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Verdi and the Free Gaza Campaign
Anna note: please take a few minutes to watch and listen. (I'm in one of the protest marches.) Blessings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8osR2BtQZs&feature=player_embedded
The music in the film clip is from Guiseppe Verdi’s opera, Nabuko. From the clip: “Guiseppe Verdi wrote ‘Va’ pensiero’ (Go, my thoughts) as a tribute to people struggling for freedom, The Hebrews against the Babylonians in 568 B.C.” “It became the chant for Italians struggling for freedom against the Austrians in 1842”. “December 31, 2009. ‘Va’ Pensiero’ – dedicted to Palestinians struggling for their homeland in Palestine against the Israeli occupation.”
In the words of Alison Weir of IF Americans Only Knew in an open letter addressed to Bono (sent to us by Doug), “ . . the reality is that nonviolence is only as powerful as its visibility to the world. When it is made invisible through its lack of coverage by the New York Times, the Associated Press, CNN, Fox News, et al, its practitioners are in deadly danger, and their efforts to use nonviolence against injustice are doomed.”
Let us be loud and clear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8osR2BtQZs&feature=player_embedded
The music in the film clip is from Guiseppe Verdi’s opera, Nabuko. From the clip: “Guiseppe Verdi wrote ‘Va’ pensiero’ (Go, my thoughts) as a tribute to people struggling for freedom, The Hebrews against the Babylonians in 568 B.C.” “It became the chant for Italians struggling for freedom against the Austrians in 1842”. “December 31, 2009. ‘Va’ Pensiero’ – dedicted to Palestinians struggling for their homeland in Palestine against the Israeli occupation.”
In the words of Alison Weir of IF Americans Only Knew in an open letter addressed to Bono (sent to us by Doug), “ . . the reality is that nonviolence is only as powerful as its visibility to the world. When it is made invisible through its lack of coverage by the New York Times, the Associated Press, CNN, Fox News, et al, its practitioners are in deadly danger, and their efforts to use nonviolence against injustice are doomed.”
Let us be loud and clear.