ninjutsu

--kas nudziugino: ‘lietuvos’k.t. akcija ir visas besivystantis tusas del miesto erdviu, bendravimas/bendradarbiavimas, veikimas, candycactus pokalbiai ir siaip koks tai vilniaus atsigavimas is po ziemos o gal viso amziaus miego. toks jausmas is uz toli. tikiuosi nenuslops ir issivystys nemenka critical mass.

--kas prverte isliet nemazai asaru: sivakar ziuretas filmas kuri stipriai visiems rekomenduociau Hotel Rwanda . Apie Ruandos genocida. Ruandos istorija trumpai ir konflikto saknys (kaip visada turbut) slypi pokolonijiniam ‘etniniam’ jovale, kur viena grupe, mazuma - Tutsi buvo belgu(valdziusiu 1916-1962) atrinkta ir dirbtinai sudaryta(pagal ugi, odos spalva) valdyt ir isnaudot Hutu dauguma. po to seke daug visokiu konfliktu. kol karta dauguma sugalvojus atsigriebt uz visas skriaudas isnaikindama visus tutsius. apie milijona zmoniu buvo isskersta daugumoj tiesiog mecetemis per trumpiau nei menesi. vakarams tuo tarpu ramiai stebint ir zinant, bet nieko nedarant, tipo jie zude vieni kitus visa laika, cia nieko naujo, necivilizuotu genciu tarpusavio reikalas.
jeigu faktai ne faktai ir klystu ar zinot daugiau pataisykit.
dar karta primine, kad zodziai taip efektingai nekalba kaip vaizdai. sunku isspaust asara skaitant kiekviena diena laikrasti apie Sudana, turbut butu visai kitaip jeigu tektu tai matyt. ar zmones tokie visada buvo ar tokiais patapo neseniai. juk televizorius ir fotografija ganetinai nauji isradimai, o knygos pvz jau daug ankstesnis isradimas, manau keles labai stiprias emocijas skaitytojams. ar jau nebekeliancios? o gal tiesiog laiko joms skaityti nera. ir dar visada turim pasirinkima neskaityti 'gruzo'. meskit atsakyma ant stalo.

--atradau recenzija dazniausiai labai konservatyviam 'amerikos lietuvio'laikrasty. atrodo visa nebloga knyga: Horst Kurnitzky "Necivilizuota civilizacija: kaip visuomenė pralaimi savo ateitį". jei kas skaitet duokit zinia.

--trys filmai matyti per ilga laika, bet kuriuos smarkiai rekomenduociau: du skotiski 'socrealistiniai'- ratcatcher , sweet sixteen , ir airiskas magdalane sisters apie kalejimo tipo pataisos darbu ‘vienuolyna’ merginoms, moterims ‘nusidejelems’. kur prisidengus religija buvo varomi vergisko darbo for-profit istaigos. beja paskutinis is ju uzsidare tik 1996. katalikiskas ekstremizmas.

--Last years, France has seen the development of many independent political squats, where are being led alternative collective life experiments and public political activities of various sorts. These spots usually host anti-capitalist and pro-anarchist actions and events, "free-zones" where goods and material are exchanged, squatted vegetable plots, hacklabs. These are places where alternative hardware and software is developed, information, books and brochures printed and brought out within "infokiosques", where people work on alternative medicine, recycling, bicycles, mechanics, wood and metal craft, silkscreening, DIY building, sunflower-oil recycling for vehicles, organic seeds exchange, groups for feminist, queer or transgender thoughts and action, "food not bombs" street meals, free vegan restaurants, bars, concerts, film-projections and theatre performances. inter-squat direct actions in France

--current situation of the U.S., the “lone superpower,” which has net $3 trillion in foreign indebtedness (30% of GDP) and roughly $35 trillion in total internal indebtedness (Federal, state, municipal, corporate, personal), or over 3 times GDP. Since the 1960s, the U.S. has obliged its foreign creditors (Europe, OPEC, Asia) to recycle their surplus dollars to support this creaking edifice of debt, while American capital downsizes and ships production overseas. The rest of the world produces, the U.S. consumes. Manufacture now employs a mere 13% of the American work force. - The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education . besikuriancios tokios alternatyvios mokyklos gal yra tai ko reikia salia visu kitu dalyku/priemoniu?

--For its 90th anniversary issue, The New Republic published excerpts of articles from its archive. Here is one from Lewis Mumford, the urban planner, written on Nov. 8, 1939.
The promise of American life is still a real one. ... But apart from internal corrosion, our promise has to meet an external challenge: that is the present worldwide disintegration of Western civilization. Of this threat, the fascist movement is a symptom rather than a cause: the cause lies in the fact that our profit economy, now that the period of expansions is over, must be transformed into a non-profit economy, relying upon other motives and incentives. If this change is not accomplished by rational cooperation it will have to take place, under unfavorable circumstances, by irrational compulsion: only to be defeated in the ultimate mockery of war. So far the New Deal has been a potent source of confusion: its theorists have held the wishful belief that profits could be increased while disparities between class and class, between region and region, were wiped out. Mr. Facing-Both-Ways will soon come to a dead end; then we shall have to choose between the rational and the irrational means of economic stabilization. -sita radau ny times.
noriu labai paskaityt jo “The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects”. kuria nors diena, kai bus daugiau laisves. kartais po teisybei as svajoju but uzdarytas i koki nors visai nebloga skandinaviska kalejima ir pasiimt su savim visa savo biblioteka ir atsidet vien skaitymui. nes siapus grotu niekaip neiseina tiek kiek noretusi. ligota?:)
ir dar viena jo citata is cia - "If we are to create balanced human beings, capable of entering into world-wide co-operation with all other men of good will--and that is the supreme task of our generation, and the foundation of all its other potential achievements--we must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent."

bono pasaulio banko prezidentu netapo. juo paskelbtas sandien paul wolfowitz, irako karo architektas ir neo-konservatorius aistringai tikintis 'laisvos rinkos' ir 'morales' globalia pergale. baisoka. nors is kitos puses juk nieko nuostabaus.
labai rekomenduociau paskaityt naomi klein rasini 'baghdad year zero'. kaip is tikruju daroma 'demokratija' ir kas is to pelnosi.

bvom pakviesti drauges is national mobilization against sweatshops sudalyvaut pikete pries antra paga dydi china town restorana ir ju diskriminacija pries organizuotus darbuotojus. atstovas is restorano filmavo ir tikrai pasistengs kad niekas darbo tenai negaus. restoranu savininkai dalinasi 'juodaisiais sarasais', zmoniu kurie bande ar organizavo sajunga, pasipriesino ar skundesi del salygu ir t.t. bet siaip visokiu daug daug pavyzdziu isgirdau kur darbininkai pasiekia nemazai, susiorganizuoja, paduoda i teisma ir laimi ir t.t. cia is serijos kur tik reikia perzengt per savo baimes ir nepasitekejimus ir leist sau noreti. bandysiu susitikt su nmass ir pasikalbet, gaut patarimu kaip ir ka galiu pradet savo darbo vietoj. problema daznai yra kad zmones dirbantys maziausia apmokama darba yra arba imigrantai, arba neturtingi ir mazumu zmones kurie per metu metu metus neturejo balso ir neturi visiskai jokio pasitikejimo. is kitos puses zinoma, kad jie gali but atleist uz smulkmena ir pakeisti kitais tokiais paciais. prastos ar minimalios kalbos zinios neleidzia pasinaudot esamom priemonem pastovet uz savo teises arba bent jau suzinot kad tokios egzistuoja. del to tokios organizacjos yra gerai kur zmones gali sutikt i save panasius, gaut daug informacijos apie galimybes, uznugari, parama ir t.t. o toliau ir balsa ir pasitikejima.
cia vakarykstis flajeris.

po to dar buvom blue stockings , kur buvo susitikimas su naujos knygos 'Grassroots : A Field Guide for Feminist Activism'. visai jaukiai papasakojo visko, paatsakinejo i klausimus. gal ne mano kampu aktyvizmas, bet reikia visko ir visaip. nuosirdziai, atvirai, paprastai.
po to dar ekologiskas kabakelis, persivalgymas skanestu, svajones kaip 'vilniuj tokio reiketu', apsvaigus galva nuo mazo alaus butelaicio, lekimas spet i paskutini traukini, kova pries miega, namai.
turininga popiete zodziu.