Eco Rama » World http://eco-rama.net Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:41:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Battisti: The Italo-Brazilian Imbroglio over Shadows of the Past http://eco-rama.net/battisti-the-italo-brazilian-imbroglio-over-shadows-of-the-past/ http://eco-rama.net/battisti-the-italo-brazilian-imbroglio-over-shadows-of-the-past/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:07:40 +0000 Vijay Kant European ParliamentEuropean Parliament European Parliament Brazil and Italy will meet in a football game next Tuesday. The friendly match is far from having the importance of other disputes in the past, world cup decisions included, but the mood built around the game has set the national blogospheres on fire see Global Voices. After weeks of cross-Atlantic [...]]]> European Parliament

European Parliament
European Parliament

Brazil and Italy will meet in a football game next Tuesday. The friendly match is far from having the importance of other disputes in the past, world cup decisions included, but the mood built around the game has set the national blogospheres on fire see Global Voices.

After weeks of cross-Atlantic brouhaha, some bloggers are starting to wonder how and why the case has gone so far. Is the Brazilian Governments decision to grant political refugee status to Italian felon Cesare Battisti really worth of such attention?

What elements could be at play to bring forth those remarkable outcomes, such as the minute of silence from the Ministers of European Parliament in a session last week in honor of Battistis alleged victims from 30 years ago, or the farewell of an Italian-born media icon in Brazil over the heated national debate on the case, and also Italys recall of their Ambassador in Brasilia? The Italian government went as far as threatening to call off the friendly game scheduled to be held on February 10 in London, leading Brazilians to sense a blow out of proportion. Berlusconi is the one to blame.

Gratuitous altercation the one created by the Battisti case and the attitude of the buffoon government headed by Silvio Berlusconi. At least I took the time to study the subject before I ventured to write a few lines about it. Most analysts are open about the passion on their analysis and transformed the event into a partisan dispute, or worse, a football match.Brasil vs Itlia Disolving in the Air

Italy, today, is going through the government of histrionic Berlusconi. He owns the huge Italian TV network, owns newspapers, owns football teams. That is, he is the owner of Italy. And he is clearly fascist, xenophobic, racist.Berlusconi Hystery and the Brazilian Sovereignity Blog de Lus Antnio Castagna Maia

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]]> http://eco-rama.net/battisti-the-italo-brazilian-imbroglio-over-shadows-of-the-past/feed/ 0 Kuduro: The Sexy Angolan Rhythm With a Message http://eco-rama.net/kuduro-the-sexy-angolan-rhythm-with-a-message/ http://eco-rama.net/kuduro-the-sexy-angolan-rhythm-with-a-message/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:11:40 +0000 Udit Narayan European DjsWhether the word Kuduro comes from the Kimbundu language, native to northern Angola and means location or from the Portuguese expression meaning hard ass or stiff bottom is debated but theres no argument that the dance is sexy. As one watches the dancers of this Angolan music style jutting their bottoms and swinging sensuously to [...]]]> Whether the word Kuduro comes from the Kimbundu language, native to northern Angola and means location or from the Portuguese expression meaning hard ass or stiff bottom is debated but theres no argument that the dance is sexy. As one watches the dancers of this Angolan music style jutting their bottoms and swinging sensuously to the rhythm of the hard-hitting Kuduro beat, one can see how the Portuguese translation makes sense. Born in the suburbs of Malange in the 90s, Kuduro has recently become the darling of some European DJs, and the blog Razes e Antenas [Roots and Antennas] brings an historical perspective.

European Djs

European Djs
European Djs

Peace in Angola after decades of war first the war for independence against the Portuguese troops and followed by an equally bloody fratricidal war has brought forth the development of varied and rich musical forms, and also their discovery by audiences at home and abroad. We are not saying that there was no music being made and recorded before that check it out the recording in the box , already referenced months ago in this blog, or in the recent compilation, all of them created in the last years of Portuguese domination or the innumerable recordings from Kizomba artists edited during the civil war. But, in recent years, new genres were born and have grown with unstoppable strength especially the very Angolan version of the hip-hop, and also the Kuduro and the Tarrachinha.
Tarrachinha The Sexiest Music in the World (and Other Musics from Angola) Razes e Antenas

No Dancing da Me Ju comea-se a danar s 14h
e s se pra quando nasce o dia
In Me Jus Dancing, we start to dance at 2 pm
and stop when the new day comesDocumentrio Me-Ju Caboindex

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]]> http://eco-rama.net/kuduro-the-sexy-angolan-rhythm-with-a-message/feed/ 0 Haiti is Here, Haiti is Not Here http://eco-rama.net/haiti-is-here-haiti-is-not-here-2/ http://eco-rama.net/haiti-is-here-haiti-is-not-here-2/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:23:02 +0000 Jackie Shroff School EducationSchool Education School Education HAITICaetano Veloso e Gilberto Gil When you are invited up on the terrace of the Casa de Jorge Amado Foundation to watch from above the row of soldiers; almost all black beating on the necks of black good for nothings of mulatto thieves and other almost white ones treated like the [...]]]> School Education

School Education
School Education

HAITICaetano Veloso e Gilberto Gil

When you are invited up on the terrace
of the Casa de Jorge Amado Foundation
to watch from above the row of soldiers;
almost all black
beating on the necks of black good for nothings
of mulatto thieves and other almost white ones
treated like the black ones
just to show the other almost black ones
(and they are almost all black)
and the almost white poor like black ones
how it is that blacks, poor, and mulattos
and almost white ones, almost black and poor are treated
and it doesnt matter if the eyes of the whole world
might for a moment be turned to the square
where the slaves were punished
and today a pounding of drums,
pounding of drums
with the purity of boys
in secondary school uniforms on parade day
and the epic grandeur of a people in formation
it attracts us, astonishes and stimulates us
nothing matters:
not the trace of the mansions architecture
not the lens from Fantstico,
not Paul Simons record
no one, no one is a citizen
if you go to the party there at Pel,
and if you dont go
think of Haiti, pray for Haiti
Haiti is hereHaiti is not here

And on TV, if you see a congressman
in badly concealed panic
when faced by any, absolutely any, any, any
plan for education that seems easy
that seems fast and easy
and will represent a threat to democratize
primary school education
and if this same congressman
should defend
the adoption of capital punishment
and the venerable cardinal should declare
that he sees so much soul in the fetus
and none in the criminal and if,
when you run a light, the old familiar light
red as usual
you notice on a street corner
a man pissing
on a shiny bag of garbage from Leblon
and when you hear the smiling silence of So Paulo
in response to the massacre
111 defenseless prisoners
but prisoners are almost all black
or almost black, or almost white
almost black and so poor
and poor men are rotten,
and everyone knows how blacks are treated
and when you go on holiday in the Caribbean
and when you go fuck without a condom,
and participate intelligently in the blockade of Cuba
Think of Haiti, pray for Haiti
Haiti is here, Haiti is not here.

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