silent vigil this wednesday in cape town
Via Malika Ndlovu: Stand Up! Be still. Join the Tower of Silence in reflection and protest against the silencing, a pillar of honouring and mourning. Wear white (a symbol of spirit, light, cleansing,...
View Articleflash mob flamenco
Flamenco flash mob staged by anti-capitalist group flo6x8 inside a bank in Sevilla, Spain, to express anger and frustration at the economic crisis. Flamenco began as an art form centred around protest...
View Articlewhirling sufi protesters
A whirling Sufi protester wearing a gas mask in a Gezi Protest in Ankara, 2 June 2013Photograph: Azirlazarus (on Wikipedia)“You come too!” Filed under: dance, embodiment, freedom, politics,...
View Articlea protest jam from istanbul this week
Kardeş Türküler perform “Tencere Tava Havası” (“Sound of Pots and Pans”) in the streets of Istanbul this week. Check out the Kardeş Türküler’s website HERE for background on the group, which came into...
View Articleyasemin kumral – yağmuru durdurabilir misin?
“Can you stop the rain?” – translated from Turkish… Filed under: freedom, music, politics, revolutionaries Tagged: police brutality, protest, teargas, turkey, yasemin kumral
View Articleturkish protest music
The rhythm of outrage… “What do a park in Istanbul, a baby in Sarajevo, a security chief in Sofia, a TV station in Athens and bus tickets in Sao Paulo have in common? However random the sequence may...
View Articlea young woman too often worried about the future
Anonymous Atelier Populaire Poster from May 1968 Student Strike in Paris 1968 was the year when political struggle for freedom culminated in global protests that shaped the future of youth culture....
View Articlewhy wear a green square?
Filed under: history, memory, politics, violence Tagged: conscience, green blanket, green square, living well, marikana, police brutality, protest, responsibility, solidarity, state oppression,...
View Articletom waits – the road to peace (2006)
A protest song from the triple album Orphans – Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (ANTI- Records, 2006). Tom Waits at his most direct is devastating.Filed under: history, music, politics, spirit Tagged:...
View Articlevice v – mr president
“Mr President” is the controversial first single released on Long Talk 2 Freedom. It is a work of hip-hop protest literature which deals with the failed presidency of Jacob Zuma. The work remixes, and...
View ArticleUCT black academics: when they arrived!
cherry bomb:A substantive account of what students are doing right now at UCT. Fiercely awesome. Originally posted on briankamanzi: Foreword Forgive me at this moment, it is difficult to not be...
View Articleameera conrad – on exhaustion over a lack of understanding
I am tired God Almighty, I am tired of being told that we need to move on, that we need to forget, that we need to put the past behind us, that Apartheid is over. They don’t understand. We never will....
View Articleleigh-ann naidoo – hallucinations (17 august 2016)
Photo: Paul Botes, M&G “Quite simply – and this is what I wish to discuss tonight in relation to the question of rage and violence – we are living in different times. Or at least, our time is...
View Articlecapitalism’s priorities
Filed under: art, environment, politics, violence Tagged: capitalism, cartoon, Hugleikur Dagsson, money, protest, self-interest
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