terça-feira, outubro 11, 2005

Negrume da Noite - ai ai ai!

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Venezuelan women with faces painted dance during a protest by Wayuu, Bari and Yukpa indigenous groups in Caracas October 11, 2005. Protesters demanded that the government respect their land rights and halt coal mining by private companies in the Sierra de Perija. (Howard Yanes/Reuters)

I think Reuters got it wrong - it looks to me like the protests were in March and April - I can find no one referring to events on October 11 except Reuters.

And you know something is happening, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr.Jones?

Uh, well ah, ummmm, uh ... no I don't as a matter of fact ... maybe for now it will have to be enough just to know that something is happening ...

Negrume da Noite - Paulinho do Reco, Cuiuba

O Negrume da Noite
Reluziuo dia o perfil Azeviche
Que a negritude criou
Constitui o universo de beleza
Explorado pela raça negra
Por isso o negro lutou
E acabou ivejado e se consagrou
Ilê, ilê, ilê
Tu és o senhor dessa grande nação
E hoje os negros clamam
A benção, a benção, a benção

Odé comorodé
Ode are re odé
Comorodé ode ode are re

Noite de Temporal - Dorival Caymmi

É noite, é noite
É lamba é lambaio
É lamba é lambaio
É lamba é lambaio
Pescador não vá pra pesca
Pescador não vá pescar
Pescador não vá pra pesca
Que é noite de temporá
Pescador não vá pra pesca
Pescador não vá pescar
Pescador não vá pra pesca
Que é noite de temporá
É noite, é noite
É lamba é lambaio
É lamba é lambaio
É lamba é lambaio
Pescador se vai pra pesca
Na noite de temporá
A mãe se senta na areia
Esperando ele volta
É noite, é noite
É lamba é lambaio
É lamba é lambaio
É lamba é lambaio
É noite, é noite

Virginia Rodrigues, sol negro.



Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.

Some stories from the news, slanted?, or not ... dunno ... :
Venezuela Analysis.
Common Dreams.
Miami Indy Media.
Mines and Communities.
CONTRAPODER.


Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Não havendo profecia, o povo perece.
Provérbios / Proverbs 29:18

The two essays which follow are by Garrett Hardin 1915-2003, a Texan. They are both titled The Tragedy of the Commons, though coming at it from different points of view. The first is a recap of Swift's Modest Proposal. The second is a shill for a book he wrote. The notion came (apparently) from a fellow, William Forster Lloyd (1794-1852) whose original essay I cannot find on-line and who is variously described as a clergyman, an amateur mathematician, and so on; no pictures of him to be found - I wonder who he was and I wonder if Hardin coined the phrase himself ... dunno ...
    The Tragedy of the Commons I, Ohio State.
    The Tragedy of the Commons II, Economics Library.

I did manage to find a site with some Venezuelan facts and pictures; more quasi-revolutionary rhetoric. I go for the pictures: The We - Venezuela.

The home page of this thing called 'The We' - interesting ... though there is no obvious path from the home page to the Venezuelan details, and they are connected with Truthout, another revolutionary rant site ... judge for yourself: The We - Home.

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