dimanche 28 juin 2009

Holly Wood destruction

1)This is an olive tree, with little walls like in the old time, it's an image stop of one of the film
of this region, film that I watch every week with the same apprehension. I'm still under the shock of his cry, this yellow t-shirt... of one of them, too much, as every one of them, died.

1)Ceci est un olivier, petits murets antiques, image tirée d'un film de cette région, que je regarde haque semaine, avec la même appréhension. Encore sous le choc de la vision de ce t-shirt jaune fluo atteint, un des leurs, qui tombe, meurt, un de trop, comme chacun d'eux.

2)We are in West Bank. Palestinian territory. Illegally colonised.
As you may see in the distance the typical eagle nest: settlements. People who need roads to go to the supermarket in Israel, for instance. Even if it means strangling Palestinians's life
The young boys are legally manifesting against the wall which Israel wants to build - illegally of course - here.
2)Nous sommes en Cisjordanie. Dans les territoires palestiniens. Colonisés de manière illégale

Comme vous pouvez le voir plus loin, se tient un nid d'aigle typique. Un village de colons israéliens. Des gens qui ont besoin de route, par exemple, pour aller faire leurs courses en Israël. Même si cela signifie prendre en otage, étouffer la vie des Palestiniens.
Les jeunes sont en train de manifester contre le mur qu'Israël veut construire - illégalement bien sûr - à cet emplacement.

3)These fumes are from gas canisters. Here they're coming from under. The road (see next image). Sometimes soldiers shoot them very near you, and from the same level, and you may die. In summer, when everything gets dry, fires begin...
The road under, and the wall to be, now staying as fences, is Illegally "defended". Here you can see illegal use of violence, illegal agression of a palestinian tree


3) Cette fumée provient des cartouches de gaz lacrymogène. Là, elles arrivent par en bas. De la route (voir la prochaine image). Parfois les soldats les tirent de vraiment près, ce qui les transforme en véritable petite bombe personnalle et peuvent tuer. En été, quand tout devient sec, de nombreux feux sont ainsi provoqués.
La route ci-dessous, et le mur, sont encore au stade de barrière de barbelés, et sont "défendues" de façon illégale. Ici vous pouvez ainsi voir l'utilisation de violence indue, et l'agression illégale d'un arbre palestinien

4) Here you have the Israeli occupying forces. IOF. With its camp.
illegal. Of course
In 4 photos you have the present of Ni'ilin, one of the palestinian village under occupation and oppression.
4) Ici, vous voyez sur la route le campement, illégal, comme la présence de ces forces d'occupation israéliennes.
En 4 photos vous avez le quotidien de Ni'ilin un des villages palestiniens sous occupation et oppression

vendredi 26 juin 2009

Never ... a land ?

Today

I think of the work of this artist ...

He used to wonder if people outside, cared


Sometimes, in between the lines, you could read despair

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us,
(Don't worry what people say, we got it true).
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us,
(Enough is enough of this garbage)

Skin head, dead head.
Everybody gone bad.

Situation, aggravation.
Everybody allegation.

In the suite, on the news.
Everybody, dog food.
Bang bang, shot dead.
Everybody's gone mad.

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us.
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us.

Beat me, hate me.
You can never break me.
Will me, thrill me.
You can never kill me.

(...)

Now tell me what has become of my rights.
Am I invisible because you ignore me?
Some things in life they just don't want to see.
(...)

But if Martin Luther was livin',
He wouldn't let this be no, no, aay.
(...)

(michael jackson - RIP)

You didn't read his words ?

And the images ?

Yes. This artist is not only a Voice. A voice of the Voiceless, but he makes images that ...
wow, terrible. You know, Thriller. A bit like dead people still walking...
Ups. Wonder why I speak about him, today

Why Today, makes me think of Rafah

You know, http://www.rafahtoday.org/

The image of the opening ...

Original image :

Yes, sorry, I changed a bit the image.

Sometimes you just wish life could be transposed, like a jewel in a case

Protected as it must be.

The more so, when you feel you're hearing a sort of noise, made by the boy, on the image

Like morse

. . . - - - . . .

with his stone

On a stone



Sometimes, it's flowers, you see, near a wall.



Original images : Mohammed Omer

Again, sorry, but her princess robe was just too surrealistic in this surrounding. Why is this flower surrounded by grayness ? With wall full of holes. Death designs.

From despair points, to death points, holes...

Why ?
I made her a sort of wizard d'oz, a peace road. Silly, huh. At a moment of my life I believed my words could change the world, and even passed years to study this. Ha. Now, I use GIMP.

Sorry, all I wanted to say is that

His site is a real encyclopedia of Gaza.

A terrifying encyclopedia as... images, sadness, pledge, everything is always the same

It's not a history book, it's a never ending story

Of images, some of them simple gems

Of Testimonies.

Of lifes. Of deathes too.




Today it was one year ... "a year of continued medical treatments, pain -- and a search for justice."

He began using a camera to simply show the reality, and explain with words the situation, his quest of truth, this love for dignity, sense of honesty, justice, are symbolic of this never ending hope...

Mohammed Omer has reported for numerous media outlets, including the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Pacifica Radio, Electronic Intifada, The Nation, and Inter Press Service; he also founded the Rafah Today blog. He was awarded the 2007 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. One year after his sort of Icarius flight - too high for some, it seems, too near the sun, the light of truth - was brutally assaulted, he recalls and writes in Agence Global :

http://www.agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=2042

_________________________________________________

Impossible to talk about Mohammed Omer, or Rafah without talking of the situation, Today :

His passion, is for his people so

Note the Press release of the International Movement to Open Rafaha Border :

(they're on facebook)

"Only a united world against oppression will help unite and free all of Palestine."

*** Don't let Gaza die ***

~~~~ The IMORB will continue the sit-in and fasting at the Rafah gate indefinitely. On a daily basis, IMORB challenges the closed border and escorts people seeking entry to Gaza.

~~~~~===== HELP US!! Support us!! JOINS US !! =====

PLEASE TAKE TWO MINS to sign this petition.

http://www.petitiononline.com/etgs1/petition.html

We urge everyone into mobilizing individuals and organizations from all around the world, especially from the USA, Europe and Israel, to support the campaign through distributing documents and materials about the devastating impact of the siege and by letting everyone know about Stop The Siege Campaign. In ending we call upon the international community to utilize all methods available, to stop the collective illegal punishment imposed on the people of Gaza who have done nothing to deserve what is happening to them by Israel.

Photo : International Movement to Open Rafah Border


They are Palestinians. They just want to come back to daddy or their family, or organise a bit of life again. At nights they cry a lot as they are devoured by insects. And once you're awake, even if the bed is not some sort of parking, you're really awake, when you are a child. You know, the more they are tired, the more excited they become...
I wonder if the Big people know this kind of thing

Michael Jackson's clip :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvWMLAWrEjU

mercredi 24 juin 2009

Sing sing ... darlings

film stop of :

PS : The boy on the right is 12 ...
Do you realize that this kind of kid can be arrested, and put to jail. Some are judged like big men ?
Others are put in prison under the system of "administrative detention".
Very practical !
You arrest the kid. Or the man. The woman...
They are put in jail with no other ceremony than this word :
"Administrative detention"
KAFKA's style
you can rot up to 6 monthes in prison.
Then... cool. You're free.
2-3 days. The time to hug your mom, and often, again in prison...
You can remain years like this.
From the no-name's land, no-man's land, or security zones to the no-justice prison...
from one injustice to another ...
Do you realize there are 346 (in may 391) palestinian chidlren in israeli prison, now ?
I'm sorry, I just wanted to say that it was soo... good, just tender, and sweet, to see palestinian children, alive. Singing.
Sorry. Sometimes, it's like tears. You can't arrest, I mean (sorry, my english)stop, everything as you wish.
There's a campaign going on about this situation :

Une goutte d'amour...

film stop image of :
CODEPINK Delegation Visit to Jabalia Rehabilitation Society
chaîne de CODEPINK

Dans le centre de Réhabilitation de Jabalia
Un "tonton". Vous savez, un de ceux qui, dans ces "pays-là" imposent le respect. Superbe luxe de pouvoir être un lion, brave, sans devoir rugir. Une de ces vidéos parmi de nombreuses à découvrir de ce voyage de code pink.
Alors, cette sorte de tonton, est là. Dans ce Centre. Au centre.
Derrière lui de jeunes hommes fauchés dans leur enfance.
Que j'ai mis en flou. Parce que, ce n'est pas facile, pas simple, non, d'être fauché dans sa jeunesse. Vous savez ?
Il les regarde, relève leur handicap, "vous voyez, lui il a une jambe de moins, là c'est un bras...". On l'écoute, le regarde. Comme un enfant devant un film qui fait peur. Les mains sur les yeux. Presque.
Il relève le manque de matériel et demande,
se demande, nous demande ce qu'ils vont faire de leur vie
comment ils vont gérer leur vie, une famille ...

Il explique comme à chaque fois, une "incursion" , ce sont des morts, bien sûr, mais aussi des blessés.
Calmement. A la mode palestinienne, ai-je envie d'ajouter. 
Il dit :
Nous voulons juste vivre comme toutes les autres personnes dans le monde.
Il dit :J'ai 62 ans. J'ai passé toute ma vie en tant que réfugié.
Toute ma vie. Un peu comme un orphelin, en somme.
Il explique :Nous voulons juste vivre comme tout le monde
Les mains du coeur au public, embrassant le public à son coeur, il dit :
c'est égal !
peu m'importe qui est mon voisin !
peu m'importe s'il est juif ou autre !
je serai un bon voisin
on pourra faire des pique-nique ensemble,
on fera peut-être même des rencontres, des soupers
je serai un bon voisin... mais ....
mais pourquoi, pourquoi, ne nous acceptent-ils pas ?
Nous sommes comme tout le monde..
Nous voulons élever nos enfants comme tout le monde
 
Et puis, il dit ... un truc qui me touche tellement, il dit : c'est une transfusion d'amour qu'il nous faudrait...
Et je me demande si les mots, sortis de mes doigts, c'est un peu de sang, d'amour. 
 
Aujourd'hui encore, des "blessés" de la dernière furia israélienne sont en train de mourir.Il y a eu 5000 blessés...
Gaza est encore et toujours en situation de siège.
Il manque des soins, des soutiens à venir
Il manque la possibilité de sortir, se soigner
Il manque ce que chacun à travers livres saints ou pensées libres, rêves d'enfant ou sagesse acquise à force de chagrins reconnaît dans cette lueur universelle: l'humanisme. Tout simplement.
Voilà. Voilà.
Trad :
In the Rehabilitation Center of Jabalia.An "oncle". You know, one of those, who, in this kind of country impose respect, only in being. What they are. Supreme luxury to let oneself be a brave old lion, without the need to roar. One of the numerous videos to discover from CODEPINK's travel.
So, this kind of ... kind oncle is here. In this Center. Standing in the center of the room.
Behind him, young men, mowed in their childhood. Youth.
I put a layer of gaussian blur. Because it's not easy to be reaped in ones youth. Do you know ?
He watches them, notes their handicap. "you see, this one has a leg less, this one an arm ..."
And so you listen to him, watch him. Them. A bit like a kid, afraid in front of a frightening film, trying to hide ones eyes.
Nearly.
.....
And then, he says something that touches me so deeply. He says, it's a love transfusion that we need...
I wonder if the words, out from my fingers count as a drop of blood, of love... I hope
Today there are still "wounded" from the last furious operation, which are dying. There were 5000 wounded... and no, really they didn't just break an finger nail.
Gaza is still in situation of siege
There is a lack of medical care, help... Essential things don't come in and you can't go out.
There is a lack of humanism on this planet, and this place needs it urgently.
 
  

mardi 23 juin 2009

To watch watchers not even watching ?


I saw this on my page. And I don't like people,or bars, or anything, in fact, to interfere with my window.

I flee TV, ads, all these messages made to turn your brain in a smashed potatoe (oups, I think the expression was couched potatoes, whatever) I don't like bars to bar my window.




I go to the page to understand the thing : it's written :

WATCHING VIDEO CAN CHANGE YOUR WORLD ?
and it's funny (in fact not at all, but these days I need to laugh)
it makes me think of ......


----------------------------------------------------------------------------

A Voice silenced there,
The Voice of the Voiceless
Remember ?
A brilliant mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWuRQJeIRyQ
This is a video that needs to be seen
I think

A real journalist, in the middle of news, raw material, able to write about what he sees . Terrible because he lives it too, but that what makes him so special : this incredible ability to transform destructions, deaths, desolation, in sculpture of words, articles. To construct a question mark.

and there is this kite-runner ...
not the aghan one, no the Palestinian one




Smile, his yellow shirt,
killed here, in front of our eyes
His name meant Smile ... I mean Basem ...
He was crying to stop shooting and was shot


paf ! Like this. I still can't get over this voice silenced
This boyish smile, smiling kite-runner ...
See raw material videos like these :
or others here bixby's playlist :
Injustice ...
His heart, which just stopped beating...
Baby darling, Firas. Maslum means Injustice ....
The eyes of his mom, alone makes me cry...
let's not speak about this little hand, Oh .... Injustice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSviZs1gDMo


I have a problem, there, because when someone speaks about " watching, and changing the world, and etc... I think of Gaza, of rafahtoday, of another "Voice" ...

Because Mohammed Omer, the journalist of http://www.rafahtoday.org/

who is quiet a sort of philosopher always use this sentence :

"The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything." Albert Einstein


______________________________________________________

So rest assured, compassion, like to care, is not something that stops at a point, but works more like a pump, and the heart just gets bigger, sometimes to the explosion point.


Neda, means Voice, so they say

so beautiful, Neda,

her eyes, searching...

bleeding there

...

like Tristan



Like all the people I didn't see

But see without seeing


Never saw a miscarriage, you see ?


Change the world, they say ?!




Why do I feel like in front of a sort of canalisation of undercurrents



water from sky and roofs one side

Water from baths and kitchens on the other side

Water from ... water closed, in a closed side


Does the machine work too good, without "a system", that a "system" is needed ?


Wow. Why is there this extraordinary passion for Iran, just now ?

It's like a cloud of bees. It's strange (Look, I don't like the actual power in Iran, ok ? In fact I don't like any power, more or less, and it's really not because I play adolescent rebel. My children are. Adolescent. That is not the question, I ask something else ....) I ask :

What sort of work of perspective is there behind ?

I hope I'm wrong, but there seems to be something profoundly wrong going on

One stone, two birds at once : Forget about Palestine / Mingle with Iran


It's an old song
Ups : just amused me to search on their blog : searched words :


Palestine : Nothing

Gaza : One entry.

since January. What will they show about these unknown, ignored problems, I wonder.


It's not in watching that things change if what we are proposed to watch is from a canalised source.


I wonder if these watchers are going to talk about Smile, erased, talk about Injustice, read Voice, Voice of the Voiceless whom they tried to silence forever, nearly one year ago.
To watch watchers not watching ? or, worse, to watch them IGNORE some FACTS ?
And worse of all, give to their watchers the ILLUSION they "DO" something else than eating f' chips in front of their f' computer
waow.

mercredi 17 juin 2009

One shot ... beyond words



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcqJMpVuvck

Saw this video, and feel at a loss of words

One shot ...
One shot ... Oh. I wondered, so often, reading or translating words how they could even manage, writing them. Again and again. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society, the palestinian journalists, the doctors seing all this, the international journalists or observers.
And how they managed reading what could be read, pictures that could be made.

One shot, one pregnant woman, one baby ...


I had read the "case"... some monthes ago. So many of them : 69 women giving birth... or misscarrying in cheeckpoints. Under the eyes and guns of ... ani

No... there are days, like this, I just don't feel like writing




L'accroissement des restrictions imposées sur les mouvements des Palestiniens, à l'intérieur des territoires palestiniens sous occupation, avec leurs quelques 607 checkpoints a particulièrement placé les femmes dans une situation précaire. Prenez par exemple la problématique des femmes donnant naissance dans des checkpoints israéliens (points de passage au sein des territoires occupés, qui selon une logique répondant aux besoins des colons morcèle les territoires palestiniens ndtradbix).

69 femmes ont été soumises à ce traitement épouvantable consistant à devoir attendre de nombreuses heures, en plein travail, dans des checkpoints, à devoir accoucher dans ces conditions indécentes, humiliantes, angoissantes (je n'ai pas de mots)... cette pratique monstrueuse a ainsi occasionné 35 fausses couches... et plusieurs décès de mamans.

La mortalité en couche, les problèmes liés à la grossesse sont la 3è cause de mortalité des Palestiniennes.

C'est simplement épouvantable.

Lisez également le dossier réalisé par Le Lancet (certains dossiers sont gratuits à la lecture, comme ceux-ci. Il suffit de créer, l'affaire de 15 secondes, un compte)

Please, note that you can read these reports for FREE, you just have to create a user name. Very easy.

http://www.thelancet.com/series/health-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory


Dans un reportage : "Palestine is still the issue", John Pilger en parlait déjà ...

In "Palestine is still the issue", the journalist John Pilger noted this problem among others, too...


Link to the "Palestine is still the Issue" by John Pilger

http://www.thevideosense.com/video/Palestine-is-Still-the-Issue/

Thank you http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/ for the links !

John Pilger's page : http://www.johnpilger.com/




And me, today, just remember the first time I had the shock to fall in front of another mom's face, telling her sad story. And just can't bear the idea of seing history repeating itself, again and again.


http://bixby2000.blogspot.com/2009/03/crimes-et-cris.html



mercredi 10 juin 2009

Searching peace


image - film stop - edited by bix

This man is a specialist. A munition expert.
And he searches for pieces. Here. In the home of a family. A home now described as a sort of cemetary by the surviving members
In this wall, there are pieces. Pieces giving death.
The man tells what happened...
And every time I'm in front of this video, I get mad...sad. I'm mixing my letters, but no mixed feelings
What do they need ?
It's so fu' blatant.
BLATANT !!!
A violation so blatant !!!
And so I don't understand
I just try to imagine some Peace may come out these pieces proving,
that, really, enough is enough
Never again and things like that
Never again this horror.
P(l)ease.
********************************************************

Cet homme est un spécialiste. Un expert en munitions.

Et il ramasse des pièces. Là. Dans une maison familiale que les survivants décrivent comme une sorte de cimetière familial.
Dans ce mur, il y des pièces. Des pièces de mort.
Des preuves d'un piège de la mort sur des innocents.

Et alors un homme raconte ce que sa nièce ne peut pas exprimer...
"C'est arrivé comme une boule de feu du ciel. Nnous nous sommes précipités dans la cour et nous avons trouvé Mohammed, là, coupé en deux.Ahmad était en trois pièces. Wahid était totalement brûlé, il n'y avait plus ses yeux.Le père de Wahid était mort. Et Nour avait été décapitée. Nous ne pouvions trouver sa tête nulle part."

L'expert, récolte ces pièces, pour faire un dossier.
Comme les Experts de Manhattan ou Vegas. Grisham, vous savez

Parce que vous voyez, ces mots, ce chagrin, cela ne suffit pas.
Lui, cela lui suffirait, mais c'est comme ça.
Ce sont les règles du ....... jeu.

Et moi je ne comprends pas.

C'est tellement clair, tout ça
Tellement moche
Tellement affreux.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZgNy46aTQ

lundi 8 juin 2009

WIB in pink




http://www.codepink4peace.org/




http://codepink4peace.org/blog/tag/gazadelegation/


Palestine is like a sort of chinese meal. Bitter-sweet. Sometimes hope is as sweet as tears may be salty. Hot and cold, like flu.

Flows of people. Come and go

La question palestinienne ressemble à un supplice chinois. Un plat chinois. Aigre-doux. Aussi doux et sucré que les larmes sont salées, parfois. Chaud froid, sentiment fiévreux, grippal.

Les gens passent. Et j'en passe

Ils viennent, telles des mains protégeant une flamme dans le vent

Ils repartent avec dans les yeux quelques lueurs, heurts lus, dans d'autres regards

Ils passent la flamme, chez eux, au retour. Ils disent, racontent, témoignent.

Ces petits visages. Ces sourires.

La vidéo ci-dessus ainsi que les liens, reflètent par quelques images et mots simples, cette présence, fin mai 2009 à Gaza. Une délégation de 66 membres américains de ce mouvement fort international, s'était rendue sur place.

A noter que hier, CODEPINK et un groupe de féministes israéliennes ont manifesté au check point d'Erez, séparant Israel de la bande de Gaza.

Elles avaient notamment réuni symboliquement des produits de contrebande, des produits interdits... pour Gaza, comme : du thé, café, chocolat, habits et souliers, livres, produits cosmétiques, bois, assiettes et verres, bois, mobilier, ampoules, jouers, métal, ciment, papier, bougies et allumettes, draps, couvertures, instruments de musique, animaux, argenterie, fil et aiguilles, semoule, sésame, confiture, gelée, noix, essence ...Toute la semaine sera dédiée à divers manifestations... dans la région.

Une manifestation à remarquer aussi, à Tel Aviv rappelait un élément essentiel :

74% des Palestiniens de la Cijordanie et de la bande de Gaza acceptent l'idée d'une Solution de deux Etats

78% des Israéliens acceptent l'idée d'une Solution de deux Etats

Ces gens doivent être aidés

Il doit y avoir une pression sur le gouvernement israélien ... pour la simple raison d'une affection globale. Parce que c'est la seule manière d'amener le gouvernement légalement élu par le peuple israélien, à violer, si je puis dire, son propre programme, sa propre charte, ses propres idées.

Il faut se rappeler, toujours, que les gens qui partagent le même air, partagent des liens que nous ne saurons jamais qu'essayer de traduire.

Alors qu'un petit bonhomme qui souffrait depuis janvier, dans un état critique, vient de lâcher son dernier soupir, venant, par son décès, alourdir cette liste interminable de blessés, de morts, de blessés mourant, de blessés devenant des morts ... alors que ce petit amour, Mohammad Zamlat, 11 ans, après ses frères, son père, touchés aussi, le 5 janvier est parti ... hier, alors que rien ne laisse augurer réellement d'un quelconque "redoux" ... sur le TERRAIN, qu'entre ce week-end et hier, 5 autres persones sont décédées ... qu'une douzaine de Palestiniens ont été blessés, que je me sens toujours plus femme en noir que rêveuse en codepink, Woman in Black, WIB entourée de martiens fous, cela m'a fait du bien, tout ce rose...

Mais n'oublions jamais qu'il n'y a rien de pire qu'un animal blessé.

Et la force qui a pu dire nous frapperons plus fort, encore, alors que le sang dégoulinait, me fait peur. Simplement peur pour ces petites frimousses.

C'est dingue ce que l'on a envie, juste de passer son doigt sur certains de ces petits sourcils, pour les lisser. Juste du bout du doigt, remonter un petit coin d'oeil qui tombe.

74% of Palestinians in West Bank & Gaza willing to accept Two State Solution
78% of Israelis willing to accept Two State Solution
These people must be helped.
There must be pressure on the Israeli's governement ... not of hate, but out of love for all. Because it's the only way Likud can violate the votes it received for its own programm

People who share the same air have important links

But pressure means pressure.

samedi 6 juin 2009

I know I'm useless.



It began well.
As every mom of my son's team, I made my part
I washed the team's affairs
I even folded the T-shirts numbers up, so they don't need to make a mess to find their numbers.

I was more or less proud of my achievement and just had to take the rest of the affairs from the second machine, let them dry ...
It was mainly socks.

White socks.





I don't know how it could happen

I really don't know

Mmmm, yes, of course ...
There was some red short in the bag, but as you can see, the first machine had red shorts too, and nothing went pink

I don't know how I'm gonna explain this to the football coach

If there is any sort of wizard about colours, I really would be happy to know how to find the colour back, my son's team has a match Tuesday. Thank you

you can send me a message on my account on you tube, link to my page : bixby2000, on my profile (CLIP AUDIO). I know I'm useless