mercredi 16 octobre 2013

For Rüdiger and Deanna






Mestizaje (Ska-P)

99% - Nouvel album de SKA-P (prononcer Eska-pe)








Full Gas


 Canto A La Rebelión


Ciudadano Papagayo 
  

Pandemia, S.L. 


Se Acabó


Ska-Pa 


Marinaleda 


Alí Baba 


Victoria 


Bajo Vigilancia


Maquis


Oniomanos 


¿Quienes Soís?


Radio Falacia


Africa Agónica
    

mardi 8 octobre 2013

That's was my Ghania

Ghania was a fighter.
She fought every day in her life, against bull fights, against fascism, against racism. She fought for Palestine, for Leonard Peltier, for Mumia Abu-Jamal...
She never hesitated to put herself in danger, she had been injured in Rodilhan trying to prevent a fucking bull fight, and she was ready to do it again.


Ghania was a wonderful woman. 

She was beautiful, she had the most beautiful smile. She was a very sensitive person. We talked a lot about my brother's death, and she helped me so much.

Ghania was a funny woman.
I'll remember forever the giggles we shared together.
I remember the first time I "met" her; we "squatted" the same fascists FB group against strikes, and I requested her as a friend. As the same time, my dog Kenta Sakamoto wrote also in this group, pretending to be a very reactionary japanese living in France and telling the most awful and stupid things about the strikers (I can't tell how many FB requests he got from those assholes). When I told Ghania the awful japanese was my dog, and that I spent my days apologising to him for having used him that way, she couldn't stop laughing, and she told me many times about that.


Ghania was my elected sister.
I will never forget her.


The music I used for the slideshow is Vergüenza, de Ska-P, against bull fights. She loved it.

 







lundi 7 octobre 2013

Ma Ghania, mon amie, ma soeur

J'ai eu l'immense privilège que tu me considère comme ton amie, ta soeur.
J'ai reçu il y a seulement quelques jours ton dernier cadeau, j'avais commandé Kafka sur le rivage pour toi, parce que j'étais sûre que tu l'adorerais. J'allais te l'envoyer cet après-midi. Et j'ai appris ce matin que tu nous a quittés.
Je suis très malheureuse, hermanita. Tu me manques déjà immensément, tu me manqueras tant que je serai vivante. Et tu vivras encore un peu en moi tant que je serai vivante.
Tu sais, Marie a beaucoup de peine aussi.
Je voulais te dire adieu, alors, comme tu aimais mes photos, je t'ai fait ce diaporama.
Avec uniquement des animaux, querida...
Et pas de musique triste pour toi, jamais!
Je t'aime hermana.

 Ton Flocon, tu lui manques aussi...


dimanche 25 août 2013

ABOUT MIYAZAKI HAYAO'S SO-CALLED REVISIONISM, ABOUT THE SO-CALLED INEXISTENCE OF A LEFT IN JAPAN, ABOUT REAL NEGATIONISM IN JAPAN.



ABOUT MIYAZAKI'S "REVISIONNISM"

I am fed up by what I read about Miyazaki's "Kaze Tachinu", coming from people who haven't seen the movie which hasn't been released outside Japan.
Kaze Tachinu is supposed to be a "right wing japanese movie".
I'd like to decide by myself after having seen it. But I find difficult to imagine that a man like Miyazaki can make a negationistic and « right wing japanese movie ». I saw almost every movie he made and I always felt in them a hatred of militarism and wars.
And I read recently what he wrote about the comfort women ("For the comfort women problem, for the humiliation of the various peoples [of Asia], we must properly apologize and must pay proper compensation."), I read recently what he wrote about Abe Shinzo's intention to revise Article 9 of the japanese constitution. (Link)
The best part is that at the same time in Japan some people call him « a traitor » and his movie « anti-japanese ».


INEXISTENCE OF A LEFT IN JAPAN?

When I read as a comment on Kaze Tachinu, coming from an american, that there is no left in Japan, I first wondered if there is a left in the USA, in France, Germany, Italy, Spain or anywhere else...
I'd like to remind that just after the war japanese workers fought for their rights, there were strikes in Japan, the left parties were emerging. Mac Arthur forbade a general strike in 1947 and forbade the
right to strike in the public service in 1948.
Not to mention the social movements in the 70's, or the support to Palestine.
Maybe nowadays there is no more left in Japan, but I don't see one in Europe or in the States...


ABOUT REVISIONISM IN JAPAN

First I'd like to talk about the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo trial), which I personaly consider as a caricature of trial, where only 28 persons were charged, and where koreans were not invited, and where nothing was said about the comfort women.
During this “trial”, the Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, uncle of Hirohito, who has been involved in the Nanjing killings, was never charged because of Mac Arthur's decision to spare all the members of the emperial family.
Neither Ishii Shirô was charged. He ran Unit 731, he and other leaders of Unit 731 were arrested by the american army but were given immunity in exchange of the results of their so-called researches, which have probably been used by the americans during the war in Korea.
Maybe if the Tokyo trial had looked like the Nuremberg trial Japan would not have now the problem they have about revisionism.
Revisionism in various ways, japanese Prime Ministers' visits to the Yasukuni shrine, statements by Abe denying the responsability of Japan or of the japanese army concerning the comfort women, statements by Osaka mayor Hashimoto Toru declaring that the system of comfort women was a necessity, Nagoya mayor Kawamura Takashi denying the massacres in Nanjing, stinking mangas by the mangaka Kobayashi Yoshinori denying everything and dreaming about a return to the bad times of Japan...



samedi 24 août 2013

mardi 6 août 2013