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Documentary - Eco by Abdelmjid El Farji - Interview in Radio Sawa الوثائقي "صدى الثورات " براديو سوا
خاص عن الفيلم الوثائقي "صدى" أو صدى الثورات العربية بالغرب
ضمن برنامج "سوا ماغازين
بـ "راديو سوا" من الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، من إنتاج الصحفي يوسف الدازي، في لقاء مع المخرجين عبد المجيد الفرجي (المغرب) وجيزيلا فاستا (إيطاليا)، ندعوكم للتفضل بالاستماع
registrazione del programma radiofonico "Sawa magazine" , che ha trattato
il film documentario "Eco" (delle rivoluzione arabi) . Il giornalista Youssef Eddazi ha intervistato Abdelmjid El Farji e Gisella vasta a "Radio Sawa" (Tra i più popolari nel mondo arabo), dagli Stati Uniti d'America
Interview with journalist Youssef Eddazi to "Radio Sawa" (Among the most popular in the Arab world), from the United States of America, in this recording of a special program "Sawa magazine" for the documentary film "Echo", directed by Abdelmjid El Farji Gisela Vasta, I invite you to listen
Video Graffiti, Artivism & Feminism in North Africa - Egypt
Women in Egypt are turning to graffiti as they demand more rights and freedoms and try to change the traditional perception of women there. (March 16)
Nina Simone visit to Abu Ghraib Prison-Farhat Art Museum
http://www.farhatartmuseum.info
Farhat Art Museum Collection , Abu Ghraib prison by five Artists "
Vannessa Stafford (America) , Laila Kubba (Iraq) . Rihab Jaafar (Lebanon) , Abed Al-Kadiri (Lebanon) Gerardo Gomez (El Salvador)
سيد درويش طقطوقة سيبوني ياناس في حالي - صباح فخري
Abul-Qacem Echebbi
Aboul-Qacem Echebbi (Arabic: أبو القاسم الشابي Abū al-Qāsim ash-Shābbī) (24 February 1909 - 9 October 1934) was a Tunisian poet. He is probably best known for writing the final two verses of the current National Anthem of Tunisia, Humat al-Hima (Defenders of the Homeland), that was written originally by the Egyptian poet Mustafa Sadik el-Rafii.
Echebbi was born in Tozeur, Tunisia, on 24 February 1909, the son of a judge. He obtained his attatoui diploma in 1928. In 1930, he obtained a law diploma from the University of Ez-Zitouna. The same year, he married and subsequently had two sons, Mohamed Sadok, who became a colonel in the Tunisian army, and Jelal, who later became an engineer.
He was very interested in modern literature, in particular, translated romantic literature, as well as old Arab literature. His poetic talent manifested itself at an early age and this poetry covered numerous topics, from the description of nature to patriotism. His poems appeared in the most prestigious Tunisian and Middle-Eastern reviews. His poem To the tyrants of the world became a popular slogan chant during the 2011 Tunisian and subsequently Egyptian demonstrations.[1]
Echebbi died on 9 October 1934 at the Habib-Thameur Hospital in Tunis, Tunisia following a long history of cardiac disorders. His portrait is on the current 30 DT note.
29 DAYS - A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT TUNISIAN REVOLUTION ΕΞΑΝΤΑΣ - 29 Μέρες
It has been called the "Rebellion of Dignity". The spark that was set off by the self-immolation of a 26-year-old in a Tunisian provincial town spread like fire in the entire country. The cry of the Tunisians who demanded freedom and fought for their right to work shook the entire world and gave, once again, a historic role to optimism. Ben Ali, the once almighty dictator, fled the country and his corrupt regime was unmasked. The first revolution of the 21st century is a fact and the Arab world will never be the same again.
"29 Days" goes back to the beginning, to the roots of the "Arab spring". Through the soul-stirring testimonies of those who were in the middle of it and the rich archive that they salvaged from the period of the uprising, the documentary presents the chronicle of the 29 days that changed the course of history.
MAIN CREDITS
Written & Directed by: Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Produced by: Georgia Anagnou / Director of Photography: Yiannis Avgeropoulos / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Research: Andreas Vagias / Editing: Yiannis Biliris, Anna Prokou / Original Music by: Yiannis Paxevanis / A Small Planet production for Greek Public Television ERT © 2011-2012
Languages: Greek, Arabic / Subtitles: Greek
Original Airdate: Πέμπτη 1 Δεκεμβρίου 2011, 22:00 - ΝΕΤ
Ονομάστηκε «Επανάσταση της Αξιοπρέπειας». Η σπίθα που άναψε η αυτοπυρπόληση ενός 26χρονου σε μια επαρχιακή πόλη της Τυνησίας εξαπλώθηκε σαν φωτιά σε ολόκληρη τη χώρα. Η κραυγή των Τυνήσιων, που ζητούσαν ελευθερία και διεκδικούσαν το δικαίωμά τους στην εργασία, δόνησε ολόκληρο τον κόσμο και έδωσε ξανά ιστορικό ρόλο στην αισιοδοξία. Ο κάποτε πανίσχυρος δικτάτορας Μπεν Αλί τράπηκε σε φυγή, το απολυταρχικό και διεφθαρμένο καθεστώς του απογυμνώθηκε. Η πρώτη επανάσταση του 21ου αιώνα είναι γεγονός κι ο αραβικός κόσμος δε θα είναι ποτέ πια ο ίδιος.
Το «29 Μέρες» επιστρέφει στην αρχή, στις ρίζες της «αραβικής άνοιξης». Μέσα από τις συγκλονιστικές μαρτυρίες των πρωταγωνιστών και παρουσιάζοντας το πλούσιο αρχείο που οι ίδιοι διέσωσαν από την περίοδο της εξέγερσης, καταγράφει το χρονικό των 29 ημερών που άλλαξαν τον ρου της ιστορίας.
ΒΑΣΙΚΟΙ ΣΥΝΤΕΛΕΣΤΕΣ
Σενάριο, Σκηνοθεσία: Γιώργος Αυγερόπουλος / Επιτόπια Έρευνα & Οργάνωση Θέματος: Γεωργία Ανάγνου / Διεύθυνση Παραγωγής: Αναστασία Σκουμπρή / Διεύθυνση Φωτογραφίας: Γιάννης Αυγερόπουλος / Έρευνα: Ανδρέας Βάγιας / Μοντάζ: Γιάννης Μπιλήρης, Άννα Πρόκου / Μουσική: Γιάννης Παξεβάνης / Μια παραγωγή της Small Planet για την ΕΡΤ © 2011-2012
Art and Pictogram - European Values XXI Century
A new works about XXI century values of European area. With deportation centers as Lamperdusa, Lesvos or Malta we need to think about Human Rights facts in European socities. Because Forteress Europe still rising walls, perscute imigrant & refugees we need to open our mind in a XXI Century globalisation construction.
US - 1 Million of Deportations soon with S-Comm program
From Just seeds : Artists cooperative
"the administration has moved to ramp up deportations, expanding the brutal efficiency of a system that Mr. Obama has acknowledged is broken, arbitrary and unjust." - New York Times, Aug 15. 2011
After hitting a record 1 MILLION deportations, the Obama administration just did the unthinkable: Forcing states and police departments to comply with a controversial program called Secure Communities or S-Comm – a move guaranteed to deport many more millions of people.
S-Comm is a highly criticized federal program that is deporting immigrants who have done nothing wrong, encouraging racial profiling, devastating communities around the country, and making us all less safe. In fact, under S-Comm authorities can deport a woman reporting domestic violence, instead of protecting her. Huge immigrant states like Illinois and New York opted out of the program because it breeds distrust of the police – and now President Obama is forcing them to comply.
We need a massive outcry—and fast—if we are to stop this disastrous program. Since Thursday, the organization I helped found, Presente.org, began a petition to end S-Comm, and since then, more than 20,000 people have signed on!! Will you help us get to 30,000 signatures?
Click here to sign the petition asking President Obama to end S-Comm
Under the Obama Administration, ICE and DHS have gone out of their way to mislead the public about Secure Communities. And despite rhetoric about supporting fair immigration reform and relief for our communities, their actions are speaking much louder than their words.
Now they are poised to force local officials to make this situation even worse. Until recently, the Obama Administration used to sign agreements with states, cities, and towns regarding whether or not these localities wanted to enroll in S-Comm. But when local governments started to say they didn’t want the program, the Obama administration changed their own rules. On Friday, August 5th, they ended agreements with 42 states, claiming that local permission wasn’t needed to force every local police department into the program by 2013.
If we don’t do something about it, S-Comm will come to every neighborhood in the country—including yours! The Obama administration has already deported more than 1 MILLION people, more than any other administration in history. S-Comm will bring about even more devastating consequences.
We’ll start by compiling these signatures and delivering them to the President and the media. We’ll work with immigrant rights organizations, state-based groups, and law enforcement to educate the public and help organize a major pushback on the administration’s dangerous move.
Click here to sign the petition asking President Obama to end S-Comm
AHMED By Guido Gazzilli - African refugees
I went to Lampedusa when the “emergency” was on every Italian’s mind, say Guido Gazzilli. It was the front page of every paper, the opener for every news cycle, the topic during talk shows. The main point I was getting was that the Lampedusans were angry, the island devastated by these people who were essentially squatting everywhere, that the locals had taken to not leaving their homes, their lives destroyed. I went there to look for a story about a young refugee man.
I saw the opposite, the locals taking in these immigrants, feeding them, clothing them, some families hosting 3 or 4 immigrants under their roof, others giving them their boats to sleep in, or their garages.
I met local volunteers, the Matinas family, who were hosting a lot of immigrants. that’s how I met Ahmed, a 23-year-old Tunisian who was being looked after by the Matinas. A great man. The family gave him clothes, allowed him to use the bathroom, cooked for him,they said to him “This house is your house now”, .He had been on the island nine days, happy to be there and nervous about having to be possibly re-patriated.
Ahmed told me he earned 60 euros a month as a waiter in Biserta, where he lived, and had to pay bordercrossers 800 euros for a 25 hour boat ride with another two dozen Tunisians. His mother had sold half her belongings in order to help him take the trip.
“I left for my future, for my family,” he told me. The Matinas even wanted him to stay on the island, but Ahmed had to be moved to another CIE (“Center for Identification and Expulsion). He spent 10 days in the CIE of Campobasso, I tried to meet him but i had no permission to get in, he finally obtained a temporary permit for six months, now he has to find a job or he will be re-patriated.
Ahmed went to Verona where his sister lives, she works in a bar with her boyfriend. Unfortunately they have no space in their house and not job opportunities for him...
http://www.guidogazzilli.com/
SUPPORT A LOGO FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
In search of a globally recognized Logo for Human Rights, Human Right Watch create a contest for design a sign for Human Rights.
You can join here : http://humanrightslogo.net/
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Europe: the dangerous rise of xenophobia & racist discrimination
Xenophobia is becoming a serious threat for Europe, as the brutal attack in Norway has shown. Human rights groups and experts warn that far-right political parties have played an important role in bringing the threat posed by extremist groups to the extent it has reached today.Norwegian police believe a 32-year-old Norwegian suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, is to blame for the attacks on Norway’s government headquarters and a youth retreat that left at least 93 dead. Breivik was described as a fundamentalist Christian and Muslim-hater.
He had connections to the Norwegian far right, was a member of a Swedish neo-Nazi internet forum and hailed the anti-Islam PVV movement of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands as “the only true party for conservatives”. According to sociologist Hikmet Aydın, the educational system in Europe and the attitude of governments towards Muslims in recent years have created a fertile ground for the emergence of vicious killers like Breivik in Norway.
In a report titled: “Islam, Islamism and Islamophobia in Europe,” the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) noted last year -- with deep concern -- that in many of the Council of Europe’s 47 member states, Muslims feel socially excluded, stigmatized and discriminated against, stressing that they have become victims of stereotypes, social marginalization and political extremism because of their different religious and cultural traditions.
The report lambasted some member states where far right-wing parties have changed their traditional hostile campaign against immigration and foreigners and now exploit the public fear of Islam. The PACE report underlined: “Their political campaigns encourage anti-Muslim sentiments and the amalgamation of Muslims with religious extremists. They advocate the fear of Europe being swamped by Muslims.”
The rise of populist, xenophobic, nationalist far right parties in Europe and abroad is alarming. It's about 10-15 percent of the populations in many countries of Europe. Far-right parties gained seats in recent elections in Hungary, Belgium, Netherlands, France and Finland. Politicians started to capitalize on the fears of people, hoping that such a strategy will deliver them votes.
The populist parties emerging in Europe differ from traditional neofascist parties in that they have garnered a much broader voting base. The parties are able to do so by playing off the fear of rising immigration levels in their countries. The group found that “in some countries, they have even established themselves as the second largest party with around 30% of the votes, sometimes denying their rivals a governing majority.” These parties are quickly gaining momentum, which threatens the security of immigrants across the continent. Even those currently in power are actively participating in discrimination against immigrants and minority groups.
Far-right rhetoric is used not just by the extremist parties in Europe but by the mainstream parties as well. A negative attitude developed by Sarkozy at the heart of Europe was reflected on the streets. People started look for someone to blame for the all ills of the economy. They put the blame on new arrivals to the country and immigrants. It is a gross injustice and many immigrants now feel threatened and unwelcome, and rightly so.
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Congress of the Young Christian Democrats said that, "This [multicultural] approach has failed, utterly failed." These sentiments echoed by various politicians and pundits throughout Europe raise the heat on a plethora of issues, from immigration and minority rights to Islam and the Roma. The sentiment among many now is that Europe, once a beacon of hope for many foreigners and a rich, vibrant cosmopolitan society, is reverting back to nationalist sentiments.
According to the BBC, many Europeans feel that immigrants and Islam are attacking valued principles, mainly secularism and the notion of the unified, indivisible state and citizenry who are able to assimilate in the nation. The flash-points of these movements and the mobilization against foreigners are occurring throughout Europe.
According to the BBC, many Europeans feel that immigrants and Islam are attacking valued principles, mainly secularism and the notion of the unified, indivisible state and citizenry who are able to assimilate in the nation. The flash-points of these movements and the mobilization against foreigners are occurring throughout Europe.
France has been on the attack. According to the BBC, the National Assembly and the Senate approved a bill banning the Islamic full veil in public, a measure supported by a large portion of the population and the president Nicolas Sarkozy. The riots of 2005 caused by youth dissent also highlighted the race and immigrant relations, as well as the fear of Islam and immigrant communities by many in France. France has a vibrant far right party, the National Front. The party is nativist, protectionist and traditionalist, alongside being blatantly racist and downplaying the holocaust. According to PBS, in the presidential election of 2002, Le Pen received 17 % of the vote for the presidency. This may not seem like a large number for a national election, but the sole fact that 17 %of the French electorate would vote for an imbecile like National Front leader is beyond comprehension.
England has also been in the news for their increasing reactionary movements and parties. According to the BBC, the British National Party has increased in popularity over recent years, taking over half a million votes (an increase of 1.2 percent) in the UK national election in 2010. According to the BNP website, the policies they support that set them apart from the other parties are, "the threat to our security posed by Islam and the danger of the European Union to our sovereignty." Along with the rise of the BNP is the energetic English Defense League, whose goal is to prevent the "Islamification" of Britain.
According to MSNBC, Germany's chairman of the Christian Social Union, Horst Seehofer, has reaffirmed the need for strong immigration policies denying any more people from "alien cultures." The Netherlands have Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician who claims that there is no moderate Islam and that anyone who is a Muslim will one day be radicalized. According to The Guardian, the ultraconservative Sweden Democrats received 6% of the vote in the national election in September, meaning they will get 20 Members of Parliament. The Guardian also reports that this party, which has support from Skinhead groups, bears the slogan "tradition and security," and is against Islamification. They too seek to crack down on immigration.
With the Swiss referendum in 2009, Islamophobia has become institutionalized, sanctioned by the constitution drawing an analogy to anti-Semitic sentiments of the 1930s.
The Roma people are under enormous pressure in many nations around Europe. There have been expulsions in France, Italy and attacks against them in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.
Many Europeans have forgotten the lessons of the past. The Holocaust, along with the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina to name a few, were a direct result of these nationalist, intolerant and racist beliefs.
While this occurs in Europe, it is also stirring movements in the United States as well. According to The Guardian, the English Defense League and Tea Party have forged ties, mainly against Islam and the supposed rise of Sharia law in government. These vivacious and populist parties are spewing their venom of hatred and propaganda and attracting many into their flock, including countless youth. We must stand up, voice our concern and let the radicals know that we will not allow them to take control. Do not be apathetic but show your care and concern for the poor, oppressed and minorities.
Never forget the words of Pastor Niemoller, who said that the German intellectuals had failed to speak up against Nazism. When the Nazi party attacked group after group and finally came for clergy members. "Then they came for me," he said, "and by that time no one was left to speak up."
San Francisco - Crossing the Invisible Line: The Art of Immigration
University Art Gallery and Department of Art and Art History, is pleased to present Crossing the Invisible Line: The Art of Immigration. The exhibition looks at the complex issue of immigration from a variety of perspectives, including paintings, prints, photographs, and sculpture by contemporary artists along with historical documents and artifacts from regional museums.
Organized by the students of ArtH 494: Gallery and Museum Methods documents and artifacts from the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco and the Sonoma County Museum are on display along with several of the students are bringing in immigration materials from their own families and friends.
Mariana Barnes (San Jose)
Enrique Chagoya (San Francisco)
Hung Liu (Oakland)
Elena Lokshina (San Francisco)
Oscar Magallanes (Los Angeles)
Sonia Melnikova-Raich (San Francisco)
Favianna Rodriguez (Oakland)
Frank Wong (San Francisco)
lampedusa festival 2011
LAMPEDUSAINFESTIVAL – “Festival of Migrations and the Recovery of Oral History”, from 19 to 23 July 2011, Lampedusa (Italy) – is to give space and visibility to international works (fiction or documentaries) that tell stories of people. In a historic moment in which there are many debates about issues that seemed to have been solved by the mediterranean countries (the rights of workers, the role of women in society) and full of new instances to wonder about (the revolts against the authoritarian and corrupt regimes, the attitude of the new/old Europe towards migratory flows, the value of the culture and the state of the artistic and environmental Italian heritage), we think that we should look at the faces, learn the names e know the stories of the people who are – voluntarily or not – leading actors in history.
Lampedusa In Festival 2011 from Ondemotive on Vimeo.
Aspettando "LampedusaInFestival - III° Edizione" (19 - 23 luglio 2011)
Lampedusa Festival Website here
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