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• Saturday 25 April 2009

  seven jewish children

  The Guardian has put up a video of Caryl Churchill’s subtle, nuanced play, Seven Jewish Children, written in January this year in response to the assault on Gaza. You can also watch it here. It’ll only take ten minutes.
  I’ve got tickets to see it with some friends at the Hackney Empire next month, but it’s [...]

  posted by red at 4:25 am in culture, palestine | 5 comments

• Sunday 19 April 2009

  questions from a worker who reads

  Who raised it up so many times?
  I have been walking around with a copy of this poem in my pocket for a while…
  Questions from a worker who reads
  by Bertolt Brecht
  Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
  In the books you will find the names of kings.
  Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
  And Babylon, many [...]

  posted by red at 2:00 am in class, culture, life | 3 comments

• Monday 13 April 2009

  a pair of boots

  I hopped on the bus yesterday to see this at the Whitechapel Gallery. It is the tapestry version of Picasso’s Guernica, made by weaver Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach in 1955.
  I’ve never seen the 1937 original painting, which Picasso made in response to the devastating arial bombardment on the town of Guernica – by [...]

  posted by red at 11:54 pm in anti-war, capitalism, class, culture, resistance | 6 comments

• Monday 10 March 2008

  gimme music

  finally got the audio plugin working…

  yeah, here it is: mon bled with any luck…
  heh. happiness is a working audio player 

  posted by red at 7:20 pm in culture | 7 comments