tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9905272497209130762024-02-18T20:30:42.712-08:00northshorewoman"twist me a crown of wind-flowers, that I may fly away!" ~ Christina Rossettinorthshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.comBlogger730125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-66400500633367816422014-03-03T13:51:00.000-08:002014-03-03T13:55:47.157-08:00There is a ghost inside the words of a book, waiting to jump out at you<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Once one of the monks with Saint Francis asked if he might own just one book. Francis replied, "No, if you have a book, pretty soon you will need a bookshelf for your book. Then you will need a house for your bookshelf. After that you will need a lock on your door to protect your book from thieves breaking in and stealing it. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have some beautiful photos of the St. Francis of Assisi cathedral in Cuetzalan Mexico, but they are on a jumpdrive somewhere which I have to locate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you want to get at the pun of the title of this post, jump to the bottom of the page and read Natasha Trethewey's poem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have a terrible problem: I love books and I buy books. Yes, books become part of the stuff we collect and to which we become attached, creating problems that tie us down and make us complicit in accumulation. As well as being a fire hazard when you have books piled up in every room because there is no more space on your book shelves. I have not counted all my books, but most likely I have more than 1000. I have slowly begun to give away some but every time I go to my shelves to find a few, I end up reading parts of them with wonder and saying to myself, "This is so interesting. I need this book." Then I put it back on the shelf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I need books around me for comfort, to remind me about ideas, and to make visible the messages and knowledge inside of them. I could never store all my reading online or on an e-reader. Yes, I also read online texts; these too are irreplaceable. Yesterday, for example, I found a very interesting website that has a 3 volume e-book on decolonizing, reconcialition and the way forward in Canada called <a href="http://speakingmytruth.ca/v2a/?page_id=177" target="_blank">Speaking My Truth</a>, which has a lot of interesting chapters by writers such as Waziyatawin, Ashok Mathur, Melissa Phung, Sylvia Hamilton, George Elliot Clarke, and Heather Igliolorte (who was just in TBay and gave a curator talk for the <a href="http://www.museumsontario.ca/museum/Thunder-Bay-Art-Gallery/whats-on/exhibitions/Decolonize-Me" target="_blank">Decolonize Me</a> exhibit which was recently at the TB Art Gallery; if I find a minute I will tell you about that, too), among many others. However, online books and articles or websites cannot replace actual books that have a look, a texture, a presence, a feel, and a language that jumps out at you, i.e. its title.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I just received Natasha Trethewey's latest poetry book <i>Thrall </i>(find a review <a href="http://5ptsjournal.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/guest-post-christine-swint-reviews-natasha-tretheweys-thrall/" target="_blank">here</a>) in the mail. In this book, Trethewey, who is currently the Poet Laureate of the US, not only writes poems about her personal and family history but also takes a critical poetic eye to visual representation of mixed peoples. Specifically, she writes poetic musings on the Casta paintings from colonial Mexico. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have become fascinated with ekphrastic poetry, that is, poetry that
responds to visual arts such as paintings or photographs (or other
creative arts) since doing a close reading of Trethewey's earlier poetry book, <i>Bellocq's Ophelia. </i>In this book, using poetry she writes a book-length narrative that makes a history for some of the women posed in Bellocqs' early 1900s glass plate photos of mixed race sex workers in Storyville, New Orleans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Aptly, Trethewey ends <i>Thrall</i> with a musing on the enthrallment of books, a poem called "Illumination" (see below for the text).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Enthralling and illuminating, who can resist books? </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now I am waiting with anticipation for the other books that I have ordered to arrive at my doorstep: <i> </i></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Rainy-River-Lives,674098.aspx" target="_blank">Rainy River Lives:</a> Stories Told by Maggie Wilson</i> ed. by Sally Cole</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/cotnat" target="_blank">Native Speakers</a>: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzales & the Poetics of Culture </i>by Maria Eugenia Cotera</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=jrbEo22AuaMC&pg=PP2&lpg=PP2&dq=Our+Knowledge+Is+Not+Primitive:+Decolonizing+Botanical+Anishinaabe+Teachings+by+Wendy+Geniusz&source=bl&ots=fkg3vSzbfM&sig=7ktmJ-FhYl5PHaWdtNyQswLpLvY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ye4UU-GLEIqxrQGXq4HAAg&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Our%20Knowledge%20Is%20Not%20Primitive%3A%20Decolonizing%20Botanical%20Anishinaabe%20Teachings%20by%20Wendy%20Geniusz&f=false" target="_blank">Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive</a>: Decolonizing Botanical
Anishinaabe Teachings by Wendy Geniusz;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393880274348_6100" style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="http://montrealserai.com/2013/10/06/fear-of-a-black-nation-david-austins-new-book-examines-the-complex-politics-of-race-and-belonging-in-quebec-and-canada/" target="_blank">Fear of a Black Nation:</a> Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal</i> by David Austin</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393880274348_6100" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442689701" target="_blank">Debating Dissent: Canada and the 1960s</a><b id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393880274348_6099"> </b>by L. Campbell, D. Clement and G.Kealey</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1393880274348_6100"><a href="http://the-word-blog.com/2011/05/23/grammar-matters-the-social-significance-of-how-we-use-language/" target="_blank">Grammar Matters</a>: The Social Significance </span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>of How We Use Language </i>by Jila </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Ghomeshi</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.foa.org.uk/page/blood-and-faith-the-purging-of-muslim-spain-1492-1614-page" target="_blank">Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain</a> 1492 - 1614 by Matthew Carr</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b> </b>Hopefully, I will find the time to tell you a bit about each book! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Trethewey's closing poem, a reflection on the magic of books: </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/issues/2011/autumn/features/illumination.html" target="_blank">Illumination</a><br />
Always there is something more to know<br />
what lingers at the edge of thought<br />
awaiting illumination as in<br />
this second-hand book full<br />
of annotations daring the margins in pencil<br />
a light stroke as if <br />
the writer of these small replies<br />
meant not to leave them forever <br />
meant to erase<br />
evidence of this private interaction <br />
Here a passage underlined there<br />
a single star on the page<br />
as in a night sky cloud-swept and hazy<br />
where only the brightest appears<br />
a tiny spark I follow<br />
its coded message try to read in it<br />
the direction of the solitary mind<br />
that thought to pencil in<br />
a jagged arrow It<br />
is a bolt of lightning<br />
where it strikes<br />
I read the line over and over<br />
as if I might discern<br />
the little fires set<br />
the flames of an idea licking the page<br />
how knowledge burns Beyond<br />
the exclamation point<br />
its thin agreement angle of surprise<br />
there are questions the word why<br />
So much is left <br />
untold Between<br />
the printed words and the self-conscious scrawl<br />
between what is said and not<br />
white space framing the story<br />
the way the past unwritten<br />
eludes us So much<br />
is implication the afterimage<br />
of measured syntax always there<br />
ghosting the margins that words<br />
their black-lined authority<br />
do not cross Even<br />
as they rise up to meet us<br />
the white page hovers beneath<br />
silent incendiary waiting <br />
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language, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised. When we talked, our
tongues trashed madly in our mouths, staggered like drunken men. Because we
were not using our languages we said things we did not mean; what we really wanted
to say remained folded inside, trapped. In America we did not always have the
words. It was only when we were by ourselves that we spoke in our real voices.
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">This is a passage by the omniscient narrator of </span><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><i>We Need New Names</i> by NoViolet Bulawayo, who moved to the US when she was 18 to attend college. </span><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><i>We Need New Names</i> is Bulawayo's </span>debut novel. The story is one of coming of age and of exile. Like Bulawayo, the protagonist is </span><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Zimbabwean who then moves to the US. </span>The story is told through the eyes of a 10 year old girl, Darling, who recounts her hardscrabble days with her friends in a Zimbabwean shanty town and then relates the everyday Americanisms she encounters and experiences first in Detroit and then Kalamazoo. </span></div>
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body; NGO workers arrive with food parcels; a murdered activist is
buried. When the action moves to America, the incidents are more banal
but if anything more disturbing: Darling, now a teenager, watches
unpleasant porn with friends, runs wild in the mall or goes to clubs
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Understandably, when Darling moves to the US, her language changes, as the opening excerpt suggests. The success of Bulawayo's book, however, reveals Bulawayo's ability to unfold the language that refuses to lay trapped inside the experience of exile. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">Bulawayo is the first black African woman writer to be short listed for a Man Booker Prize. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/15/palestinian-doctor-izzeldin-abuelaish-gaza-war" target="_blank"></a></span><br />
northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-22205639853391282032014-03-01T14:36:00.000-08:002014-03-01T18:20:01.510-08:00Joseph Boyden in Thunder BayThis coming week Joseph Boyden will be making a number of appearances at Lakehead University. Along with being the guest speaker at a Literature of Canada's First Nations class, on Wednesday night, March 5th, he will be giving a talk "<a href="https://www.lakeheadu.ca/research-and-innovation/about/research-and-innovation-week/schedule/joseph-boyden" target="_blank">The Past and the Future are Present: Race Relations in Canada</a>." His talk focuses on the historical research that he did for his latest book, <i>The Orenda, </i>which is a <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/" target="_blank">Canada Reads </a>contender.<br />
<i> </i> <br />
At <i>Quill and Quire</i>, Kamal Al-Solaylee summarizes the characters at the heart of <i>The Orenda:</i><br />
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three characters take the reins and the story, set in the early 17th century,
unfolds more or less chronologically. In no particular order, the narrators
are: Christophe, a Francophone Jesuit missionary; Snow Falls, an Iroquois teen
of the Haudenosaunee nation kidnapped by the Wendats (a Huron nation); and
Bird, a warrior mourning (and avenging) the deaths of his wife and two
daughters at the hands of the Iroquois</span> ....</blockquote>
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The book is not without controversy. At <i>Muskrat Magazine,</i> Hayden King explains that although he wanted to like this book and while its three voiced multiple narrators tell the story from different points of view in hopes of achieving the effect of making ambiguous dichotomous boundaries of good guys vs bad guys, in the end, its story reinforces a narrative that is does not disrupt the familiar settler colonial story of history, hence making it palatable to Canadians: <br />
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<a href="http://www.muskratmagazine.com/home/node/192#.UxJRws4Xcg8" target="_blank">The Orenda is a comforting narrative</a> for Canadians about the
emergence of Canada: Indian savages, do-good Jesuits and the inevitability
(even desirability) of colonization. The themes that push this narrative are a
portrayal of Haudenosaunee peoples as antagonistic, the privileging of the
Jesuit perspective, and a reinforcing of old story-telling tropes about
Indigenous people. These themes work together to convey the message that the
disappearance of the Huron and the loss of their orenda was destined happen.</div>
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["Orenda" means, as Al-Solaylee explains, "<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">the life force that, according to the Hurons, belongs not just to humans
but to 'every last thing' in the natural world."</span>]<br />
<br />
Both reviewers point out the vivid descriptions of violence and torture in the book; Hayden calls the violence "excessive," and Al-Solaylee explains it as "unspeakable <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">cruelty and, yes, savagery – human on human, human on animal, and animal on
animal</span>" with ritualistic torture emerging as "orgiastic." Waubgeshig Rice writes that "<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/joseph-boyden-s-the-orenda-fuels-important-conversation-1.2555541" target="_blank">The book is violent,</a> with scenes of warfare and torture between the Huron and the Haudenosaunee people. Some critics take issue with Boyden’s
portrayal of the latter, who are the novel’s antagonists. These issues
have grown louder on social media in the lead up to Canada Reads."<br />
<br />
<br />
I am wondering how Boyden's writing of violence and torture can be read in the context of the explicit and descriptive torture that is so central and popular today in mainstream American movies and TV shows such as <i>Zero Dark Thirty</i>, <i>Homeland</i>, and <i>Django Unchained</i>, all children of American torture, such as at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Black sites, and everyday military acts throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, since 9/11. Other narratives, such as the non-mainstream movie <i>12 Years a Slave</i>, also make torture part of one's vicarious "entertainment" reality. Where does Boyden's narrative of extreme violence fit in this historical moment of fascination with torture? While in the dominant power relations, white men torture brown bodies (as well as some brown men taking up the military, political, and economic interests of the white dominated American corporate/government), in Boyden's novel, among the purveyors of extreme violence inflicted on others is that of brown men torturing other brown men in the context of colonialism in in that part of Turtle Island which became Canada. <br />
<br />
I am sure the discussion period after Boyden's talk will be lively! <br />
<br />
You can read chapter one <a href="http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670064182,00.html?sym=EXC" target="_blank">here </a>at the Penguin Canada website.<br />
<br />
On Thursday, March 6, from 1 - 2 pm, Boyden will be the special guest at the Bannock and Tea hour at the Aboriginal Student Lounge; students are invited to drop in. I have asked my class of Anishnawbe writing students to bring their copy of his deeply inspiring and hopeful speech "Walk to Morning" which we discussed in class, and get it signed by him!<br />
<br />
You can hear Boyden tell his "Walk to Morning" story <a href="http://www.voicebase.com/voice_file/public_detail/48892" target="_blank">here</a> (10 m.) or read it <a href="https://www.mheducation.ca/web_resources/sch/BOYDE_WALK_TO_MORNING.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>. [pdf]<br />
<br />
Boyden uses the metaphor 'walk to morning' to mean walk towards hope; although his story is directed specifically to teens and young adults struggling with emotional distress, he has a healing message for each reader: no matter how difficult things get, you should tell someone about your pain. Walking towards the light of morning can bring small unexpected pleasures that remind us that each day is a gift and we never know what wonders will come our way. Joseph Boyden almost walked into another history and I am not the only one who is glad that he failed at that one. You have to read or listen to his speech to find out what, thank god, he failed at. <br />
<br />
When he first gave this speech in 2012, Boyden explained that<br />
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<a href="http://www.trentu.ca/newsevents/newsDetail.php?newsID=3455" target="_blank">This is a very deeply personal thing </a>I’m going to share
with you today...It’s not an easy talk to give. I’ve
reached the point in my life where I’ve been blessed with some success and I
have been afforded an audience who I hope is still willing to listen to me. I
don’t want to squander the opportunity to speak just because it would be easier
not to. I’m one of eleven children after all and I know how easy it can be to
simply fade into the background even when your gut is telling you to raise your
voice. And so allow me to raise my voice this afternoon.</div>
</blockquote>
This short speech of his is a gift that can inspire many young people. I hope it is shared, read, and listened to widely. <br />
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The
history may be complicated, but the novel’s narrative is relatively
simple: three characters take the reins and the story, set in the early
17th century, unfolds more or less chronologically. In no particular
order, the narrators are: Christophe, a Francophone Jesuit missionary;
Snow Falls, an Iroquois teen of the Haudenosaunee nation kidnapped by
the Wendats (a Huron nation); and Bird, a warrior mourning (and
avenging) the deaths of his wife and two daughters at the hands of the
Iroquois. - See more at:
http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=8123#sthash.SV0WNgu0.dpuf </div>
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The
history may be complicated, but the novel’s narrative is relatively
simple: three characters take the reins and the story, set in the early
17th century, unfolds more or less chronologically. In no particular
order, the narrators are: Christophe, a Francophone Jesuit missionary;
Snow Falls, an Iroquois teen of the Haudenosaunee nation kidnapped by
the Wendats (a Huron nation); and Bird, a warrior mourning (and
avenging) the deaths of his wife and two daughters at the hands of the
Iroquois. - See more at:
http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=8123#sthash.SV0WNgu0.dpuf</div>
<br />
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The
history may be complicated, but the novel’s narrative is relatively
simple: three characters take the reins and the story, set in the early
17th century, unfolds more or less chronologically. In no particular
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Snow Falls, an Iroquois teen of the Haudenosaunee nation kidnapped by
the Wendats (a Huron nation); and Bird, a warrior mourning (and
avenging) the deaths of his wife and two daughters at the hands of the
Iroquois. - See more at:
http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=8123#sthash.SV0WNgu0.dpuf</div>
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<a href="http://hyperallergic.com/110856/protest-action-erupts-inside-guggenheim-museum/" target="_blank">source</a>
photo by Hrag Vartanian. This mylar site-specific 'artifact' was put up
on the wall of the Guggenheim in Manhattan on Sat. Feb. 22 by
protesters taking up civil disobedience to draw attention to labour
injustices that are part of contemporary museums.<br />
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The cited passages below are from Vartanian's article "<a href="http://hyperallergic.com/110856/protest-action-erupts-inside-guggenheim-museum/" target="_blank">Protest Action Erupts</a> Inside Guggenheim Museum" published Sat. Feb. 22, 2014 on <em>Hyperallergic</em>, a website that explores art and its discontents.Thanks to my friend Diana McCarty for posting the article on FB. <br />
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Specifically, the various groups that banded together ("a diverse
group of artists, professors, students, and activists loosely affiliated
with Occupy Museums, Gulf Labor, and various NYU-related groups"),
staged this action at the NYC Guggenheim to draw attention to the unjust
working conditions of migrant workers who are building a new Guggenheim
museum, Louvre-branded museums, and a NYC-affliated university in Abu
Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The museum/art activists link the exploitation
of migrant workers with the rising debt that artists today incur and question the forced
complicity that this then produces between artists and exploited
labourers, which benefits elite museums and universities and their power
structures. This intervention is an example of students and professors
taking their words out of the academy, working with artists and activists, and putting their words into action in
the community, that is, taking up education to help make social
change.<br />
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Sociology professor Andrew Ross, who was part of the intervention at the museum, explains that<br />
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We’re trying to make a connection with
chains of debt that are transnational, and in the various locations
we’re looking at, Bangladesh, Abu Dhabi, NYU, and the art world, there’s
an enormous accumulation of debt in each of these places, and the money
is getting extracted by the transnational creditor class....And artists
are more and more [in debt], and in order to practice art, you’re
required to take on a big debt burden … so there’s a connection across
many continents.....Artists should not be asked to exhibit in museums
that have been built on the back of abused workers … that’s what it
boils down to. When you’re acquired by a museum that does that, that’s
unfair. Your complicity is being bought along with the artwork.</div>
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Expanding on the links between museums and the conditions of
exhibiting, and the importance of opening a discussion on the politics
of exhibiting, artist Natasha Dhillon explains that the action was “a
call for solidarity and a call for museums to do the right thing....it’s
important for museum goers to understand what kind of system they are
participating in.” Her comment makes clear that part of the goal of the
action was to interrupt the viewing practices of museum goers, to
disrupt familiar ways of looking and interpreting what is in a gallery or museum,
what makes up that space, where do the walls of a gallery or museum actually end, and
what exactly makes up the contextual field of "the museum" or "the art gallery."<br />
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Interestingly, the action for public education on museum practices coincided with the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/arts/design/italian-futurism-1909-1944-at-the-guggenheim.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Futurism exhibit</a> and <a href="http://carriemaeweems.net/" target="_blank">Carrie Mae Weems </a>
retrospective at the Manhattan Guggenheim, both which raise discussion
on the connections between museums, art, and the politics and power
relations of exhibiting; as Vartanian explains: "<em>Futurism</em>
sought to combine art and politics, while Weems is a champion of those
who have been historically excluded from museums." The intervention then
broadened the context of interpretations that the exhibits had opened
up. Weems work intervenes in the historical silencing of African
American art and ways of making meanings; the museum protest intervenes
in excluding migrant labour workers from the understanding of what
constitutes museum space and practices. In the UAE, migrant workers who come from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India are racialized and subordinated through hierarchies of race, ethnicity, class, and nationality; they comprise a large percentage of the total <a href="http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/labor-migration-united-arab-emirates-challenges-and-responses" target="_blank">7.8 million </a>migrant workers in the UAE in 2013 (While this number also includes highly-skilled workers, I am not sure if it includes teachers and "expats," a term linked with Anglo and Western white-collar workers that hierachizes and grants race-privilege to non-native workers in higher paid/status jobs, who benefit from the exploitation of racialized migrant workers.)<br />
<br />
Making the ideological
connections between Saturday's intervention and the two exhibits
currently on display, artist Amin Husain, who has contributed to <a href="http://gulflabor.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/NODEBTISANISLAND.pdf" target="_blank">No Debt is an Island</a>, as part of the art project <a href="http://gulflabor.org/" target="_blank">52 weeks</a> by the arts collective Gulf Labor, explains that "the context is
really appropriate, because they [the Futurists] talked about
restructuring the universe, so clearly the museum is giving that some
thought at this moment, and we want to talk about restructuring the
universe without fascism and without slave labor.” What Husain's words
suggest is that museums like the Guggenheim are in some sense showing themselves to be interested in opening up "the Grecian urn" to larger discussions, including the
political and the economic, and the intervention last Saturday pushed open that door a bit
further.<br />
<br />
The action also included a collective chant (see Vartanian's article for the
whole chant), which included a challenge to contemporary institutional
practices of museums, exposing their embeddedness in an unequal
transnational capitalist economy aka neoliberal globalization and
questioning the future direction of museums but also asserting that
museums need to address justice and take up action towards it:<br />
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Museums Should Protect Their Workers,</div>
<div style="padding-left: 90px;">
Museums Should Stand Up For Human Rights</div>
<div style="padding-left: 90px;">
Museums Should Be Raising Labor Standards, Not Lowering Them.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 150px;">
Is This The Future of Art?</div>
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The other day I went for a morning walk upstream McVicar's Creek. I went with my friend Lilian Mattar Patey. I first bicycled to Shuniah Knox United Church, where Lilian is interim minister, to meet her. We then walked north through the neighbourhood, behind Balsam Pit and along Margaret Street to reach the trail by the creek. Along the path, we saw a bunch of marsh marigolds ringing a swamp. Swamps always catch my eye as 'swamp' or 'bog,' which translate to 'suo' in Finnish, is in the very name of Finland in the Finnish language: Suomi. A few steps later on our path, we saw this amazing tree in someone's backyard. It was shining in the morning light; there was no missing it. The tree reminded me of the comforting and desirous beauty of the Tree of Life. It's sheltering arms, perfect symmetry, expansive canopy, circular space, and dusting of white flower petals caught our eye. <br />
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Continuing on our way, we saw this pile of huge stones. I told Lilian that in Suomenusko, the old Finnish beliefs before Christianity came to Finland, stones as well as trees were seen to have spirits. People conversed with stones and trees for healing and for wisdom, going out into the forest for the medicine of trees and stones. Of course, stones and trees have been symbolically important to many peoples and cultures. I told Lilian, well, I don't need to tell a Palestinian like you of the importance of stones. Today stones are the remnants of the Palestinian houses that Israel has destroyed and demolished. Palestinian youth take up stones as resistance against occupation. Indeed, a new documentary called <a href="http://www.thestonescryoutmovie.com/" target="_blank">The Stones Cry Out</a> uses the metaphor, reality, and spiritual strength of stones to tell the story of the ongoing Nakba of Palestine, focusing on its Christian population and heritage.<br />
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Lilian's family story is part of the larger dispossession of Christians from Palestine. In the short 6 m. video above you can hear Lilian tell some of the story of her family's displacement from Palestine. She was born in Haifa, but because of the Zionist militia takeover in 1948 her family was forced to flee and found refuge in Al Quds / Jerusalem; however, they eventually met more tragedy. By telling her family's story, Rev. Mattar Patey hopes that people will broaden their understanding of the Palestinian heritage of what is now called Israel. In 1948, Jerusalem was designated an international administration zone yet, as Lilian's story is an example, since 1967 Israel has taken large parts of it by force and today by demolition and the continuing displacement of Palestinians from East Jerusalem. Since burying her father, Lilian has not been back to her home. <br />
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There are all sorts of things to worry about in the world, from the increasing brutality meted out to the peaceful demonstrators at <a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/632862/police-sweep-back-into-istanbul-square-firing-tear-gas-water-cannons/" target="_blank">Taksim Park</a> in Turkey who just want to preserve a small urban green space, the US turning its <a href="http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2013/06/11/Glenn-Greenwald-NSA-Leaks/" target="_blank">surveillance state</a> upon itself and blanket-spying on its own citizens through the collecting of their digital metadata (and anyone who sends an email, text, or phones someone in the US), to the Senate scandal in Canada where welfare cheats like<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/senator-mike-duffy-lobbied-for-cabinet-post-e-mail-suggests/article12281873/" target="_blank"> Senator Mike Duffy </a>live high off the hog on the public purse and the ongoing violence in Syria and its spillover into northern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, causing the Lebanese Army to deploy in Tripoli in hopes of stopping the snipers and machine gun battles. Just the other day, the old souk where I loved roaming about in the heart of Tripoli was the scene of sniping and shooting. Depressing. <br />
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So, why do I worry about one fledgling crow that was kicked out of its nest four days ago by mom and dad crow? I was worried that the neighbourhood cats would get it at night, especially the first few days when fledgling crow was ground level. I was relieved to see that in trying out its wings it managed to hop onto the bottom rung of the railing outside my garage. It stayed there a long while and at one point, when its head was bobbing downward, I thought it was dying. Was it even eating anything?<br />
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However, I shouldn't have worried at all about that scruffy looking fledgling crow. It's perfectly natural for crows to boot out their fledglings to teach them how to survive, to get on with life. I found that out after I dug out a few worms and threw them to fledgling. He looked at me with alarm, squawked, and, frightened, clumsily jumped away. I thought it would injure its wings in getting away from me. Leave it alone, I read. Do not interfere.<br />
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The parents still keep a close watch on fledgling crow and swoop in now and then to give it some food. One of the crows dive bombed my head as I was working in the garden, sending me a warning to leave its child alone. I can hear another fledgling, too, two doors to the west. Fledgling must have a sibling. The parents, the resident crows, have been busy scaring off people and squirrels, flying around, and encouraging the fledglings in their crow arts. <br />
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The next day, the fledgling had progressed to the top railing and began short hop flights from one post to the other, trying out its wings. It looked awful clumsy. Yesterday I saw it skim fly downwards across the back yard, over the hedges to the back lane. It cawed plaintively there until its parents came to the tell it what to do.<br />
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<br />With its parents in the neighbour's plum tree cawing loudly and hammering and gouging the tree's branches to get its attention, it managed to fly to the tree's lower branches, although its wings first tangled in the foliage before it steadied itself. It spent the night there. <br />
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Today, thankfully, it is sitting even higher, on a top branch of the still higher Manitoba Maple, surveying the area that will be eventually become its territory. No wonder crows notice everything. Since they are fledglings they have been patiently looking everything over, casing the place for danger. Soon fledgling crow will lose its awkwardness and learn its predator ways. northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-10582927450226430032013-06-10T14:20:00.002-07:002013-06-10T14:20:59.030-07:00The Calling of Directions<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In April, which is poetry month, I attended a poetry workshop with <a href="http://cwip.artmob.ca/contributors/marilyn-dumont" target="_blank">Marilyn Dumont</a>, one of my favourite poets. </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To prepare for the workshop, she asked us to collect words that are part of a history, or that someone at a specific time would use. Naturally, and because I had recently attended a Finno-Ugric drum workshop with <a href="http://dalvalamminmaki.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Dalva Lamminmaki</a>, I turned to my Finnish heritage. Also, I had been thinking of words that can call up beauty, so I had been scribbling words of pleasing sounds into my scribbler. In the end, I wrote up 10 lists of words. </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At the workshop, Marilyn asked us to play with the word cache we had collected and let the words lead us to new patterns and sounds. We were to convey something palpable through juxtapositions, through sound synchronicities. Dwell in disorder, she said. Pay attention to images, textures, colours. Commit to unfolding language, following sound to discover meaning. Above all, we were not to think about product, but to enjoy playing with language. In my playing, I combined some of the words I had collected and, eventually, playing with space too, I shaped the poem below. I added a title and fiddled with a few words and phrases. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As stars slept</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Deep blue dreamt of dancing</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gifts scattered, flying from </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the rumble of reindeer, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the utterance
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Etelään: to the
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On the mountain carved with syllabics</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in the forest of illusions</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Whispers dreamt <a href="http://www.ismoluukkonen.net/kalliotaide/suomi/" target="_blank">red ochre</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rattle rained flying antlers</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in a shaman language</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rattle scattered blue sound, </span></div>
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northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-32099336036447084202013-06-04T11:12:00.001-07:002013-06-04T11:12:24.595-07:00Travels on a Finno-Ugric drum journey<br />
The scent of burning sage signals the opening of ritual space.<br />
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Small bells circle, gently breaking up energy. As the drum stick swishes across the reindeer skin stretched over the frame, sussuring sounds spiral outward. <br />
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Soon, the drum begins its song, and she is sent on her journey into a tunnel of darkness.<br />
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As the beat of the drum vibrates through her, different animals' faces appear one by one before her closed eyes. Squirrel. Blue Jay. Crow. Rabbit. Deer. Dog. Moose. Raccoon. Mole. Bee. Wasp. Butterfly. Mouse...no, it was too big. Was it Rat? No, it was Mouse. Mouse! she wondered incredulously, was Mouse to be her Spirit Animal?<br />
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No. Suddenly Ilves appeared.<br />
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<a href="http://cats-pictures.org/pictures/view_post/7115?lang=en" target="_blank">Image source</a> <br />
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His large yellow eyes<a href="http://cats-pictures.org/pictures/view_post/7115?lang=en" target="_blank"></a> loomed before her, staring into her soul.<br />
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Suddenly, she was on the back of Ilves, the large huntress. The cat ran through the back woods. It was night, winter, snow covered the ground. Ilves ran powerfully through the dark woods, snaking through the trees, comfortable in its territory. Running, running. The dark night sky, a canopy of indigo overhead, was filled with glittering stars that glinted back from the snow fields. Running, running. Flying past snow covered trees. Flying over snow encrusted ground.<br />
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Suddenly, she was sucked into a small hole in the earth, pulled down a vortex, her arms and hands last, waving. The lovi had opened up, sending her deeper on her journey. <br />
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She found herself under the earth, swimming amongst the tangled roots of trees, of the birches, poplars, balsams and black spruce above. She pushed the roots aside, swimming through their tentacles. She was unimpeded. Her arms were strong, her hair long, weaving smoothly through the tendrils of roots. She swam and swam. <br />
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She entered deep indigo blue water, dark blue like the sky above. She was swimming deep along the bottom of Lake Superior. The place where silence was born.<br />
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A large sturgeon floated by.<br />
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A white door opened to the right, a ghostly portal beckoning her. Light emanates from it, pulsing soft rays of haunting enticement. She swam through the watery portal, passing through it.<br />
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She found herself on a cliff. But now she <i>is</i> Ilves. Her hands are large powerful paws and she is running in the forest, along the edge of a high cliff. She runs and runs. Her energy is boundless.<br />
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There is a large valley below. She stops to bask in the sunlight, curls up on the edge of the cliff. It is a sunny day, spring. All seems calm and fresh. Then, she is told to fly off the cliff.<br />
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She jumps. She sails, soars through the sky. She lands on all fours on the earth in the forest. She is on a canyon floor. She starts to dig and dig. The earth is black, soft and rich with decay. The scent of decomposing earth fills the air.<br />
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She finds a bone, one bone. It is not big. She digs and digs. She finds some pages. They are loose; they flutter in the wind. Then, her digging done, she leaps and flies straight up into the sky.<br />
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<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/02/11/messier-monday-a-lost-and-found-star-cluster-m48/" target="_blank">image source</a><br /><br />
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It is is night again, indigo blue, the sky covered in stars. She is a woman again. She is floating on her back, streaming through the night sky as if floating downstream in a river. She floats and floats, restful like a baby calmed by a warm bath until she lands by a big rock at the shore of a lake.<br />
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She climbs up on the rock and sits and looks across the water. It is Midsummer Day. The waves lap softly. The sun is warm. The air is calm.<br />
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She stands up. She is naked.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/Canada+shuts+Finland/8203985/story.html" target="_blank">Team Canada vs. Team Finland,</a> April 5, 2013, the 2013 <b>IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championships</b>. Photograph: Wayne Cuddington,
Ottawa Citizen</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While there is plenty to say about hockey in
relation to Canada and Finland, it is debatable which nation tops the
other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the other hand, on the topic of mothers,
Finland clearly beats us: <a href="http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.8585863/k.9F31/State_of_the_Worlds_Mothers.htm">Save
the Children’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2012 report</a> ranks Finland
no.1 in the world for mothers; Canada trails at no. 22. What holds us back? No
universal daycare and shocking numbers of impoverished children—indeed, 4800 in
Thunder Bay (2006, <a href="http://www.kalc.ca/karli/povertyreport2006-tbejc.pdf">Thunder Bay
Economic Justice Committee Poverty Report</a>) [pdf]—whose mothers, unsurprisingly,
are also poor, contribute to our lacklustre ranking. A shocking 50% of
Aboriginal children in Thunder Bay live in poverty (<a href="http://www.lspc.ca/uploads/documents/2012-MyNeighbour-OurCommunity-Workbook.pdf">2012,
LSPC</a>) [pdf]. These shameful political and social realities reveal that on
supporting mothers in all our diversities, our government is negligent, lagging
behind Finland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That is not to say that Finland is a utopia
for, like Canada, it too participates in the policies and ravages of neoliberal
economics. So Finland’s ranking as #1 for mothers must be seen in the context
of global-wide neoliberal cutbacks on social spending. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However, unlike Canada, Finland keeps
changing its national identity with an eye to a better world for everyone.
Finland strives not only to improve the well-being of its citizens but also to
spearhead positive change for the most deprived people globally. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is especially evident in Finland’s <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>progressive position on Palestine. Finland, along with
Denmark, recently granted full diplomatic status to Palestine, <a href="http://www.finland.ca/public/default.aspx?contentid=276073&nodeid=41327&contentlan=2&culture=en-US" target="_blank">upgrading theirPalestinian missions to embassies</a>. Finland, a member of the advisory commission
of UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency), focuses its monetary aid to
Palestine on education and improving water supplies and sanitation, along with
developing freedom of the press and a civilian police. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since 1997, <a href="http://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/education-development-palestinian-territories">PALFEP,
the Palestinian-Finnish Education Programme</a>, has worked on assisting the educational
goals of Palestinians. Even <a href="http://www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi/en">Finnish
Church Aid</a> unequivocally assists Palestinians as part of their mandate of
“working with the poorest people, regardless of their religious beliefs, ethnic
background or political conviction.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While some churches in Canada, such as the <a href="http://www.united-church.ca/peace/unsettling-goods">United Church</a>,
have a progressive position on Palestine, the Christian Zionism of the
religious right <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/evangelical-christians-find-a-home-in-conservative-politics/article4599598/">has
sway over the federal government</a>, buttressing a fervent support of Israel
even while Israel builds illegal settlements in the West Bank, dispossesses
Palestinians from East Jerusalem, and regulates and humiliates Palestinians daily
at checkpoints and the ‘security wall.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Recently, Canada’s actions have served to bring
hardships to—even offend—Palestinians and their dreams of a self-determining
nation state. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird recently
met with Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni in occupied East Jerusalem. Nabil
Shaath, a former Palestinian foreign minister, called this action a “<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/m/rich/politics/story/2013/04/15/baird-palestinian-israel-controversy.html">slap
in the face to the Palestinian people</a>” and an “unprecedented offence that
severely damages” Canada’s relationship with Palestine and the Arab world.</span></div>
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blockade against Gaza continues; a blockade which The International Committee
of the Red Cross and the UN Human Rights Council consider illegal. In 2012, Canada
strongly opposed granting Palestine non-observer status at the UN General
Assembly. Why? Baird expressed fears that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/03/05/john-baird-palestine-israel-un_n_2813321.html">Palestinians
will file war crimes against Israel</a> in the International Criminal Court and
demand the stop of settlements. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is nothing less than confounding: The Jewish
settlements on Palestinian land are illegal according to international law. Why
would we want to <i>stop</i> a nation from filing war crimes? Aren’t we for
justice? For using legal methods to get results? </span></div>
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of Canadian aid to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank so far has
focused on security, prosecution services, and the criminal justice system,
including $50 m. for building a court house. We give them money to develop legal
and security infrastructure, yet we don’t support Palestine’s legal claims
internationally? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It seems we have no shame in exposing our
hypocrisy and, once again, scorning and abandoning international standards as
we see fit. </span></div>
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Canada’s training of Palestinian security forces is to the benefit of Israel.<br />
<span class="credit">(<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/people/issam-rimawi">Issam Rimawi</a> / <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/people/apa-images">APA images</a>)</span>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But it is building security forces that Canada is most interested in; as Yves Engler, writing for Electronic Intifada reports, </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/canadas-tax-dollars-aid-israels-divide-and-rule-tactics/12003" target="_blank">Most of the Canadian aid money </a>has gone to building up a Palestinian security force overseen by a US general," a security force which benefits Israel. Engler cites former deputy foreign minister Peter Kent as saying the bulk of the $300m. in aid went to security, and Canadian security personnel numbers in Palestine are the second largest deployment after Afghanistan. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The above aid, which also included private
sector economic development and lastly, flip to Finland’s humanitarian focus,
health and education assistance, expired in March. It is now under review. In
punishment for the Palestinians seeking (and gaining) non-observer state status
at the UN, <a href="http://www.news1130.com/2013/03/28/baird-non-committal-on-300-million-palestinian-funding-which-expires-sunday/">Canada
suspended the renewal of $300 m.</a> in aid to the West Bank Palestinians. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/03/06/pol-cp-baird-fantino-palestinian-speech.html">Baird
has threatened</a> that the Palestinians will have “consequences” if they take
Israel to the ICC. Baird also demands that the Palestinians “immediately resume
negotiations with Israel without preconditions.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is unclear why Baird believes Canada has the
global clout—or reputation—to demand acquiescence of another sovereign nation.
Does he believe that the Palestinians will bow to Canada’s demands in fear of
losing $300 m.? In light of the <i>Jerusalem Post</i> recently reporting that
<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Reallocating-Canadian-aid-to-the-Palestinians-309715" target="_blank">PM Harper has transformed Canada into Israel’s most dependable ally</a>, why would
Palestinians grovel for more slaps in the face?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Canada’s new global identity as arrogant
bully is troubling. On the other hand, one thing that marks Finland as
exceptional is its commitment to prescient thinking to enable peaceful global co-existence
for all peoples, including the Palestinians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the question of Palestine, Finland leads
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political cartoon from the Halifax Herald; <a href="http://thewfds.blogspot.ca/2013/04/5897stephen-harper-is-bully.html" target="_blank">image source</a><br /><div class="MsoNormal">
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northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-20546680403389858252013-03-16T12:23:00.000-07:002013-03-16T12:35:20.711-07:00Israeli General on 'security fencing': "it is indeed a monster"<div class="d2l_1_138_79">
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Israel has recently completed its 'security fence' along its border with Egypt. This line snakes ominously through the Negev Desert.<br />
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Q: beside Israel, what other nation is entirely physically fenced in?<br />
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True, the US has built a separation wall on its border with Mexico, but it does not yet have a physical wall on its northern border with Canada, although it had been suggested by some. That plan was scrapped; instead, drones, "<a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2012/06/05/uscanada_border_security_blueprint_the_next_generation_of_integrated_crossborder_law_enforcement.html" target="_blank">boots on the ground</a> and greater integration with Canadian law enforcement" will be manning the border (and I think 'manning' is not sexist in this usage as most of those "boots" will be male and the ideology of militarism and security come firmly from militarised masculinity and the power of the male military hierarchy, even though there are women eager to perform hegemonic masculine militarism). <br />
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Israeli Prime Minister <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324374004578217720772159626.html" target="_blank">Netanyahu said the fence</a> [through the Negev]<br />
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"was a sign of improved Israeli security. He has called the fence
evidence of his efforts to insulate Israel from the turmoil of the Arab
Spring revolutions and the influx of mostly Eritrean and Sudanese
migrants, which he has portrayed as a national-security threat. ...
Israeli security officials say Sinai has increasingly become a haven for
militants from the Gaza Strip, local Bedouin tribes and global jihadist
groups. Israel is also building a fence on the border with Syria, the
prime minister's office said."</blockquote>
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Netanyahu's rationale echoes the security apparatus and Islamophobic discourse common in Western nation states such as Canada and the US, a discourse embedded with racism of which Israel has its own multiple forms. <br />
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Ironically, the workers who have been building the barrier along Israel's border with Egypt are the very
people that Israel wants to keep out of the country and one of the
reasons it is building the 'fence': the <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/01/06/the-fence-is-it-really-good.html" target="_blank">Sudanese</a>.<br />
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Israel already has a 'fence' along most of its border with Syria, but
Israel is adding to it as well as fortifying it (appropriate word, 'fortifying' as it is linked to settler colonials building forts against the so-called natives). <br />
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Below is a
photo of part of the Israeli security wall along what Israel defines as its border with Syria.<br />
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After finishing the 'security fence' along the Egyptian border, Israel will then build a 'security fence' along <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/151281#.UUN00DeiL04" target="_blank">its border with Jordan</a>.<br />
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Also, Israel has been <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-fortifies-border-fence-with-lebanon-1.428007" target="_blank">busy fortifying</a> its 'fence' along its border with Lebanon:<br />
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I wonder if these are "Arab Isreali" workers building the 'security fence'?<br />
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Of the 'security fence' being built along Israel's border with Egypt, deputy
director general of the Israeli Defense Ministry, Brig. Gen. (res. )
Bezalel Treiber states:"<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/on-israel-egypt-border-best-defense-is-a-good-fence-1.395239" target="_blank">It is indeed a monster</a>...Seen from the Egyptian side, the fence overall is quite frightening."<br />
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Mice may well burrow their way to the other side, but will other desert animals pass in their migratory routes? And what of the <a href="http://www.nazcapictures.com/nv_onerep.php?id_reportage=633&&PHPSESSID=fpdddbtdzzmjw" target="_blank">Bedouin</a>, whose traditional migratory land this is?<br />
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The 'fences' mapping out the borders of Israel are part of its system of segregation, of which the Apartheid Wall is its most heinous human rights abuser. It not only appropriates Palestinian land, but causes untold suffering to Palestinians caught in its oppressive encircling through restricting and preventing access to lands, education, health, recreations, community, religious institutions and is a formidable military tool of death, injury, and humiliation to Palestinians. <br />
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<a href="http://israels-apartheid-wall.com/?author=1" target="_blank">image source: Tear Down the Wall </a><br />
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This image is very gothic. I'm reminded of Frankenstein. It is dystopian. The wall is, of course, horrifically detrimental to the Palestinians, but what must it be like for the Israeli soldiers who go inside this dungeon? </div>
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northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-69142825357752070972013-03-14T07:56:00.000-07:002013-03-14T07:56:10.209-07:00$10 million & 9 million of Canadian taxpayer dollars<div class="text combinedtext parbase section">
The Canadian government wastes exorbitant amounts of taxpayers' money on security and corruption. In an example that has recently come to light, Canadians don't even know exactly how much was spent! Meanwhile, those on social assistance or employment insurance (which used to be called 'unemployment insurance') are accountable for every last red dollar--including <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/02/21/pol-cp-employment-insurance-house-calls.html" target="_blank">getting 'home visits' if the feds think you're lying</a>.<br />
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For the dam --or should I say, damn-- project, we only know that about 10 million dollars was paid to a private security firm--and we know that this company is well known for its links to crime and corruption. Interesting, but not surprisingly, one of our own Canadian crime-and-corruption firms, SNC-Lavalin, is again caught up in scandal and, most likely, illegal actions. SNC-Lavalin, a powerful Canadian engineering firm/military contractor, is part of yet another outrageous mis-use of funds, and no doubt corruption and paying off powerful elites plays a role in the Dahla dam case in Afghanistan, as they did in Lavalin's corrupt dealings with repressive power lords in Libya: <br />
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<a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/03/13/afghanistan_dam_project_9_million_set_aside_for_security_contractors_including_those_in_armed_standoff.html" target="_blank">Canada spent about $10 million on security</a> in Afghanistan at its $50-million Dahla dam
project, where private security contractors were linked to allegations
of corruption and involved in an armed standoff with Canadian security
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signature projects in Afghanistan, the Dahla dam was guarded in part by
Watan Risk Management, a controversial Afghan security firm with alleged
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There's no other word but outrageous for this disgusting abuse of taxpayers' money. Where are the regulations and overseers to prevent this kind of crime? Seems our neoliberal government supports "security" and paying off foreign firms with terrible records of criminality. Maybe $10m is a drop in the bucket, as it seems $9 million was also spent covering up crime: this time on greenwashing environmental destruction:<br />
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The Canadian government's ad campaign <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/Energy/tarsands/Get-involved/stopgreenwash/" target="_blank">hid the gutting of environmental laws</a>.<br />
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northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-24716909940793976902013-03-03T11:04:00.000-08:002013-03-03T11:04:07.469-08:00Life is a struggle <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been absent from posting, but I hope to be back to a more regular routine soon. There are a few upcoming poetry events in TBay that look interesting. Above is the poster for a book launch this coming weekend. I don't usually go to Chapters (it's part of my BDS commitment as the majority owners of this bookstore founded <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/canada-action-boycott-chapters-and-indigo-bookstores/6638" target="_blank">Heseg the Foundation for Lone Soldiers</a> ), but I will make an exception this once to go hear Al Hunter. <br /><br />northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-17566054612669512152012-12-05T19:38:00.000-08:002012-12-05T19:38:00.903-08:00Mary, Mary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Downtown in front of the Waverley Library each December a large nativity scene is set up. This is Mary, mother of Jesus, with one of the wise men and a sheep behind her. Her hands look awfully big for her face, which looks childlike.While the male figurine is brown-skinned, Mary is not. Western Christians have re-imaged the mother of Jesus, making her more European-looking -- and sounding. Jesus's mother's name was Miriam, but that was changed to Mary in English. </div>
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Here is what the nativity scene looks like. Joseph on the right, the Three Wise Men in the back and the cows and sheep scattered about. The empty space in the straw bed is for the baby Jesus, who is put there either on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. If Jesus is not there yet, shouldn't Mary's stomach be heavily pregnant? Or is her body also miraculously un-womanly looking even while she was pregnant? Strange. This nativity scene is quite traditional. </div>
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This, however, is more what the nativity scene would look like if we envisioned Bethlehem beyond the myth -- to the reality of occupation. Today, if Jesus were to come to earth and be born in a manger in Bethlehem, Mary and Joseph and the three wise men and the animals would have to deal with the Apartheid Wall. Now, Mary and Joseph, being Jewish, would be able to pass through the Wall without permits. I'm not sure about the Three Wise Men, though, as they would be arriving from Iran, Arabia, and India. Maybe they were all Jews, too? Not sure. Would the IDF let them through? </div>
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The olive wood nativity scene above is made by a Palestinian
Christian artist from Beit Sahour, trans. the Shepherd's Field. (The nativity scene is for sale; click on the link below): </div>
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<a href="http://www.beyondbethlehemswall.com/separation_wall_nativity.html" target="_blank">In 2007 as an act of quiet resistance,</a> he made a
"walled nativity set" - a nativity scene where the wall stopped the
wise men from getting through to the Holy Family. He said “I made these sets as
a protest at what is happening to the local community of Bethlehem and Beit
Sahour”. Beit Sahour - is in the Bethlehem area, where 87% of the land has been
taken by the Israelis. "We are surrounded by the wall and our freedom of
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<br />northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-20249540595261392242012-12-04T18:58:00.000-08:002012-12-04T18:58:16.311-08:00Christmas in the looking glass <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.beyondbethlehemswall.com/aboutus.html" target="_blank">image source</a><br />
It's the beginning of December, and I'm already getting irritated by the glee of Christmas that I find everywhere I turn. People all around me, folks on Facebook, work colleagues, and people who should know better are all falling into the well of simulacra, Baudrillard's idea that what is false is more believable and desirable than actual reality. <br />
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The more untrue, the more we believe it to be true. The bigger the illusion, the happier our delusion. <br />
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When are Western Christians today going to move beyond the myth that they have created about the Holy Land? Believing in the story about Bethlehem in the Bible as if it were alive today? When are the majority of Christians going to wake up to what is really happening in Bethlehem today? Do they know there is an Apartheid Wall built by the Israelis and policed by the IDF that restricts the movement of the residents of Bethlehem? Do they know that the people of Bethlehem need passes and permits? Do they care?<br />
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It's this living in the looking-glass world where everything is childishly innocent and joyful that I find so irritating. <br />
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Oh Come All Ye Faithful, indeed. Get ye head out of the Christmas card and look hard at the wall. <br />
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The other day, talking with a woman who I had not met before, we got into a discussion of poetry. She told me that she recently watched a movie about a South African poet called <i>Black Butterflies</i>; it is fictionalized history about the life of Ingrid Jonker, a white South African writer. Jonker, like a number of other white female poets of the 60s and 70s such as Sylvia Plath and Ann Sexton, committed suicide. Like Plath and Sexton, her words could not save her. Jonkers, like Virginia Woolf and the fictional Edna Pontellier of Kate Chopin's <i>The Awakening</i>, walks into the waves and drowns herself. <br />
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The woman I met told me that Jonker struggled with her racist father who supported apartheid. She said that Nelson Mandela had used lines from a poem by Jonker when he gave the first address to the first African Congress. The story goes, Jonker had written the poem for her father, to help him move beyond his apartheid thinking; instead, after she read it to him, he tore the poem in two. I guess she must have expected that as he had a high-ranking position in the National Party as a censure of writing. <br />
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When I looked up her poem and read it, I immediately thought of how her narrative thread leads to Palestine and resonates with other poems written by other women who are also writing about children who live--and are killed--within racist apartheid violence. I thought of poems by Ibtisam Barakat, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Lisa Suheir Majaj. The lines of hope with which Jonker ends her poem, hopefully, will one day come true for Palestinians as they have for black South Africans: no more passes. The demonstration in Sharpeville in 1960 was an anti-pass rally; 169 black people were killed by the Afrikaners police; today we commemorate this massacre on March 21, the International Day Against Racial Discrimination. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/30/truth-and-trauma-in-gaza/" target="_blank">Al-Dalu children </a>killed by Israeli missiles in Gaza this November 18. There names and ages:</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Jamal Mohammed Jamal 6; Yousef Mohammed Jamal
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;">You can find the names of the 33 children killed by Israel this November on the <a href="http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9045:weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-14-21-nov-2012&catid=84:weekly-2009&Itemid=183" target="_blank">Palestinian Centre for Human Rights</a>website. </span><br /><br />
When will Palestinian children be able to travel the land without passes? When will Palestinian children be able to step from behind the shadow of an Israeli soldier? Not be dead? When will Palestinians no longer be subjected to a racist and humiliating pass system? Gain the human right of free movement not policed by Israelis? No checkpoints. Without a pass. When will that day come? <br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The child is not dead </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by Ingrid
Jonker<br /><br />
The child is not dead </span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
The child lifts his fists against his mother<br />
Who shouts Afrika <span style="font-size: small;">!</span> shouts the breath<br />
Of freedom and the veld<br />
In the locations of the cordoned heart<br /><br />
The child lifts his fists against his father </span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
in the march of the generations<br />
who shouts Afrika ! shout the breath<br />
of righteousness and blood<br />
in the streets of his embattled pride<br /><br />
The child is not dead not at Langa nor at Nyanga </span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
not at Orlando nor at <a href="http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/sharpeville-massacre-21-march-1960" target="_blank">Sharpeville</a><br />
nor at the police station at Philippi<br />
where he lies with a bullet through his brain<br /><br />
The child is the dark shadow of the soldiers </span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
on guard with rifles Saracens and batons<br />
the child is present at all assemblies and law-givings<br />
the child peers through the windows of houses and into the hearts of
mothers<br />
this child who just wanted to play in the sun at Nyanga is everywhere<br />
the child grown to a man treks through all Africa<br /><br />
the child grown into a giant journeys through the whole world </span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
Without a pass </span></span></span></div>
northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-41092828645141864172012-11-26T08:56:00.003-08:002012-11-26T08:58:55.278-08:00from the Black Hills to Gaza and back to Canada then off to Israel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I found this video on Jadaliyya, an English language Arab news and culture website. I agree with them that TED talks have their problems (the few I have seen are overwhelmingly by white professional guys in suits), but this one by Aaron Huey comes from a decolonizing perspective. Yes, he too is a white male but he actually takes a critical look at that. In their introduction to the video, Jaddaliyya links the practices of colonial settler projects, links what's happening to the Palestinians by Israel with what was done to--and continues to be done to-- the Lakota by the US, and to Indigenous peoples everywhere.<br />
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While Huey, a photographer, specifically uses contemporary photographs to inform his narration of the resistance of the Lakota to a long history of settler policies and violence, the hard questions that he raises about the role of 'wasi'chu' , Lakota for both 'non-native' and 'those who take the best part of the meat' (which has been white people and continues to include settlers of all skin colours who benefit from the dominant society's policies and methods) can be extended to Canadian setter society and other settler peoples like Israelis. <br />
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<a href="http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/8597/americas-native-prisoners-of-war" target="_blank">Jadaliyya Reports</a> states that:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Today, three days after “Thanksgiving Day,” it is important to remember
that in the United States, settler colonialism has been so complete, and
so successful, that the world has forgotten that South Africa,
Australia, and Israel are all reproductions, all approximations of the
ongoing victory in the Americas. We have forgotten that people learn
from each other, and that techniques and lessons of genocide have always
travelled in well cut suits, paperwork, and handshakes. We have
forgotten that those of us who live today in the United States, are
continuing to settle native land, and that even the ability to be a
politically progressive—or even radical—citizen of the United States is a
wage of genocide. A reservation is a bantustan is a refugee camp is
Area A is an allotment is native title is Gaza.. </blockquote>
northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-31671645461404614432012-11-25T18:19:00.000-08:002012-11-25T18:27:30.368-08:00shout out in Israel <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This protest was held earlier this month in Tel Aviv during the recent Israeli attack on Gaza which killed <a href="http://popular-resistance.blogspot.ca/2012/11/gaza-redux-analysis.html" target="_blank">162 Palestinians, including 30 children, and wounded 1000,</a> many severely.<br />
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This large fired-up group of Israelis chants to another group of Israelis on the other side of the street. Watch the video (3 m); below is the text in English (as translated on the video above) of what the Israeli group is chanting in Hebrew.<br />
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The hatred against not only Palestinians but Israelis who are left-leaning is shocking and sickening. What makes things worse is the man that comes before the camera about halfway through, who is welcomed as 'the next Prime Minister' and who leads this shout out on hate and xenophobia is a member of Israeli parliament, an elected member of the Knesset. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ben-Ari" target="_blank">He is of Iranian and Afghan descent.</a> Indeed, many of his supporters look like they could be Mizrahi Jews like him, Jews who are indigenous to the Middle East. This man is an archeologist, which is so troubling because one has to wonder what role he plays in erasing Palestinian history from the land to justify the state of Israel as inheritor?<br />
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Why do I tell you these things about him? Read his words below which I've placed in blue text.These are the beliefs of a member of the Israeli government? I am used to right wing madness but this crosses all lines; it is venom and clearly hate speech. <br />
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It's funny that Israel claims that Arabs want to drive them out of the land and kill them all, but it seems some Israelis not only are architects of a language of extermination but also gloatingly and deliriously so:<br />
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The nation wants victory<br />
The nation demands war now<br />
Respect to IDF (Israeli Defense Forces)<br />
The nation demands to expel leftists<br />
Leftists are sons of ****<br />
Your mothers lied [slept with] Arabs<br />
Leftists go to hell<br />
and shall you get cancer soon<br />
Welcome our next Prime Minister [Michael Ben-Ari]<br />
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Good evening, good Jews</div>
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And to you all leftist traitors</div>
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we now demand let the army destroy</div>
<div style="color: #0b5394;">
let the army exterminate</div>
<div style="color: #0b5394;">
let's not confuse; No innocents in Gaza</div>
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No negotiations anymore</div>
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No agreements, we force them to kneel</div>
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and beat them</div>
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Eradicate Gaza, Eradicate Gaza</div>
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What, only 15 killed?</div>
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We want 15 plus 2000 bodies</div>
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We want all Gaza in graves</div>
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all Gaza in graves</div>
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Security means to annihilate Gaza</div>
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Yes, Eradicate Gaza, eradicate Gaza</div>
<span style="color: #0b5394;">People of Israel are alive</span><br />
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It would be interesting to hear what the leftist Israelis on the other side of the street were chanting. <br />
<br />northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-277448411040921972012-11-24T21:14:00.000-08:002012-11-24T21:16:35.393-08:00snow storyI've lost my camera somewhere, so I wasn't able to take a picture of the snow storm that blew into town the night before last. I've looked high and low for a week but the camera is nowhere to be found. But I do have a story of the snow storm that blew in. <br />
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That morning I did my best to make it to the yoga class I teach at 7 AM. After my alarm woke me up, I poked my head from behind the curtain to look out into the jet black morning to see if there was a hint as to what kind of day was coming our way. I was dumbstruck. A snowstorm! Overnight the landscape was completely transformed. Yesterday had been a balmy plus 8 celsius when I pedaled home on my bike; now we were slapped into the middle of winter.<br />
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My heart sank as I saw the piles of snow burying the car. Strong wind gusts whipped the world into a white howling storm. Wasting no time, I pulled on my clothes and dashed out into the dark to clean off the car. My dashing changed to trudging when I opened the front door. Snow threatened to fall inside the tops of my knee-high boots as I trudged through high drifts. Using a snowbrush, I cleaned some of the snow off the top of the car, but it was too heavy and slow-going. I started to sweat. This is going to take me forever!<br />
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I trudged back into the house to telephone to say I would be late to teach yoga. I dashed back outside, cleaned the rest of the snow from the car, scraped the windows, then looked down the driveway. Our winter shovels are still in the garage! I trudged through the snow to the backyard to get the garden shovel; it was hopeless to try and get into the garage as the snow was too deep.<br />
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I was sweating and I hadn't even started shoveling! Maybe if I shovel out two tire paths behind the car I might manage to get out of the driveway and on my way.<br />
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With the wind howling in my ears, I set about digging in the dark, wishing it wasn't so early in the morning as otherwise I could get my husband up and get him to help me. Satisfied that I'd shoveled some of the snow out of the way, I jumped in the car and carefully backed out of the driveway onto the street, but as I live on a
hilly street, and the snowplow had not yet come by, I could not get my car up the hill. I tried again and again, but my tires just spun in the snow. We had had rain yesterday, which obviously had frozen into ice, and the snow was layered on that. Before too long it was clear that I was going nowhere.<br />
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After my numerous failed attempts, I reversed the car, driving backwards down the hill. I couldn't see out the window or my rearview mirrors because of the darkness and blowing snow, so I had to open the window and stick my head out to see where I was going. When I got close to my house, I parked, then dashed into the house and called the gal at the front desk to tell her that I was hopelessly mired in the snow on my street, and to give
my apologies to the participants as I cannot get off my street. No yoga this morning.<br />
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I
ended up leaving the car in the boulevard by my driveway as I couldn't
get it back into the driveway, which is on a slope, too. I worried how I
was going to get to the university for my writing class, so I decided to walk to the bus stop right away and take the bus.<br />
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I had to walk in the middle of the road as there was simply no place else to walk. At the end of the street, after slipping and sliding through the snow, I saw two men standing in a snowbank.<br />
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"Is this the bus stop?" I yelled against the wind. "Are you both waiting for the bus?"northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-21844210634492689742012-11-22T17:50:00.001-08:002012-11-22T17:52:01.887-08:00Einstein's ghost<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Walking by a bulletin board, I saw that a local writing group has an open mike next week; the topic is "Mystery." Somehow, the first two lines of a poem immediately entered my mind. I was too busy at school to scribble down my thoughts, but before I left my office, I tucked "a woman's notebook," an old empty journal Margaret from the Northern Women's Bookstore had once given me, into my packsack (backpack), pedaled home in the dusk, then wrote these lines. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">from “the existence of another kind of matter, the ether”<sup>1</sup></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“the terrorists,” he said, “have preached an admixture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">of ultranationalism, religious mysticism, and racial
superiority."<sup>2</sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Before he went back through the pixel portal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">of his Letter to the Editor, NYT 1948</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">He warned of a violent future for Israel </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">if Menachem Begin’s party gains power on a platform of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jewish ultranationalism, religious mysticism, and racial
superiority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“Albert,” I called before he disappeared into the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“ether of the general theory of relativity,”<sup>3</sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“Your worst fears have come true.” </span></div>
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Albert Einstein’s words from</div>
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<sup>2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup><a href="http://yelkhoudary.blogspot.ca/2011/07/it-wasnt-just-physics-that-made.html" target="_blank">Letterto the Editor</a>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i>, Dec.
4, 1948</div>
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<sup>1 </sup>and <sup>3 </sup>“<a href="https://www.tuhh.de/rzt/rzt/it/Ether.html" target="_blank">Ether and the Theory of Relativity</a>,” <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">address delivered May 5,
1920, University of Leyden.</span></div>
northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-83134230866212630022012-11-21T13:17:00.000-08:002012-11-22T15:58:50.355-08:00Einstein's fears<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Einstein's wisdom (above) reminds me of the teachings of Grandma Dorothy in the short story "The Education of a Storyteller" by Toni Cade Bambara, from her book <i>Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions. C</i>oincidentally, Einstein's phrase is repeated by Grandma Dorothy but in her own way. In the story Grandma Dorothy teaches her granddaughter the importance of sharing knowledge in an accessible way.<br />
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In the story, Miz Girl (Grandma's granddaughter who goes by many other pet names) comes home from grade school one day, excited about everything she is learning. Feeling herself to be somewhat more educated than her old grandmother, Miz Girl decides to educate Grandma on Einstein's theory of relativity, which she is learning through books at school. Because Miz Girl is unable to express what it actually means in everyday terms, Grandma Dorothy challenges her on what she actually knows--or thinks she knows. Grandma Dorothy tells Miz Girl to speak plain:<br />
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"Well, let me hush, Precious, and you just go on and tell it however Cynthia would tell it or one of your other scatter-tooth girlfriends."...<br />
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"Well, my girlfriends don't know it. Cynthia don't know it and Rosie don't know it and Carmen don't know it--just I know it."<br />
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And she say, "Madame, if your friends don't know it, then you don't know it, and if you don't know that, then you don't know nothing."</blockquote>
Grandma and Einstein are both geniuses with many teachings for all of us.<br />
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Einstein continues to astound us with the presience of his words and thoughts.<br />
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Today, I was reading the blog of <a href="http://yelkhoudary.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Yasmeen from Gaza</a>, and in her past posts I found one she wrote about Einstein. Reading a passage from <a href="http://yelkhoudary.blogspot.ca/2011/07/it-wasnt-just-physics-that-made.html" target="_blank">Albert Einstein's 1948 letter to the editor of the <i>New York Times</i></a> I was dumbstruck; it was like time standing still. The passage so tellingly --and chillingly -- is representative of what is happening today in Israel: the hardening of the Israeli state into one that promotes ultra-right conservatism, apartheid, and racism. In his letter, Einstein warns of the rise of a political party in the just created state of Israel: the "Freedom Party" led by Menachem Begin [who eventually became the 6th prime minister of Israel], providing numerous examples to show that their beliefs and actions are terrorist and fascist. Einstein exhorts people to stand against the violent vision of these purveyors of violence. He explains that <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Within the Jewish community they [Me<span style="font-size: small;">nachem Begin, <span style="font-size: small;">party members, and <span style="font-size: small;">militants<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span>]</span></span></span></span> have preached an admixture of ultranationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority.</blockquote>
Einstein also relates that this group terrorized not only Arabs, but Jews living in Palestine prior to its usurption by the Zionist forces: <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">During the last years of sporadic anti-British violence, the IZL and
Stern groups inaugurated a reign of terror in the Palestine Jewish
community. Teachers were beaten up for speaking against them, adults
were shot for not letting their children join them. By gangster methods,
beatings, window-smashing, and wide-spread robberies, the terrorists
intimidated the population and exacted a heavy tribute.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></blockquote>
Unfortunately, Einstein's warning to the American public not to support "u<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">ltranationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority" as the domina<span style="font-size: small;">nt ideology <span style="font-size: small;">of Israel, fell on deaf ears. <span style="font-size: small;">Today, we bear witness that indeed <span style="font-size: small;">Einstein's fears have come to haunt us; his fe<span style="font-size: small;">ars are manifested tellingly<span style="font-size: small;"> true. </span></span>. </span></span></span></span></span></span>northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-78642201309617910772012-11-19T20:27:00.000-08:002012-11-19T20:31:41.439-08:00the black hole of history<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="if1024"><nobr>(Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)</nobr></span> <br />
Palestinians gather around a destroyed house after
an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on
November 19, 2012.<br />
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This gaping hole, where a Palestinian home once stood, not only materially exposes the disappearing of Palestinian people by Israel, but also symbolically represents the hole where the truth about Palestine keeps falling. We keep seeing pictures of these holes as the denial of justice keeps getting buried in a discourse of 'balance' and the mantra "Israel has a right to defend itself." <br />
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The photo above is part of a photo essay called <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/11/israel-steps-up-attacks-gaza-returns-fire/100408/#" target="_blank">Israel Steps Up Attacks, Gaza Returns Fire </a>at <i>The Atlantic</i> The title repeats the "balanced" p.o.v. so dominant in Western media. The photo essay, however, while it shows Israelis fearful in shelters or stairwells also shows the dead bodies of Palestinian children. Yesterday <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=539830" target="_blank">two 4 yr old twin brothers Suhaib and Muhammad</a> were killed by an Israeli bomb, along with their mother and father. Twenty-five mosques have been bombed, some destroyed, and the bones of deceased have been scattered or obliterated by <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=539868" target="_blank">bombs dropped on cemeteries</a>. Will this make the TV news in Canada? What if a Jewish cemetery was bombed? Would it make the news in Canada?<br />
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Young Palestinian men demonstrating in the West Bank against this latest Israeli assault on Gaza have been killed and others <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=539770" target="_blank">shot in the head and back</a>, left critically wounded..<br />
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Obama says Israel has a right to defend itself.<br />
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Canada's foreign minister, John Baird, says Israel has a right to defend itself.<br />
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Both defend the inhumane blockade of Gaza that is causing widespread malnutrition, unemployment, and other suffering. <br />
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When are we going to stop the amnesia of history? When are <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/20/273403/gaza-death-toll-at-109-27-children-killed/" target="_blank">Palestinian children </a>and people going to be considered as valuable as your child or mine? your brother or mine? <br />
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Yesterday when I was watching CBC news, Israel was referred to as "the Jewish state." I guess the apartheid state is being normalized and the black hole of oblivion, where Palestinians have been put, had been made permanent. If the land is Jewish, the Palestinians will have to be buried.<br />
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The blockade has not killed the will of the Palestinians. The bombing cannot kill the stories and memories of Palestinians. These cannot be shot dead. <br />
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How many bombed out black holes, dead Palestinian children and young men do we have to accept for Israel's right to exist? <br />
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<span class="if1024"><nobr></nobr></span>northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-46105632560932098432012-11-12T14:02:00.000-08:002012-11-12T14:02:13.533-08:00Killing the Ancestor <br />
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Awhile back, with dismay I read about the <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/05/18/bc-800-year-tree.html" target="_blank">800 year old cedar that was cut down</a> earlier this year in a protected forest, <span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park, </span>on Vancouver Island. The Ancestor was hauled away by poachers, who saw Her Majesty as commodity, to sell perhaps to make cedar shingles for roofing. How could a tree of this size be hauled away, which would require heavy equipment and perhaps a logging truck, without being noticed? Without anyone seeing the criminal activity? Part of the blame certainly lies with job cuts to park personnel. While at one time, 40 park rangers protected the forests, due to neo-liberal cuts, only 10 full time rangers patrol 1000 parks. <br />
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Today I read about the 3,500 year old Pond Cypress, called The Senator, that was burned down earlier this year by a 26 year old woman who had hidden inside the tree to do drugs with a friend and lit a fire so they could see <a href="http://grist.org/list/woman-arrested-for-burning-down-3500-year-old-tree/" target="_blank">to smoke crystal meth</a>. This Ancestor was the fifth oldest tree in the world. Tellingly, this tree also suffered from neo-liberal cuts and the neglect of the natural / spiritual heritage. As reported in the Orlando Sentinel:<br />
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<a href="http://conservationreport.com/2012/03/01/ancient-trees-giant-floridian-cypress-older-than-jesus-burned-down-by-a-woman-smoking-meth/" target="_blank"> The crime against The Senator </a>started decades ago, when Seminole
County let Big Tree Park become a haven for drugs and prostitution while
doing next to nothing to protect one of the oldest trees on the planet.</blockquote>
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Officials with the Sheriff’s Office have long acknowledged the park’s seedy after-hours reputation.</blockquote>
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There was no concerted effort to stop the mischief that went on there
after dark. No security cameras. No lights. Cursory patrols. Only a
fence around The Senator’s base, and apparently not a very good one
considering what happened in January.</blockquote>
northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-64329538361421637172012-11-09T18:33:00.001-08:002012-11-09T18:33:44.428-08:00windows and mirrors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I stumbled upon the short clip above today when I was researching war and art for an upcoming class that I will be teaching, War and Violence. The clip above shows the murals of American artists and the drawings of Afghan children whose work is part of a traveling exhibit, <a href="http://windowsandmirrors.org/" target="_blank">Windows and Mirrors: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan.</a> <span class="userContent">These artists' visual images challenge the sanitizing of war and its one-sided representation, and reveal the embodied, material, and psychological effects of war.</span><br />
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At this time of the year, art such as that which is part of the Windows and Mirrors exhibit, plays a very important role in opening our eyes and minds to see beyond the commonplace. In a warrior nation like Canada, for example, Remembrance Day becomes a site of building nationalist sentiment through nostalgia and 'honoring the veterans' that, in effect, does the work of supporting a neo-liberal pro-military security state by erasing other stories of pain, death, suffering, and trauma. <br />
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Here's what Jamie Swift writes about Canada's increasing turn to militarization--even while it has "wrapped up" its "mission" in Afghanistan:<br />
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<a href="http://thetyee.ca/Books/2012/08/11/Warrior-Nation/" target="_blank">Harper not only agreed </a>to fulfil the outgoing government's promise to
increase defence spending by over $12.8 billion over five years, but
committed an additional $5.3 billion to an unprecedented increase in the
military budget. Under Harper, Canadian military spending attained its
highest level since 1945, exceeding even the levels attained in the Cold
War. The $492-billion <em>Canada First Defence Strategy: A Modern Military for the Twenty-First Century (CFDS)</em>, first introduced in 2008, linked vastly enhanced military spending to an increasingly abstract notion of "Canadian values."</blockquote>
The mural below, which is from <i>Windows and Mirrors</i>, caught my eye as it speaks a universal language of death and genocide, of violent death piling up, of homes being demolished, of lives being destroyed. It speaks the language of trauma across many landscapes, beyond Afghanistan, to Palestine, Bosnia, Rwanda. <br />
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Janet Braun-Reinitz, <a href="http://windowsandmirrors.org/mural/women-see-through-different-lens-afghanistan" target="_blank">The women see through a different lens.</a></h3>
Brooklyn, NY<br />
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Yeats was right.<br />
"The blood-dimmed tide is loosed."<br />
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On the ground<br />
limbs, corpses,<br />
the debris of lives destroyed.<br />
The deafening report of officials<br />
drowns out simple truths.<br />
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The artist imagines differently.<br />
"Mere anarchy is loosed upon the land."<br />
The imperative is clear.<br />
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The women see through a different lens.<br />
northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-6899297117134863342012-11-05T18:24:00.000-08:002012-11-05T18:24:57.663-08:00cats in a window<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sunday cats. Walking down to a yoga class Sunday morning, I saw these cats practicing their own yoga in the window, facing North. <br /><br />northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-990527249720913076.post-52748265586892159992012-11-04T16:51:00.001-08:002012-11-04T16:53:29.368-08:00Jewish graffiti attacks <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The western media is quick to show examples of anti-semitic graffiti attacks against Jews and label them hate crimes, yet why aren't they as quick to show anti-Christian graffiti attacks <i>by</i> Jews and label those hate crimes, too?<br />
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In and around Jerusalem, there have been numerous anti-Christian graffiti attacks painted on the walls of churches and monasteries:<br />
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"<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=533876" target="_blank">Price-tag" and anti-Christian slogans</a> were sprayed on the gate of the
Monastery of Saint Francis, just outside of Jerusalem's Old City in
early October.<br />
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In early September, suspected Jewish extremists
torched the wooden door of a Jerusalem monastery and sprayed "Jesus is a
monkey" and pro-settler graffiti on the walls.<br />
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In February,
suspected Jewish extremists wrote "Death to Christianity" on two
Jerusalem churches. The graffiti also included profanity about Jesus,
and the vandals slashed the tires of several cars parked in one of the
church compounds.</blockquote>
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This 20 yr. old woman, Moriah Goldberg, is unrepentant; she sprayed anti-Islamic graffiiti and vandalized property in Arab East Jerusalem. With the illogic of an unbalanced education, she, as part of a gang of Jewish settler youth price-taggers, warns the Israeli government by defacing Palestinian property. <br />
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The BBC, to their credit, has reported on gangs of price-tagging Jewish hoodlums from the illegal settlements in the West Bank who spray paint anti-Christian and anti-Muslim slogans and deface and vandalize Arab property. Jane Corbin explains that "<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19601311" target="_blank">Price-tagging is the term</a> they use for a range of acts, from vandalism to arson attacks and religious desecration." She reports that "One of the most provocative price tags so far was in February in the
Palestinian village of Burka, where the mosque was attacked, prayer mats
were burnt, insults sprayed and war declared on the walls."<br />
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Here's <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/gsa/?q=anti-Christian+graffiti" target="_blank">what I found on CBC </a>when I searched the mainstream Canadian news for anti-Christian graffiti in Jerusalem.northshorewomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390144327668656601noreply@blogger.com1