Collection of links and comments
"The bombing of the little girls in Alabama and the murder of Medgar Evers were like the final pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that made no sense until you had fitted the whole thing together. I suddenly realized what it was to be Black in America in 1963, but it wasn't an intellectual connection ...it came as a rush of fury, hatred and determination. In church language, the Truth entered into me and I `came through.' ...An hour later I came out of my apartment with the sheet music for 'Mississippi Goddam" in my hand. It was my first civil rights song and it erupted out of me quicker than I could write it down." -- Nina Simone Source Artists Network.org
And: I ain't got nothing...but life -- Strange fruit ....Nina Simone
Stalin propaganda film
This film has been removed by You Tube (December 2007?) "Stalin" arrives in Berlin.
From Mikheil Chiaureli's Padeniye Berlina / Fall of Berlin (1949).
You tube connection
Max Plowman
Poet and activist (1883-1941).
When It's Over
by Max Plowman
"Young soldier, what will you be
When it's all over?"
"I shall get out and across the sea,
Where land's cheap and a man can thrive.
I shall make money. Perhaps I'll wive
In a place where there's room for a family.
I'm a bit of a rover."
"Young soldier, what will you be
At the last 'Dismiss'?"
"Bucked to get back to old Leicester Square,
Where there's good champagne and a glad eye winking,
And no more 'Verey Lights' damnably blinking
Their weary, dreary, white-eyed stare.
I'll be out of this."
"Young soldier, what will you be
When they sign the peace?"
"Blowed if I know; perhaps I shall stick it.
The job's all right if you take it steady.
After all, somebody's got to be ready,
And tons of the blighters 'll get their ticket.
Wars don't cease."
"Young soldier, what will you be At the day's end?"
"Tired's what I'll be. I shall lie on the beach
Of a shore where the rippling waves just sigh,
And listen and dream and sleep and lie
Forgetting what I've had to learn and teach
And attack and defend."
"Young soldier, what will you be
When you're next a-bed?"
"God knows what; but it doesn't matter,
For whenever I think, I always remember
The Belgians massacred that September,
And England's pledge - and the rest seems chatter.
What if I am dead?"
"Young soldier, what will you be
When it's all done?"
"I shall come back and live alone
On an English farm in the Sussex Weald,
Where the wounds in my mind will be slowly sealed,
And the graves in my heart will be overgrown;
And I'll sit in the sun."
"Young soldier, what will you be
At the 'Last Post'?"
"Cold, cold in the tender earth,
A cold body in foreign soil;
But a happy spirit fate can't spoil,
And an extra note in the blackbird's mirth
From a khaki ghost."
Boris Kobe
Link to scans of playing cards (circ 1945) made by Boris Kobe, a prisoner held in Allach part of Dachau.
Excerpt from link: Boris Kobe (1905 - 1981) – Slovenian architect and painter was a political prisoner at the concentration camp of Allach, a sub-camp of Dachau. Reproductions of the cards were provided courtesy of the Slovenian delegation to the Stockholm International Conference in the year 2000 to all educators.
Boris Kobe at work.
Order a catalog about architect and painter in bookstore:
Mladinska knjiga - Konzorcij
Slovenska cesta 14
SI-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
The title of slovene-english book is "Boris Kobe - architect and painter",
Ljubljana, Cankarjev dom 2005
Spain
Children's drawings of their war experiences in Spain and France and in the Sudan
Comics
Interview with Jorge Garcia and Fidel Martinez
Illustration from Graphic novel by Jorge Garcia and Fidel Martinez
Link: Words without Borders
Obscure comic (USA)- Destroying all civilised worlds posted on boingboing
Bronze soldier, Tallinn, Estonia.
AFP 2007 Bronze soldier memorial cut up in Tallinn-Estonia. Source link here
And a post on Words without Borders- translation of poems written on the hoarding of a shop near the statue site