person:pauline melville

Pétition de personnalités britanniques (Vivienne Westwood, Peter Gabriel, Mike Leigh, Julie Christie, Maxine Peake, Wolf Alice, Roger Waters, Caryl Churchill, Al Kennedy) contre la tenue de l’Eurovision en israel et sa diffusion par la BBC.

(un article en parlait déjà là: ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/756450 )

The BBC should press for Eurovision to be moved from Israel
The Guardian, le 29 janvier 2019
▻https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jan/29/the-bbc-should-press-for-eurovision-to-be-moved-from-israel

Traduction en français:

La BBC devrait faire pression pour que l’Eurovision n’ait pas lieu en Israël
The Guardian, le 29 janvier 2019
▻http://www.agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2019/01/31/la-bbc-devrait-faire-pression-pour-que-leurovision-nait-pas-lie

Peter Ahrends, architect
Amir Amirani, filmmaker
Jonathan Arndell, architect, artist
Roy Battersby, director
Bloody Knees, band
brave timbers, band
Jen Brister, comedian
Carmen Callil, publisher, writer
Taghrid Choucair-Vizoso, performer
Julie Christie, actor
Ian Christie, film historian, broadcaster
Chipo Chung, actor
Caryl Churchill, playwright
Michael Darlow, tv writer and director
Paula Darwish, musician
April De Angelis, playwright
Tam Dean Burn, actor
Drones Club, band
Nancy Elan, violin
Gareth Evans, producer, curator
Peter Gabriel, musician, founder WOMAD festival
Lots Holloway, singer, songwriter
Rachel Holmes, writer
Brigid Keenan, author
Patrick Keiller, artist, filmmaker
Reem Kelani, musician, broadcaster
AL Kennedy, writer
Desmond Lambert, musician
Mike Leigh, writer, director
Ken Loach, director
Sabrina Mahfouz, writer
Miriam Margolyes, actor
Yann Martel, writer
Declan McKenna, singer, songwriter
JD Meatyard, musician
Pauline Melville, writer
Giuliano Modarelli, musician, composer
Object Blue, DJ
Maxine Peake, actor
Jocelyn Pook, composer
TJ Rehmi, composer, producer
Reverend & the Makers, band
Leon Rosselson, songwriter
Rrose, DJ
Alexei Sayle, comedian, author
David Scott, music producer
Nick Seymour, musician
Sarah Streatfeild, violin
Roger Waters, musician
Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer
Wolf Alice, band

#Palestine #Eurovision #BDS #Boycott #BBC #Grande-Bretagne

Attaques concertées contre BDS en France, au Canada, aux Etats-Unis, en Angleterre...
►http://seenthis.net/messages/459796

Réaction en Angleterre :

« Interdire le boycott d’Israël est antidémocratique »
The Independant, le 20 février 2016
►http://www.aurdip.fr/interdire-le-boycott-d-israel-est.html

Lettre signée par : Ahdaf Soueif, Roger Waters, Tommy Sheppard MP, Cat Smith MP, Malia Bouattia, NUS Black Students’ Officer, Len McCluskey, General Secretary, Unite the Union, Alex Cunningham MP, Chris Stephens MP, Clive Betts MP, Dave Anderson MP, Kate Osamor MP, Marie Rimmer MP, Martyn Day MP, Nic Dakin MP, Steven Paterson MP, Yasmin Qureshi MP, Louise Haigh MP, Lord Ahmed Nazir, Baroness Jenny Tonge, Matt Wrack, General Secretary FBU, Mick Whelan, General Secretary ASLEF, Tim Roache, General Secretary Elect GMB, Mick Cash, General Secretary RMT, Piers Telemancque, Vice president Society and Citizenship, NUS, Shelly Asquith - Vice President Welfare, NUS, Ken Loach, Mark Thomas, Rizwan Ahmed, Mike Leigh, Andrew Smith, Campaign Against Arms Trade, Alexei Sayle, Anna Carteret, April De Angelis, Baroness Jenny Tonge, Caryl Churchill, Fionn Travers-Smith, Move Your Money, Gillian Slovo, Hari Kunzru, Hugh Lanning, Chair of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Jeremy Hardy, Jo Ram, Community Reinvest, Joel Benjamin, Community Reinvest, John Hilary, Executive Director of War on Want, Maggie Steed, Maxine Peake, Mick Bowman, Newcastle City Council, Michael Radford, Miriam Margolyes, Niall Buggy, Pauline Melville, Peter Kosminsky, Rachel Holmes, Riya Hassan, Palestinian BDS National Committee, Robert Wyatt, Vica Rogers, Debt Resistance UK

On y trouve des parlementaires, des dirigeants de centrales syndicales, et des artistes dont Roger Waters, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, mais aussi Robert Wyatt (de Soft Machine).

A propos d’artistes anglais, Jospeh Coward, un jeune chanteur (que je ne connais pas mais qui vient d’enregistrer un titre avec Thurston Moore de Sonic Youth), vient aussi de s’engager pour BDS, très explicitement dans cet article :
▻http://www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/the-405-meets-joseph-coward-145

#Palestine #Royaume_Uni #BDS #Boycott #Censure #criminalisation_des_militants #artistes