Saturday, August 6, 2011

Song as protest

Nico Vega - Protest Song (live)


"'Good-Bye!' to a Little Bird" ~BP Oil Spill Dirge by New Orleans' "Slewfoot"


Rise Up With Fists


Mondega - Rise Up

Israeli Street Protests: Suppressed by US Media

By Stephen Lendman, Thepeoplesvoice.org


Well, almost. Virtually nothing shows up on US television. Some gets print coverage, but not enough to explain a major story accurately and fully. More on that below.

For weeks, tens of thousands of Israelis have been protesting high prices, especially unaffordable housing, creating an intolerable burden for growing numbers being priced out of a place to live.

A previous article explained, accessed through the following link:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/08/israel-rogue-state-land-of-inequality.html

Interviewed on Democracy Now, Israeli journalist Dimi Reider called "(w)hat's happening in Israel....nothing short of revolutionary....in terms of how people relate to each other, engage with politics," and with a vital issue like affordable housing.

Today's problems stem from 1990s policies favoring settlements, as well as subsidies to entice Israelis and other Jews to fill them. Moreover, doing so and controlling Occupied Palestine costs over $700 million annually, at the expense of neglecting construction and other needs in Israel.
The above linked article explained a groundswell demand for social justice, unprecedented in Israel, enough perhaps to topple Netanyahu's government if he doesn't adequately address it.

Daily on streets in 11 Israeli cities, nonviolent visceral anger echoes calls for social justice, as well as thousands holding signs saying, "Game over - Bibi go home."

It's not a left or right issue. Polls show 87% of Israeli support the protests. They cut across Israeli society, including secular and religious groups, Jews and Arabs, men and women, youths and elderly, newly marrieds, veterans, Bedouins, gays and straights, activists and couch potatoes, and Israel's growing numbers of homeless.

At issue is hardline Israeli neoliberalism, a cancer affecting Arab Israelis and millions of Jews. In a rare display of unity, they're together against Netanyahu's hard-wired ideological extremism, believing (like most Israeli politicians) that free market fundamentalism works best.

Anti nuclear power demo #update86 #hiroshima

Made In Pain

'Visualthings' says: I worked on this short stop-motion film with my friend Eduardo Bossié back in 1997. Here's a bit of background info on this movie. Entirely made of objects found in trash containers, building sites, etc... the movie presents the angst of a robot living in a theater/factory, surrounded by the waste we generate. Our character challenges us in a sarcastic way to think about the waste we produce. Should he be grateful to us, as he owes us his existence? Should we really consider our contribution to the world as a complete success?

Our intention was to make a much longer "short" movie, but we found out halfway through the shooting that the camera had a faulty diaphragm and when we received the developed film, a good part of it was totally useless. We had to rewrite the story based on what was left. There was no way to synchronize the character's mouth with the script. On hearing the editor speaking in Basque, we decided to have a new speech for our character, all spoken in Basque with some added equalizing, in order to make the voice really dry and mechanical.

It is only available in Basque with subtitles in Spanish.

It took us about 4 months to build the animated robot and the stage set. 72 hours of filming (including a non-stop 26 hours session) and about 3 weeks of editing and post-production. The studio, equipment and film development were graciously offered by the CECC, a film school based in Catalonia, Spain). My contribution to this was co-writing the original idea, designing the robot and the set and defining the overall grungy, degraded look of the movie.

Global Canopy Programme

Global Canopy Programme from Global Canopy Programme on Vimeo.

El Perro Negro. Stories from the Spanish Civil War (2004 — Péter Forgács)

Using found home movie footage by talented amateur filmmaker, Joan Salvans, son of a wealthy Catalan industrialist, of Terrassa, Hungarian filmmaker Péter Forgács has produced a fascinating insight into the political and social life of Spain between 1929 and the outbreak of the Spanish Revolution: social unrest, the collapse of the monarchy, the rise of anarchism — and ultimately the military-fascist rebellion and revolution . . . (in English).

"Hell No" - Your Right to Dissent


Michael Ratner: There is a North America-wide strategy to take away the right to mass protest.

The Tyranny of Bond Holders

Kevin Gallager: Bond holders using commercial contracts to shift all liability and risk for state debt onto ordinary people.

Austerity and the Destruction of Democracy

Rob Johnson: Austerity policies in Europe threaten a deformation of democracy and the rise of ultra-nationalist forces.

'Global market crisis manmade'


An analyst says that the continuing plunge of markets worldwide was intentionally fabricated for the benefit of big Wall Street and European banks.

Press TV interviewed Stephen Lendman, writer and radio host, for his views on the global fall of the markets.

Illuminatti Project remixes

All Is Well er...No it Isn't - FKN Newz


See also:

Spanish Revolution - A "Quiet" Revolution - 2011




The movement for Real Democracy Now is growing all over Spain, Europe and catching on in the entire world - against the bankers, the politicians, the big corporations robbing us of our livelihood, evicting people from their homes. Join the movement now for a better world. World Revolution Day is 15 October 2011!

Spanish Revolution: 
http://tomalaplaza.net
Democracia Real Ya: 
http://democraciarealya.es
Acampada Malaga: 
http://malaga.tomalaplaza.net
Fuengirola Despierta 15M: 
http://www.fuengiroladespierta.com

See also:

Bahrain: Shouting in the dark


Bahrain: An island kingdom in the Arabian Gulf where the Shia Muslim majority are ruled by a family from the Sunni minority. Where people fighting for democratic rights broke the barriers of fear, only to find themselves alone and crushed.

This is their story and Al Jazeera is their witness - the only TV journalists who remained to follow their journey of hope to the carnage that followed. 

This is the Arab revolution that was abandoned by the Arabs, forsaken by the West and forgotten by the world.

Teclopolis

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