12h30 Grupo de São Lázaro dirige-se para gabinete da Vereadora Helena Roseta para pedir explicações de um desalojo sem notificação. A veradora tranca-se na sala de reuniões e a Polícia Municipal evacua o espaço. O grupo foi todo identificado à saída sem no entanot haver explicações do porquê. Aparentemente pedir um encontro com uma vereadora num gabinete municipal é crime.
11h00 A polícia municipal encerrou o acesso à Rua de São Lázaro a partir do Martim Moniz e do Campo Santana. A polícia deteve um advogado e dois ocupantes, um deles com bastante violência depois de ter protestado contra o arremesso e pontapear dos seus objectos por parte da força municipal(video em breve).
10H30 Despejo violento da casa de sao lazaro. Detençoes. A policia nao apresentou nenhum documento que justifique o desalojo.Concentraçao solidaria às 19h na praça do martim moniz com a rua da palma.
Um movimento que tem por objectivo incluir Afro-americanos e hispanicos de forma a chegar a todo o universo 99%. Uma semana após o início do occupy wall street em New York, Malik Rahsaan mostrou-se indignado com a pouca participação de afro-americans e latinos no movimento. Sempre que estava em em Zuccoty Park (Occupy Wall Street Headquarters) reparava que "There were no blacks at all".
A partir daí, este afro-americano the Jamaica Bay (South Queens) juntamente com a activista e cabeleireira de Detroit Ife Johari Uhru, deram início, através das redes sociais e blogs, ao que seria o Occupy The Hood.
Numa fase inicial de diagnóstico, e à procura de apoio, Rahsaan entrevistou várias personalidades, uma delas foi Cornel West, Professor em Princeton e membro do Democrats Socialists of America que afirmou publicamente:
“The hood ought to be the first community to be here because we have been suffering than any other community with the exception of our indigenous brothers and sisters on reservations. In terms of education, housing, not enough jobs with a living wageand the refusal of people to really come to terms with the suffering of the children. We have 42 percent of Black children 42 percent of Brown children and 42 percent of Red children living in poverty. The richest nation in the history of the world: That’s a moral disgrace.”
Cornel West Stencil
Com início em Outubro de 2011 em New York e Detroit com o lema: Empower, Liberate, Decolonize , o movimento já tem filiais em muitas das principais cidades americanas: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinati, Dallas, Los Angeles, Milwakee, New Orleans, Orlando, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Richmond, Seatle e St. Louis.
Localmente, cada colectivo organiza eventos que vão ao encontro do seu lema: debates, comedores populares, pressão junto das medidas assitencialistas (food stamps, etc).
Todas as acções estão anunciadas e congregadas no site www.officialoccupythehood.org.
Occupy th Hood com Zulu Nation
Para além do facebook, twitter e youtube, Occupy The Hood tem um programa de rádio em FM na Progressive Radio Network. Um dos hosts é o próprio Malik Rhassan com Almitra Gasper.
O programa é de frequência semanal, fica aqui o de 5 de Março de 2012 sobre o Occupy Album com os convidados: Immortal Technique, George Martinez, Dj Logic, Matt Bless e Paradise Grey.
O paralelismo entre o movimento Occupy nos Estados Unidos e o dos indignados na Europa, leva-nos a interrogar das razões que impedem o despoletar de algo parecido com o Occupy The Hood na Europa.
Aqui fica o manifesto do Occupy The Hood na integra:
From Occupation to Liberation, De-Colonize, Empower The Hood.
People of Color, and in particular Black, Brown and Native/Indigenous People, have been disproportionately affected by the issues that the Occupy Movement has recently raised.
Unemployment rates double nationwide, disproportionate incarceration rates, wealth gap, subprime mortgages/foreclosures.
OTH seeks to present solutions to our collective problems and effect changes in policy that will improve our condition.
OTH is relying on methods of organization that have been going on prior to the origin of the Occupy Movement in the realization that we must craft a movement that uniquely and directly speaks to the issues of People of Color. Occupy The Hood looks forward to see what develops from the Occupy Movement. Occupy The Hood will work to re-establish a goal based National Black Agenda combining new energy with pre-existing efforts.
Occupy The Hood will work to address many critical issues affecting our communities:
un/under employment, poverty, mass incarceration, political prisoners, school to prison pipeline, police brutality, racial profiling, violence/murders/illegal guns, housing/foreclosures/homelessness/gentrification, health care disparities, educational disparities, food deserts, community development, reparations, economic development, entrepreneurship, gender-specific programs, youth programs, environmental justice, civic engagement, discrimination/racism
Occupy The Hood is officially active in the following Cities:
NYC (NY), Detroit (MI), Pittsburgh (PA), Seattle (WA), Philadelphia (PA), Atlanta (GA), Boston (MA), Tacoma (WA), Dallas (TX), Nola (LA), Cincinnati (OH), Portland (OR), St. Louis (MO), Cleveland (OH), Washington (DC), Richmond (VA), Los Angeles (CA) and growing
Occupy The Hood recognizes previous movements and efforts by People of Color for Liberation:
Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movement, Poor Peoples Campaign, March on Washington, Million Man March, “Arab Spring”
Occupy The Hood acknowledges the philosophies and ideologies of:
Afrocentrism, Pan-Afrikanism
Occupy The Hood recognizes the tremendous sacrifice and individual revolutionary examples of:
Martin Luther King jr., Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Black Panthers, Kwame Nkrumah, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Fredrick Douglass, Toussaint L’Ouverture, W.E.B. DuBois, Amilcar Cabral, Paul Robeson, A. Philip Randolph, Ella Baker, CLR James, Fannie Lou Hamer, Frantz Fanon, Anna Julia Cooper, Bell Hooks, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Pedro Albizu Campos, Cesar Chavez, Luisa Moreno, Harry Pachon, Chicano Movement, Brown Berets, Young Lords, Che Gueverra and the numerous others from our rich, ancient and continuing History.
Occupy The Hood recognizes the holocausts and genocides of our People:
- The Native/Indigenous Holocaust; Jamestown, VA., Plymouth, MA., Trail of Tears;
- Colombus’ assault on the Americas/Caribbean; W. Indies, Central, South, Latin America;
- The African Holocaust; Trans-Atlantic Slave trade (MAAFA) and Slavery in America
- Jim Crow & Over 5000 Lynchings in America, Black Wall Street, Hate Crimes
- African genocides fueled by US & European interests theft of natural resources (Gold, Diamonds, Oil)
- The Colonization of our people by: England, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, The Dutch
WE ARE THE MOST AFFECTED of the 99%
It has been said that:
“Black People are on the bottom of every list that is good, and on the top of every list that is bad”
“When White America has a cold, Black America has pneumonia”
* Black unemployment is almost double the national average and in many cities/states is triple and quadruple. Unemployment rates nationally for specific groups such as Black Men and Black Teenagers are even more glaring.
USA Unemployment = 9.1% Black Unemployment = 16.2 % Black males = 17.5% Black teens almost 41%
* Black and Latino incarceration rates
Black man = 1 in 3 (32%) Latino man = 1 in 6 (17%) White man has = 1 in 17 (5.9%)
It costs $35-50,000 annually (varies state/federal) to incarcerate
* Black and Latino Wealth Gap
The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century. The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leaving whites on average with 20 times the net worth of blacks and 18 times that of Hispanics, according to an analysis of new Census data
* People of Color Poverty Rates
Poverty rates for blacks and Hispanics greatly exceed the national average. In 2010, 27.4 percent of Blacks and 26.6 percent of Hispanics were poor, compared to 9.9 percent of non-Hispanic whites and 12.1 percent of Asians.
Poverty rates are highest for families headed by single women, particularly if they are Black or Hispanic. In 2010, 31.6 percent of households headed by single women were poor, while 15.8 percent of households headed by single men and 6.2 percent of married-couple households lived in poverty.
There are also differences between native-born and foreign-born residents. In 2010, 19.9 percent of foreign-born residents lived in poverty, compared to 14.4 percent of residents born in the United States. Foreign-born, non-citizens had an even higher incidence of poverty, at a rate of 26.7 percent.
No seguimento da apresentação do livro War in Shadows of City of light que relata os acontecimentos em Lisboa durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, reproduzimos excertos de um artigo de William D. Bayles publicado na revista Lifede 28 de Abril de 1941, ainda antes dos Estados Unidos terem entrado na guerra.
Once
each week, as the ship from New York noses up to the cluttered,
smelly quay at Lisbon, its passengers look down upon the stranded
foreign colony of Europe´s last free capital. Meeting boats and
clippers has become a pastime in this city where everyone except the
Portuguese – who don´t count – is waiting to go somewhere else.
On the dock are American businessmen, film experts, Red Cross
Directors, secretaries of legations, numerous Gestapos agents with
saucer faces and badly cut German clothes, and bevy of Japanese who
bow back and forth with Japanese on the boat. Behind those with some
excuse of business stand the Jewish refugees, head on head by the
thousands, evidently come to see what kind of lunatic leaves the U.S. for a place as mad as Europe. In the far background are the patient,
threadbare Portuguese, hoping to pick up a few escudos from the
strangers who have overrun their pretty little country.
Lisbon
is the “bottleneck of freedom”, the tunnel wich both Britain an
Germany have seen fit to keep open from Europe to the rest of the
world. Here the great tide of refugees has piled up at Europe´s
western edge. They fill every room in Lisbon and overflow into the
little villages outside.
The
cream of refugees, along with important travelers, saty at the Aviz,
a gleaming white palace that was once a private home of a Portuguese
grandee. They like the Aviz because it is free of Germans.
[…]
The
German hangout de luxe is the Palacio Hotel in Estoril, wich also has
its quota of rich Jews, Englishmen, Americans waiting to go home and
exiled European politicians. It is a big modern resort hotel down the
Tagus River from Lisbon, with a barman who mixes the best Manhattan
cocktails i have tasted in Europe, and chambermaids paid by various
powers.
[…]
The
Palacio is filled with Gestapo men, all in civilian clothes but
painfully German in their movements. They might as well have worn
uniforms because they had just come from a two-week vacation back
home nand were bronzed by Alpine sun. The Jews laugh about German
stupidity but i think it may be all be part of Himmler´s strategy of
terror, for bronzed prussians are much more fearsome than pale ones.
[…]
The
Estoril casino is the last great gambling house in Europe still
running unrestricted. You can place bets as low as $1 and the house
takes only 5$ of the money. You see few portuguese there but almost
every other nationality. More than half the gamblers are Jewish and
i´m told that several have done so well that they have given up all
thought of leaving for America. I don´t know where these
refuggees get all their money bu they have it and some are willing to
kend it at rates of interest of 30% and better.
The
great majority of the refugees are Jews of various degrees of wealth,
but Cintra, about 15 miles from Lisbon, contains a group of abou 600
Americans from France. They are ex-soldiers from 1918 who remained
in France, married French girls and became French in all but name.
[…]
Portugal´s
secret Polícia is supposed to be working with the Gestapo. It tries
to get all foreign passports for examinations, but i was warned not
to give mine up because they are rarely returned. One evening i went
into my hotel bedroom and ran smack into a man snooping among my
things. The fellow refused to aswer my questions and dauntered out
non-chalantly as if it were part of the job. I learned he was on of
the Policia.
The
newspaper and propaganda setup in Lisbon is obviously controlled by
the Germans. The fronts of the news shops look like those of Berlin
or Frankfort, with every important German daily and most of them only
a day old. A few shops display fortnight-old copies of London papers,
but very few. One day i happened to be satnding in front of one of
these shops, reading the headlines of the London Times an
Daily Mail, when a German came by. He barged into the shop and
angrily asked the proprietor why he displayed English papers. The
proprieror meekly went out and took them down.
While
i was in Lisbon an order went out to supress 40% of all British news
in the Portuguese papers. Up to then the British had beem getting a
pretty good break in headlines, but overnight everything swung to the
Axis.
[...]
The
Portuguese people look upon their hordes of uninvited guests with a
kind of sad and timid wonderment. They are much polite and kindkly to
protest, but they have been deeply shocked by some of the crass
modern intrusions upon their ancient, slumbering culture. The foreign
women parade Lisbon´s decorous Rossio in slacks, drink atanding at
street bars where none but men stood before, and go out at night
alone or without hats, wich in Lisbon is the age-old mark of the
prostitute.
from David Thomas (Pere Ubu, Rocket from the Tombs)
The Book of Hieroglyphs is rock and roll. It does not present stories of drug fuelled debauchery. It is without amusing anecdotes of life on the road. There are no details of the deeply engrossing lives of rock musicians.
"There are two main stories about the Greek crisis in the media: the
German-European story (the Greeks are irresponsible, lazy,
free-spending, tax-dodging etc, and have to be brought under control and
taught financial discipline) and the Greek story (our national
sovereignty is threatened by the neoliberal technocracy imposed by
Brussels).
When it became impossible to ignore the plight of the Greek
people, a third story emerged: the Greeks are now presented as
humanitarian victims in need of help, as if a war or natural catastrophe
had hit the country.
While all three stories are false, the third is
arguably the most disgusting. The Greeks are not passive victims: they
are at war with the European economic establishment, and what they need
is solidarity in their struggle, because it is our struggle too."
Edmond Burke is a city businessman who visits a Tarot fortune teller
on the way home. She claims Edmond "is not where [he] belongs." He
decides to make changes in his life, beginning by leaving his wife.
"This crisis, for me is a urban crisis in lots of ways...and i very much connected with the model of urbanization under the susteined capitalism since 1945.(...)
(...) And interestingly, the only part of the world is doing ok right know is East Asia focus on China. And what is China doing? Building cities (...)
(...) This relatinoshiop between urbanization and what´s going on in economy in general is a very important think to look out.
In a mid of a crisis, you nearly always got surplus capital and surplus labor, side by side and it seems theres no way to put them get together. But one of the ways you can solve that dilema is take the capitalism to rebuilt a city,
This happen in Paris on the 1850´s/1860´s, it have been the crise of 1848 and then Louis Napoleon came to power: ´How i´m gona do that?´ and he build all those news boulevards (...) Employed the capital and employed the labour (...)"
O título deste post poderia configurar uma expressão em desuso, mas graças a José Sá Fernandes vamos poder renovar-lhe o uso.
O i noticiou na semana passada a expulsão dos skaters da Praça da Figueira com recurso à Polícia Municipal.
Não vale a pena cansar a escrita com o que é óbvio: a cidade não deve ser vivida pela objectiva de uma máquina fotográfica denunciadora. Ela é para aqueles que a vivenciam e promovem fruições.
Vídeos e Vox Populi:
"Na CML é só bimbalhada. Numa cidade onde abunda a 3ª idade, porque expulsar os poucos jovens que dão alegria á cidade? Sinceramente..."
"Na casa de música do porto, o exterior ganha vida c a presença dos skaters. È arte, embora n se perceba q é o caso das autoridades. Mas é normal, estas bestas sabem la o q é arte!"
"A diversão perturba a autoridade e aqueles que não conseguem divertir-se. Foi sempre assim."
"Mas que cretinice! Quando há pessoas a usar a cidade, vem a polícia correr com elas."
"Anormais dum raio. Encher a praça com a bimbalhice da pista de patins que torna tudo num inferno de barulho e que parece sempre vazia, já pode ser, não é?"
"Confiscar" o Skate é ilegal. Tenho 34 Anos e continuo a skatar. Abraço a todos os skater"
Na edição da Feira do Livro Anarquista de 2012, que terminou no passado Domingo, contou com um espaço de "Cinema e Anarquia".
Num primeiro momento exibiu-se filmes mudos realizados pela cooperativa anarquista de Cinéma do Peuple na década de dez em França.
As Misérias da Agulha
"Raphäel Clamour, ator e diretor artístico da cooperativa, procurava uma actriz para estrelar a primeira produção da Cinéma du Peuple, As misérias da agulha. O papel de Louise, costureira e tecelã que, devido à morte de seu marido, tenta suicidar-se, por razões econômicas, juntamente com seu filho, deveria emocionar. Entre as atrizes dos elencos dos teatros Châtelet e Odéon, Clamour reparou em uma jovem, Jeanne Roques, que mais tarde se tornaria conhecida pelo nome de Musidora, e que, em As misérias da agulha, faz sua primeira aparição no cinema. O tema deve ter agradado a ela, pois era bastante próximo de suas preocupações familiares: Jeanne Roques era filha de Marie Clémence, grande batalhadora da causa feminista. Lina Clamour, do Moulin Rouge, Gaget e Michelet, do Châtelet, e Armand Guerra, do Grande Teatro de Barcelona, também fizeram parte do elenco. É o primeiro filme da história do cinema francês que valoriza os operários e os convida a se organizar por si próprios."
O Velho Doqueiro
"Última produção da Cinéma du Peuple, Le Vieux docker descreve a vida difícil de um velho operário que, depois de trinta anos de trabalho e de leais serviços, é despedido. O filme representa um testemunho de solidariedade para com o anarquista Jules Durand, secretário dos trabalhadores do porto do Havre, preso a 15 de setembro de 1910, depois de uma briga em que um homem foi morto. Ele foi condenado à pena capital, mas como se revelou inocente, e a pena foi comutada para sete anos de reclusão. Depois disso, ele perde a razão e, no início de 1926, com 46 anos, é internado num hospital psiquiátrico. Seu advogado, René Coty, foi posteriormente presidente da República. O roteiro é de Yves-Marie Bidamant, chefe de estação no Havre, e Charles Marck, doqueiro na mesma cidade. Além de dirigir o filme, Armand Guerra interpretou o papel de Durand"
Também foram exibidos dois filmes do início do século XX que denunciam o anarquismo.
A Terrorista
"Reconstituição de um atentado cometido por uma anarquista russa. Um grupo de anarquistas fomenta o projeto de atentado contra o czar executado por uma mulher. O veículo em que se encontrava o czar explode. A criminosa é detida e conduzida à prisão. A viúva do czar, acompanhada por seus dois filhos, visita a anarquista que, arrependida, pede perdão. Condoída, a imperatriz toma seu lugar na cela, e a anarquista escapa da prisão vestindo o manto imperial. Ela chega ao local onde se reúne o grupo anarquista, uma discussão irrompe e uma bomba explode"
O Assassinato do Ministro Plehve
"Reconstituição, nos estúdios da Pathé em Montreuil, do assassinato do ministro Plehve por um estudante chamado Sasanoff (ou Sasonoff) e que teve lugar em São Petersburgo, a 29 de julho de 1904."
فق (fiq): desperta-te; levanta-te; rise up; palavra usada para fins de reciclagem semiótica de sinais stop em Marrocos, pois é um anagrama de قف (qif): stop, a mesma expressão que aparece nos sinais de trânsito. Por isso, a palavra "stop" transforma-se em "desperta-te" através da troca das duas letras, o que graficamente se faz pelo simples recorte dum ponto da letra "kaf" e pela sua colagem à letra "fa", porque a diferença essencial entre as duas letras é que uma tem dois pontos e a outra só um.
A playlist desta semana é dedicada ao rapper marroquino L7a9d(a.k.a. L7a9ed, Lhaqed, al-Haqed, El Haqed, لحاقد / Ləḥāḳəd), operário, habitante do bairro Okacha e jogador do Movimento 20 de Fevereiro. Al-Haqed está desde o dia 29/3/2012 na prisão, a cumprir uma pena de um ano. Trata-se da segunda condenação de al-Haqed por razões nitidamente políticas, nomeadamente pelo conteúdo das suas letras, do apoio popular que goza em todo o Marrocos e do seu envolvimento no M20F. Ainda recentemente, em janeiro, tinha acabado de cumprir os quatro meses da primeira condenação, após um processo judicial muito polémico. Desta vez, foi acusado de ser o autor do clip duma malha sua intitulada Klab dawla (Os Cães do Estado) e cujo conteúdo ofendeu as forças policiais do seu país.
[…] The sentencing of a rapper on May 11, 2012 to one year in prison for “insulting the police” shows the gap between the strong free-expression language in Morocco’s 2011 constitution and the continuing intolerance for those who criticize state institutions. […] Mouad Belghouat, better known as “al-Haqed” (the sullen one), has been [in prison] since March 29 because of his rap song Kilab […] Fonte.
Para além da condenação ser um atropelo evidente à liberdade de expressão e afins, note-se que nunca ficou provado o crime pelo qual foi acusado e julgado, isto é, ser o autor do teledisco em questão, que terá aparecido em inícios de 2012 na net e que muito ofendeu a bófia. Al-Haqed apenas assumiu ter composto e interpretado a malha Klab dawla, que curiosamente já circulava desde 2009.
[…] La police accuse le rappeur d'avoir posté une chanson sur internet avec des photos portant atteinte au corps de la police. [...] le procureur général a affirmé devant les juges que le rappeur a reconnu les accusations portées contre lui. Selon ses avocats, Lhaqed reconnaît avoir chanté la chanson, mais le montage-photos qui accompagne la vidéo provient d'un internaute anonyme. "Dans la chanson, Mouad accuse certains policiers de corruption, ce n'est pas un scoop, tout le monde le dit et les organisations internationales le confirment", a expliqué à l'Associated Press Larbi Chentoufi, avocat de la défense. "Il s'agit d'un procès politique. Lhaqed est devant les juges pour ses opinions", a-t-il ajouté. […] Fonte.
Playlist:
Joachim Kühn, Daniel Humair, J.-F. Jenny-Clark - Triple Entente - Missing A Page
O que começou em Fevereiro de 2012 como um protesto generalizado de estudantes universitários no Quebec, Canadá, está a transformar-se numa reacção mais alargada de vários sectores da sociedade às leis passadas pelo Governo canadiano em resposta às manifestações estudantis.
A recente proibição de manifestações públicas que não disponham de aprovação prévia da polícia parece ter tido o efeito contrário do desejado pelas autoridades: num contexto de repetidos abusos de força por parte da polícia, e do fortalecimento do movimento estudantil, as ruas de Montreal estão nestes dias a ser ocupadas por milhares de pessoas que desafiam a decisão governamental.
Na origem dos protestos está a questão do endividamento estudantil, causado pelo aumento explosivo das propinas universitárias. Mas após uma greve de quase 3 meses, e da recente escalada dos protestos, os ecos de outras ruas, outras cidades, fazem-se já ouvir no que parece, afinal, uma nova erupção dessa massa incoerente a que já aprendemos a chamar os 99% .
2 Oktober 2948 the world will be saved by smokers.
Every Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:00 pm (GMT)
this week:
The Units - High Pressure Days
The Units - I-5
LN-IAW - Yelloh
The Nails - 88 lines about 44 women
DAF - nachtarbeit
Suicide Commando - come to me
XTC - Runaways
Cabaret Voltaire - Do right
Can - You Do Right courtesy of LEAD HOBS CUREradio
This week's Stress FM cover is a photo taken by Sofia Yu in Borneo. The picture is described by the author like this:
«This photo shows the present state of malay region of borneo, more specifically ,Northern Sarawak.
The land is totally devastated due to commercial/illegal logging and cassava/ palm oil plantation, cause a massive destruction on one of the last rain forests of the world.
Borneo, is home for numerous of endemic animals and plants, and it all becoming destroys or extinct.
The same for the human animals,the tribes, such as the forest Penan, who still resist to the logging and gorvernment oppression....
There is aline, a border line on this photo which indicated the separation between Malaysia and Brunei. Brunei is a wealthy country that does not do business with wood or palm oil so it does not cut their trees, although instead, exploit the land for oil and natural gas.»
Already mentioned in the description, the Penan are a nomadic hunter-and- gatherer people who live in the Borneo Forest.
«Even though you hardly find Primary forest outside the national parks of the Sarawak State, this people still survive with very scarce source of food-that is sago trees,fruit trees,medicinal plants and game- due to heavy logging activity that has been a great cause of deforestation in Borneo Island. Commercial Palm oil,Casava and Timber are the main reasons for the decline of wildlife-endangerous and extinct species- and the destruction of the Penan "home" and culture.»
Sofia Yu has been in Borneo last July documenting the Penan alongside them. Her work can be visited here (flickr gallery).
Here, some of the issues documented by the author:
Shelter:They have shelters nearby the village for when they need to get things or deal with bureaucratic matters
Registration: The Penan tradicional names are not acceptable for registration. The Penan names are nature related, but in order to get ID cards they have to pick "appropriate names".
Crafts: The Penan women traditionally use forest material to make baskets,adornments and other utensils.
Resistance and Consequences : About deforestation and presence of infrastructure for plantations and gas (pipelines). Also de self-organization to cope with such damage.
Hunting and Fishing: Utensils and methods
This Sofia Yu project has been in exhibition at ES.COL.A in Oporto.
"In the West the calculated manipulation of public opinion to serve political and ideological interests is much more covert and therefore much more effective. Its greatest triumph is that we generally don't notice it - or laugh at the notion it even exists. We watch the democratic process taking place - heated debates in which we feel we could have a voice - and think that, because we have 'free' media, it would be hard for the Government to get away with anything very devious without someone calling them on it."
The Godz |
Talib Kweli & Madlib |
Ruy Mingas |
Keith Hudson |
Kanye West |
Sun Ra & Salah Ragab
| Wailing Souls
| Homeboyz Muzik |
Lil B
| Lamborghini Crystal
| J Dilla
| Alhaji k.| Frimpong
Psychic Ills |
Six Organs of Admittance
1 - Les Rallizes Denudés - Strung Out Deeper Than The Night (HEAVIER THAN A DEATH IN THE FAMILY (LIVE '73-'77)
"Has a one-way trip into the Heart of Darkness ever been made on a more handsome jalopy? For those of you who love their rock 'n' roll mayhem to be grounded in traditional chord sequences à la Electric Eels and the mid-'70s Cleveland bands, here Mizutani's channeling both Lou Reed and Leigh Stephens. Side one is just the massively hooky 'Strung Out Deeper Than The Night', a fifteen-minute plod that slows down Booker T's 'Green Onions' to funeral pace."
2 - Tokyo Kid Brothers - ピース～ダダダ／下田逸郎(作曲・共作) (THROW AWAY THE BOOKS, WE'RE GOING OUT IN THE STREETS, 1971)
"Sounding as thrilling and berserk as J.A. Caesar in full flight, this amazing interpretation of Shuji Terayama's 'city play' is by far and away this ensemble's finest hour. The psychedelic guitar riffs are said to be the work of Flower Travellin' Band's Hideki Ishima, the stock chatter, the screaming, and the chorale all supporting rumours that Caesar himself was involved. Only the movie version betters this ecstatic performance."
3 - Love Live Life +1 - Facts About It All (LOVE WILL MAKE A BETTER YOU, 1971)
"This record closes brilliantly with the demented 'Facts About It All', which opens like Fuse laying a grunting 6/8 James Brown/Eric Burdon ballad on us. But no, this miniature R&B opera says in 2 minutes and 56 seconds what prog bands took a whole side to say. All hail visionary genius Ikuzo Orita for uniting his fave guitarist Kimio Mizutani with the errant free-jazz Gibson 335 of Takao Naoi, whose brittle spittle pops permanent wheelies around these slippery rhythm tracks."
4 - Magical Power Mako - Give Me Present (JUMP, 1977)
"After the impish precociousness of his debut, Mako caught up in the post-TUBULAR BELLS fallout that afflicted much music of 1974-75, so his second release, SUPER RECORD, was unlistenable New Age twaddle of the World Music variety, (...) A good slapping from occasional cohort Keiji Haino got him back on track, as evidenced from the massively crunchy Kraut-funk of JUMP. By-bye panpipes; back comes the RIOT-period Sly Stone mind-numbing bass, plus madly catchy glampop hooks, phased twin-lead guitars and ridiculous catchy hooklines."
5 - Far East Family Band - Metempsychosis (PARALLEL WORLD, 1976)
"This righteous kosmische union of Japanese commune band and legendary Krautrock producer Klaus Schultze yielded two sides of extraordinary meditative space rock, setting it apart from almost all other Japrock. (...) Like the so-called Keltic languages, Japanese often cloaks its meanings in ambiguity and none more so than in this work. Acting as a smokescreen for two seamless thirty-minute sides of music, the many titles contain multiple meanings and intentional ambiguities to further mystify listeners."
6 - 3/3 - Open a Window (SANBUN NO SAN, 1975)
"Lo-fi 1975 studio recordings from one of only five surviving acetates, released in 2005 on red vinyl, these seven long generic sub-Stooges, proto-Friction jams sum up the late commune scene even better than Dr Acid Seven's own UNDERGROUND '70s CD series. 3/3 was three ex-Maru Sankaku Shikaku members: Chiko Hige on drums, Hiroshi Higo on bass, and future No Waver/Friction leader Reck on guitar and vocals. With a sound akin to the Stooges' own RUBBER LEGS boot, y'all knows what you're in for (...) 'Open a Window' is 'Raw Power', with Friction vocals and a classic wah-wah solo."
6 - Kuni Kawachi & Flower Travellin' Band - Scientific Investigation (KIRKYOGEN, 1970)
"Despite being former organist and leader of Group Sounds underachievers Happenings Four, Kuni Kawachi nailed this sucker to the floor with an entire album of classic songs, featuring the aforementioned Flower Gods in pole positions throughout. (...) While dry, spaced-out and highly original hard-rocking ballads occupy side one, side two is possessed of a hitherto unseen acoustic side of guitarrist Hideki Ishima's playing in the highly catchy 'Graveyard of Love', 'Classroom for Women' and the late Velvets-styled 'Scientific Investigation'."
*All descriptions written by Julian Cope from his book JAPROCKSAMPLER
Na ultima noite do festival Rescaldo deste ano tivemos a oportunidade de ver e gravar o concerto do quarteto Canhão/Sousa/Nogueiro/Ferrandini, que tocaram logo a seguir aos Cangarra (que podes ouvir aqui).
Neste projecto mistura-se a guitarra do Guilherme Canhão (Lobster, Tigrala, Sunflare, Lightsabers) e do baixo do Rui Nogueiro (Sunflare, Lace Bows, Lightsabers), ambos vindos duma linha mais rockeira, com o saxofone baritono e tenor do Pedro Sousa (Pão) e a bateria do Gabriel Ferrandini (Red Trio), que vêm de sons mais ligados ao free jazz.
Descarga brutal de ruido e boa musica improvisada.
Este quarteto foi criado de propósito para o fecho do Rescaldo, na Trem Azul, mas há rumores de concertos agendados para breve. Ficamos à espera!
O Trio Alcatifa são o Doctor Alban, no trompete, Doctor Bombazine, no saxofone e matrimónios de ultima hora, e o Doctor Rashid, no teclado mágico que comanda as manobras acrobaticas da Alcatifa...
Podes ouvir a primeira parte do concerto na segunda e sexta-feira, às 10h & às 19h.
Esses ofícios tiveram como principal objectivo permitir a Portugal negociar com os dois lados da guerra, encaixando o maior número possível de vantagens financeiras.
Tanto para os Aliados como para os Países do Eixo, em especial a Alemanha, Portugal exportava volfrâmio, ingrediente essencial para a industria militar na construção de blindagem.
Portugal passou de um défice comercial de 40 milhões de dólares em 1937 para um excedente de 68 milhões de dólares em 1942.
Estima-se, através da inteligência dos serviços secretos dos Aliados, que no fim da guerra Portugal detinha 400 milhões de dólares em barras de ouro depositadas no Banco de Portugal ou em outros locais a seu cargo.
Neil Lochery interroga-se das razões da não utilização de tamanho stock em ouro para melhorar as condições de vida dos portugueses no pós-guerra.
Em 2000 a BBC denunciou como a igreja católica usou parte do ouro guardado para financiar as obras da reconstrução do Santuário de Fátima. Entre 1982 e 1986 a igreja católica vendeu lingotes de ouro com a marca Reichbank e respectiva suástica:
« Numa revelação vergonhosa, a Igreja católica foi obrigada a admitir que as obras de reconstrução do santuário católico de Fátima (a norte de Lisboa) tinham sido pagas com barras de ouro dos nazis que a igreja adquirira misteriosamente ao Banco de Portugal»
p.21
As suspeitas são de que o ouro com que os nazis adquiriram o volfrâmio provinha do saque aos países ocupados pelo III Reich e da fundição de ouro pertencente a judeus detidos (a partir de dentes, relógios, joias, etc).
De resto a narrativa histórica acompanha-nos pelo que seria a Lisboa dos espiões durante a Segunda Guerra; e em especial das personagens que envolviam o circulo de Salazar:
Agostinho Lourenço - O Capitão Renault de Lisboa, director da Polícia de Vigilância e Defesa do Estado;
Barão Oswald von Hoyningen - Huene- Embaixador da Alemanha em Lisboa quase até ao fim da guerra. A sua ligação a Salazar e às mais importantes famílias da capital permitiram-lhe o exílio em Lisboa no pós-guerra até à data da sua morte;
Ricardo Espírito Santo - Principal amigo e conselheiro económico de Salazar. Negociava com os dois lados da guerra e utilizou algumas intimidades diplomáticas para ficar de fora da lista negra dos aliados para o pós-guerra. Foi anfitrião da estada dos Duques de Windsor durante parte do período da guerra.
Moses Amzalak - Professor e principal dinamizador da comunidade judaica de Lisboa. A amizade com Salazar permitiu-lhe instalar na cidade as organizações de apoio aos exilados judeus que fugiam da Alemanha nazi.
Passa-se muito por estas personagens e pelo impacto dos refugiados, espiões, diplomatas por Lisboa:
"Vestidas com calças informais, as mulheres refugiadas frequentavam as esplanadas de bares onde anteriormente só entravam homens. À noite saíam amiúde sozinhas, sem chapéu, o que na sociedade lisboeta era a marca de uma prostituta"
p.53
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