Rewilding Human Nature
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/rewilding-human-nature
“What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver, poet
We don’t often think of ourselves as being domesticated. The word falls easily from our human lips when we...
#Pan_African_Space_Station Lands in NYC
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/04/pan-african-space-station-lands-in-nyc
Last November #Chimurenga installed the Pan African Space Station at #Performa 15 in New York, which was described as a “multi-tiered programming platform that takes the form of a library-of-people” and featured (amongst others) Brooklyn-based African Record Centre/ Yoruba Book Center; artist and educator Nontsikelelo Mutiti; and poet, choreographer, and Afrosonics archivist Harmony Holiday. As part […]
Listen to an Exclusive Excerpt from Hope Jahren’s New Book, “Lab Girl” - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/listen-to-an-exclusive-excerpt-from-hope-jahrens-new-book-lab-girl
Hope Jahren, a geobiologist and geochemist, wants to speak to you. For decades, she says, she’s been speaking to the same people, her scientific peers, and now it’s time for a change. “I wanted to write this book”—her memoir, Lab Girl, published today—“in order to talk to somebody new,” she told Nautilus recently. Her subject? The marvels of our distant, distant cousins in the plant kingdom; what we can learn from their immobile lives; and the emotional vicissitudes of scientific life. In this endeavor Jahren fulfills, according to the New York Times, Vladimir Nabokov’s literary edict of displaying “the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.” Precision was very much on her mind: Jahren says every sentence and word in her book was constructed “with scientific accuracy.” The (...)
Adam Shatz · Israel’s Putinisation : Israel’s Putinisation · LRB 18 February 2016
▻http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n04/adam-shatz/israels-putinisation
But the unbridled, insular nationalism of Netanyahu’s Israel is also reminiscent of Sisi’s Egypt and Erdoğan’s Turkey, where there is constant talk of foreign plots hatched in Washington and Brussels, and a toxic mix of resentment and entitlement vis-à-vis their Western patrons. As Diana Pinto suggests in Israel Has Moved (2013), the Jewish state has tended to see its neighbours as ‘so many vaulting poles with which to catapult itself into a peaceful because distant globalisation’. Economically, it has succeeded in escaping the region; politically, that goal has proved far more elusive. ‘Israel is now just another Arab regime,’ the Syrian poet Adunis once said to me, and the proposed legislation against ‘moles’ is scarcely different in kind, if not degree, from anti-NGO campaigns in Cairo. The repression of Jewish dissent is the latest phase of what Pinto describes as the ‘turning inward of a state in the process of its own ghettoising’. As if it preferred to remain in that ghetto, Israel has stubbornly carried on a colonial project at the risk of harming its relations with Europe and the United States, both of which are finally realising that Israel has no intention of making a genuine peace with the Palestinian people.
Execution of Arab Iranian poet Hashem Shaabani condemned by rights groups | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/13/iran-middleeast
J’ai voulu lire le Guardian ce soir, c’était désespérant. Donc, ils ont fini par le tuer. L’Iran n’a vraiment rien à envier à l’Arabie saoudite. Ils auront leurs Airbus.
Poet and leading member of banned cultural organisation run by Ahwazi Arab minority reported hanged after public confession
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
Thursday 13 February 2014 18.47 GMT
Last modified on Tuesday 26 January 2016 23.32 GMT
International human rights activists have strongly condemned the execution of an Iranian poet who was a prominent member of a banned cultural organisation run by the country’s Arab ethnic minority.
Hashem Shaabani ou Hashem Shabaninejad (né en 1981 et mort le 27 janvier 2014 à 33 ans) ?
#poète
En cherchant plus d’infos sur le film signalé par @diekuh ici : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/447921#message456215... Je suis tombée sur cette longue liste de #films, décrite comme :
Inter/transnational “B/black” Migration Clips and Film Recommendations (Language: English and/or Subtitled in English)
12/20/12
C’est une mine de suggestions...
▻http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-afro-am&month=1212&week=c&msg=utCmle4gQyeFpRYI/EHlcg&user=&pw=
Il y a des films et des #documentaires en général sur les #Noirs, sur les #discriminations, sur les #migrations, sur l’#intégration, quelques-uns sur l’#Allemagne, sur l’#Afrique en général, sur les #Noirs de #Russie, sur l’#holocauste, sur la #Deuxième_guerre_mondiale (#WWII), sur #Haïti, sur l’#Italie...
cc @albertocampiphoto
Il y a ce film notamment :
Black Russians
BLACK RUSSIANS is a feature length documentary that investigates the lives of contemporary Afro-Russians aged 10 to 65, born and raised in Soviet Russia. Their experiences chronicle two ideological currents that have shaped major international events in the twentieth century: race and communism. Intimate interviews with a poet, a film producer, a reggae artist, a businessman and others, all Black and all Russian, guide us through this story of promise and non-discrimination. Archive images reveal rarely seen footage of Black political leaders in the Soviet Union, like Paul Robeson, Kwame Nkruma and Angela Davis. More than a decade after the ’fall of communism’ a new Russia struggles to steady itself in the wave of nationalism from within and the pressures of global capitalism from without. “Black Russians” constructs a deeply personal account of the effects of political issues such as migration, identity and loss on a minority community in the vast remains of the Soviet Union.
▻http://www.twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=725&card=price
#union_soviétique #URSS
Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia (Updated) – Mondoweiss
►http://mondoweiss.net/2016/01/palestinian-scheduled-execution
According to the Guardian ’-(voir le lien ci-dessous) a panel of judges will considering an appeal in Fayadh’s case next week.
The Palestinian artist, curator, and poet Ashraf Fayadh, 35, has been sentenced to death by beheading. Saudi Arabian authorities have declared his crime as “apostasy,” or abandoning one’s religion—in this case, renouncing Islam. Several other charges were also leveled against Fayadh, including allegedly photographing women and storing their pictures on his phone, a violation of the country’s Anti-Cyber Crime Law. He pleaded his innocence to all the charges. Amnesty International UK states that, “Throughout this whole process, Ashraf was denied access to a lawyer—a clear violation of international human rights law, as well as Saudi Arabia’s national laws.”
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Writers join worldwide action to protest Palestinian poet’s death sentence in Saudi Arabia | Books | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/14/writers-join-worldwide-action-to-protest-palestinian-poets-death-senten
Writers join worldwide action to protest Palestinian poet’s death sentence in Saudi Arabia
Hundreds of writers in 44 countries take part in coordinated readings to support Ashraf Fayadh, condemned to death for allegedly promoting atheism
Thursday 14 January 2016 06.00 GMT
Last modified on Thursday 14 January 2016 13.04 GMT
Hundreds of writers including Irvine Welsh, Ruth Padel and AL Kennedy are taking part in a worldwide reading in support of the Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh, who has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia after being accused of renouncing Islam.
Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia (Updated)
The Palestinian artist, curator, and poet Ashraf Fayadh, 35, has been sentenced to death by beheading. Saudi Arabian authorities have declared his crime as “apostasy,” or abandoning one’s religion—in this case, renouncing Islam. Several other charges were also leveled against Fayadh, including allegedly photographing women and storing their pictures on his phone, a violation of the country’s Anti-Cyber Crime Law. He pleaded his innocence to all the charges. Amnesty International UK states that, “Throughout this whole process, Ashraf was denied access to a lawyer—a clear violation of international human rights law, as well as Saudi Arabia’s national laws.”
Arts of the Possible: Adrienne Rich on Writing, Capitalism, Freedom, and How Silence Fertilizes the Human Imagination – Brain Pickings
▻https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/19/adrienne-rich-arts-of-the-possible-capitalism
“When power corrupts, poetry cleanses,” John F. Kennedy proclaimed in his piercing eulogy to Robert Frost, contemplating the artist’s role in society and urging us to “never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.” More than three decades later, another of humanity’s greatest poets and custodians of dignity explored this enduring relationship between art, power, and truth more closely and dimensionally than anyone before or since.
The poet was Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929–March 27, 2012) and the exploration a remarkable 1997 lecture that became the title piece in Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations (public library) — the same anthology that gave us the spectacular letter with which Rich became the only person to decline the National Medal of Arts in one of creative culture’s most courageous acts of political dissent.
Hammonda. » Blog Archiv » Arab Media: From Decolonisation to Arab Spring
▻http://hammonda.net/?p=2256
Andrew Hammond, toujours pertinent.
Media in the post-Spring Arab world currently has been targeted by the forces of the state in their counter-revolutionary pushback. Gulf governments have focussed on social media in particular. In 2011 a Saudi royal degree specified a ban on publishing anything deemed as contradicting sharia law, disrupting state security or serving foreign interests. Kuwait passed a law in 2014 establishing a Commission for Mass Communications and Information Technology which would monitor social media. Saudi Arabia’s courts have gone as far as to issue death sentences for opinions expressed on social media (for example, apostasy charges against Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayyad). The Saudi Mufti has repeatedly denounced social media as a source of social immorality, and issued a fatwa in 2011 deeming expression of opposition via street protest or petitioning the country’s rulers as impermissible.
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Another important feature of Arab media is how it has become an arena for the Sunni-Shi’i sectarian schism. Though this sectarianism emerges from the turn to religious politics following the perceived failure of the secular Arab nationalist paradigm in the mid-20th century, it was not until the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that it took on the virulent character it has today. Faced with the rise of Shia Islamists as the dominant political force in Iraq, and whose ascendance was made possible through American intervention, insurgent forces under the al-Qa’ida banner killed Shi’ite civilians, politicians and religious figures in mass violence that was accompanied by a rabid sectarian discourse. Shi’ite militias hit back, creating a civil war like situation in Iraq between 2005 and 2007.
The strength of Hizbullah in Lebanon (surviving war with Israel in 2006) and the Bahraini uprising in 2011 was to Saudi Arabia further proof that Iran planned to overturn the regional order. Media in all its forms is a vehicle for fighting back, drawing on the anti-Shi’ism at the heart of the Wahhabi Salafi ideology sponsored by the Saudi state. Non-Salafi Islamists joined in: on Al Jazeera, Egyptian preacher Yousef al-Qaradawi described the Bahraini uprising as a Shi’ite revolt and depicted the war against the Assad regime in Syria as a Sunni jihad against infidel Alawis. Iraq and Kuwait-based Shia have been prominent in using TV channels, some of them based in the UK and the USA, to incite against Sunni Islam.
The Value of Not Understanding Everything: Grace Paley’s Advice to Aspiring Writers | Brain Pickings
▻https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/29/grace-paley-advice-to-writers
“As a person she is tolerant and easygoing, as a user of words, merciless,” the editors of The Paris Review wrote in the introduction to their 1992 interview with poet, short story writer, educator, and activist Grace Paley (December 11, 1922–August 22, 2007). Although Paley herself never graduated from college, she went on to become one of the most beloved and influential teachers of writing — both formally, through her professorships at Sarah Lawrence, Columbia, Syracuse University, and City College of New York, and informally, through her insightful lectures, interviews, essays, and reviews. The best of those are collected in Just As I Thought (public library) — a magnificent anthology of Paley’s nonfiction, which cumulatively presents a sort of oblique autobiography of the celebrated writer.
Time to speak out, by Raouf J. Halaby
▻http://mondediplo.com/blogs/time-to-speak-out
Saudi Arabia has condemned Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh to death, charging that, as an apostate, he has insulted Islam, the Custodian of the Two Holy Shrines (the Saudi monarchy) and the Wahhabi sect. Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi tenets have been stirring fanatical religious fervor from as far away as Bangladesh, across North and central Africa, and into central Asia and the Caucasus. [#st]
▻http://zinc.mondediplo.net/messages/12227 via Le Monde diplomatique
My Heart Has Sought a Thing
▻http://randalmatheny.com/heart-search
Another poet’s words touched me, and I included them here.
Western Ally Saudi Arabia Sentenced a Palestinian Poet to Death for Renouncing Islam
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/western-ally-saudi-arabia-sentenced-a-palestinian-poet-to-death-for-
Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh was sentenced to death by a Saudi Arabian court for renouncing Islam, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
HRW Middle East researcher Adam Coogle told Reuters he...
Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/saudi-court-sentences-poet-to-death-for-renouncing-islam
Nos amis saoudiens (enfin les amis de la France) ne s’arrangent pas.
A Palestinian poet and leading member of Saudi Arabia’s nascent contemporary art scene has been sentenced to death for renouncing Islam.
A Saudi court on Tuesday ordered the execution of Ashraf Fayadh, who has curated art shows in Jeddah and at the Venice Biennale. The poet, who said he did not have legal representation, was given 30 days to appeal against the ruling.
#arabie_saoudite ou pour paraphraser gonzo, je crois que je commencer par utiliser #catastrophe_saoudienne ou #sésatre_saoudien ça s’appliquera aussi au Yémen
Dans le même genre il y a toujours un poète qatari qui croupit en prison depuis des mois. Première mention sur Seenthis ici : ►http://seenthis.net/messages/100361
#The_Brother_Moves_On Have Released Two New EPs + A Video
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/10/the-brother-moves-on-have-released-two-new-eps-a-video
“Kancani kancani njayam’, kancani kancani njayam’”. Makhafula Vilakazi utters the words, the poet in servitude of the masses, echoing a phrase familiar to the innercity hustler, dweller, and worker. Little by.....
How Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage Invented the World’s First Computer: An Illustrated Adventure in Footnotes and Friendship - Brain Pickings
▻http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/15/the-thrilling-adventures-of-lovelace-and-babbage-sydney-padua
In 1843, Ada Lovelace — the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron — translated a scientific paper by Italian military engineer Luigi Menabrea titled Sketch of an Analytical Engine, adding seven footnotes to it. Together, they measured 65 pages — two and half times the length of Menabrea’s original text — and included the earliest complete computer program, becoming the first true paper on computer science and rendering Lovelace the world’s first computer programmer. She was twenty-seven.
About a decade earlier, Lovelace had met the brilliant and eccentric British mathematician Charles Babbage who, when he wasn’t busy teaming up with Dickens to wage a war on street music, was working on strange inventions that would one day prompt posterity to call him the father of the computer. (Well, sort of.) The lifelong friendship that ensued between 18-year-old Lovelace and 45-year-old Babbage sparked an invaluable union of software and hardware to which we owe enormous swaths of modern life — including the very act of reading these words on this screen.
The unusual story of this Victorian power-duo is what graphic artists and animator Sydney Padua explores in the immensely delightful and illuminating The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (public library), itself a masterwork of combinatorial genius and a poetic analog to its subject matter — rigorously researched, it has approximately the same footnote-to-comic ratio as Lovelace’s trailblazing paper. The footnote, after all, is proto-hypertext linking one set of ideas to another, and in these analog hyperlinks, Padua draws on an impressive wealth of historical materials — from the duo’s scientific writings and lectures to Lovelace’s letters to Babbage’s autobiography to various accounts by their contemporaries.
cc @fil @sabineblanc @archiloque
:-)
شارلز باباج: هل يعتبر أب الكمبيوتر ؟ - أرشيف جورج قندلفت
▻http://gkarchives.free.fr/spip.php?article244
نتكلم في هذه الحلقة عن شارلز باباج وآلة التحليل التي صممها ولم يبنها بكاملها. ورغم كون هذه الآلة لا تعتمد على الشرائح الإلكترونية كالكمبيوترات العصرية، إلا أنها تعتبر جهاز كمبيوتر حقيقي. فمن قال أن الكمبيوتر يجب أن يعتمد على الإلكترونيات ؟
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Poet Sarah O’Neal’s Powerful Response to Those Who Fail to Understand #BlackLivesMatter
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/poet-sarah-oneals-powerful-response-to-those-who-fail-to-understand-
19-year-old spoken-word poet Sarah O’Neal recites her poem “An Overreaction,” where she speaks about Dr. King and her frustration at having to defend protests.
Toronto’s Public Library Has Created a Poetry Map of the City - CityLab
▻http://www.citylab.com/work/2015/04/mapping-toronto-through-its-poetry/390633
Poets often infuse the sights, sounds, smells, and feels of their hometown into their verses. That’s true of lyricists old and new; the rapper Drake often features Toronto in his rhymes, for instance, and he’s not the only poet to use that city as a muse.
Now, the Toronto Public Library and Canadian poet laureate George Elliot Clarke have designed an interactive map that lets you explore the city’s geography through other poems that mention the city.
Hisham Aidi’s ‘Rebel #Music’ Remixes Race, Faith, and Geography
▻http://africasacountry.com/review-of-hisham-aidis-rebel-music-race-empire-and-the-new-muslim-y
In his Discourse on Colonialism (1950), the French-Caribbean poet Aimé Césaire noted that after World War II, Europeans, culturally and politically devastated by war, began to renew themselves by absorbing African American.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #culture #hip_hop #LITERATURE #Muslim #pan-Africanism #Youth
« Writing wrongs in East Jerusalem: A 16-year-old poet speaks out »
Mohammed al-Qurd, 16, has chosen poetry and writing as his way of peacefully resisting the Israeli occupation of his land and home
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/writing-wrongs-east-jerusalem-16-year-old-resistance-poet-speaks-out-
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16-year-old Palestinian poet and aspiring writer Mohammed al-Qurd reads from his poem Jerusalem – the divine crime scene. Tall and slim with a depth and maturity beyond his years, Mohammed admits he is shy when meeting new people. Writing is his chosen mode of expression and his way of peacefully resisting the Israeli occupation of his land and home.
In 2009, a group of radical Israeli settlers stormed the al-Qurd family home, taking over half of the house. Mohammed’s grandmother Rifka was hospitalised following the incident and the family’s furniture was destroyed. Mohammed recalls the settlers sitting around a fire in the family’s front garden as they burned his younger sister’s bed. His father, Nabeel, tells Middle East Eye that the family have not set foot in that part of their house since.
Six years later, in what’s become one of the most breathtaking examples of Israel’s creeping settlement enterprise, the settlers live in the front of the home and the al-Qurds in the back. Sheikh Jarrah residents, like thousands of other Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, constantly live with insecurity, fear of eviction and harassment. While complex legal processes continue for families in the neighbourhood, Jews from all over the world are able to move to Israel and the occupied territories while Palestinians continue to be expelled from, or are unable to return to, the land of their birth.
« I would like to declare to every Zionist out there that the Promised Land is not in my back yard. Go and look somewhere else please. »
Mohammed says his poetry is not designed to comfort but to make people feel guilty. He hopes feelings of guilt provoke people to act. "When I recite a poem and somebody cries, I know I have succeeded - which happened with you.’’ Mohammed was very pleased I shed a tear as he read his poem “I”.
“I”
There is death
in the eye of a newborn
a fetus tragedy is re-singing
the same old floating catastrophe
and in ears there is storm
only raging for silence
what do you do
when your destiny is already
embroidered in the womb?
There is life
falsely promising of return
so I saved my innocence
for a long gone tomorrow
somehow the children
sing along
to the foolish hallows
of my song
and I wither
under the rain
that refuses to give
somehow I still drink
the tears of those who care
There is a face
written
but unread
with the ink of experience
I write the future
the heart of thunder
and the eye of lightening
only dance to the beat of
‘stop!’
Dare stop a lung
that only pleads
to be heard
breathing.
Kaveh - The Unlikely Poet I Political Prisoner I Spoken Word
Written and performed by #Kaveh, filmed and edited by DA Carter
«A philosopher produces ideas, a poet poems, a clergyman sermons, a professor compendia and so on. A...»
▻http://levant.tumblr.com/post/110194049803
“A philosopher produces ideas, a poet poems, a clergyman sermons, a professor compendia and so...
Israel : Jewish democrats, join the Arabs - Opinion -
This election is a once-in-67-years opportunity for Jewish democrats, and they are legion, to tell their Arab compatriots that they, too, are an integral part of this country.
By Oudeh Basharat | Jan. 19, 2015 Haaretz
▻http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.637757
“Throw him into the ocean, bound hand and foot, but caution him against getting wet,” said an ancient Arab poet.
Really, what do you want of those parties whose support comes mainly from the Arab population, such as Hadash, Balad, Ra’am and Ta’al? Even the High Court of Justice, supposedly the last bulwark against the trampling of the rights of the weak by the rapacious majority, legitimized the raising of the electoral threshold. People now come with complaints to this country’s Arab citizens, questioning the rationale behind the unification of these parties. Well, if people are annoyed by this development, they can direct their displeasure at the champions of “governance” who cannot bear to govern in the presence of Arabs, even if they only occupy the opposition benches.
For the Arab population, raising the electoral threshold has only one meaning: unite or disappear. That’s how things stand now. Any option that does not include running as one list, together with allies from the ranks of democratic-minded Jewish citizens, means the loss of hundreds of thousands of votes that are all opposed to Netanyahu, in effect contributing to the perpetuation of a Likud government.
But look what’s happening: Even when the extreme right pushes the Arab population’s representatives into a corner, they refuse to confine themselves. Even when there is no alternative but to run on a joint slate, they insist that the list of candidates bear the hallmarks of a democratic process – that it include Jewish candidates, that two women are in the top 10 slots, and that it adopt a formula for peace accepted by the entire enlightened world, calling for equal rights for the Arab minority and protection of the rights of the society’s weak.
As far as I’m aware, the name of this list will not exclude anyone, regardless of nationality or religion; it will be a common list, not a closed, exclusive Arab one. Most importantly, this progressive, humanistic platform will be underpinned by the major trends in Arab society, national, religious and socialist.
How wonderful! The Arabs are not giving up, even under these impossible circumstances. If from the very first days after this state was founded, when they remained “as orphans having to rely on scoundrels,” in their own words, they never gave up. Will they do so now that those scoundrels are upgraded through a manipulation of the electoral threshold?
Did you attend the Hadash convention in Shfaram the other day, where a wave of hope and change swept over everyone present? Three Knesset members resigned, opening the door to new, young candidates as well as for women, based on the party’s Jewish-Arab partnership, the ultimate response to all those preaching separation of the two peoples.
At the same time, even the names of the Jewish parties give a clear message of turning inwards and exclusion of the Other. One calls itself Habayit Hayehudi, the Jewish Home, while another labels itself Yisrael Beiteinu, Israel is Our Home (obviously without the Arabs). The camp with pretensions of saving us all from the jaws of the extreme right calls itself the Zionist Camp. Avigdor Lieberman, head of the party of expulsion and corruption, who plans to expel the residents of Umm al-Fahm and their lands (which, it is reasonable to assume, will be forgotten while this transfer takes place) to a Palestinian state (which he made sure was suffocated in advance) is a legitimate figure in the eyes of this camp.
At this juncture, I dare say that the patriotic choice for both Arabs and Jews in this country is to support the joint list of Arab parties, along with their democratic-minded Jewish partners. It is a once-in-67-years opportunity for Jewish democrats, and they are legion, to tell their Arab compatriots that they, too, are an integral part of this country, that they and their parents also participated in building this place. One could also add, with some modesty, that without this country’s Arab citizens, the “soft right” will devour its Jewish democrats, leaving the remnants as pickings for the extreme right.
With an embrace and a sigh, drowning in a sea of tears, Jewish democrats might whisper to their Arab counterparts, “Our fates are joined, and we will never be parted.”
I Can’t Breathe
Tribute to Eric Garner
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FpfTos6NroM
Merci à Elisabeth Vallet d’avoir signalé cet opus
Ajoutée le 31 juil. 2014
BROADWAY STARS SEND A MESSAGE ABOUT POLICE VIOLENCE AND THE KILLING OF ERIC GARNER
On July 29th, at 6pm WalkRunFly Productions (Warren Adams & Brandon Victor Dixon) partnered with poet Daniel J. Watts, and over 100 Broadway stars, directors, producers, musicians, choreographers, designers and technicians in Times Square to send a message about violence and the killing of Eric Gardner.
CREDITS
WalkRunFly Productions
www.wrfprod.com
Produced By
Warren Adams & Brandon Victor Dixon
Poem written and performed by
Daniel J. Watts
www.wattswords.com
Edited by
Darryl Harrison
Visual Architect
Videographers
Lowell Freedman, Antonio Thompson, Darryl Harrison, And Jesse Guma
So I Told These Nomads About the Big Bang… - Issue 101: In Our Nature
▻http://nautil.us/issue/101/in-our-nature/so-i-told-these-nomads-about-the-big-bang
To explain her motivations as a writer, Anna Badkhen quotes the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert: “you have little time you must give testimony.” Badkhen recently stopped by the Nautilus office to sit for an interview and take us behind the scenes of “The Men Who Planted Trees,” her cover story for the Spring 2014 Nautilus Quarterly. The title refers to a village of fishermen in Mali who are reforesting a stretch of the Bani River to stem the mudslides that threaten their livelihoods. “They became volunteer conservationists, planting back the bush,” she writes.View Video Badkhen met the villagers while walking across West Africa with nomadic Fulani cattle-herders while doing research for a forthcoming book. Born and raised in the Soviet Union, Badkhen, 38, is something of a nomad herself, a (...)