Friday 11 February 2011

Wordsworth on revolution

‘Twas in truth an hour
Of universal ferment; mildest men
Were agitated, and commotions, strife
Of passion and opinion, filled the walls
Of peaceful houses with unquiet sounds.
The soil of common life was, at that time,
Too hot to tread upon.


William Wordsworth, Book IX, The Prelude (1805)

Congratulations to the Egyptian Revolution

Latuff - Catapulting Mubarak
Latuff: Catapulting Mubarak

Hosni Mubarak resigns as president of Egypt. Now let us hope that Mubarakism goes with him.

Sunday 6 February 2011

Hip-hop and graffiti revolution: a video manifesto

Reproduced from Venezuelanalysis.com


EPATU Manifesto

EPATU stands for Popular School for the Arts and Urban Traditions, but it is also Spanish for ‘Hey you’. The schools, developed jointly with the Venezuelan Ministry for Communes, are non-formal spaces for youth to learn rap, break dancing, graffiti, and DJ, and are an alternative to the consumerism, violence, and criminal life that young people are often exposed to. Instead, the schools focus on developing cultural, social, and collective awareness.



Translation:

Group: We are a School
Male 1: We take on militancy and we learn to be rebels
Male 2: Always inventing
Male 3: From the grassroots
Male 4: Because we base our knowledge on experience and invention
Male 5: Producing
Male 6: And generating a space for thought and discussion
Female 1: Aiming for the inside (of ourselves)
Male 7: And aiming for the endogenous
Male 8: Inviting our people to investigate
Male 9: To discuss, to activate, and to collectivise
Male 10: Making art
Female 2: Inclusive
Female 3: Born from the people
Male 11: What you don’t see in museums
Male 12: Something you want to show.
Male 13: The art of creating and of the collective with the word
Male 14: Painting!
Female 4: With the body, sound, and spirit
Male 15: Accompanying traditions
Male 16: Because rage is our ancestor
Child 1: Blacks!
Child 2: Indigenous!
Child 3: Llaneros (inhabitants of the plains)
Child 4: Gave rise to our arts
Male 17: And they integrated them into one single movement
Male 18: An inheritance transmitted through drums and
Male 19: Decima poetry
Male 20: The beats of Joropo (a Venezuelan dance)
Female 5: And the feet of a dancer
Male 21: That are based on urban expressions
Male 22: That encourage respect for the original (inhabitants)
Female6: For the social
Male 23: For our roots, for the appropriation of spaces that belong to us
Male 24: To achieve the demolishment of the system
Male 25: That oppresses us
Male 26: Making revolution
Male 27: Communicating an alternative for advancing and constructing
Male 28: We do it through communicating
Child 5: (through) the people
Female 7: (through) rebellion
Male 29: (through) what isn’t sold.


Transcription and notes by Tamara Pearson for Venezuelanalysis.com

Saturday 5 February 2011

Latuff on the revolution in Egypt

Two cartoons by Latuff on the Egyptian Revolution:

Latuff - Egyptian Revolution

Latuff - Egyptian Revolution


And a third in collaboration with Gaber:
Latuff & Gaber - Egyptian Revolution


More from Latuff:
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Support the Arab revolutions

Dominoes
Dominoes, by Leon Kuhn.

The uprisings of the peoples of Tunisia, Egypt and other states in the Middle East is one of the most inspiring political developments for decades.