Crónicas del olvido. La patria forajida La patria revienta en múltiples versos, en sorda confusión, en los tantos retornos de aquellos que hoy respiran bajo tierra. A la sombra de sus más estridentes esquinas, están los odios vespertinos y de toda hora, los amores en medio de la selva de miradas y empujones. La patria en harapos estira la mano y pide. Hiere con cuchillo y corre. Solicita un lugar para transpirar, para saberse parte de ella misma. Los que la cantan la hacen una Grecia invadida con caballos de Troya. Pero la patria también es un sueño al amanecer. Para el poeta, la patria es un crimen cometido en su nombre. La patria es la primera y última de las altas traiciones. Globovision reporters detained while reporting on an oil spill caused by Venezuelan state oil company. Thai Contemporary Art: The Pink Man: Manit Sriwanichpoom.
Last night at Singapore Art Museum 8Q I attended a talk by contemporary Thai photographer and artist Manit Sriwanichpoom.
He is well-known for his Pink Man series, begun in 1997, which is a critique on consumerism in Thailand. The Pink Man is a symbol of the eternally unstatisfied and self-centered consumer, a symbol of capitalism. Www.asiasentinel.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=4394. Shakespeare Must Die. 2010 Thai military crackdown. On 10 April, troops executed an unsuccessful crackdown on protesters at Phan Fah bridge on Ratchadamnoen Road, resulting in 25 deaths (including one Japanese journalist and 5 uniformed soldiers) and over 800 injuries.[9] Troops fired on protesters near Makhawan Rangsan bridge during the afternoon.
Later that evening, automatic gunfire, explosives, and tear gas were used in clashes on Khao San Road and Khok Wua intersection.[10][11] The Erawan Center noted that among the dead protesters were soldiers in disguise.[10] The military claimed that soldiers only used live rounds to defend themselves, and claimed that the military deaths were due to terrorists. Ratchaprasong was surrounded with armoured vehicles and snipers in the days leading to 13 May.[12] On the evening of 13 May, Khattiya Sawasdiphol ("Seh Daeng"), a popular security adviser to the protesters, was shot in the head by what was apparently a sniper's bullet while he was giving an interview to The New York Times. Thai “Macbeth” movie banned over fears it causes ‘disunity’ By Saksith Saiyasombut “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
(Three Witches, Act I, Scene I) The Tragedy of Macbeth is a famous play by William Shakespeare that tells the story of a man and a woman on their bloody path to the throne of Scotland and their violent downfall, driven by arrogance, paranoia and death. News and Views on Thai Cinema: Shakespeare Must Die is banned. Shakespeare Must Die (เชคสเปียร์ต้องตาย), a politically charged adaptation of Macbeth, has become the second film to be banned from commercial release by the Thai Film Board under the Film Act of 2008.
Co-directed by artists Samanrat Kanjanavanit, a.k.a. Ing K., and Manit Sriwanichpoom, the film was banned because censors feared it would cause disunity in Thai society. Ironically, Shakespeare Must Die had received financial support from the Thai Khem Kaeng (Strong Thailand) "creative economy" initiative of the Cultural Ministry's Office of Contemporary Art and Culture. A trailer for Shakespeare Must Die, embedded above, shows that the film plays on images from Thailand's turbulent and violent political past, including the 2010 anti-government red-shirt protests and the 1976 Thammasat Massacre, in which a hanging corpse was beaten with a chair.
The first film to be banned by the Film Board under the 2008 Film Act was Tanwarin Sukkhapisit's Insects in the Backyard. La Prensa acosada en América Latina. ¡Hombre Hugo!. Sí la ley permitiera al gobierno exigir más, me figuro que no llamarías democratico a ese régimen, ¿o sí?. La realidad es que apelar al patriotismo no deja de ser una manera, muy eficaz por cierto, de PRESIONAR al informador.
Revistas.luz.edu.ve/index.php/quac/article/viewFile/2723/2635. Zimbabwe: Activists Tortured for Watching Videos of Arab Spring. Six Zimbabwean activists were arrested and tortured for watching videos of Arab Spring Six Zimbabwean activists were arrested and tortured for watching videos of the Arab Spring.
The group has now filed a law suit against the police and two home affairs co-ministers after being arrested for watching videos of the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Last year a group of activists were at the home of Munyaradzi Gwisai, a former law lecturer and leader of the country's socialist party, when it was raided by police and 45 people were arrested. Jóvenes con máscaras con el rostro de Afiuni exigen libertad. Viernes 16 de marzo de 2012 06:06 PM.
Www.asambleanacional.gob.ve/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=2771&tmpl=component&format=raw&Itemid=185&lang=es. Impactante, caso de la Jueza Afiuni que Chávez quiere "bien presa" Belarus bans journalists and activists from travelling. By Andrei Aliaksandrau / 17 March, 2012 Despite official denials, it seems clear that the Lukashenko regime has blacklisted key media and opposition figures, preventing them from leaving the country.
Andrei Aliaksandrau reports Zhanna Litvina, the Chairperson of the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), the leading national press freedom organisation, was denied the right to leave the territory of her country this week. It happened at Minsk-2 National airport early on Thursday 15 March. A bitter irony of the situation is that 15 March is the Constitution Day in Belarus, an anniversary of adoption of the fundamental law that grants every citizen the freedom of movement, as well as many other rights that the authorities of the country seem to pay little attention to. Sampsonia Way. Sampsonia Way Mag (sampsonia_way)
SAMPSONIA WAY MAGAZINE. Sampsonia Way Magazine Celebrating Literary Freedom of Expression.