Franquin & les fanzines
▻https://www.du9.org/chronique/franquin-et-les-fanzines
#du9 #Franquin
Μίκης Θεοδωράκης - Ζ / Mikis #Theodorakis - Z
Le Comité Vérité et Justice 31, la Case de Santé, Grisélidis, le Jeko, Toulouse Anti Cra et Révolte Décoloniale appellent à une journée d’action le samedi 20 mars 2021 afin de protester contre l’impunité du racisme d’État, de l’islamophobie, du sexisme, des violences et des crimes des forces de l’ordres.
La #Fissure
Pendant trois années, #Carlos_Spottorno et #Guillermo_Abril ont sillonné les frontières de l’Europe. À partir des 25’000 photographies et 15 carnets de notes rapportés, ils ont composé une « bande dessinée » faite de photos.
De l’Afrique à l’Arctique, les journalistes racontent : une rencontre avec les Africains du Gourougou, le sauvetage d’une embarcation au large des côtes lybiennes, l’exode des réfugiés à travers les Balkans, les manœuvres des chars de l’OTAN en face de la Biélorussie...
▻http://www.gallimard-bd.fr/ouvrage-J00352-la_fissure.html
#BD #bande_dessinée #livre #réfugiés #frontières #migrations #photographie
The Crack - Carlos Spottorno | Lensculture
Photographer Carlos Spottorno portrays one of the most pressing issues of our time—the European migrant crisis—using an unexpected and fresh form of storytelling with the hope of reaching more people with his message. Learn more in this exclusive video interview.
Myanmar’s Military Deploys Digital Arsenal of Repression in Crackdown - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/world/asia/myanmar-coup-military-surveillance.html
During a half century of military rule, Myanmar’s totalitarian tools were crude but effective. Men in sarongs shadowed democracy activists, neighbors informed on each other and thugs brandished lead pipes.
The generals, who staged a coup a month ago, are now back in charge with a far more sophisticated arsenal at their disposal: Israeli-made surveillance drones, European iPhone cracking devices and American software that can hack into computers and vacuum up their contents.
Some of this technology, including satellite and telecommunications upgrades, helped people in Myanmar go online and integrate with the world after decades of isolation. Other systems, such as spyware, were sold as integral to modernizing law enforcement agencies.
But critics say a ruthless armed forces, which maintained a dominance over the economy and powerful ministries even as it briefly shared power with a civilian government, used the facade of democracy to enable sensitive cybersecurity and defense purchases.
Some of these “dual-use” technologies, tools of both legitimate law enforcement and repression, are being deployed by the Tatmadaw, as the Myanmar military is known, to target opponents of the Feb. 1 coup — a practice that echoes actions taken against critics by China, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and other governments.
The documents, provided by Justice For Myanmar, catalog tens of millions of dollars earmarked for technology that can mine phones and computers, as well as track people’s live locations and listen in to their conversations. Two parliamentary budget committee members, who requested anonymity given the sensitive political climate, said these proposed budgets for the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Transport and Communications reflected actual purchases.
The budgets detail companies and the functionality of their tools. In some instances, they specify the proposed uses, like combating “money laundering” or investigating “cybercrime.”
“What you see the Myanmar military putting together is a comprehensive suite of cybersecurity and forensics,” said Ian Foxley, a researcher at the Center for Applied Human Rights at the University of York. “A lot of this is electronic warfare capability stuff.”
Documentation for post-coup arrest warrants, which were reviewed by The Times, shows that Myanmar’s security forces have triangulated between their critics’ social media posts and the individual addresses of their internet hookups to find where they live. Such detective work could only have been carried out by using specialized foreign technology, according to experts with knowledge of Myanmar’s surveillance infrastructure.
“Even under a civilian government, there was little oversight of the military’s expenditure for surveillance technology,” said Ko Nay Yan Oo, a former fellow at the Pacific Forum of the Center for Strategic and International Studies who has studied the Myanmar military. “Now we are under military rule, and they can do everything they want.”
One particularly large section of the budget allocations covers the latest ware for phone-cracking and computer-hacking. Those systems are usually designed for use by militaries and police forces, and many international export bans include such technology.
The 2020-2021 Ministry of Home Affairs budget allocations include units from MSAB, a Swedish company that supplies forensic data tools for militaries around the world. These MSAB field units can download the contents of mobile devices and recover deleted items, according to notations in the budget.
Henrik Tjernberg, the chairman of MSAB, said that some of the company’s “legacy technology” had ended up in Myanmar a few years ago, but it no longer sold equipment there because of a European Union export ban on dual-use products that can be used for domestic repression. Mr. Tjernberg did not answer questions about how his products ended up in the latest budget.
In Myanmar, the latest budget also included MacQuisition forensic software designed to extract and collect data from Apple computers. The software is made by BlackBag Technologies, an American company that was bought last year by Cellebrite of Israel. Both companies also make other sophisticated tools to infiltrate locked or encrypted devices and suck out their data, including location-tracking information.
In many instances, governments do not buy military-grade technology directly from the companies that make them but instead go through middlemen. The intermediaries often cloak their intentions behind business registrations for education, construction or technology companies, even as they post photographs on social media of foreign weaponry or signing ceremonies with generals.
Middlemen can give Western companies distance from dealing face-to-face with dictators. But international embargoes and dual-use bans still hold tech firms liable for the end users of their products, even if resellers make the deals.
By 2018, Israel had essentially blocked military exports to Myanmar, after it emerged that Israeli weaponry was being sold to an army accused of genocidal actions against the Rohingya ethnic minority. The embargo extends to spare parts.
Two years later, Myanmar Future Science, a company that calls itself an educational and teaching aid supplier, signed paperwork reviewed by The Times agreeing to service military-grade surveillance drones made by Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms manufacturer. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the Tatmadaw chief who led the coup last month, visited Elbit’s offices during a 2015 trip to Israel.
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