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Politics: May 2005

Munayem Mayenin writes: No  civilised nation on earth could run and rule a country by persecuting and criminalising its minorities! Majority rules because it enjoys the moral support both from the majority as well as the minority: majority gives moral support so that power does not annihilate minorities and minority gives support out of moral respect to the majority and in the hope and expectation of goodness that creates a moral imperative for the majority to act! When majority begins to disrespect its moral imperative to act honourably, morally and judiciously the majority becomes a tyrant and persecuted minority begins to feel criminalised and hunted by the majority. This must stop by these politicians who are desperate for some votes: Great Britain and this great nation is much bigger than any one or group of desperate politicians.

It is about time that "we the people" of Britain stand up and make a statement for these politicians whichever political parties or persuasions they come from, and say: stop this! Stop demonising minority communities and groups! Stop criminalising and persecuting or supporting persecution of minority groups! Leave the lone parents alone! Leave the Travellers and Romano Communities alone! Stop demonising! Stop creating paranoia and STOP USING RACISM to gain votes!

The Poet's Letter does not believe that British people reflect how these politicians think! Britain could not have given birth to modern parliamentary democracy, ethos and principles of civil liberties, fundamental freedoms and human rights as well as upholding highest of all values: liberal, progressive and humanistic way of thinking and living, a great legal system and jurisprudence and due process of law as well as providing great innovative contributions towards the advancement of medical sciences and science and technology if we lived in the horrendous and ugly mind set of these hollow minded politicians who whenever they feel are unable to be elected begin to dig the dead devil of racism! Britain has not and would not have become Britain if British people followed politicians like these who want to repel the human rights act, who want to get us out of refuge conventions and get their obligations off their head from International law, who are committed to scare us of Europe when the world is edging towards a frontier less global humanity!

These politicians should be made to feel ashamed to tell us and the world that Britain is racist! That we British people are racists! That is an insult British people should return to these politicians!

Britain has become great not because it has listened to these bigots but because it refused to listen to these people and offered sanctuary to people fleeing persecution and it maintained all its high values, principles, systems and institutions as well as way of thinking and living no matter how testing the time is.

No  civilised nation on earth could run and rule a country by persecuting and criminalising its minorities! Majority rules because it enjoys the moral support both from the majority as well as the minority: majority gives moral support so that power does not annihilate minorities and minority gives support out of moral respect to the majority and in the hope and expectation of goodness that creates a moral imperative for the majority to act! When majority begins to disrespect its moral imperative to act honourably, morally and judiciously the majority becomes a tyrant and persecuted minority begins to feel criminalised and hunted by the majority. This must stop by these politicians who are desperate for some votes: Great Britain and this great nation is much bigger than any one or group of desperate politicians.

That is not what Britain is about! That is not what made Britain Great and we believe Britain will continue to be great because we are not led by morons but by a system that is based and born out of judiciousness, democracy and due process of law which does not and will not tolerate racism or persecution nor will the British people.

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Bangladeshi Journalists Receive Death Threats:PEN

 

English PEN is deeply concerned about journalists Samaresh Baidya (m), Zubair Siddiqui (m) and Sumi Khan (f), who received death threats mailed to their offices between 10 and 12 March. The threats purported to be from local Islamist groups whose activities they had been reporting on. English PEN believes the lives of the three journalists are in danger.

All three are reporters for publications based in the city of Chittagong, in the south of the country. Samaresh Baidya works for the daily newspaper Bhorerkagoj; Zubair Siddiqui works for a weekly magazine, Ajker Surjodoy; and Sumi Khan writes for the magazine Shaptahik 2000. The letter to Sumi Khan told her to immediately retract all the articles that she had written on Islamist groups, and threatened grenade attacks on her home and office if she ever reported on these issues again.

Sumi Khan was stabbed and seriously injured on 27 April 2004 as she was on her way to send a report to her editor. She had written a number of investigative articles about the alleged involvement of local politicians and Islamist groups in attacks on members of minority communities, kidnapping and land-grabbing by landlords. Before the attack she had received several anonymous threatening phone calls, warning her not to "defame" people in her reports, and her attackers apparently yelled at her that she would be killed if she did not stop writing. No one has yet been arrested or charged in connection with the attack.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
At least four journalists have been killed in the past year in Bangladesh and dozens have been threatened or seriously injured in violent attacks. These attacks and threats relate directly to the issues that these journalists have been reporting on. No one has been brought to justice for these threats and attacks, and thus many journalists and human rights defenders live in a constant state of intimidation, unable to carry out their work without fear of attack.



RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Please send appeals to arrive as soon as possible:

calling on the government to launch prompt, independent and impartial investigations into the death threats received by Samaresh Baidya, Zubair Siddiqui and Sumi Khan;

calling for these reporters and their families to be given full protection by the state;

calling on the government to publicly condemn these death threats, and to ensure that the state responds seriously to all threats against journalists and human rights defenders.

(There is a letter you can copy and paste at the end of this email.)

APPEALS TO (Time difference = GMT + 6 hrs / BST + 5 hrs):

(please note that fax machines may be switched off outside office hours, GMT+6)


Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia

Office of the Prime Minister

Gona Bhaban

Old Sangsad Bhaban, Tejgaon,

Dhaka

Bangladesh

Fax: 00880 2 8113244

00880 2 8113243

00880 2 9133722

Email: pm@pmobd.org

Md. Lutfuzzaman Babar

State Minister for Home Affairs

Ministry of Home Affairs

Bangladesh Secretariat

Building 4

Dhaka

Bangladesh

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Serbia and Montenegro: Failure to fulfil key human rights commitments:Amnesty

 

Two years after joining the Council of Europe, Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) continues to ignore its obligations to implement key human rights commitments, notably in dealing with the legacy of war crimes and police torture and ill-treatment, Amnesty International said today.

While welcoming steps towards fulfilling some of these commitments, Amnesty International is concerned that the limited progress in many areas, such as full cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (Tribunal) in The Hague and investigation into allegations of police torture and ill-treatment has been stalled or even reversed, especially in Serbia, in the last year.

In a report "Serbia and Montenegro: A wasted year.The continuing failure to fulfil key human rights commitments made to the Council of Europe", Amnesty International lists the commitments that SCG has failed so far to implement and gives numerous examples as illustrations.

"Many of those responsible for the gravest human rights violations during the armed conflicts after the break-up of Yugoslavia continue to enjoy impunity. Despite international and national obligations the authorities of SCG refuse to arrest and transfer people indicted by the Tribunal relying instead on voluntary surrenders and rarely prosecute such crimes domestically. The climate of impunity surrounding these crimes is mirrored by the lack of will by the authorities to investigate allegations of possible unlawful killings, deaths in custody, and police torture and ill-treatment," Amnesty International said.

The Serbian authorities have continued to refuse to transfer to the Tribunal former Serbian Assistant Interior Minister and former Kosovo police chief Sreten Lukic and former Yugoslavia Army chief Nebojsa Pavkovic. Both of them are indicted for crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war in Kosovo in 1999. Both are openly residing in Serbia. Despite the recent voluntary surrender and transfer to the Tribunal of six people, a number of suspects indicted by the Tribunal are believed to remain at large in SCG.

To date there have been no trials in SCG of senior military or political officials for war crimes or crimes against humanity in connection with the Yugoslav conflicts. Many of those responsible for abductions and murders of Bosnian Muslims and Kosovo Albanians remain unpunished. The practice to put on trial exclusively low level perpetrators encourages the culture of impunity for the military and political leadership. No-one has yet been charged in connection with the hundreds of Kosovo Albanians buried in secret mass graves on Serbian Ministry of the Interior property. Potential witnesses to the alleged incinerations of Kosovo Albanian bodies in Serbian industrial furnaces in 1999 have allegedly been intimidated by security officials to prevent the facts emerging.

For more:
http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maadjLsabfj7AcgHo5zb

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Yemen: Amnesty International welcomes release of editor-in-chief, calls for end to punitive measures against other journalists

 


Amnesty International welcomes the release today of Abdul Karim al Khaiwani, editor-in-chief of al-Shura newspaper, but remains deeply concerned at the punitive measures the government of Yemen continues to impose against journalists, including arrest, imprisonment, fines and suspended prison sentences.

Abdul Karim al Khaiwani's release came following a pardon by President 'Ali' Abdullah Saleh issued on 23 March. Two days earlier the Court of Appeal had upheld the Lower Court sentence of a one-year prison term imposed on the editor and the six-month closure of al-Shura newspaper. On 8 March Amnesty International issued a public statement calling for an independent and impartial investigation into reports that members of Abdul Karim al Khaiwani’s defence team were forcibly removed from a recent appeal hearing on 1 March and badly beaten by security officials following a disagreement between lawyer Mohammed Naji Allow and the court presiding judge. Other people attending the trial were said to have been beaten by security officials when they tried to leave the court room in protest against the violent treatment of the lawyers.

Other journalists punished for their articles include Abdul Wahid Hawash and Abdul Jabbar Saad, editor and journalist for Al-Ehyaa Al-Araby newspaper, who in December 2004 received suspended prison terms of between four and six months after writing articles reportedly criticizing Saudi Arabia.

AI calls on the government of Yemen to put an end to punitive measures against journalists and ensure respect of the right to freedom of expression enshrined in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to which Yemen is a state party.


For more http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maadkA6abfro8cgHo5zb

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India: Nine years after Jalil Andrabi's death perpetrators still free



The continuing failure of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir to bring to justice those responsible for the death of human rights lawyer Jalil Andrabi nine years ago reinforces the sense that human rights defenders in the state cannot count on the state’s protection, Amnesty International said today.

On 27 March 1996, the dead body of human rights lawyer Jalil Andrabi was found in the river Jhelum, 19 days after he was seen being taken away by military personnel. Those responsible for his death remain free despite continuing efforts by members of his family and the members of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association to obtain legal redress for the death of their relative and former colleague. The Jammu and Kashmir High Court noted in late 1996 that 'the functionaries of the Union of India have not been cooperating with the Investigation Team in a proper manner'. The family of Jalil Andrabi has expressed its feeling of frustration and loss of faith in the institution of the judiciary which has failed to provide legal redress for nine years.

Amnesty International believes that justice must be done to ensure that human rights violations end. Undue delays will produce the impression that perpetrators can get away with abuses and that the state shields its agents from being brought to justice. The organization reiterates its repeated earlier appeals to the Government of Jammu and Kashmir to break the cycle of impunity by ensuring that perpetrators of all human rights violations in the state are brought to justice without delay and in a transparent manner in order to restore people's confidence in the rule of law.

For more: http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maadkBfabfrrVcgHo5zb

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The Multi-billion Dollar Trade that Puts Women in the Firing Line: Amnesty
 


Women are paying an increasingly heavy price for the dangerously unregulated multi-billion-dollar trade in small arms, according to a new report issued today on the eve of International Women's Day.

There are now estimated to be almost 650 million small arms in the world today, mostly in the hands of men, and nearly 60 percent of them in the hands of private individuals. Women and girls suffer directly and indirectly from armed violence:

* An attack with a gun is 12 times more likely to end in death than an attack with any other weapon;
* In South Africa, a woman is shot dead by a current or former partner every 18 hours;
* In the USA, a gun in the home increases the risk that someone in the household will be murdered by 41%; but increases the risk for women by 272%;
* In France and South Africa, one in three women killed by their husbands are shot; in the USA this rises to two in three;
* Family killings are one category of homicides where women outnumber men as victims with her partner or male relative the most likely murderer.

For more: http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maadf6babeQd1cgHo5zb

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The world is busy forgetting all the horror that continue crippling a great part of humanity and no one has time to scream for the drowning mass of people who are doomed to get on with it and carry on getting murdered. On this back drop SUDAN Network, a network of students demanding actions for the people of Darfur. The Poet's Letter supports their demand and would like to invite everyone to enlist their name to this call. This is their statement of Position:

 

Statement of Position

In light of the continued egregious human rights violations in Darfur, we, the Students United for Darfur Action Now (SUDAN), unequivocally demand the attention and action of the international community. Recognising that the inherent dignity of the people of Darfur is daily being compromised, it is the moral duty of the international community to act in protection of those being victimised.

Thus, we call on the Security Council of the United Nations, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Sudanese government to immediately take action. Calling in mind the tragedy of Rwanda in the early 1990s, we beseech the Security Council to prevent the continued genocide occurring in Darfur. We recommend that the Security Council and the member states thereof, support efforts to reverse ethnic cleansing, protect civilians, permit the voluntary return of refugees, and to ensure that humanitarian aid is fully accessible to persons in need. Members of international community should encourage the immediate dispatch of a UN human rights monitoring team, with the purpose of providing a thorough analysis of the continued violations. We call on the international community to demand that the Sudanese government be held accountable for allowing continued human rights violations. Finally, we remind relevant parties that ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity and it is, therefore the duty of humanity, in its entirety, to act in the protection of persons being arbitrarily deprived of their rights.

It is inevitable that one day our grandchildren will ask us - just as we have asked of our parents and grandparents following the atrocities of Nazi Germany - "What did you do?". If we value the contributions made by Anne Frank, Primo Levi, and Nelson Mandela to our understanding of the sacredness of all human life, we should also value the lesson they have taught us: the cost of waiting is always too great. Rwanda demonstrated only too recently that it takes hours to exterminate a community, and a few minutes to kill hope.

For more: http://www.sudannetwork.org.uk

Capitalism: American Monsterfly

Munayem Mayenin

While the first volume of Dehumanisation of Humanity awaits publication here is a chapter for everyone. People who are interested in other already published chapters in Philosophy publications please follow the links at the end of this piece that will take you to the relevant websites where originally these were published. This issue has: Capitalism: American Monsterfly.

Before starting this chapter we want to say that “American Monsterfly” used in the title of this chapter does not at all mean American people, rather it is used to mean the system of globalised capitalism and there is no other expression to use, particularly, for the fact that the leading power and system of globalised capitalism is American government. Hence, In this chapter we aim to analyse the capitalist system that we are seeing in the United States of America because we must understand this beast-this monsterfly of capitalism, which now leads the globalised phase of Capitalism across the globe and not only it aspires to dominate the planet but also aims, plans, invests and aspires to dominate the space and beyond!

America is not a different capitalism, rather it has now reached the leadership stage to bully the world and establish capitalism in a global way. As discussed in the globalisation chapter on capitalism, we can see that power will not stop at a particular point! So long there are spaces and people or lands or entities which it can turn into money, wealth and power it will carry on trying to dominate and control them! Power has infinite greed for more, power has infinite want for more, power has infinite need for more and power has infinite lust for more!

Once the monsterfly is up and flying it will try to get to fly and get to the top! But only this is a monsterfly and thus wherever it flies it burns, dazzles and kills! It is a venomous beast! It cannot sustain humanity; it cannot tolerate humanity because it is the beastly face of power that has none of what it takes to make humanity: Power does not have any rationality, morality and purpose. It can not stand natural justice and will not tolerate liberty and equality. These foundations create humanity and allow them to grow and develop and prosper. Thus the very thing that is born, advanced and enhanced to kill off humanity must need to be understood so that we can rescue ourselves from this monsterfly and begin again our journey towards humanity.

American capitalism is at a crisis point and it cannot be rescued by the democrats or the republicans as they cannot make miracles happen. Their economic system is at a verge of collapse. All the so called American dreams and American way of life can offer is downhill spiral of doom. Moreover, in order to improve the situation blood needs to be injected and there is no blood to be found in the economy. The industries cannot and do not want to pay more taxes because they already pay huge donations,  million dollars to election campaigns of parties and leaders. People not only do not want to pay more taxes but also harbour the wish to pay even less as they want to consume more! So the federal government tries to pass the bucks to the state governments and they try to pass it on to others! But things cannot go on like this. American monsterfly of capitalism needs blood. They need not only to globalise capitalism and take a huge lead in it to ensure that they get the most benefit out of it. They have two problems at hands the liberal values and humanitarian aspects of some organisations that have become quite dominant, namely, the United Nations and on the other side of Atlantic the European Union. We would talk about these two entities in detail in time, however, to American agenda United Nations must now be threatened, made weak and "irrelevant" and buried so that America could replace it and become the legitimate Untied States of Enslaved Nations brought together with force used under the name of pre-emptive strikes! It cannot tolerate the fact that the UN stands on the highest of regards and as the last post of nations. To the States UN was an entity to keep the USSR under control and it served its purpose and now that the USSR resides in the history books and lessons it can afford to take it on.

Moreover, it cannot allow the UN to do things as the States needs blood from the world to rejuvenate its ailing economy and system. It went about doing this in phases starting with the Kuwait adventure helped by Saddam Hussein. He went in and occupied that country creating an opportunity for the State not only to go and rescue Kuwait but also to go and get a foot hold in the Middle East, using that foot hold would later prove to be quite a wonderful achievement. The money that was spent in "liberating" Kuwait and rebuilding it and the contracts that followed all went to America. Moreover, it created an image of the states as the custodian of nation's sovereignty and justice. Then it went onto Bosnia and Serbia in an effort to kidnap the UN and its roles and thus it established itself to be the latest UN, rather an effective one, one that does and can do the business rather fast. Thus there would rather be less hostility towards the American interventions.

Then came the September 11th that gave it the moral high ground and the public enthusiasm for blood. America tried its hands with Afghanistan. It was a doodle! However, it created that international custodian of democracy and justice image. In that one America tried to build a big support base as it needed people to be ready to pay for the building up of that country, obviously which would be done by American companies! There it was more blood coming in the State's ailing economy. Not only it has brought in blood but also ensured that there was a government installed in Kabul that would look after the interests of the State. Now there were bigger fishes to be fried! Iraq! Wow! Iraq has got Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)! Is there any weapon available on this planet that is not of WMD nature! What about all these American weapons! No! Saddam Hussein was the evil dictator! Who installed him in power? Who supported him and had him, fight 8 years of a bloody war with Iran? Who gave him all the weapons! Why on earth Saddam went to occupy Kuwait! That is not why America wanted to go to Iraq! Iraq has enormous oil wealth. If it was destroyed then it must then be rebuilt that will cost thousand of billions of dollars and the world monetary organisations will be willing to loan out that amount of money to Iraq than Zimbabwe! Now we have another lot of few thousand of billions of dollars blood supply coming in to American economy! Who are getting these contracts to restore water supply, electricity, gas and medical supplies and humanitarian supplies! American companies of course! Where is the money going to come in from! On the war to which billions of dollars have been spent, how come American government can cut taxes! Where have they got the money to fund that cut and pay for the war!

Morst importantly, they now have the ability to install a pseudo Iraqi government that will ensure that these thousands of billions of dollars continue coming in to the States! Let the Iraqis continue pay the debt in the name of interests and regular payments!

Look at the picture, Kuwait gave them the foothold in the Middle East! Basing on that they went and occupy Iraq! Now they can take on Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey and more! The future is secure for the American monsterfly! It is not about democracy, it is certainly not about human rights and it is definitely not about justice! Because capitalism does not understand these words or concepts! American constitution may start with "We the people" it is not the people that is America! It is the capitalist monsterfly that wants to dominate the whole world and it is not willing to share the windfall! Because sharing is the job for the weak not for the strongest!

Whatever name we give it democrats or republicans or even neo-conservatives the power base of America has always been pseudo democratic in show and democratic fascist in nature. The correct name of the political philosophy can be described as democratic fascism. What do we mean by democratic fascism? Well, world intelligentsia, please allow us the time to explain. Whatever democracy means it does not mean dual principles, dual standards and dual values and value systems. What would one see if one looks at the system of American governance! It is racist! It is supremacist! It is hypocritical and as far as people are concerned, they are made to think the business of politics is not for the ordinary men to be concerned about. The presidents, the senators and the congressmen and women and their diplomats will deal with it! People should work, pay their bills and mortgage, eat their hot dogs, watch the baseball games and the dazzling spectacle of Hollywood!

They should not be concerned about anything but the public opinion manipulative so called polls! They should not at all give a damn about breaches in human rights, civil liberties, gun-craziness, rapes, murders, serial killings, homelessness, child abuse, unemployment, powerlessness, and power dominance! No. They should continue eating their hot dogs and watch Independence Day and think about the made up alien enemies coming to invade America! Feed the absolute paranoia!  They should not give a damn about state killings through death sentences, they should not at all think about human rights! They should not be concerned about murders in their names! Assassinations authorised by their government taking place, Americans must not be concerned! American should be only concerned if their pockets are affected! Even than they cannot but elect Arnold Schwarzenegger! Hence, this is an appeal to the fellow members of the beautiful humanion of humankind living in America please do not allow yourself to think that this author hates America and Americans! No, we most certainly do not and will never ever support hatred to be pursued against humanity. This is no Marxism and there is no class struggle or red blood bath we are proposing here!

Think about the cost! Look at the thousands of dead people, killed, assassinated, murdered, mimed, and made to disappear by American policies! Think about the courageous American soldiers who were sent to kill and they did exactly that for what! They got killed for what reasons! What difference does it make if someone is a Vietnamese or Somalian or Kuwaiti or Iraqi or American! Are they not the same! Sons and daughters of this little blue planet mother of ours!

Why this is not okay to treat Americans with contempt, violate their civil liberties and human rights and this is perfectly legal, morally acceptable, politically beneficial to treat human beings the way American government are treating the POWs in Guantanamo Bay!

America does not have democracy. People do not elect or influence their government! If the did, there would not have been a war in Iraq! People have no powers anywhere! Look at Britain! If people had any power no prime minister of Britain would have dared to go on war against Iraq with America! But they went to war anyway! What does this say!

Well, it is perfectly “acceptable”, “logical” and morally “supportable” to treat immigrants, blacks, African American, Caribbean, Hispanic, Chinese, Japanese and other Asian dominated but poverty stricken, deprived and underprivileged with horrendous contempt and disregard. The treatment of these groups of people (as these people provide the greatest chunk of the criminal fraternity in America) by the police and other law enforcement agencies and the judiciary including the death sentence goes to show how criminally American life is governed! And who is saying and doing anything about it. Everyone thinks that as the constitution start with “We the people” it is democracy all over everywhere! It is not! Where is the democracy! People have no power over who they elect! Money does! Whoever spends the most in election campaign and can dominate the media (which takes a great deal of money and wealth) wins the election!

CIA can “legally” kill people, businessmen, writers, leaders and activists so long they are not American and that they are “harming” American interests! No one gives a damn about this in America! So long Americans have their jobs and homes and life styles secure they do not give a damn! No matter what their presidents get up to with countless interns at the Whitehouse Americans still vote for the president regardless as the economy was good for them thanks to the president or presidents! This is how the power manipulates people.

Who cares how many Vietnamese got murdered and incinerated and burnt to ashes! Yes, American soldiers died there too! In their thousands! They were like the Vietnamese sons and daughters, brothers and sisters and husbands and wives and children of other human beings! But why did Americans go half way across the world and kill in their thousands! Vietnamese did not kill Americans in American soil, did they!

What about all the killings American took part in the world! In Vietnam! In Latin America! In Middle East! In Balkan! How many thousands assassinations had been committed by American security agencies around the world! But how many Americans think about that! They wonder why the people of the world do not like them! People are not rational! They like to generalise and thus they think Americans are the culprits for all this! However, the situation is this that American conscience is deeply asleep at best and at worst catastrophically drunk! Nothing affects its sleep or drunkenness! That is why America has been, is and will be governed by democratic fascism. American intelligentsia has a moral duty to wake up from this hibernation infected to them by this so called American dreams or American justice! God! It gives me a chill hearing this American justice! What is this justice! Black African American still getting beaten up by the police and ethnic minorities are “allowed” to exist, driving taxis and cleaning streets and keep the flow to the criminal world! Wow! The American justice!

Get alive or dead! Is that why American fought for freedom and liberty! To hang people, to gas people, to put people in electric chair! Americans in en masse, the intelligentsia en masse and the conscience en masse must wake up and must begin to  see and realise that killing by state like this by the name of law is politically vulgar, socially damaging, morally repugnant, philosophically bankrupt! This must stop! Americans cannot claim they had anything to do with Christianity at all! What is so Christian about murdering people by the name of law and in such a way that no one finds it at all objectionable! At all! As if this is the most natural thing to happen! Why, we must ask! This is happening because of the power, the way it is organised and exercised and because this provides the system a great way to keep control over and ensure good night’s sleep to the normals. It feels safer to normals and powerfuls when all these criminals are known to have been silenced forever! Most importantly the politicians play with this and hence Americans do not feel there is anything wrong with death penalty! There are a lot of people who would and do feel strongly against this yet because of the dehumanisation and disempowerment they cannot do much. Moreover, democratic fascism does not tolerate dissent but crush it with the dictatorship of majority! Ban whatever and whoever is minority, small and less powerfuls!

Whoever in power they like dictators! They like “god-like-presidents” although a lot of these presidents turn out to be rather good at getting American soldiers killing people across the globe!

The Septembers 11th tragedy was and will be one of the biggest, ugliest, darkest hours in humanity’s history and the monsters who had committed the acts of cowardice and absolute lunatic madness are rightly hated across the globe and will be so long humanity lives on in this universe. However, one must then go onto look at what happened afterwards!

Americans democratic fascism never believed in democracy! That was why they invented the most “acceptable” types of fascism. This is a “democratic” version of Hitler. What is so wrong with Hitler! Well! He had made Germans to believe that they were blue blood, pure blood and the rest of the animals impersonating their physical features must be killed or brought under subjugation. This is the plane definition of Hitler’s fascism! The similarities with American style! American way of life! American civilisation! American dream! American rhapsody! American Psycho! American Justice! American hot dogs! American what! American which!

Nationalism in humility is a good thing and with passion and philosophical viewpoint can act like biological weapons of a deadly virus that can and does produce fascism! What is American justice! Why is democracy so violently a believer of death penalty! Most of the world believes that humans are entitled to their lives! No, not in America! American justice gets you “dead or alive” if you are wanted. This is not democracy this is fascism! But Americans do not say a word! They accept it! Well they want to sleep in peace as they pay taxes. They do not want criminals to rob their sleep! The Americans accept it! They accept their soldiers going to another country and occupy it and kill their people, bomb their buildings, schools, mosques, churches and paddy fields! Americans do not say a word! The majority support their presidents! They violate all the rules of war all international conventions of war and treatment of PWOs and Americans including their biggies the congressmen and women and senators! They do not do a thing! When American administration treats POWs from Afghanistan like rats and wild snakes no one in America loses their sleep over it! To them so long they are not American kill them or treat them with contempt or kick them or blind them or murder them or rape them or burn them or assassin them! No one give a damn! That is not new! Hiroshima and Nagasaki! Well, how could America be bad they were the vanguard of freedom, liberty etc etc! But who had decided to incinerate the children, elderly, women, disabled, blind, dead and the whole of their part of the world! No one said a word! And those who did or still do are not the power and hence there is nothing happening!

People might say that this author is putting a blanked of wild allegations about American people! These American people are not any different than other dehumanised people across the world! The system makes us like this so that “we” the Germans (humanity in Germany) clap the filthy rubbish of Hitler and support him and turn out to listen to him in our millions! We have some responsibility in allowing Hitler to become Hitler! We must be ready to take some responsibility for our claps and for our inactions!

“We” the Russians (humanity in Russia) supported and clapped and helped create Stalin and other dictators and we must take our share of the responsibility that we allowed that human filth to get stronger and bigger!

Like this when “we” the American (humanity in America), or “we” the Pakistani (humanity in Pakistan) must take the share of killings, murders and genocide of 3, 000000 Bangaalis, or when “we” the Israelis kill thousands of Palestinians and “we” the Palestinians kill in revenge we must take some responsibility!

Coming back to the point of American democratic fascism! Look how powerless the people are in America! They know the whole world is against them! They know that the whole humanity is going against them! Do the people have any power to influence their government! Well, honestly, none whatsoever. Next election? We must live in cuckoo land! What about the millions and millions of dollars of election campaigns and propaganda and what not! Who is getting bought and sold and for how much who can influence anything! Thus these so called neo conservatives or the real democratic fascists are at the helm led by a president who has not got a clue about the world and let alone lead his country. He speaks like a bounty hunter! He is no angel! He represents the foxes that are let out to hunt freely! It does not help anything if Americans rename French Fries something else! There is no point thinking American power and the people are the same!

The Independence Day is the ideal example of this democratic fascism! It creates a pseudo enemy, sometimes it takes aliens’ face shapes, sometimes it takes hurricane’s shapes, tornadoes, sometimes deadly virus or falling meteor or even huge prehistoric creatures or even revitalised dinosaurs! All create a pseudo but all powerful enemies of American people and they feel that they must now save themselves and save the world! They went to the Moon to win the Cold War race with the Soviet but took an American flag and hung it up there as if the American flag is the flag of humanity! Why do we say that! Remember, a small step for man and a giant leap for mankind! See the point! The Independence Day saves American on 4th of July but by saving Americans, Americans as well save the World! That’s the democratic fascism!

America could produce a lot of enemies! They would even try and get genetics to come up with rubbish to find and support the biggest of all human filth, racism!

America is the monsterfly of capitalism and having “won” the cold war, having dismantled the old Soviet Union and China in the line and having taken on middle east and Balkan America wants to take on and gradually destroy the UN and EU to become the ruler of the world with people in power whose god is America, whose religion is American and whose morality is American interests. This is the agenda of  America. Globalisation of capitalism has been spreading but America wants to lead the globalisation and dominate the markets and people including the space.

Now we must deal with three issues here before we enter into some other issues. The point being we the people and our responsibilities! We do not take the view that just because we have voted for someone to represent us does not take our moral duty and rights away form us! We still must exercise these moral duties and discharge them. If we fail to do that then we allow democracy to turn into fascism, which is what happens in the democracies in the globalised capitalism! Most importantly the very democracy we are singing about had no faith in people’s ability to think or being able to make decisions! In fact democracy was scared to death to a thinking public, a thinking union of an actively engaged membership of society. That is why we had to invent representative democracy! It is most of the times difficult to represent oneself, let alone represent others in their hundreds of thousands! And what about political, social, economic, religious, family and friendly loyalties and the loyalties to political dogmas and ideologies and all the other factors!

Hence, the seed of failure or prospects of representative democracy was sown here when we went for representative form of democracy! This must happen and which is what happened across the globe! We do not even have representative democracy instead we ended up having democratic fascism! And because of democratic fascism a huge part of the globe and countries in it are ruined by brutal dictatorships and even these places are not at likely to even have representative democracy!

Now coming back to the responsibilities. Hitler came about but we clapped, we went hysteric! We hailed Hitler! We worshiped him! We helped make him what he had become! Good people did act morally! Good people sent their conscience in hibernation! And now we all hate Hitler! Rightly, yet we are supporting (either directly or by proxy for the fact that we are either unable or unwilling to do anything). Hence things are being done in our names and we accept this!

We must wake up from hibernation! We must accept that we are not here to clap for representative democracy or democratic fascism we are here to get to humanion democracy, where we as individuals do not give away our moral, social, political economic, religious or any other rights to anybody but keep them to ourselves and we exercise them and thus everybody actively takes part in how the world and the universe is shaped up. We must rise up and say this is not on by our names! We are not going to hibernate anymore!

This is no longer going to work! Politicians keep telling us that how difficult it is for them that they had to make difficult choices! In fact they do not make any choices! There cannot be a choice whether to send troops to Iraq or Vietnam to bomb and kill innocent people and get the nation’s innocent army killing innocent people as well as getting them killed! There is no choice in shutting down hospitals and schools and forcing people to live on the street! There in no choice in the way we are forced to live!

This democratic fascism must be faced and taken on and be defeated! Americans and American intelligentsia must declare their ownership or belongingship to “we the people”.

Read the other published chapters of the first volume (of four) of Dehumanisation of Humanity


Capitalism: Globalisation

Capitalism: Imperialism

Feudal Period

Zero Ground

Slavery

Feudal Period

Capitalist Period -- Colonisation

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Munayem Mayenin's Dehumanisation of Humanity

On 'Dehumanisation of Humanity' by Munayem Mayenin: "I have reproduced Chapter 1, 'Zero Ground'. The author is an amateur philosopher who studied in Bangladesh. I was moved by the passion of these writings and charmed by their
poetry. The theme is revolutionary, apocalyptic. Yet the author is steadfast in his opposition to violence of any kind. Settle down for a gripping read."

Geoffrey Klempner, Director of Studies,

The Philosophy Pathways Journal

International Society for Philosophers

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Death of Amnesty International founder --- Peter Benenson, 1921-2005
 

Mr Benenson died at 10.45pm on Friday 25 February 2005 in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. There will be no funeral service. There will be a private ceremony, for family members only. Amnesty International will be holding a public memorial service -- further details will be announced shortly.
 


Peter Benenson, the founder of the worldwide human rights organisation Amnesty International, died yesterday evening. He was 83.

Mr Benenson founded and inspired Amnesty International in 1961 first as a one-year campaign for the release of six prisoners of conscience. But from there came a worldwide movement for human rights and in its midst an international organisation -- Amnesty International -- which has taken up the cases of many thousands of victims of human rights violations and inspired millions to human rights defence the world round.

"Peter Benenson’s life was a courageous testament to his visionary commitment to fight injustice around the world," said Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

"He brought light into the darkness of prisons, the horror of torture chambers and tragedy of death camps around the world. This was a man whose conscience shone in a cruel and terrifying world, who believed in the power of ordinary people to bring about extraordinary change and, by creating Amnesty International, he gave each of us the opportunity to make a difference."

"In 1961 his vision gave birth to human rights activism. In 2005 his legacy is a world wide movement for human rights which will never die."

The one-year Appeal for Amnesty was launched on 28 May 1961, in an article in the British newspaper, The Observer, called "The Forgotten Prisoners". That appeal attracted thousands of supporters, and started a worldwide human rights movement.

The catalyst for the original campaign was Mr Benenson's sense of outrage after reading an article about the arrest and imprisonment of two students in a café in Lisbon, Portugal, who had drunk a toast to liberty.

In the first few years of Amnesty International's existence, Mr Benenson supplied much of the funding for the movement, went on research missions and was involved in all aspects of the organisation's affairs.

Other activities that Mr Benenson was involved in during his lifetime included; adopting orphans from the Spanish Civil War, bringing Jews who had fled Hitler's Germany to Britain, observing trials as a member of the Society of Labour Lawyers, helping to set up the organisation "Justice" and establishing a society for people with coeliac disease.

At a ceremony to mark Amnesty International's 25th anniversary, Mr Benenson lit what has become the organisation's symbol -- a candle entwined in barbed wire -- with the words:

"The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who ‘disappeared’. That is what the candle is for."

Today Amnesty International is into its 44th year. It has become the world’s largest independent human rights organisation, with more than 1.8 million members and committed supporters worldwide.




Further information on Peter Benenson is available from the Amnesty International:
Press Office +44 20 7413 5566
Duty Press Officer +44 7778 472 126 or +44 7795 628 315

Interviews can be arranged through the Press Office with:
International Executive Committee Chair Jaap Jacobson
Secretary General Irene Khan (from 27.2.05)
Deputy Secretary General Kate Gilmore


For more information please see:

The man who decided it was time for a change - Peter Benenson remembered

by Richard Reoch: http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maadeqTabeANCcgHo5zb

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Amnesty Says
 

Proposed "Control Orders" Would Violate Human Rights


 

The prevention of terrorism bill makes a mockery of human rights and the rule of law and contravenes the spirit, if not the letter, of the December 2004 Law Lords' judgment, Amnesty International said today.

The United Kingdom (UK) Home Secretary Charles Clarke unveiled his proposals for "control orders" which range from tagging to "house arrest" without charge or trial and would apply to UK citizens and foreigners alike. The decision to impose such orders will be taken by the executive alone. The introduction of "house arrest" without charge or trial requires derogations from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

"The United Kingdom (UK) government's proposal to issue, debate and pass a piece of legislation -- introducing draconian measures and further derogating from obligations under international treaties -- within the next few weeks, is a repeat of the way in which they railroaded the enactment of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act (ATCSA) in 2001. As such it shows contempt for parliamentary and public scrutiny and debate," Amnesty International said.

"House arrest without charge or trial is no different from internment at Belmarsh, Woodhill or Broadmoor. It is still deprivation of liberty. The provisions for judicial involvement post facto do not alter the arbitrary nature of this bill," Amnesty International said.

"Those suspected of involvement in 'terrorism' must be charged with a recognizably criminal offence and tried in proceedings which fully comply with international fair trial standards."


Amnesty International considers that rather than tabling ill-conceived and dangerous legislation that contravenes domestic and international human rights law -- and that if implemented, would lead to serious human rights violations -- the UK authorities should:


o commit themselves to upholding the rule of law and human rights;

o end executive powers to deprive people of their liberty;

o release immediately all those interned unless charged with a recognizably criminal offence and tried;

o withdraw the derogation from the ECHR and ICCPR;

o end the use of secret evidence to deprive people of their liberty or restrict their freedoms of movement, expression or association;

o ban the use of torture evidence in any proceedings.


The Home Secretary Charles Clarke justified the draft bill on prevention of terrorism with the necessity to counter "terrorists" who allegedly want to attack the UK.

Amnesty International condemns, in the strongest terms, acts of violence against civilians, whoever the perpetrator and whatever the motive, but at the same time the organization urges the UK government to ensure that any measure taken to prevent or respond to such attacks fully conforms with its obligations under international law, in particular international human rights, refugee and humanitarian law.

Amnesty International is studying the legislation in detail and will make its concerns public at a later stage.


Background

The UK government is pushing for the Prevention of Terrorism Bill to be approved before 14 March when Part 4 of the ATCSA would expire. Under this legislation, 11 people continue to be deprived of their liberty (10 in state institutions and one under "house arrest"). Most of them have been detained for more than three years.

Amnesty International is concerned that the new bill falls far short of the Law Lords ruling of December 2004 that the Home Secretary's power of indefinite detention without charge or trial of non-deportable foreign "suspected international terrorists" under the ATCSA 2001 is incompatible with articles 5 and 14 of the ECHR. The UK remains the only country that has derogated from the ECHR.

The nine Law Lords found that Section 23 of the ATCSA 2001, which allows for the indefinite detention without charge or trial of non-British nationals, violated the detainees' human rights because the provisions were disproportionate and discriminatory. The detainees under this legislation have been held under severely restrictive regimes in high security prisons and in a high security psychiatric hospital, one of them is under "house arrest". Concern about their mental and physical health was heightened by the findings of a report -- published on 13 October 2004 -- prepared by 11 Consultant Psychiatrists and one Consultant Clinical Psychologist about the serious damage to the health of eight of the detainees. Amnesty International has repeatedly called for the government to withdraw this legislation, as it is discriminatory and inconsistent with international human rights law and standards.

http://amnesty-news.c.topica.com/maaddp7abetR2cgHo5zb

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World Music: Aboriginal Music: April 2005

By Pia Mayenin

This month we are taking a peek at Australia and aboriginal music.

There has been a consistent neglect of Aboriginal music and its development for many years by the mainstream Australian music industry, with one or two honourable exceptions. This neglect appears to have been caused by a belief that Aboriginal music is not viable commercially and the industry's reluctance to be involved in politically controversial or unpopular issues.

Media exposure of a product is essential for commercial success but until the last decade it was virtually impossible for Aboriginal groups to get on mainstream TV or radio. The drive for wider distribution and success has come mainly from within Aboriginal institutions such as the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) which is a major radio and TV broadcaster, and the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM). Important Aboriginal groups as Coloured Stone, No Fixed Address and Scrap Metal all have links with CASM, and many artists or groups would not have achieved radio or TV exposure without the work and influence of CAAMA. Amongst the commercial labels, Mushroom Records stands out as having supported Aboriginal music, publishing artists such as Yothu Yindi, Warumpi Band, Archie Roach, Coloured Stone and Jimmy Little.  (source  http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/culture/conmusic.php )

Aboriginal people throughout most of Australia believe that in the beginning of time, in the Dreaming, there were no visible landmarks; the world was flat. As time progressed, creatures emerged from the ground and had the power to change at will from their animal to their human form.

Music song and dance was and is still today a very important part of Aboriginal life and customs. We had songs for every occasion, hunting songs, funeral songs, gossip songs and songs of ancestors, landscapes, animals, seasons, myths and Dreamtime legends.
 

Aborinees believe that in the begi nning, the time of dreaming the earth was flat and animals emerged form the ground. The people after and now are all ancestors of particular animals and their ancestral roots define what they will sing.

A song is sung as a series comprising many short verses, each of which tells about a particular event or place associated with the ancestor; or the performance may be a full ceremonial one which includes portrayal of relevant events in the performance of dances accompanied by the singing of the appropriate verses.

 

The history of aborinal music is fascinating and  and more can be found at the ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA ART & CULTURE CENTRE - ALICE SPRINGS
which is 100% Aboriginal owned & operated

They say that for 40 000 years this area has been a traditional "meeting place" for the trading of Aboriginal artefacts, knowledge, Aboriginal art and Aboriginal culture.
http://www.aboriginalart.com.au/gallery/gallery_intro.ht

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Since the Dreamtime ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA has developed as a network of separate, independent Aboriginal nations speaking hundreds of languages and over 700 dialects.

This did not stop the rainforest tribes of the north trading and exchanging goods and information (music, song, law) with desert groups thousands of miles to the south.

 

The Warumpi Band

The band's name derives from the honey-ant dreaming site located near the settlement of Papunya which is 260 ks west of Alice Springs. Original founding members were Sammy and Gordon Butcher, Neil Murray,George Rrurrambu assisted by other young fellas in the community.

The Warumpi Band wrote, recorded and released the first rock song in an Aboriginal language "Jailanguru Pakarnu" (Out From Jail) in 1983. In 1984, the debut album "BIG NAME NO BLANKETS" was released with "Blackfella/Whitefella", "Breadline" and "Fitzroy Crossing" receiving national airplay.

Sammy Butcher, Gordon Butcher and George Rrurrambu honoured family and tribal commitments.

Neil Murray, one of the founders of Warumpi in the early eightees, launched his solo career in 1989 with the album "Calm and Crystal Clear" and has since released 3 more albums - "These Hands", "Dust" and "the Wondering Kind". In 1995, he was awarded the APRA Song of the Year for "My Island Home" , which was written for Warumpi and then became a national hit for Christine Anu.

Singers in Warumpu included

Hilary Wirrie, Denis Minor, Edgar Ellis (dancer), Amos Anderson, Ian Anderson, Andy Kiwatt, Freddie Tallis, Tjakapurra, Jim Moginie, Bart Willoughby, Buna Lawrie, Elkin Tjapaltjarri, Ernesta Mazzoni, Di Spence, Alan Murphey, Murray Cook, Peter Gifford, Bob Jones, Alvin Duffin, Stan Satour, Gene Knox, Buddy Knox, Kenny Smith (deceased), Bill Jacobi, Bill Heckenberg, Stephen Teakle,Sammy Butcher, Gordon Butcher, George Rrurrambu and Neil Murray.  since inception.

...http://www.neilmurray.com.au/wb_history.html click on sounds to hear their fabulous samples including My Island Home

 

Cristine Anu  born in Cairns, North Queensland, of Torres Strait Island descent.Since graduating from NAISDA, Christine has performed both in Australia and overseas with Bangarra Dance Theatre and the Aboriginal and Island Dance Theatre.

Her version of Island Home won the 1995 Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA) award for song of the year for Neil Murray.

To experience modern aboriginal influences visit http://www.christineanu.com.au/index.html and listen to the award winning Cristine Anu

She won further awards including best female singer, best video etc and Sunshine On A Rainy Day that was in the top 40 charts for 13 weeks or over.  She has been in  musicals including rent and kissing frogs.

"If it feels like a lifetime since you last heard Christine's beautiful and distinctive voice offer a new recording, you're not far off the mark, it's five years."

Contemporary Aboriginal music is a rich and varied activity in Australia. Aboriginal artists - whether in music or in the visual arts - are often seen to be engaging in political actions through their work. Singer Jimmy Little has asserted "the very fact that an Aboriginal performer gets on stage and sings is a political act" while Galarrwuy Yunupingu, chairman of the Northern Land Council and brother of Mandawuy Yunupingu, lead singer of the band Yothu Yindi, commented that "our painting is a political act". Archie Roach has written and performed songs of great beauty and power that are overtly political in their message and intent.

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Archie Roach

Archie Roach is a singer and songwriter of remarkable strengths and insights. A story teller in the tradition of his ancestors, Archie relays and retells intimate real life stories as well as traditional stories of the Dreaming. Having survived a personal history that would have left most artists scarred and defeated, Archie Roach has emerged as an extraordinarily gifted Australian artist with a truly visionary talent.

 Archie Roach

http://www.loreoftheland.com.au/

indigenous/archie/index.html

Archie Roach

 

These significant bands and groups have brought aboriginal music on the forfront of Australia and all would not be coomplete without talking of the spectacular Yothy Yindi

Success of Yothu Yindi

(source http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/

culture/conmusic.php )

The major breakthrough for the Aboriginal music industry was the mainstream acceptance and success of Yothu Yindi. They were formed in 1986 in the Yolngu community of Yirrkala in Arnhem Land. Yothu Yindi consists of both Yolngu and Balanda (non-Aboriginal) musicians and embodies a sharing of cultures. They took the ancient song cycles of north-east Arnhem Land - featuring such traditional instruments as the 'bilma' (ironwood clapsticks) and 'yidaki' (didjeridu) - and juxtaposed them with western pop sounds to present a musical meeting of two diverse cultures.

Mandawuy Yunupingu, lead singer for Yothu Yindi

http://www.yothuyindi.com/themusic.html 

The success of Yothu Yindi reflects not only a greater acceptance of Aboriginal culture by white audiences but also a reduced resistance to Aboriginal music by record companies and radio stations. Mandawuy Yunupingu has became a spokesman highlighting the Aboriginal struggle for cultural respect. Yothu Yindi signified a new kind of Aboriginal and Australian identity with a much greater reliance on traditional Aboriginal culture and combining this with contemporary means of expression such as rock. Their success has made it easier for other indigenous artists such as Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Brenda Webb, Kev Carmody, Tiddas and Christine Anu to achieve greater recognition and succ

Sisterhood

 

Amy Saunders, Lou Bennett and Sally Dastey are Tiddas.

Amy, Sally, Lou

Renowned for their live performance, Tiddas have been a popular choice for acts such as Midnight Oil, Paul Kelly, Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Weddings Parties Anything, Billy Bragg, Suzanne Vega, Van Morrison, Shane Howard, Bob Geldof, Sweet Honey in the Rock and many others on the world stage. http://www.loreoftheland.com.au/

indigenous/tiddas/index.html  for more....

Kerrianne Cox

Durban International Film Festival with Jodi Haines at the world premiere of,

http://www.kerriannecox.com


KEV CARMODY
What sort of music does Kev Carmody make?

Aboriginal Australia now has many contemporary voices. There's the sharp, dance rhythms of Yothu Yindi, the warm country stylings of Roger Knox, the dance-pop of Christine Anu, the soulful vocal harmonising of Tiddas, the sad and melancholy folk of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter and the exciting didgeridoo playing of Alan Dargin, David Hudson and Mark Atkins.

http://www.kevcarmody.com.au/news.php

 

World Music: Native American Music : March 2005

Pia Mayenin

The Poet's Letter 14th March Poetry Performance

@Covent Garden

This is our attempt to raise awareness of many rich and beautiful musical traditions of the world. This month it is Native American Music next month we shall visit some other tradition of Music. The world is so rich, so beautiful and so much full of breathtaking and bewildering array of magic and life, one must admit, when working on World Music.

(For all the photos and CD covers we gratefully acknowledge credits to the websites of all the artists/singers we have featured here.)

Native American Music

Music is many different things to people. To some just a structured set of notes to encourage work, to others a spiritual connection whilst to others it is a therapeutics,  relaxation time. Writers such as Aristotle and Hegel talked of the form and content of music and concluded Music is a form of cognition of life . Music does not depict or narrate the whole life but  it is a microcosm of it. To that end it is like a tiny bit of life; to our editor this will be a microcosm of the "tiny brilliance" we live. 

We introduce today the magic of Native American music. Native American people are those that inhabited North America, coming from places like Antarctica, 30 thousand years ago. To the native Americans it is an experience with God as they  consider songs to be gifts from the Creator. Composers "catch" a song, sometimes in their dreams, and sometimes through participation with others.

For an interesting insight into Native American music and to get a experience visit and watch and listen to Joanne Shenandoah talk of the universality of music.

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 Joanne Shenandoah

Joanne Shenandoah is a Native American Singer/songwriter/performer & composer with an impressive musical career and countless number of accolades and honours in the strings of her guitar, an obvious choice for a new comer to Native American music to start with.

 

Joanne Shenandoah

http://www.joanneshenandoah.com

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For another spiritual experience hear the extraordinarily beautiful flute of

  John Two Hawks  at

http://www.johntwohawks.com

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Listen to the lovely music of the sensational Rita Coolidge and perhaps catch her forthcoming show on the 18th March 2005, if you're in or around Canada!

Rita Coolidge: The Delta Lady

Rita Coolidge - Dancing With An Angel