Category Archives: Rock on-Peace Out
let’s dance ~Chris Montez – YouTube
Emel Mathlouthi – Ma Lkit Official Video – YouTube
Tunisian Emel Mathlouthi, inspired singer and poet and a highly creative composer, stands directly in line from the great divas of the Maghreb, but has also inherited the legacy of the protest singers of the 60s. With sources and influences ranging from Dylan to Cheikh Imam and sounds of our time, she vests her protest songs in the rock and electronic sound of immediacy. One of the figureheads of the “Arab Spring”, she also has immense stage presence and a voice that spells revolution and freedom. This album and her unforgettable songs will place her firmly on the international pop scene.
Emel Mathlouthi – Ethnia Twila (The Road is Long) – YouTube
In France, Dam Is the Catalyst for a Flood of Young People’s Anger – NYTimes.com
Many of those who gathered to oppose the dam call themselves “Zadistes,” or partisans of the ZAD, the French acronym for zones à defendre, or areas to defend. They say they have come to build an independent society. Increasingly, they are seen as environmental extremists, or “green jihadists,” as Xavier Beulin, the president of the main agriculture union, put it.
“For once, we are fighting a project that represents symbolically what we reject,” said Jordan Samson, a geography student in the southern city of Toulouse. “Our movement is spreading to an entire generation.”
The protests here are the latest aimed at a widening number of projects that the demonstrators criticize as monuments to the overweening ambitions of local politicians and their business connections.
Last month, demonstrations in support of the Zadistes were held across France, including in Nantes, where more than a hundred protesters went on a rampage. In the nearby town of Gaillac, several shops and a memorial to war dead were vandalized.
via In France, Dam Is the Catalyst for a Flood of Young People’s Anger – NYTimes.com.
The huge personal sacrifices top politicians are making to reduce the national deficit:
Winged beauties under threat – The Hindu
A recent study by the scientists of the Zoological Survey of India, (ZSI) has revealed that of the 1,677 species and subspecies found in India, more than one-fourth (close to 425) are either threatened or endangered.
Of the 425 species of butterflies, 123 species and subspecies of butterflies are included under Schedule- I (Part- IV) of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, while 302 subspecies and species are under Scheduled II (Part II) of the Act.
October 2014 –
★ Halloween with my sister. We watched Labyrinth for the first time ever and we hated it. It was a lot of fun to rip it to pieces and get frustrated together & eat caramel popcorn & homemade vegan muffins & have conversations that had nothing to do with the film, because it bored us so much we couldn’t focus.
★ Celebrated La Castanyada with parents & sis, it was so much fun! Mom slept over so we could go to the cemetery on Nov. 1 (Día de todos los santos) early in the morning.
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