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  • WELCOME TO EL GAFLA’S WORLD ALTERNATIVE MUSIC
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Album "pA/Ris-casbah"
    digipack 13 tracks +
    "clandestin" - duo with Manu Chao.
    Label Demain la veille/DLV005
    Karim Chaya : author, writer, lead vocal and guitar
    Julien Pestre : guitar
    Kayou : sax ténor, soprane et baryton
    Raphaël Sibertin-Blanc : violin
    Hakim Bouyacoub : bass
    Mazigh Agsous : derbouka
    Benjamin Devers : congas
    Recording by Thomas Vingtrinier at café La Pêche of Montreuil and at studio Sequenza.
    Mixed and produced by Thomas Vingtrinier et Antoine (…)

  • Shut Them Down!: The G8, Gleneagles 2005 and the Movement of Movements
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dissent! and Autonomedia
    Bob Geldof’s appointment as an advisor to the Conservative party has provoked a reassessment of the momentous week last summer when the G8 met in Gleneagles. This reassessment is aided by the timely publication of a new book full of first hand accounts by those more interested in shutting the G8 down than lobbying it.
    David Watts, one of the books editors, commented: "There seems to be a growing sense of disillusionment with the legacy of the Live8 concerts (…)

  • Harry Belafonte and U.S. delegation Visit Venezuela
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Singer and activist Harry Belafonte visted Venezuela this week, along with a delegation of 13 other U.S. activist leaders, to see "with their own eyes" what is happening in Venezuela. The delegation saw social projects, met with government officials, and opposition leaders.
    by Gregory Wilpert
    The singer, actor, and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte visited Venezuela this week, leading a delegation of 13 other prominent activists from the U.S. During their visit, the delegation toured (…)

  • Belafonte Blasts Bush in Venezuela
    12 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By IAN JAMES
    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)- The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
    Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday. Some in the group attended Chavez’s (…)

  • Arlo, Katrina and a musical trail to New Orleans
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The son of Woody Guthrie knew exactly how to revive the musical heritage of the Big Easy. He took a train ride from Chicago all the way down south.
    By Andrew Buncombe
    But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream, And the steel rail still ’ain’t heard the news. The conductor sings his song again, The passengers will please refrain: This train has got the disappearin’ railroad blues.
    More than 30 years ago Arlo Guthrie, son of the late folk legend Woody, sat in a now (…)

  • The Night John Lennon Died
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Henry Marchand
    Twenty-five years is a long time, set beside the life span of the average human being. One quarter of a century, that’s time enough to experience all the usual milestones. But sometimes it seems a blink; sometimes, something that happened twenty-five years ago remains so vivid in memory, the passage of so much time is astounding.
    Assassinations. Declarations of war. Natural disasters. Political scandals. These are the kinds of public events, as opposed to personal (…)

  • Working Class Hero
    9 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As soon as you’re born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be
    They hurt you at home and they hit you at school They hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool Till you’re so fucking crazy you can’t follow their rules A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be
    When they’ve tortured and scared (…)

  • CANNED MUSIC AT THE THEATER ISN’T A SWEET SOUND
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    BY CARLTON WILKINSON
    The two-week musicians’ strike at Radio City Music Hall in November ended in a deal hammered out with the help of a mediator named by New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg. A job action staged by musicians union Local 802 halted a dress rehearsal, and the resulting dispute left the Rockettes dancing to prerecorded music for shows in the first two weeks of November.
    On Nov. 18, the live musicians returned to the "Christmas Spectacular," playing to packed audiences as (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • European Free Arts Sound Systems demonstration POSTPONED
    9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Due to the recent riots in France, the Demonstration and the Teknival that were supposed to happen the 12th November 2005 in Strasbourg have been postponed !!!!!!
    After receiving authorisation for both events we were told today to postpone them. This is based on the Emergency State that has been declared in France by the President of the Republic, Jacques Chirac.
    >> Restrictions on all kinds of events and on press freedom is possible:
    Furthermore the law allows the closing of meeting (…)