Tuesday, August 31

Résistances

scrivo. seminando formiche nere. bianco del foglio. mi ricordo di quando mi scrivevi della neve. agosto finisce. qua fuori si vede ancora il verde che nasconde il cielo. scrivo. di strade d'estate. di rotaie interrotte. di alberi con foglie di stelle.
oggi ho trovato questo. niente altro che quello in cui credo.

Résister, c’est dire non. Non au mépris. Non à l’arrogance. Non au broyage économique. Non aux nouveaux maîtres du monde. Non aux pouvoirs financiers. Non au G8. Non au "consensus de Washington". Non au marché totalitaire. Non au libre-échange intégral. Non à la domination du "poker du Mal" (Banque mondiale, FMI, OCDE, OMC). Non à l’hyperproductivisme. Non aux organismes génétiquement modifiés. Non aux privatisations permanentes. Non à l’irrésistible extension du secteur privé. Non à l’exclusion. Non au sexisme. Non à la régression sociale. Non au démantèlement de la Sécurité sociale. Non à la pauvreté. Non aux inégalités. Non à l’oubli du Sud. Non à la mort, chaque jour, de 30 000 enfants pauvres. Non à la destruction de l’environnement. Non à l’hégémonie militaire d’une seule hyperpuissance. Non à la guerre préventive. Non aux guerres d’invasion. Non au terrorisme. Non aux attentats contre les populations civiles. Non aux racismes. Non à l’antisémitisme. Non à l’islamophobie. Non au tout-sécuritaire. Non à la surveillance généralisée. Non au flicage de la pensée. Non à l’abaissement culturel. Non aux nouvelles censures. Non aux médias qui mentent. Non aux médias qui nous manipulent.

Résister c’est aussi pouvoir dire oui. Oui à la solidarité entre les 6 milliards d’habitants de notre planète. Oui aux droits des femmes. Oui à l’existence d’une ONU renouvelée. Oui à un nouveau plan Marshall pour aider l’Afrique. Oui à l’éradication définitive de l’analphabétisme. Oui à une offensive internationale contre la fracture digitale. Oui à un moratoire international pour la préservation de l’eau potable. Oui aux médicaments essentiels pour tous. Oui à des actions décisives contre le sida. Oui à la préservation des cultures minoritaires. Oui aux droits des indigènes. Oui à la justice sociale et économique. Oui à une Europe plus sociale et moins marchande. Oui au "consensus de Porto Alegre". Oui à une taxe Tobin d’aide aux citoyens. Oui à un impôt sur les ventes d’armes. Oui à la suppression de la dette des pays pauvres. Oui à l’interdiction des paradis fiscaux.

Résister, c’est rêver qu’un autre monde est possible. Et contribuer à le bâtir.
Ignacio Ramonet - mai 2004

Monday, August 30

A29

i colori che invadono le strade di NYC. la lunga marcia. 5oo mila persone. coi loro sorrisi. gioie. speranze. un altro mondo forse esiste già.

il nostro silenzio è visibile


nessuna deve rimanere indifferente

donne in nero

Friday, August 27

Sombra, fuego, nieve

in days like these i still look for beauty



hermana, no duermes, no, no duermes
porque el fuego no muere

parole

ti svegli, il sole di mattina. sempre lì. e il vento e le nuvole di questo agosto che corre via insieme a loro. il ricordo delle ombre chiare e luminose, dei profili degli oleandri rosa, al di là del muro. e il profume dei fichi maturi caduti a terra. poi il telefono che squilla. i ragazzi giocheranno col lutto al braccio. lo hanno ammazzato. enzo è morto. il mondo che perde un altro pezzo. di anima. di speranza. di forza. di pace. sono triste.

tanto vale affidarsi al vento


enzo baldoni
copywriter
in viaggio verso la pace
27 agosto 2004

Thursday, August 26

Tulips and Chimneys

i have found what you are like
the rain
e.e. cummings

deconstruction of sense, semantics, grammar and syntax. just images. words. sound. origin. no commas. no points. against capital letters. sun moon stars rain.

Per Sarah

Have you ever thought, thought your heart would break? Wished you could cut open your chest tear it out to stop the pain? Why don't you riot like everyone else?
I don't care
Life's too long

Sarah Kane just wanted to write: The plays that I consider to be about hope, faith and love seem to have depressed everyone else. love is depressing. state of love, hope and trust. she knew the scream of a daffodil and she danced on glass. despair, as deep as forever.
she lit one more cigarette. joy division in her ears. a shyness that is criminally vulgar. pain. it comes at 4.48. early in the morning. only love can save me.
February 20, 1999



Sarah Kane

Monday, August 23

dalla parte delle bambine

Dans l'oubli de l'être, aurait lieu l’oubli de l’air, de ce premier fluide qui se donne gratuitement et sans retour avec le sang de la mère
Luce Irigaray

we must listen to the un-said, to the forgottenness of the being, and try to describe with new words that say the difference what still remains without a voice.
we are the Other, what is completely different, what cannot be reduced to A because it's not just nonA.

du côté des filles

Friday, August 20

shakespeare's sister

and suddenly she came, fragile, strong and pure. called judith, let us say. she never earned a room of her own. she never found the infinite space where emily could give materiality to invisible ideas.
could she even seek her dinner in a tavern or roam the streets at midnight?
she lost herself, on a winter night, near elephant and castle.
sometimes i roam the streets, around midnight. i stare at the ground under my feet. i'm not afraid. sometimes i roam. i roam for judith and for me.



A room of one's own

Play it for today
then it meant that you were a protest singer
Ticket to ride
by grand central station i sat down

Thursday, August 5

blocuri Nori

this is a box where i put all the things i like. today it's time for the windows full of clouds.

Play it for today
all i do know it's we are here and it's now


Wednesday, August 4

Adonais

what's the colour of memories? a sort of pale yellow, sad white like the veil of a bride, grey like the mists? i see the light, and he says that it never goes out. i see orange, orange crush, like a mad pagan poetry.
i don't like to remember. i just like to recollect. to pick up pieces that are left behind. today i'm recollecting you. so strange and out of date. you talked about radio clash.

This is not free
This is not free Europe

and i became different.


Play it for today
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
A ticket to ride
belfast -- 3 o' clock in the morning