2014/07/09

Damien Dempsey "colony"



I sing the song of the colony
How many years and you're still not free
And your mother cries and you ask god why
Greed is the knife and the scars run deep
How many races with much reason to weep
And your children cry
And you ask god why

Annie, she came from Dunlavin Town
The TB came and killed her family all around
Population booms
Eleven in two rooms
Katie she came from down Townsend street
Ten in a bed and no shoes on their feet
1916 came
They played the patriots game
Freddy, he came from the Iveagh flats
Tenement slums and infested with rats
Sleeping on damp straw
Trying not to break the law
Thomas, he came from Kilmaine in Mayo
Semi starvation was the only life you'd know
In a two room shack
Then jailed in Letterfrack

I look to the east, I look to the west
To the north and the south, and I'm not too impressed
Time after time
After crime after crime
They raped, robbed, pillaged, enslaved and murdered
Jesus Christ was their god and they done it in his name
So he could take the blame if it's not all a game
With bible in one hand and a sword in the other
They came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish mothers
And fathers, and sisters and brothers
With our own ancient customs, laws, music, art
Way of life and culture
Tribal in structure
We had a civilisation
When they were still neanderthal nations
We suffer with the Native American, the Indian in Asia
Aboriginal Australia
The African people with their history so deep
And our children still weep and our lives are still cheap
You came from Germany, from France, from England
And from Spain
From Belgium and from Portugal
You all done much the same

You took what was not yours
Went against your own bible
You broke your own laws
Just to out do the rival
But did you ever apologize
For the hundreds and millions of lives
You destroyed and terrorised
Or have you never realized
Did you never feel shame
For what was done in your country's name
And find out who's to blame and why they were so inhumane
And still they teach you in your school
About those glorious days of rule
And how it's your destiny to be
Superior to me
But if you've any kind of mind
You'll see that all human kind
Are the children of this earth
And your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out

You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free
You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free
You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free
Inside our minds we hold, hold the key

2014/04/10

PatriciaRyan


Gure hizkuntza maitatzea eskatzen digu bideo honetan Patricia Ryan irakasleak. Sortzez Ingalaterrakoa bada ere, azken 30-40 urteetan ingeles irakasle aritu da arabiar golkoko zenbait herrialdetan. Egun, Dubaiko Zayed unibertsitatean ari da lanean, eta Zuzenbidean master bat ikasten ari du. TED ekimenaren eskutik, hizkuntzen galeraz eta ingelesaren negozio izugarriaz mintzo zaigu, hainbat galderei buruz pentsarazteko. Euskarazko azpidatziak Elearazi blogeko kideek prestatu dituzte.

The Weight of Chains (Basque)/Kateen zama (euskara)/Težina lanaca (baski...


Dokumental honek, Mendebaldeko sektore hegemonikoen ohiko ikuspegi ofizialaz kanpoko bestelako begirada bat eskaintzen digu.

Boris Malagurski zimemagile serbo-kanadiarrak (Serbiako Subotica hirian 1988an jaioa, gaur egun Kanadan bizi da) Jugoslaviako Errepublika Sozialista Federalaren desagerpenaren eta ondorioz piztu ziren guden inguruan eginiko dokumentala da "KATEEN ZAMA". (Serbieraz: "Težina lanaca"; ingeleraz: "The Weight of Chains").

Bideo honetan azaltzen den legez, jugoslaviar herriak ez ziren gudara destinatuak, ez eta beste herriak baino basatiagoak edota indarkeriara emanagoak. 90ko gudak pizteko arrazoia, 1945ean Titok sortutako Jugoslavia Sozialista, Estatu nazioanitz eta oparoa desegitea izan zen. Desegite hori nazioarteko interes pribatu eta korporatiboen interesendako operazio bat izan zen, eta eklkarrenganako gorrotoaren agerpena, amomnkomuneko ondare honen desegitearen ondorioa. Bestealde Mendebaldeko potentzia eta instituzioen (EB, NATO, NDF, Munduko Bankua) interbentzio politiko, militar eta ekonomikoa; herri horien arteko bakea bermatzeko baino, herri horien kolonizazio ekonomikoan sakontzeko helburuarekin egin izan da.

Ivo Andrić Elkarteak, Jugoslaviar Herriekiko Adiskidantzarako Euskal Elkarteak, euskararatu du dokumentala. Eskubide guztiak Boris Malagurskirenak dira. "Solidaritat amb Sèrbia des de Catalunya" elkartean laguntza jaso du.

2014/04/09

Kapitalismoa, maitasun istorio bat

Michael Moore zinemagilearen 2009ko dokumentala. Filmak AEBetako 2007-2010 arteko finantza krisialdia hartzen du gai nagusitzat, eta kapitalismoaren ezaugarriak ditu aztergai.