༄ 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"

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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

Greece

Immigrant dies after police torture in Athens

A 25 year old Pakistani sans papier immigrant succumbed yesterday to woulds inflicted while being tortured in the police station of Nikea, Athens, two weeks ago.

Mohamed Kamran Atif, a 25 year old Pakistani sans papier immigrant succumbed on Friday 9th of October to wounds inflicted while being tortured in the police station of Nikea, an Athens suburb, between the 26th and 28th of September 2009.

Change in khaki: a very Socialist repression looms in Greece

Continuing waves of mass police operations in down town Athens set the pace for new era of repression in Greece

Everyone thought it was just a show of power - but it proved to be the Socialist government's plan for "change" after 5 years of brutal right wing rule.

Anti-anarchist pogrom launched by Socialists in Greece

One day after assuming power, the Socialists launched a massive invasion of Exarcheia, the Athens anarchist enclave, with mass detentions and brutal intimidation of locals.

On the early hours of Friday 9 of October, four days after the landslide victory of the Socialists in the greek national elections, and only a day after assuming power, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) proved its intentions towards the social antagonistic movement that has swept the country since the December Uprising: brutal repression.

Blockade of City Hall averts cementing of four squares in Athens suburb

The blockade of the city hall of Zografou, an Athens suburb in the foothills of Mt Imitos averted the cementing of four squares into parking lots, despite the employment of thugs.

On Tuesday 6th of October, only two days after the national elections that have seen the largest defeat of the right wing in the country's history, 6 local committees and assemblies of Zografou, an Athens suburb in the foothills of Mt Imitos, the east mountain of the greek capital, ruled by a right-wing mayor with chronic hatred of things green, gathered to stop the auctioning of public works that

Athens anti-guerrilla case in ruins after new Nuclei of Fire attack

A new attack and communique by the Nuclei of Fire, targeting the greek PM's central rally in Athens, shatter any reamining credibility of the anti-guerrilla pre-election persecutions.

The already disputed credibility of the anti-guerrilla persecution of three 20 year old boys for their alleged involvement in the urban guerrilla group Nuceli of Fire Conspiracy (NFC), responsible for over 150 storm-attacks against state and capital targets as well as a recent bombing campaign (with no human injuries due to previous warning calls in all cases), has now all but collapsed after the

Bonanno arrested in Greece on suspicion of involvement in armed bank robbery

According to Kathimerini, the famous Italian anarchist Alfredo M. Bonanno was arrested yesterday (October 1) in Trikala, Greece, on suspicion of driving the getaway car for an armed bank robbery by a Greek man named Christos Stratigopoulos. This arrest occurs in the midst of a wave of government repression against anarchists in the name of "anti-terrorism."

The report says a witness informed the police of the car's license plate, and the police stopped them and found the money in the car.

Folk singer hospitalised after attack by neo-nazis in Athens

Sofia Papazoglou, a popular folk singer was attacked by members of the Golden Dawn neo-nazi party in Athens after throwing election leaflets handed to her in the garbage. The singer remains hospitalised with serious burns from use of unidentified acid spray and with impaired vision.

Sofia Papazoglou, a popular folk singer of the "entehno" genre known for her progressive politics was attacked on Thursday 1st of October outside the metro station of Katehaki, in Athens, by ten members of the neo-nazi party Golden Dawn when she threw election leaflets handed to her by the thugs in the garbage.

Anti-terrorist law jails three in Athens "in expectation of evidence"

Three of the four accused of involvement in the urban guerrilla group Nuclei of Fire Conspiracy were remanded in custody pending trial, after the state investigator applied the anti-terrorist law to them which permits imprisonment "in expectation of evidence against them".

After two days of a legal marathon, during which hundreds of solidarity protestors gathered in the high court yards, the investigation hearings of the 4 teenagers accused as members of the urban guerrilla group Nuclei of Fire Conspiracy came to an end, with the release of the 20 year old girl and the pre-trial jailing of the three remaining defendants.

Anti-guerilla fiasco in Athens begins to unravel

The anti-guerrilla fiasco directed by the panicked outgoing government has began to unravel in Athens with bombing victim accusing the police of a setting-up innocent radicals.

It was the right wing government's last stunt and it has already collapsed in widespread public dismay.

Socialist Party Hq evacuated during anarchist attack in Athens

The Socialist Party (Pasok) Headquarters in Athens were evacuated when they came under sustained attack by anarchists early on Friday evening. The attack is believed to mark the first reaction to the arrest of the 4 youngsters accused of urban guerrilla activities.

On the evening of Friday 25 of September and as the four youngsters arrested earlier this week now stand accused under the notorious anti-terrorist law which renders any petty crime punishable by 10 years imprisonment, the new and shiny Headquarters of PaSoK, the Socialist Party of Greece, which is preparing itself to head the country's government next week, came under attack by anarchists, who le