While everyone is crying for Peace and crying out for Justice and crying out for justice, heard about this worrying incident at the Welsh National Eisteddfod yesterday, a choir called Cor Seingar from Carmarthenshire was wearing pro-Palestinian badges and the BBC told them take the badges off or the BBC would not broadcast their performance.
The BBC has said that this was just a misunderstanding but the choir disagrees, and the choir is taking it further. All they were doing is wearing badges as a gesture of support and solidarity.http://www.golwg360.com/newyddion/Cymru/158944-bbc-yn-rhwystro-perfformwyr-rhag-dangos-bathodyn-palestina
I'm not sure if I can trust the Beeb at moment, because this is the same BBC where Lyse Doucet said that the ceasefire in Gaza means that the Arab fishermen can go back fishing on the sea normally again. What she or the BBC do not say is that the Palestinians are not allowed to go out beyond 250 metres off the beaches, and have not been allowed to do this since 2007, because of the illegal blockade thrust upon them. Its all reported as if nothing was wrong in Gaza prior to 4 weeks ago, and the same BBC that uses its news services to spread its messages of jingoism in support of things that only readers of the Daily Mail would want to hear about.
Leon Rosselson has written a powerful new song about Gaza. A song from the heart for all of us, which you might like to share.
A song which tells the story of two children in different wars.
We build anniversaries, to remember horror,
as genocide still brings its daily misery,
we should never forget, anybody's senseless slaughter,
all those tragically killed in patriotic disguise.
The innocent victims, the fallen, the walking wounded,
all those that do not return home, those that mourn,
the many voices, silenced and stilled,
their names and stories forever touch and live.
We remember as long as dead names are coughed out,
as time moves on, locomotive tracks of destruction still created,
as days stretch, we do not follow complicity with silence,
remind ourselves of senses of humanity, left scattered and slain.
We remember too, all those who refuse to fight,
branded cowards, treated like an enemy,
as they battle for a world of peace,
against brutal threads that leave us numb.
With these memories, we continue to share,
spreading the fever of anger, across many lands,
all loss is like a ruined tunnel of light,
a centenary later, we again chant words of peace,
swimming together, desperately under dangerous sky.
In a video meant to draw attention to innocents killed in Gaza violence.Two Canadian schoolgirls, described as Palestinian Syrians are warmly embraced by Toronto strangers, when they hold up a sign saying ' HUG A TERRORIST'.
As Gaza and Palestinians resist the continual terrorist attack and brutal emotional and physical abuse, that has resulted in a toll of 1000 plus deaths, thousands injured, nearly all of them civilians, and mostly women and children, the full destruction of the City, the world is finally experiencing a rude awakening.
This war on Gaza has been justified under the pretext of fighting terror, yet children are the main victims.
Only yesterday Israel shelled a U.N school in Gaza, killing 16. Where Palestinians had been sheltering after being told to evacuate their homes. Women and children, killed while sleeping.
Clearly a crime against humanity.
Let me ask you,WHO ARE THE REAL TERRORISTS?
Born of East European Jewish parents. Spending two years in Israel in the late 1950's, before returning to the UK. Artist, poet, performer, visionary. Lyric writer, singer and front person for seminal band the Poison Girls, the first anarchist feminist rock band, which between 1977 and 1989 was a potent force in the international peace movement playing hundreds of gigs in the UK, Europe, Scandivania and the USA. A truly amazing, inspiring individual. Here's to all the persons unknown.
This is a message to persons unknown
persons in hiding / persons unknown
survival in silence isn't good enough no more
keeping your mouth shut / head in the sand
terrorists and saboteurs / each and every one of us
hiding in shadows / persons unknown
hey there mr average/ you don't exist/ you never did
hiding in shadows / persons unknown
habits of hiding soon will be the death of us
dying in secret from poisons unknown
this is a message to persons unknown
strangers and passers-by / persons unknown
turning a blind eye / hope to go unrecognised
keeping your secrets / persons unknown
housewifes and prostitutes / plumbers in boiler suits
truents in coffee bars / you think you're alone
big men on building sites/ sick men in dressing gowns
agents in motor cars who never go home
women in factories / one parent families
women in purdah / persons unknown
wild girls and criminals / rotting in prison cells
patients in corridors / persons unknown
statistics on balance sheets / numbered and rubber-stamped
blind and invisible / you're lost in your homes
liggers and layabouts / lovers on roundabouts
wake up in the morning with persons unknown
accountants in nylon shirts / feminists in floral skirts
nurses for when it hurts / persons unknown
astronauts and celibates / deejays and hypocrites
Liars and lunatics / persons unknown
hopefully on football pools / teachers in empty schools
kids into heroin / not yet fully grown
typists and usherettes / black men who can't forget
the lonely who long for persons unknown
closet idealists / bald-headed realists
rastas and bikers / the voice on the phone
pimps and economists / royalty and communists
rioters and pacifists /persons unknown
visionaries with coloured hair / leather boys who just don't care
garter girls with time to spare / persons unknown
judges with prejudice / dissidents and anarchists
policemen deal dirty tricks to persons unknown
strikers and pickets / collectors of tickets
radical architects / the queen on her throne
soldiers in uniform / sailors and stevedores
beggars and bankers / perjurors and men of law
football crowd hooligans / bunkin' of scool again
workers down tools again / united's at home'!
smokers with heart disease / cleaners of lavatories
the old with their memories /persons unknown
flesh and blood are who we are / flesh and blood are what we are
flesh and blood are who we are / our cover is blown
flesh and blood are who we are / our cover is blown
flesh and blood are who we are / flesh and blood are who we are
flesh and blood are who we are / our cover is blown
On 4-5th September NATO meets at the Celtic Manor in Newport South Wales. Supposedly meeting to strengthen partnerships and forge alliances around issues of national security and protection of vital resources, this video reveals for the first time the Real NATO Agenda.
Wales could see its biggest protests in a generation as world leaders meet planning their war on the world.
War is the enemy of the poor. At this years summit the US will be pressuring Western Powers to increase their already huge military budgets at a time when poverty and inequality are soaring. The worlds 85 richest people have as much as poorest 3.5 billion.
Money into war is money out of our communities. In the UK, 500,000 people had to resort to food banks last year.
None of the cuts would be necessary if the sums Britain spends on its military and armanents were invested in social need instead of the war machine.
This autumn the powerful will make their voices heard at the NATO summit. We must make sure that the voice of the millions around the world who need peace and justice is also heard.
The protests have already started. Yesterday there was a successful event in Cardiff, where protestors managed to disrupt army recruiters, managing to close down the "Career Centre" for 2 hours. Onwards to NATO.
The message on the banner translates as :-
' WHEN THE WEALTHY WAGE WAR, IT'S THE POOR WHO DIE.'
' Colourful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe."
Reprinted from :- Public Power in the Age of Consent.
Yes they definitely can...first we have the news that the Tories pocketed £160,000 from a mate of Putins - and that over 400 Russian oligarchs have been given visas for a million squid a go. This after Camerons sanctimonious rant about sanctions over the Malaysian airline atrocity. It turns out that amongst the hundreds of fat defence contracts signed with Russia, was one for anti-aircraft components. We sold Putin anti-aircraft componements! ( Remember it was the tories who also flogged some camouflage gear to A CERTAIN S. Hussein just in time for the first Gulf War, which left our own soldiers short, forced to buy their own gear. But then I would expect nothing less than the Tories. To see the full extent of Cameron's hypocricy, as he mumbles and makes calls for sanctions, see how he still receives backhanders and his governments continuing complicity in Israels brutal assult on Gaza.
Click on Pic to enlarge. here are the 132 Children killed in Gaza by Israel's Operation Protective Edge. More details here.:- http://bit.ly/1yYwLy9
Finding it increasingly hard to quell my rage. It is not healthy. Who will bury the children when their parents are already dead and there is nobody to bury them. Who will kill the sniper that kills those children of the parents that are already dead? Who is goin to mourn them? I will. Who will forgive? Not me. I have so much to say, but nobody seem to be listening. It is beginning to really is anybody listening. This pain is really starting to hurt.
I guess I need to take a deep, deep breath and then continue to keep pushing.
As the Royal family- and its cheerleaders at the BBC celebrate Prince George's First Birthday... the above is just a reminder about what has already been said. As people celebrate, remember too the children dying across the world because of hunger and starvation, the children currently being killed by genocidal repression. The BBC continues its fawning, bring out their sycophantic royal slime Mr Nicholas Witchell, not a pretty picture, why are not the people revolting. laters..off in search of a sick bag.
