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  • IRAQ : Artists become targets in rising atmosphere of intolerance
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    electronicIraq.net
    Art, Music & Culture Artists become targets in rising atmosphere of intolerance
    Report, IRIN
    25 April 2006
    BAGHDAD - Local artists, actors and singers, who have tried to bring smiles to the faces of children living in deteriorating conditions, have been targeted by insurgents and militias who accuse them of indulging in un-Islamic activities.
    "Artists are being threatened and killed because they want to change the reality of the country by helping people (…)

  • Hollywood leads campaign for death row reprieve
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
    Hollywood actors, musicians, church leaders and death penalty opponents staged protests and vigils across the US on behalf of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips street gang who faces execution in less than two weeks unless the California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, can be persuaded to grant him clemency.
    The outpouring of support for "International Save Tookie Day" yesterday underlined the controversy surrounding Williams’s death sentence (…)

  • Opera downsizes as Italy’s divas go on hunger strike
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Singers and staff take drastic action in protest at budget cuts
    by Barbara McMahon in Rome
    Opera lovers in Italy this season may notice something different about the performers. Many of them are looking distinctly svelte after going on hunger strike to protest about proposed cuts to the country’s arts budget. Living on only water, fruit juice and coffee, singers’ weights have shrunk.
    Barbara Vignudelli, a soprano at the famed La Scala opera house in Milan, has had no solid food for two (…)

  • The life and death of Pier Paolo Pasolini
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The career and achievement of the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is being celebrated thirty years after his brutal murder, but the political controversy surrounding his death haunts Italy still.
    by Geoff Andrews
    In the early hours of 2 November 1975, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini - writer, poet, film director and one of Italy’s leading intellectuals - was found on wasteland in Ostia, just outside Rome. Several hours later, Pino “The Frog” Pelosi, a 17-year-old male prostitute, was (…)

  • U.S. Out in Cold in UNESCO Diversity Pact
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOELLE DIDERICH
    UNESCO’s member nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a pact on protecting cultural diversity after a bitter debate left the United States isolated in opposition to what it sees as a threat to sales of American movies and music.
    The convention - championed by the European Union and Canada - aims to promote ethnic traditions and minority languages and to protect those local cultures from the negative effects of globalization, UNESCO said.
    The United States (…)

  • Chile - MIR 40 Anniversary
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chile : "Spreading the social and popular revolution" MOVEMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT OF CHILE (MIR) MIR 40 Years of Struggle in Chile
    CULTURAL AND POLITICAL NIGHT SATURDAY AUGUST 27 7 PM, MARITIME UNION HALL 54 IRELAND ST. WEST MELBOURNE (CLOSE TO NORTH-MELBOURNE TRAIN STATION) Melway Map 43-C6, Donation $5
    More Info: 9481 2273 - 0401 558373 - 0402937280 - 0404075736
    Join Us for a Night of Culture and Music Multimedia Presentation Photo’s Display Poetry Music, Dance Video Clips

  • The Iraqi government is building a dam wich will destroy the capital of the ancient assyrian empire
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tigris dam damns Assur The Iraqi government is building a dam which will obliterate the capital of the ancient Assyrian empire Martin Bailey , The Art Newspaper
    LONDON, July, 2005 - The Iraqi government is building a dam which will destroy the ancient city of Assur, the former capital which gave its name to Assyria. Although it has received no publicity outside Iraq, the dam across the Tigris is likely to result in one of the greatest archaeological losses of modern times. John Curtis, the (…)

  • the iraqi cultural heritage after 2-years of invation
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let us read what the expert has written about the abuses done by the invadors and their allies with the iraqi cultural heritage.
    ’Biggest Cultural Disaster Since 1258’, Says Expert
    Humberto MÙ„rquez
    CARACAS, Feb 15 (IPS) - One million books, 10 million documents and 14,000 archaeological artifacts have been lost in the U.S.-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq — the biggest cultural disaster since the descendants of Genghis Khan destroyed Baghdad in 1258, Venezuelan writer (…)

  • GIULIANA SGRENA: APPEAL NET of ARTISTS AGAINST WARS
    7 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Artists Against Wars
    Giuliana Sgrena
    The italian net of Artists against wars appeals to the kidnappers in order to release our friend Giuliana Sgrena.
    It’s not Giuliana the enemy and not even the other reporters of the free press who talk sincerely in favour of the Iraki people and finally not even the volunteers of the NGO’s.
    The net of Artists appeals to the Italian government and asks for the withdrawal of the Italian soldiers, like other contries have done before.
    Democracy (…)