J'ai besoin de la lune pour lui parler la nuit. J'ai besoin du soleil pour me chauffer la vie.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Finding Dawn
March 8th, 2010 - Centennial of International Women's Day
Finding Dawn is a 2006 documentary film by Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh. The film begins with the story of Dawn Crey: one of 60 women, a third of them Aboriginal, who have disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside over a 20 year period. Crey's remains were among those found on property of British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton.See also: Highway of Tears - Project of Doors for Hope - http://www.highwayoftears.ca
Me Llaman Calle - Manu Chao (They Call Me "Street" in English)
March 8th, 2010 - Centennial of International Women's Day
Manu Chao is a French folk singer. He sings in French, Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, Arabic, English and Wolof, often mixing several languages in the same song.(http://www.manuchao.net/)
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
HATE GROUPS AT RECORD LEVELS IN USA - March 2010 Report
A new report says the United States is seeing a right-wing extremist groups growth of 244% in 2009. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (HERE), based in Alabama, USA, extremist racist groups grew to 512 in 2009. Right-wing militias tripled over the same period to 127.
(More HERE) - http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/splc-report-number-of-patriot-groups-militias-surges-by-244-in-past-year
A "SMALL THING" ? As BIG THINGS COME FROM LITTLE THINGS ...- "Foolish Frog" - Peggy Seeger - Feb 6, 2010 post), a look at a very public "small thing"(in 2006).
Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous Los Angeles comedy club on November 2006, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping.
Along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus (as Elaine Benes), Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld), and Jason Alexander (as George Constanza), Michael Richards plays Cosmo Kramer, one of the main characters in the American TV sitcom "Seinfeld".
"SHUT UP! 50 YEARS AGO WE'D HAVE YOU UPSIDE DOWN WITH A F* FORK UP YOUR ASS" : by actor MICHAEL RICHARDS , aka "Kramer" in sitcom "Seinfeld") - December 2006
(More HERE) - http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/splc-report-number-of-patriot-groups-militias-surges-by-244-in-past-year
A "SMALL THING" ? As BIG THINGS COME FROM LITTLE THINGS ...- "Foolish Frog" - Peggy Seeger - Feb 6, 2010 post), a look at a very public "small thing"(in 2006).
Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous Los Angeles comedy club on November 2006, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping.
Along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus (as Elaine Benes), Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld), and Jason Alexander (as George Constanza), Michael Richards plays Cosmo Kramer, one of the main characters in the American TV sitcom "Seinfeld".
"You should go to Africa"...
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , is Liberia's head of state.
She is the first modern, and currently the only elected female head of state in Africa.
A peace movement called Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace led to her election.
The story is told in a 2008 documentary film called Pray the Devil Back to Hell.
PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL - Documentary:
http://www.praythedevilbacktohell.com/v3/
Synopsis
Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the courageous Liberian women, Christian and Muslin, who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country.
TRAILER:
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
GUERNICA - Testing ground for the military tactic of blanket-bombing of a civilian population to demoralize the enemy (1937)
Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso. This painting can be seen in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain.
"Guernica" shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly innocent civilians.
Guernica became a perpetual reminder of the tragedies of war.
Some elements of the painting:
- a wide-eyed bull stands over a woman grieving over a dead child in her arms
- Daggers that suggest screaming replace the tongues of the bull, grieving woman, and horse.
- a horse falling in agony as it had just been run through by a spear or javelin
- A human skull overlays the horse's body.
- A bull appears to gore the horse from underneath
- On the far right, a figure with arms raised in terror is entrapped by fire from above and below.
On 26 April 1937, for over three hours, twenty-five or more of Nazi Germany's best-equipped bombers, accompanied by at least twenty more Messerschmitt and Fiat Fighters, dumped one hundred thousand pounds of high-explosive and incendiary bombs on the village of Guernica, in Spain, slowly and systematically pounding it to rubble. Those trying to escape were cut down by the strafing machine guns of fighter planes.
The warplanes of the German Condor Legion, commanded by Hitler's Air Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, were using the war as an opportunity to test out new weapons and tactics.
Guernica had no strategic value as a military target, although Air Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, claimed publicly that the target was a bridge over the Mundaca River on the edge of town, chosen in order to cut off the fleeing Republican troops. But although the Condor Legion was made up of the best airmen and planes of Hitler's developing war machine, not a single hit was scored on the presumed target, nor on the railway station, nor on the small-arms factory nearby.
Some time later, a secret report to Berlin was uncovered in which Von Richthofen stated, "...the concentrated attack on Guernica was the greatest success,"
The report made it clear that the all-out air attack had been ordered on behalf of Spain's military general, dictator and head of state Francisco Franco, to break the spirited Nationalist forces.
Guernica had served as the testing ground for a new Nazi military tactic - blanket-bombing a civilian population to demoralize the enemy. It was wanton, man-made holocaust.
On May 12, 1999, the New York Times reported that, after sixty-one years, in a declaration adopted on April 24, 1999, the German Parliament formally apologized to the citizens of Guernica for the role the Condor Legion played in bombing the town. The German government also agreed to change the names of some German military barracks named after members of the Condor Legion. By contrast, no formal apology to the city has ever been offered by the Spanish government for whatever role it may have played in the bombing.
Monday, March 1, 2010
San Diego, University of California :Racist and misogynist events on the rise in San Diego - 2010
San Diego - University of California and the dehumanizing and demoralizing of the "people who get dark in the sun" (whatever it means...):
From noose being hung in the library to Facebook invitation that urged women to dress as “ghetto chicks” who, quote, “usually have gold teeth, start fights and drama, and wear cheap clothes.” It said the menu would include chicken and watermelon...
More on San Diego, California:
(John Choon Yoo (born June 10, 1967 in Seoul, South Korea), known for his leading role in providing legal guidance on "enhanced interrogation techniques" to the George W. Bush administration ( see "Torture Memos") , has been a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Law , since 1993.)
San Diego is also home to wireless telephone chip maker QualComm Inc.
Verizon Wireless uses Qualcomm's MediaFLO technology to broadcast live TV to certain phones. Verizon Communications was involved the controversy of NSA spying program.(http://www.eff.org/cases/verizon-mci)
From noose being hung in the library to Facebook invitation that urged women to dress as “ghetto chicks” who, quote, “usually have gold teeth, start fights and drama, and wear cheap clothes.” It said the menu would include chicken and watermelon...
More on San Diego, California:
(John Choon Yoo (born June 10, 1967 in Seoul, South Korea), known for his leading role in providing legal guidance on "enhanced interrogation techniques" to the George W. Bush administration ( see "Torture Memos") , has been a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Law , since 1993.)
San Diego is also home to wireless telephone chip maker QualComm Inc.
Verizon Wireless uses Qualcomm's MediaFLO technology to broadcast live TV to certain phones. Verizon Communications was involved the controversy of NSA spying program.(http://www.eff.org/cases/verizon-mci)
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