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Help, Murder, Police
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Pendant six mois, ces villages palestiniens ont eu de l’eau courante. Israël y a mis fin
25 février | Amira Hass pour Haaretz |Traduction SF pour l’AURDIP
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Pendant six mois, des villageois palestiniens vivant en Cisjordanie sur une terre qu’Israël considère comme une zone de feu fermée, ont vu leur rêve d’eau courante devenir réalité. Puis l’administration civile y a mis fin.

Le rêve devenu réalité, sous la forme d’une canalisation d’eau de deux pouces (5 cm), était trop beau pour être vrai. Pendant environ six mois, 12 villages palestiniens des collines au sud de Hébron ont joui d’une eau courante claire. Cela, jusqu’au 13 février, lorsque l’équipe de l’Administration Civile israélienne, accompagnée de soldats et de la police des frontières est arrivée avec deux bulldozers.

Les soldats ont déterré les tuyaux, les ont coupés et sciés et ont regardé les jets d’eau qui en giclaient. Environ 350 mètres cubes d’eau ont été gaspillés. L’administration civile a confisqué des restes et des sections de tuyaux de 6km environ sur un réseau de 20 km de longueur. Ils les ont chargés sur des camions à ordures à l’effigie de Ramat Gan, une banlieue de Tel Aviv.

Le travail de démolition a duré six heures et demie. La construction du réseau d’adduction d’eau avait pris à peu près quatre mois. Ce fut clairement un acte de rébellion civile dans l’esprit du Mahatma Gandhi et de Martin Luther King contre une des privations les plus brutales qu’Israël impose aux villages palestiniens de la zone C, la partie de la Cisjordanie qui est totalement sous contrôle israélien. Cela empêche les Palestiniens de se brancher sur les infrastructures d’eau existantes.

Les grottes qui servent d’habitation dans le district de Masafer Yatta, au sud de Hébron et les anciennes citernes de collecte d’eau de pluie confirment la revendication des villageois selon laquelle leurs villages existent depuis des décennies, bien avant la fondation de l’État d’Israël. Dans les années 1970, Israël a déclaré que quelque 30 000 dounams (3 000 ha) étaient dans la Zone de Feu 918.

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For six months, these Palestinian villages had running water. Israel put a stop to it
For six months, Palestinian villagers living on West Bank land that Israel deems a closed firing range saw their dream of running water come true. Then the Civil Administration put an end to it

Amira Hass Feb 22, 2019 3:25 PM

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The dream that came true, in the form of a two-inch water line, was too good to be true. For about six months, 12 Palestinian West Bank villages in the South Hebron Hills enjoyed clean running water. That was until February 13, when staff from the Israeli Civil Administration, accompanied by soldiers and Border Police and a couple of bulldozers, arrived.

The troops dug up the pipes, cut and sawed them apart and watched the jets of water that spurted out. About 350 cubic meters of water were wasted. Of a 20 kilometer long (12 mile) network, the Civil Administration confiscated remnants and sections of a total of about 6 kilometers of piping. They loaded them on four garbage trucks emblazoned with the name of the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Gan on them.

The demolition work lasted six and a half hours. Construction of the water line network had taken about four months. It had been a clear act of civil rebellion in the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King against one of the most brutal bans that Israel imposes on Palestinian communities in Area C, the portion of the West Bank under full Israeli control. It bars Palestinians from hooking into existing water infrastructure.

The residential caves in the Masafer Yatta village region south of Hebron and the ancient cisterns used for collecting rainwater confirm the local residents’ claim that their villages have existed for decades, long before the founding of the State of Israel. In the 1970s, Israel declared some 30,000 dunams (7,500 acres) in the area Firing Range 918.

In 1999, under the auspices of the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the army expelled the residents of the villages and demolished their structures and water cisterns. The government claimed that the residents were trespassing on the firing range, even though these were their lands and they have lived in the area long before the West Bank was captured by Israel.

When the matter was brought to the High Court of Justice, the court approved a partial return to the villages but did not allow construction or hookups to utility infrastructure. Mediation attempts failed, because the state was demanding that the residents leave their villages and live in the West Bank town of Yatta and come to graze their flocks and work their land only on a few specific days per year.

But the residents continued to live in their homes, risking military raids and demolition action — including the demolition of public facilities such as schools, medical clinics and even toilets. They give up a lot to maintain their way of life as shepherds, but could not forgo water.

“The rainy season has grown much shorter in recent years, to only about 45 days a year,” explained Nidal Younes, the chairman of the Masafer Yatta council of villages. “In the past, we didn’t immediately fill the cisterns with rainwater, allowing them to be washed and cleaned first. Since the amount of rain has decreased, people stored water right away. It turns out the dirty water harmed the sheep and the people.”

Because the number of residents has increased, even in years with abundant rain, at a certain stage the cisterns ran dry and the shepherds would bring in water by tractor. They would haul a 4 cubic meter (140 square foot) tank along the area’s narrow, poor roads — which Israel does not permit to have widened and paved. “The water has become every family’s largest expense,” Younes said.

In the village of Halawa, he pointed out Abu Ziyad, a man of about 60. “I always see him on a tractor, bringing in water or setting out to bring back water.”

Sometimes the tractors overturn and drivers are injured. Tires quickly wear out and precious work days go to waste. “We are drowning in debt to pay for the transportation of water,” Abu Ziyad said.

In 2017, the Civil Administration and the Israeli army closed and demolished the roads to the villages, which the council had earlier managed to widen and rebuild. That had been done to make it easier to haul water in particular, but also more generally to give the villages better access.

The right-wing Regavim non-profit group “exposed” the great crime committed in upgrading the roads and pressured the Civil Administration and the army to rip them up. “The residents’ suffering increased,” Younes remarked. “We asked ourselves how to solve the water problem.”

The not very surprising solution was installing pipes to carry the water from the main water line in the village of Al-Tuwani, through privately owned lands of the other villages. “I checked it out, looking to see if there was any ban on laying water lines on private land and couldn’t find one,” Younes said.

Work done by volunteers

The plumbing work was done by volunteers, mostly at night and without heavy machinery, almost with their bare hands. Ali Debabseh, 77, of the village of Khalet al-Daba, recalled the moment when he opened the spigot installed near his home and washed his face with running water. “I wanted to jump for joy. I was as happy as a groom before his wedding.”

Umm Fadi of the village of Halawa also resorted to the word “joy” in describing the six months when she had a faucet near the small shack in which she lives. “The water was clean, not brown from rust or dust. I didn’t need to go as far as the cistern to draw water, didn’t need to measure every drop.”

Now it’s more difficult to again get used to being dependent on water dispensed from tanks.

The piping and connections and water meters were bought with a 100,000 euro ($113,000) European donation. Instead of paying 40 shekels ($11) per cubic meter for water brought in with water tanks, the residents paid only about 6 shekels for the same amount of running water. Suddenly they not only saved money, but also had more precious time.

The water lines also could have saved European taxpayers money. A European project to help the residents remain in their homes had been up and running since 2011, providing annual funding of 120,000 euros to cover the cost of buying and transporting drinking water during the three summer months for the residents (but not their livestock).

The cost was based on a calculation involving consumption of 750 liters per person a month, far below the World Health Organization’s recommended quantity. There are between 1,500 and 2,000 residents. The project made things much easier for such a poor community, which continued to pay out of its own pocket for the water for some 40,000 sheep and for the residents’ drinking water during the remainder of the year. Now that the Civil Administration has demolished the water lines, the European donor countries may be forced to once again pay for the high price of transporting water during the summer months, at seven times the cost.

For its part, the Civil Administration issued a statement noting that the area is a closed military zone. “On February 13,” the statement said, “enforcement action was taken against water infrastructure that was connected to illegal structures in this area and that were built without the required permits.”

Ismail Bahis should have been sorry that the pipes were laid last year. He and his brothers, residents of Yatta, own water tankers and were the main water suppliers to the Masafer Yatta villages. Through a system of coupons purchased with the European donation, they received 800 shekels for every shipment of 20 cubic meters of water. But Bahis said he was happy he had lost out on the work.

“The roads to the villages of Masafer Yatta are rough and dangerous, particularly after the army closed them,” he said. “Every trip of a few kilometers took at least three and a half hours. Once I tipped over with the tanker. Another time the army confiscated my brother’s truck, claiming it was a closed military zone. We got the truck released three weeks later in return for 5,000 shekels. We always had other additional expenses replacing tires and other repairs for the truck.

Nidal Younes recounted that the council signed a contract with another water carrier to meet the demand. But that supplier quit after three weeks. He wouldn’t agree to drive on the poor and dangerous roads.

On February 13, Younes heard the large group of forces sent by the Civil Administration beginning to demolish the water lines near the village of Al-Fakhit. He rushed to the scene and began arguing with the soldiers and Civil Administration staff.

Border Police arrests

Border Police officers arrested him, handcuffed him and put him in a jeep. His colleague, the head of the Al-Tuwani council, Mohammed al-Raba’i, also approached those carrying out the demolition work to protest. “But they arrested me after I said two words. At least Nidal managed to say a lot,” he said with a smile that concealed sadness.

Two teams carried out the demolition work, one proceeding toward the village of Jinbah, to the southeast, the second advanced in the direction of Al-Tuwani, to the northwest. They also demolished the access road leading to the village of Sha’ab al-Butum, so that even if Bahis wanted to transport water again, he would have had to make a large detour to do so.

Younes was shocked to spot a man named Marco among the team carrying out the demolition. “I remembered him from when I was a child, from the 1980s when he was an inspector for the Civil Administration. In 1985, he supervised the demolition of houses in our village, Jinbah — twice, during Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr [marking the end of the Ramadan holy month],” he said.

“They knew him very well in all the villages in the area because he attended all the demolitions. The name Marco was a synonym for an evil spirit. Our parents who saw him demolish their homes, have died. He disappeared, and suddenly he has reappeared,” Younes remarked.

Marco is Marco Ben-Shabbat, who has lead the Civil Administration’s supervision unit for the past 10 years. Speaking to a reporter from the Israel Hayom daily who accompanied the forces carrying out the demolition work, Ben-Shabbat said: “The [water line] project was not carried out by the individual village. The Palestinian Authority definitely put a project manager here and invested a lot of money.”

More precisely, it was European governments that did so.

From all of the villages where the Civil Administration destroyed water lines, the Jewish outposts of Mitzpeh Yair and Avigayil can be seen on the hilltops. Although they are unauthorized and illegal even according to lenient Israeli settlement laws, the outposts were connected almost immediately to water and electricity grids and paved roads lead to them.

“I asked why they demolished the water lines,” Nidal Younes recalled. He said one of the Border Police officers answered him, in English, telling him it was done “to replace Arabs with Jews.”

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The Washington Post’s ‘three Pinocchios’ for AOC shows how incoherent mainstream ‘fact-checking’ really is – Alternet.org
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But there’s something more complex happening here too, that’s probably best understood in terms of press scholar Daniel Hallin’s three-sphere model of how the media functions, from his 1986 book The Uncensored War. At the center is the sphere of consensus, mom-and-apple-pie country. Surrounding that, like a donut, is the sphere of legitimate debate, where journalists’ attention is usually focused, where there are two sides to every story and a need for objectivity and balance to be maintained.

Beyond that, though, is the sphere of deviance, the outer darkness in which dwell “political actors and views which journalists and the political mainstream of society reject as unworthy of being heard.” The shoddy fact-checking directed at Ocasio-Cortez reflects a boundary-policing instinct, and an outdated one, considering that the entire political landscape has been irrevocably changed.

To understand how shoddy it is — and the unspoken agenda involved — we need to take a closer look at the totality of what went down. Kessler was quoting from a snippet of AOC’s response to a question by Ta-Nehisi Coates in an MLK Day interview. The context is important, because context is everything in political discourse: What’s radical in one context is mom-and-apple-pie material in another.

King, paradoxically, is both. The question asked and the answer given were both in King’s spirit — but not the mom-and-apple-pie version of him the media (and much of America) loves to celebrate. It more reflected the actual, radical Martin Luther King Jr., who spoke out against the “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism,” and said, “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

So, read in context, everything AOC said was true, even if we accept Kessler’s factual counterclaims! The entire fact-checking ritual was a charade. As I suggested earlier, it was really a boundary-policing episode, meant to keep her “radical” ideas outside the sphere of legitimate debate by portraying her as untrustworthy. Further, it was meant to deter others from similar infractions while trying to break through the barriers excluding them from legitimacy. (See AOC’s related Twitter thread on “gravitas” here.)

But the problem is that Kessler’s implied boundaries are not worth policing, or even recognizing. The whole system is in crisis, and the mainstream media’s assessment of what is deviant, what reflects normative consensus and what represents legitimate debate bears little or no relationship to reality. Take two other examples AOC has been associated with — raising top marginal tax rates to 70 percent and a Green New Deal. The first idea drew immediate majority support — 59 percent in a poll for the Hill, including 56 percent of rural voters and 45 percent of Republicans—and scorn from the 1 percent at Davos.

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell laughed at the idea (video here), and said he thought it would be bad for economic growth. “Name a country where that’s worked,” he responded. “Ever.” Sitting there with him was MIT economist Erik Brynjolfsson, who supplied the example: the United States, throughout most of its post-World War II expansion. It was a rare, Marshall McLuhan-in-“Annie Hall” moment. Usually, when the super-rich or their sycophants spout off like that, truth does not intrude. Certainly not from the fact-checking media.

But the media’s failure is even more striking when it comes to climate change and the Green New Deal. It’s still a rarity for the media to treat climate science as firmly within the sphere of consensus, where all reputable researchers say it belongs.

#Fact_checking #Médias

King’s Vision Is Still Defiant
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Mike Pence, in his attempt the other day to commandeer the spirit of Martin Luther King to shill for his boss’s agenda, unintentionally did so much more. He brought the enormity of King’s vision...

MLK Strongly Supported Unions. Here’s Why.
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If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions.

King understood racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, “What good does it do to be able...

Incroyable, encore une fois, le New-York Times va à l’encontre de ses positions sioniste (peut-être est-ce que c’est fait pour faire chier Trump ?) et publie cette tribune :

Time to Break the Silence on Palestine
Michelle Alexander, The New-York Times, le 19 janvier 2019
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And so, if we are to honor King’s message and not merely the man, we must condemn Israel’s actions: unrelenting violations of international law, continued occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, home demolitions and land confiscations. We must cry out at the treatment of Palestinians at checkpoints, the routine searches of their homes and restrictions on their movements, and the severely limited access to decent housing, schools, food, hospitals and water that many of them face.

We must not tolerate Israel’s refusal even to discuss the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, as prescribed by United Nations resolutions, and we ought to question the U.S. government funds that have supported multiple hostilities and thousands of civilian casualties in Gaza, as well as the $38 billion the U.S. government has pledged in military support to Israel.

And finally, we must, with as much courage and conviction as we can muster, speak out against the system of legal discrimination that exists inside Israel, a system complete with, according to Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, more than 50 laws that discriminate against Palestinians — such as the new nation-state law that says explicitly that only Jewish Israelis have the right of self-determination in Israel, ignoring the rights of the Arab minority that makes up 21 percent of the population.

Michelle Alexander est une avocate, professeure, spécialiste du racisme aux Etats-Unis. En 2017, elle a reçu le Prix Martin Luther King de l’Université de l’Ohio. Dans cet article elle revient justement sur Martin Luther King qui eut le courage de dénoncer la guerre du Vietnam, pour dire qu’il est temps aujourd’hui de dénoncer la situation en Palestine...

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#Palestine #USA #Michelle_Alexander #Guerre #Martin_Luther_King #Occupation #Droit_au_retour #Apartheid #BDS #New-York_Times

Albert Luthuli, Martin Luther King Jr. and global human rights
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Albert Luthuli was the president of South Africa’s current ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), from 1952 to 1967. One of

Fascism in Chicago | WTTW Chicago
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September 6, 2018 - by Daniel Hautzinger - Last year, a pair of Chicago aldermen proposed renaming a Chicago street to honor the journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells, and in July of this year the proposal was approved for a stretch of Congress Parkway. But Congress wasn’t the street originally considered for renaming; rather, it was Balbo Drive.

7th Street became Balbo Drive in 1934, in recognition of Italo Balbo, a leading Italian Fascist under Benito Mussolini. There’s also Balbo Monument east of Soldier Field, a 2,000-year-old column donated by Mussolini to the city the same year. Why does Chicago have a street and monument honoring a Fascist?

In 1933, Balbo led twenty-four seaplanes on a pioneering sixteen-day transatlantic journey from Rome to Chicago, flying over the Century of Progress World’s Fair before landing in Lake Michigan near Navy Pier. Balbo and the pilots were celebrated by Chicago’s high society over the next three days. Chief Blackhorn of the Sioux, who was participating in the World’s Fair, granted Balbo a headdress and christened him “Chief Flying Eagle;” Balbo gave the Chief a Fascist medallion in return. He and his pilots then continued on to New York City. Balbo was featured on the cover of Time magazine and had lunch with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The following year, Mussolini sent the column to Chicago to commemorate Balbo’s flight, and it was installed in front of the Fair’s Italian Pavilion. 40,000 people attended its unveiling, and a speech by Balbo was broadcast by radio from Italy. After the defeat of the Fascists in World War II and the revelation of their crimes, Italy’s ambassador to the United States suggested that marks of respect on the column to Balbo and the Fascist government be removed. Despite those changes, the monument still stands, and Balbo Drive retains its name despite the proposal to change it, being a point of pride for many Italian Americans in Chicago.

The World’s Fair was also the site of a subtle protest against fascism in Europe, when a pageant dramatizing Jewish religious history took place in Soldier Field in July of 1933. According to the Chicago Daily News, the event drew 150,000 people of various faiths, and the “spiritual kinship” and “fine fellowship” between Christians and Jews there would “carry rebuke to those who oppress the Jew” in “Hitler’s Germany.”

Two years later, Soldier Field saw a different kind of demonstration that does not seem to have been explicitly anti-Semitic but did feature the Nazi swastika. In 1936, a “German Day” rally included a march with both the American flag and a flag bearing the swastika. But the German American community in Chicago mostly laid low during World War II, careful to conceal their ethnicity and avoid experiencing some of the anti-German sentiment they had already experienced during World War I. However, in 1939 a rally in Merrimac Park supporting the German-American Bund, an organization sympathetic to Nazism and Hitler, attracted several thousand people.

Decades later, a tiny flare-up of support for fascism in Chicagoland attracted outsized national attention. In 1977, a small neo-Nazi group called the National Socialist Party of America sought to hold a demonstration in the northern suburb of Skokie, which had a large population of Jewish people, including some 7,000 survivors of the Holocaust. The suburb originally planned on letting the demonstration happen and moving on, but was convinced by members of its Jewish community to prevent it. (In 1966, the head of the American Nazi Party came to Chicago to march against Martin Luther King, Jr. as Dr. King protested unfair housing practices in the city.)

After passing ordinances that would prevent the demonstration, Skokie was challenged in court by the neo-Nazis, who were supported by the legal backing of the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU did not support the views of the group, but rather sought to protect the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. David Goldberger, the ACLU lawyer who led the case, was Jewish.

30,000 members of the ACLU resigned in protest, and financial support for the organization dropped precipitately. Yet the lawyers persevered, fearing that any denial of free speech was a slippery slope. Through various courts, injunctions, and proposed legislation, the neo-Nazis eventually won the case, which even made it to the Supreme Court.

But the neo-Nazis never demonstrated in Skokie. Instead, they staged two marches in Chicago, one downtown and one in Marquette Park. Counter-protesters vastly outnumbered the ten or twenty neo-Nazis in both cases. The leader who spearheaded the marches and garnered the media’s attention during the Skokie case was later convicted for child molestation. (The hapless National Socialist Party of America is famously satirized in the 1980 film Blues Brothers.)

In the wake of the Skokie case, Illinois became the first state to mandate Holocaust education in schools. And in 2009, Skokie became the site of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, an implicit rebuke to the attempted Nazi demonstrations of three decades prior.

#USA #Chicago #fascisme

Mes #étoiles_noires

L’Homme, petit ou grand, a besoin d’étoiles pour se repérer. Il a besoin de modèles pour se construire, bâtir son estime de soi, changer son imaginaire, casser les #préjugés qu’il projette sur lui-même et sur les autres. Dans mon enfance, on m’a montré beau- coup d’étoiles. Je les ai admirées, j’en ai rêvé : Socrate, Baudelaire, Einstein, Marie Curie, le général de Gaulle, Mère Teresa… Mais des étoiles noires, personne ne m’en a jamais parlé. Les murs des classes étaient blancs, les pages des livres d’histoire étaient blanches.
J’ignorais tout de l’histoire de mes propres ancêtres. Seul l’esclavage était mentionné. L’histoire des Noirs, ainsi présentée, n’était qu’une vallée d’armes et de larmes.

Pouvez-vous me citer un scientifique noir ?
Un explorateur noir ?
Un philosophe noir ?
Un pharaon noir ?
Si vous ne le savez pas, quelle que soit la couleur de votre peau, ce livre est pour vous. Car la meilleure façon de lutter contre le racisme et l’intolérance, c’est d’enrichir nos connaissances et nos #imaginaires.

Ces portraits de femmes et d’hommes sont le fruit de mes lectures et de mes entretiens avec des spécialistes et des historiens. De Lucy à Barack Obama, en passant par Ésope, Dona Béatrice, Pouchkine, Anne Zin- gha, Aimé Césaire, Martin Luther King et bien d’autres encore, ces étoiles m’ont permis d’éviter la victimisation, d’être capable de croire en l’Homme, et surtout d’avoir confiance en moi.

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#livre #historicisation #Noirs #invisibilisation #invisibilité #racisme #Lilian_Thuram #Thuram

ps. il y a de très beau portraits des personnes noires mentionnées dans le livre... des dessins. Je vais essayer de faire quelques photos et les poster ici...

Face aux enfants tyrans, des parents en détresse se forment à la non violence
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Au CHU de Montpellier, un programme inspiré de Gandhi aide les parents à désamorcer les comportements agressifs de leur enfant.

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« Mon fils, il se sent propriétaire de la maison, c’est comme si c’était nous qui vivions chez lui. Il voit déjà comment déshériter sa sœur, mettre des appartements en location… », raconte une femme, dont la lassitude perce dans la voix. « Ma fille, c’est un peu pareil. Elle dit : “c’est Ma partie de canapé. Mon chat. Mon assiette.” Si je veux entrer dans sa chambre, elle m’attaque », soupire une autre.
Dans une grande salle de réunion du service de pédopsychiatrie de l’hôpital Saint-Eloi, au CHU de Montpellier, ils sont une dizaine, femmes seules ou couples. Devant chacun, une étiquette avec un prénom, celui de leur enfant, devenu pour certains leur « bourreau ». « C’est sa chambre, mais c’est aussi chez vous, rebondit le docteur Nathalie Franc, praticien hospitalier, qui coanime cette réunion. Les parents doivent reprendre leur territoire, et c’est pour cela que faire un sit-in dans la chambre de l’enfant est intéressant. C’est un moyen pacifiste de dire : je suis là, je n’ai pas peur. »
Hiérarchie familiale inversée

« Reprendre le territoire », mais aussi « présence parentale », « réseau de soutien », « réagir à froid »… Autant de mots-clés avec lesquels ces parents apprennent ici à se familiariser. Depuis des mois, voire des années, ils avaient vu la hiérarchie familiale s’inverser, leur enfant ou adolescent prendre le pouvoir par la violence, les menaces, les manipulations. Ces familles sans antécédent de problème éducatif ont souffert le plus souvent dans le secret, d’autant plus facile à garder que les comportements tyranniques de ces jeunes sont en général ­concentrés au sein de la famille, et quasi inexistants à l’extérieur.
Depuis six semaines, chaque jeudi à l’heure du déjeuner, ils se retrouvent pour une séance de groupe d’une heure trente, animée par Nathalie Franc et Florence Pupier, une autre pédopsychiatre du service.

Objectif de ce program­me, quasi unique en France : désamorcer la violence, éviter l’escalade, et reprendre l’autorité grâce à une approche de résistance non violente (RNV). Inspiré des actions politiques de Gandhi et de Martin Luther King, le concept a été décliné et validé pour des jeunes violents ou autodestructeurs par le psychothérapeute israélien Haim Omer. Depuis trois ans, l’équipe de Montpellier l’a adapté pour des accompagnements parentaux en groupe, en treize séances. Une étude scientifique est en cours sur une soixantaine de familles, avec une comparaison sur un groupe témoin placé sur liste d’attente.

Dans les premières séances, les deux animatrices ont donné beaucoup d’informations sur ce phénomène méconnu des enfants tyrans, posé les bases de la stratégie RNV. « Si on ne prend pas ce temps, ils ont l’impression que l’anxiété de l’enfant ou d’autres troubles psychologiques peuvent excuser son comportement. Il faut bien expliquer qu’aucun diagnostic ne justifie la violence de l’enfant », souligne Nathalie Franc.

L’une des premières actions consiste en une déclaration solennelle, où les parents signifient au principal intéressé qu’ils ne vont plus tolérer ses comportements et vont – c’est l’un des points fondamentaux de la méthode – se faire aider d’un réseau de soutien.

Avant d’aborder le menu du jour, la gestion des crises et le réseau de soutien, Florence Pupier et Nathalie Franc demandent aux participants ce qu’ils ont pu ou pas mettre en place depuis la précédente séance. Certains prendront souvent la parole, d’autres resteront mutiques. Tous n’en sont pas au même stade. Une maman n’a pas commencé, car « il faut trouver un moment où il n’a pas les écouteurs sur la tête ». Un couple dit avoir « préparé psychologiquement » son fils à la déclaration, mais qu’il n’était « pas content ». « Et vous, vous vous êtes sentis comment ? », interroge Florence Pupier. « J’ai réussi à mieux éviter l’escalade de la violence, mais maintenant le numéro trois recopie son frère. En tout cas j’évite de rentrer dans des discussions interminables », raconte la mère. « Désormais, elle gère mieux les crises que moi », acquiesce son mari. Plus tard dans la séance, il reconnaîtra qu’il en était arrivé à frapper son garçon, en se retenant pour ne pas y mettre les poings.

Perte de contrôle

A chaque occasion, les deux animatrices décryptent les mécanismes, rappellent les conseils fondamentaux du programme. Puis Florence Pupier fait un topo sur les crises émotionnelles. « Quand une crise a commencé, c’est trop tard, on ne peut plus raisonner l’enfant. L’idée, c’est de ne pas rester dans le rôle du punching-ball, sinon c’est comme s’il vous invitait à un match de boxe », explique-t-elle. « Ils ont perdu le contrôle et cherchent à ce que le parent se mette en crise lui aussi. La seule stratégie, à ce moment-là, c’est de se mettre à l’écart, voire de partir de la maison », complète Nathalie Franc.

En fin de journée, les deux médecins passeront une heure à faire le bilan de la séance. Si elles connaissent bien les situations, elles n’ont pas toujours vu ces enfants tyrans en consultation, ceux-ci refusant souvent un suivi médical. La prise en charge et le contexte sont assez différents des émissions de télé-réalité comme « Super Nanny » ou « Ma famille a besoin d’aide ». « Ce sont des émissions intéressantes, mais qui axent sur le tout-éducatif, sans prendre en compte la vulnérabilité psychologique sous-jacente des enfants, pointe le docteur Franc. En outre, le profil n’est pas le même : dans ces deux programmes, ce sont souvent des familles avec des carences éducatives, ce qui n’est pas le cas avec les enfants tyrans. »
Selon la pédopsychiatre, qui a une expérience sur 150 familles, tous ont des troubles psychologiques, même si un diagnostic précis n’est pas toujours posé.

« Il y a souvent un trouble déficit de l’attention/hyperactivité (TDAH), une anxiété. Ces enfants, souvent issus de milieux favorisés, font de gros efforts pour s’adapter à l’extérieur et explosent en rentrant à la maison. »

Quasiment seule en France à proposer ces prises en charge pour ces situations dont la prévalence reste inconnue, l’équipe de Montpellier croule sous les demandes. « Si les résultats de notre étude sont positifs, cela nous donnera des moyens et de la crédibilité pour que d’autres équipes nous suivent », pronostique Nathalie Franc.
De façon générale, l’implication des familles est l’une des marques de fabrique de ce service dirigé par la professeure Diane Purper-Ouakil. « On lutte pour positionner les parents et travailler avec eux », insiste la pédopsychiatre, dont l’équipe propose des programmes d’entraînement aux habiletés parentales validés comme la métho­de Barkley pour le TDAH, et plus récemment « Incredible Years », une stratégie destinée aux parents d’enfants (de 3 à 6 ans) avec des troubles du comportement. Des projets de recherche sont aussi en cours pour développer des programmes innovants.

Oltre 500 ore consecutive di culto per non far espellere una famiglia migrante

In Olanda la legge vieta di interrompere una funziona religiosa: per questo centinaia di pastori da oltre tre settimane si alternano per evitare il rimpatrio di una famiglia ospitata in chiesa.

In Olanda una chiesa protestante de l’Aja sta tenendo un culto da oltre tre settimane consecutive per proteggere una famiglia di migranti dall’espulsione dal Paese.

La storia è tanto semplice quanto geniale: secondo la legge statale le forze dell’ordine non possono interrompere una funzione religiosa in corso. Centinaia di pastori si stanno dunque alternando per non far cessare mai il culto cui sta partecipando la famiglia in questione, una coppia armena con tre figli di 15, 19 e 21 anni. L’idea è venuta al presidente del consiglio generale della Chiesa protestante olandese, il pastore Theo Hettema, una volta saputo che la famiglia, da ben 8 anni nei Paesi Bassi, con un figlio iscritto all’università e gli altri alle scuole dell’obbligo, rischiava il rimpatrio perché non può più godere delle tutele internazionali in quanto l’Armenia, terra d’origine dei cinque, non è considerata nazione a rischio.

I cinque, cristiani, frequentano la chiesa protestante della cittadina in cui risiedono, Katwijk, nei pressi proprio de L’Aja, e una delle figlie svolge volontariato in una associazione legata alla chiesa. L’ appello del pastore Hettema ha raccolto l’adesione di centinaia di colleghi e di moltissimi membri di chiesa, provenienti anche dai Comuni vicini. Tutti consapevoli che la splendida iniziativa non potrà durare in eterno, ma con la speranza di far nel mentre cambiare idea al governo, che ha però più volte affermato che la famiglia non ha i requisiti per rimanere nel Paese. Otto anni per ottenere una risposta sulla possibilità di asilo o meno in una nazione rischiano di essere un tragico record, e ignorare che la famiglia si sia oramai integrata nel nuovo contesto pare un’inutile cattiveria.

Quando i 5 non partecipano alla funzione, si riposano nei locali sopra la cappella. Un tempo in Italia le chiese erano luoghi di asilo e rifugio in cui le forze dell’ordine non potevano entrare, ma da oltre un secolo le cose sono cambiate (secondo quanto normato prima dalle leggi Siccardi del 1850 e quindi dai Patti Lateranensi del 1929 il cui l’articolo 5 recita comunque con formula ambigua “Salvo i casi di urgente necessità, la forza pubblica non potrà entrare, per l’esercizio delle sue funzioni, negli edifici aperti al culto, senza averne dato previo avviso all’autorità ecclesiastica”). Le norme in materia cambiano molto da Stato a Stato e non sono mancate in questi anni polemiche a seguito di arresti di migranti in chiesa (in Germania, in Islanda).

La Chiesa protestante in Olanda, nata dalla fusione di tre precedenti chiese, la riformata olandese, la riformata in Olanda e la evangelica luterana, rappresenta circa un terzo dei 6 milioni di abitanti dei Paesi Bassi.

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▻https://riforma.it/it/articolo/2018/11/19/oltre-500-ore-consecutive-di-culto-non-far-espellere-una-famiglia-migrante
#messe #résistance #expulsions #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Pays-Bas #culte #religion #refuge #Eglise #église

#Zwarte_Piet —> comme chaque année, la #polémique recommence aux #Pays-Bas...

Laat Piets schmink gewoon weg, geen kleuter die het merkt

En als je Piets schmink nu gewoon weglaat? Geen kleuter die het merkt.

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▻https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/laat-piets-schmink-gewoon-weg-geen-kleuter-die-het-merkt~bf013bfd

Sur seenthis, il y a le tag #Zwarte_Piet :
▻https://seenthis.net/tag/zwarte_piet

Quelques liens choisis, une sorte de #métaliste :
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/202401
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/198874
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/202763
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/206000
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/219657
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/266249
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/273473
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/299691

#racisme #Noël #Noirs #xénophobie #tradition #colonialisme #colonisation #Noël #Saint-Nicolas #stéréotypes #histoire #histoire_coloniale #culture #esclavage #racisme_institutionnel

Critics fear Amazon’s minimum wage hike will distract from its other issues
▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/06/critics-fear-amazons-minimum-wage-hike-will-distract-from-its-other-iss

The world’s most powerful retailer will pay more, but its impact on the economy may mean more struggles for low-wage workers In 1967, just a year before his assassination, Dr Martin Luther King launched the Poor People’s Campaign to “to demand that the government address itself to the problem of poverty”. Five decades on little has changed for low-wage workers. Minimum wage increases in the US have failed to even keep pace with inflation. A full-time minimum wage worker in 1968 would have (...)

#Amazon #travail

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On a, à mon avis, beaucoup exagéré l’engagement politique d’Aretha Franklin.
▻https://www.alternet.org/respect-here-are-5-aretha-franklins-most-important-contributions-civil-rig

Certes la famille était amie avec Martin Luther King, et elle l’a soutenu autant qu’elle a pu, ainsi que Barack Obama 40 ans plus tard. Elle a, en revanche refusé de chanter pour Donald Trump :

Aretha Franklin ne chantera pas pour Donald Trump
Jazz Radio, le 15 décembre 2016
►https://seenthis.net/messages/552736

Son engagement ponctuel le plus fort a probablement été celui de proposer de verser une caution pour la libération d’Angela Davis, comme cette dernière le racontait ici en 2013 :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8F_91mnJcc

#Aretha_Franklin #Musique #Soul #Musique_et_politique #Angela_Davis

Les débuts

Aretha Franklin 16 minutes à la télé dans sa période jazzy, mais déjà très bluesy en 1964 (je ne sais pas pourquoi, les 16 minutes sont répétées deux fois) :

Aretha Franklin - Live on The Steve Allen Show (1964)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEIdwaXYNPc

One Step Ahead, en 1965
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyWo7DaKQGU

I’m Losing You, en 1965
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23zucJBZT3E

La démo de Dr. Feelgood, fin 1966, avec basse, batterie, et Aretha au piano, du bonheur à l’état brut :
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EYlHUubvTg

Do Right Woman, en 1967
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1MW6xXjW8g

Au congrès du Parti Démocrate en août 1968
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqVzfd_cHQ0

A la télé américaine en 1968
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mppKQ2mY-kA

Hollywood Palace, novembre 1968
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrpHsQ5hfFc

I Say A Little Prayer, en 1970
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKkWj2WpWM

Les concert du Fillmore West les 5, 6 et 7 mars 1971 :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pjLJa45vjk

Dont on peut extraire Dr. Feelgood, en 1971
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2x8zpoHkTU

Mary Don’t You Weep, en 1972 (on attend toujours le film de Amazing Grace dont Aretha Franklin a toujours retardé la sortie...)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIX6btGIn8w

Le dernier concert à Paris, en 1977
▻https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x1l0ad#video=xi2g4n
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Precious Lord

Precious Lord aux obsèques de Martin Luther King, 1968
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FdFrtNacgU

Precious Lord aux obsèques de Mahalia Jackson, 1972
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6etBsGEG88

Precious Lord, en hommage à C.L. Franklin et à Martin Luther King, 1984
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b9qH6-IvEs

Precious Lord, en hommage à Martin Luther King, 2011
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPiphFEtwyY

Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles - Things Go Better with Coke #1 (1969)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntn2XRfBGx0

Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles - Things Go Better with Coke #2 (1969)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvz1Y2UdCGA

Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles - Spirit In The Dark (Fillmore West 1971)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOXKr7wh1Ac

Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles - Ain’t But The One (Duke Ellington Tribute 1973)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em4EXTa4lKg

Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles - Two to Tango (Midnight Special 1975)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se3BqqaA2Fs

Aretha Franklin et Smokey Robinson - Ooo Baby Baby, 1979
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy75z0trlDk

Aretha Franklin et Big Mama Thornton - Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out, 1980
▻https://vimeo.com/161253340

Aretha Franklin et Billy Preston - Holy Night, 1986
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDgSQiUcVnM

Aretha Franklin et Stevie Wonder - Until you come back to me, 2005
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTnCHP-9Wdo

Aretha Franklin, Dennis Edwards et Ronald Isley - A Song For You, 2011
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJVyXBdPHCk

Everyday People, de Sly Stone, 1990
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyxJEVej9FQ

At Last, de Etta James, 2014
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrNIwkhHkmY

Avril 2014 :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBdB32pQZ-M

Avril 2015 :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ddYfaRuVGA

Dans une émission humoristique en 1991 :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vs1W5_hsYg

You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman, en décembre 2015 (probablement sa dernière performance fantastique)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlGXwUz9vhc

Rock of Ages, un classique de gospel de 8 minutes, en septembre 2016
▻https://vimeo.com/234519390

L’hymne national américain, en novembre 2016
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZLWHz8ekgw

Son dernier concert gratuit à Detroit en juin 2017 :
▻https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/aretha-franklin/2018/08/19/aretha-franklin-final-detroit-show/1025210002

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKERxJipceM

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Son dernier concert à New York en novembre 2017 :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oMgRfQOUxw

Une de ses dernières apparitions à la télé en avril 2018
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK4uJOxL_Sc

#Aretha_Franklin #Musique #Soul

Aretha Franklin, respect éternel
▻http://next.liberation.fr/culture/2018/08/16/aretha-franklin-respect-eternel_1672542?xtor=rss-450

Aretha Franklin’s Astonishing “Dr. Feelgood” | The New Yorker
▻https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/aretha-franklins-astonishing-dr-feelgood

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On peut voir la vidéo à : ▻https://youtu.be/V2x8zpoHkTU

The passage (of what, in a black religious context, might be called “tuning up”) extravagantly justifies Franklin’s claim that, although she recorded secular music, she never left the Church; she took it with her. But the very structure of this performance, from blues to prayer, makes an additional case: that a woman’s sexual authority need not compromise her spiritual leadership but might actually fuel it. There is apprehension, too. Franklin “gets a little worried” and “fearful” like everyone else. But she knows that “everything’s gonna be alright.” “Don’t put worry on you before worry gets to you”: she repeats the injunction twice, so that what begins as an admonition becomes an assurance of divine clemency, of a force that might take you beyond where you thought you could go—“You’d be surprised what big bridges you can meet when you get there.”

Franklin often said that she didn’t put her politics into her music, but her public support for black radical figures meant that she didn’t have to. She was a tireless fund-raiser for Martin Luther King, Jr., a family friend; in 1970, she offered to post bail for Angela Davis. These social commitments add depth to her music. They allow us to hear in her reference to bridges, for instance, such tortured, bold crossings as that of the Edmund Pettus Bridge by civil-rights activists marching to Selma. They allow us to hear, in her reference to fear for one’s children, a moment when black youth were on the front lines—integrating schools, joining freedom rides, or simply navigating hostile home towns.

This was the promise of soul: that pain granted depth, and that one was never alone but accompanied by a vibrant community that had crossed too many bridges in order to survive. Franklin was the queen not only of soul music but of soul as a concept, because her great subject was the exceeding of limits. Her willingness to extend her own vocal technique, to venture beyond herself, to strain to implausible heights, and revive songs that seemed to be over—all these strategies could look and sound like grace. She knew that we would need it.

#Musique #Aretha_Franklin

RESPECT: Here Are 5 of Aretha Franklin’s Most Important Contributions to Civil Rights | Alternet
▻https://www.alternet.org/respect-here-are-5-aretha-franklins-most-important-contributions-civil-rig

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The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, has died at the age of 76. Franklin, who had suffered from pancreatic cancer and other severe health problems, was among the most iconic and influential R&B singers of all time—and during the final days of her life, she was visited by R&B legend Stevie Wonder as well as veteran civil rights activist, the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Many of Franklin’s hits, from “Chain of Fools” in 1967 to “Think” in 1968 to “Day Dreaming” in 1972, are staples of classic soul. Franklin’s contributions, however, were not only musical, but also, political—and she was an important figure in the civil rights struggles of the 1960s and 1970s.

Here are five of the Queen of Soul’s most important contributions to civil rights and politics in the United States.

1. “Respect” Became a Civil Rights Anthem

2. Franklin Embraced the Activism of the Black Church
3. Martin Luther King, Jr. Presented Franklin with Southern Christian Leadership Award
4. The Queen of Soul Sang at Martin Luther King’s Funeral
5. She also sang at Barack Obama’s Inauguration❞

#Musique #Droits_humains

Being a White Student at a Historically Black College
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/being-a-white-student-at-a-historically-black-college

On this episode of ’MINORITY REPORTS,’ Vice met up with Tiago, a white freshman at Morehouse College, an HBCU in Atlanta that counts Martin Luther King, Jr. and Spike Lee as alumni. We sat down...

#Seymour_Hersh on spies, state secrets, and the stories he doesn’t tell - Columbia Journalism Review
▻https://www.cjr.org/special_report/seymour-hersh-monday-interview.php

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Bob Woodward once said his worst source was Kissinger because he never told the truth. Who was your worst source?

Oh, I wouldn’t tell you.

Poor People’s Campaign. La Campagne des Pauvres a démarré et promet de chambarder les États Unis ! - Anti-K
▻https://www.anti-k.org/2018/06/06/poor-peoples-campaign-la-campagne-des-pauvres-a-demarre-et-promet-de-chambar

Les médias américains n’en disent pas mot, les européens l’ignorent totalement mais cela ne veut pas dire que la « Campagne des Pauvres » (Poor People’s Campaign) n’est pas lancée avec des actions qui promettent de marquer le cours de l’histoire aux États Unis d’Amérique ! Et ces actions qui ont démarré le 13 Mai, et vont durer 42 jours, dans 41 États fédéraux, couvrent tout le spectre des opprimés et de leurs luttes, dessinant ainsi un programme revendicatif à la fois bien enraciné dans la réalité nord-américaine et suffisamment radical pour qu’il puisse ouvrir le chemin qui conduit à la contestation du système politique, social et économique du pays !

On pourrait dire que tout a commencé il y a exactement un demi siècle, en 1968, quand Martin Luther King parachevait sa radicalisation en mettant en évidence la dimension classiste du racisme et en appelant à l’unité de tous les opprimés indépendamment de sexe, religion, couleur de peau, orientation sexuelle ou nationalité. Et c’est ainsi qu’a été lancée la première « Campagne des Pauvres », qui allait pourtant être interrompue brutalement peu après quand son inspirateur et dirigeant tombait sous les balles de ceux qui craignaient tant la perspective d’une révolte des « classes dangereuses » dans la métropole du capitalisme mondial.

Aujourd’hui, c’est a dire cinquante ans plus tard, la Campagne des Pauvres renaît et cela arrive au plus opportun des moments. Preuve en est l’énorme soutien et surtout la participation active à cette Campagne des centaines de mouvements et organisations de tout genre, partout dans le pays : Grands et petits syndicats ouvriers (télécommunications, métal, restauration, hôpitaux…) mais aussi paysans, mouvements revendicatifs du très radical et massif Fight for 15$ (pour un salaire horaire minimal de 15 dollars contre 7,5 $ actuellement) au très combatif Black Lives Matter, presque tous les mouvements féministes et LGBT, grandes et petites, anciennes et nouvelles organisations antiracistes, indigènes et de droits civils ainsi que des organisations des immigrés et réfugiés, et évidemment la presque totalité des mouvements et réseaux qui luttent contre la catastrophe climatique. Et aussi, des mouvements antimilitaristes et anti-guerre des communautés religieuses (chrétiennes, juives, musulmanes, hindouistes, sikh…) et autres collectivités représentant la diversité des opprimées et de leurs résistances….

Et si la non-violence n’était pas efficace ?
▻https://reporterre.net/Et-si-la-non-violence-n-etait-pas-efficace

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Loin de faire l’apologie d’une violence irraisonnée, « Comment la #non-violence protège l’État », de Peter Gelderloos, déboulonne l’argumentaire fallacieux de ceux qui affirment que la non-violence est la seule méthode acceptable de lutte face à la violence du #capitalisme et de l’État.

Présentation du #livre par son éditeur :

Parlons franchement, au vu de la situation, la grande majorité des mouvements sociaux et écologistes échouent lamentablement, depuis des décennies, ne serait-ce qu’à freiner la catastrophe sociale et écologique en cours (de la sixième extinction de masse aux inégalités économiques phénoménales et croissantes qui caractérisent notre temps).

La plupart de ces mouvements se targuent de respecter scrupuleusement les principes de la non-violence, qu’ils considèrent comme la seule méthode de lutte acceptable. Et pourtant, ainsi que Peter Gelderloos l’expose brillamment dans ce livre, cette adhérence dogmatique au concept de la non-violence est injustifiée et injustifiable. En outre, il s’agit d’une des principales raisons pour lesquelles ils sont inefficaces.

En démystifiant les figures historiques inexorablement citées par la majorité de ceux qui défendent la non-violence comme un absolu — Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela —, en exposant les réalités complexes derrière leurs accomplissements (souvent réduites à des simplismes mensongers), et en exposant les nombreux problèmes d’#éthique qui découlent de l’absolutisation de la non-violence, Gelderloos nous offre ici un ouvrage essentiel qui devrait nous aider à sortir de l’impasse manifeste dans laquelle s’enlisent les mouvements militants.

Loin de faire l’apologie d’une violence irraisonnée, ce livre déboulonne l’argumentaire fallacieux de ceux qui affirment que la non-violence est la seule méthode acceptable de lutte face à la violence du capitalisme et de l’État.

#Martin_Luther_King a eu un rêve

C’était il y a tout juste 50 ans, le 4 avril 1968 au Lorraine Motel de Memphis, Tennessee. Venu soutenir une grève des éboueurs, le pasteur américain Martin Luther King Jr était tué d’une seule balle tirée en direction du balcon de sa chambre. Un demi-siècle après la mort du prix Nobel de la Paix, de cet infatigable militant des droits civiques, que reste-t-il de l’héritage de cet homme de paix, leader charismatique et figure mythique de l’Amérique des années 50 et 60 ?

Jean-Paul Moulin est éditeur, il dirige les éditions 21g, qui dans cette collection baptisée Destins d’histoire, brosse le portrait de plusieurs grandes figures qui ont changé notre monde. La bande dessinée Martin Luther King le rêve assassiné est signée par deux scénaristes américains, Michael Teitelbaum et Lewis Helfand, et un dessinateur indien Naresh Kumar. Elle a été traduite et adaptée en français par Jean-Christophe Dallery.

Sébastian Danchin est historien et musicien, spécialiste des musiques africaines-américaines. Il a notamment publié un beau livre aux éditions du Chêne intitulé Memphis Blues, co-écrit avec l’harmoniciste Jean-Jacques Milteau et une Encyclopédie du Rythm and Blues et de la Soul parue chez Fayard.

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Un reportage radio de @daphne (@wereport)

Omerta au ballet de l’Opéra
►https://www.franceculture.fr/danse/omerta-au-ballet-de-lopera

Un document interne du ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris rassemblant des témoignages anonymes des 154 danseurs a été rendu public par une fuite dans la presse. La direction de la danseuse Aurélie #Dupont est violemment remise en cause. Une crise grave, à l’image de l’histoire de l’institution.

Ça donne envie d’être danseur à l’#opéra de Paris mazette !
#danse #harcèlement #ballet #accident_du_travail