༄ NUTOPIA [sergio falcone & co.]: (en) US, SDS*, On 26 Campuses, Students Demonstrate Against Afghanistan Occupation

༄ Fernanda Pivano

Allen Ginsberg, in una delle sue ultime visite in Italia, registrò un monologo in cui la descriveva così: «Nanda è stata una delle mie compagne di strada più preziose. Senza di lei, oggi, in Italia la letteratura americana sarebbe un’altra cosa. Lei, soltanto lei, è stata capace di attraversare, incontrare, unire, spiegare, raccontare oltre cinquant’anni della nostra letteratura... Si è avvicinata a noi con umiltà, ha cercato di capire le nostre ragioni, ha condiviso i nostri sogni e più di noi, spesso più di noi, si è battuta perché questi sogni diventassero realtà. E oggi, ancora oggi che siamo stati sconfitti, che la guerra vince sulla pace, lei continua a pensare che i versi di un poeta possano fermare le bombe».

༄ Allen Ginsberg, Note scritte quando finalmente venne inciso "Urlo"

[...]

Una parola sulle Accademie: la poesia è stata attaccata da un mucchio di rompiscatole ignoranti e spaventati che non capiscono come è composta, e il guaio con questi fetenti è che non riconoscerebbero la poesia neanche se spuntasse e glielo mettesse in culo in pieno giorno.
Una parola sulla Politica: la mia poesia è Follia Angelica e non ha niente a che fare con le stupide tergiversazioni materialistiche circa chi deve sparare a chi. I segreti dell'immaginazione individuale - che sono transconcettuali e non verbali - voglio dire lo Spirito Incondizionato - non sono in vendita per questa coscienza, non sono in uso per questo mondo, eccetto forse per fargli chiudere la sua trappola ed ascoltare la musica delle sfere. Chi nega la musica delle sfere nega la poesia, nega l'uomo, e sputa su Blake, Shelley, Cristo e Buddha. Intanto divertitevi. L'universo è un nuovo fiore. L'America sarà scoperta. Chi vuole una guerra contro le rose l'avrà. Il destino dice grandi menzogne, e il lieto Creatore danza sul proprio corpo nell'Eternità.

(traduzione di Fernanda Pivano)

domenica 11 ottobre 2009

(en) US, SDS*, On 26 Campuses, Students Demonstrate Against Afghanistan Occupation

Date Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:06:52 +0200

On Wednesday October 7, students on 26 campuses across the United States protested eight
long years of war against and occupation of the people of Afghanistan. Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS), a nation-wide student organization committed to activism for
peace, justice and equality, organized the protest. ---- Hundreds of students marched in
Washington, DC in a Funk the War event organized by DC Students for a Democratic Society.
The demonstrators stormed the lobby of a building that houses Chevron, Shell, Blackwater’s
lobbying group, United Technologies, and Clear Channel, demanding U.S. troops out of
Afghanistan and Iraq. ---- In Gainesville, Florida, 40 people rallied in the Plaza of the
Americas at the University of Florida to protest the war in Afghanistan.

The protesters then marched while chanting “Fund education, not occupation” and “What do
we want? Peace! When do we want it? Now!” The demonstrators held a “die-in” during a class
change to symbolically represent innocents killed in war. Protester Fernando Figueroa
said, “What we have done today doesn’t end here. We will keep building the movement to end
the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan.”

A spirited rally at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee saw fifty students
demonstrate against the war. “We’re participating in this national day of action because
the war in Afghanistan is wrong and we need the troops out now,” said Maral Safavi of
Milwaukee SDS. “This war is only benefiting the rich.”
50 students rallied at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

In Asheville, North Carolina students shouted “Money for jobs and education, not for war
and occupation!” across the quad on the University of North Carolina at Asheville. UNCA
Students for a Democratic Society member Angela Denio said, “The people of Afghanistan
have the right to self determination. Eight years of unjust U.S. occupation in Afghanistan
has resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties, and displaced too many families that are
now living in extreme suffering and poverty.”

A Funk the War protest by Rochester SDS that drew dozens into the streets demanding an end
to the occupations and an end to militarizing schools ended violently, when almost 30
police cars interrupted the peaceful protest. Police then began shoving students and
community members, threatening them with batons, and spraying them with pepper spray. The
police arrested 12 protestors, 2 of whom had to go to the hospital for injuries caused by
police brutality. The first person arrested by the police was the only African-American
student in the vicinity, and protestors quickly called the police out on this obvious
racism. This protest was part of a larger campaign by Rochester SDS to end budget cuts and
demilitarize their schools.

University of Minnesota SDS held a protest of 30 students that included a skit to
demonstrate the need for funding to go to education and not the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Grace Kelley of SDS linked the war to sexism in the United States, saying “It
has been argued by many people, politicians, and even feminists, that the war in
Afghanistan is in fact going to liberate the women of Afghanistan … How can our military
forces help the women in Afghanistan overcome their own cultural oppressions when we can’t
even eliminate sexism within the military itself, with one in three female veterans
reporting sexual assault while in service?”

University of Houston held a teach-in with 70 people in attendance. Afghanistan war
veteran Matt Dobbs spoke about his experiences in two tours of duty in Afghanistan, and
how he has come to oppose the war on a civilian population that is fighting a battle of
self-defense against the U.S. occupation.
70 students attend an antiwar teach-in organized by Houston SDS.

Chicago students joined a mass rally and march of hundreds against the occupation of
Afghanistan. Doug Michel, a member of Chicago SDS, said, “Students from four different
Chicago campuses stood up today to demand an end to the US war in Afghanistan, and we will
keep speaking up until the last U.S. troop is off Afghan soil.”

And at UNC-Chapel Hill, thirty students rallied against the war, while hundreds of
passers-by stopped to listen to the speeches and take antiwar literature. War veterans,
community members, and students spoke out to denounce the occupation of Afghanistan and
demand immediate withdrawal. The demonstration was organized by the local chapter of
Students for a Democratic Society, and supported by many other campus groups.

Across the United States, dozens more campuses took part in the national day of action to
protest the occupation of Afghanistan.

The October 7th protests came on the heels of the largest loss of life for U.S. occupation
forces in a year. On Sunday October 4, anti-occupation fighters in Afghanistan killed nine
U.S. soldiers in a series of attacks. So far, 869 U.S. troops are dead in Afghanistan
since the occupation began in 2001 – with over a quarter of those killed in the past ten
months alone. There are over 4,000 U.S. wounded.

U.S. and NATO occupation forces do not keep track of civilian casualties, but many
estimate that U.S. air strikes and gunfire have killed tens of thousands of Afghanis. Just
last month, U.S. air strikes killed over 90 Afghan civilians in the northern Afghan
village of Omar Kheil. A similar strike in Farah province on May 4 this year killed 147
civilians.

U.S. Out of Afghanistan Now!

Fund Education, Not Occupation!

The SDS Anti-War Working Group exists to help coordinate national SDS anti-war activity.
More information, reports, and organizing materials are available on the SDS Antiwar
Working Group’s homepage at http://sdsantiwar.wordpress.com.
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