We are also looking for the children of some of the 30,000 disappeared one, pregnant women giving birth in clandestine detention centres in Argentina during the civilian-military dictatorship of 1976-1983.

If you (someone you know of) was born of Argentinean parents during 1975 and 1983 and have doubts about your identity, contact us at Red x la identidad Canada USA or Abuelas. You maybe one of the grandchildren that we are looking for.

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I' Rovo.


It's maybe the first time I translate myself, and it's really difficult for many reasons. “The House on the River Bank” is a song I wrote in summer 2013 to the tune of an old song by Ricky Gianco, “Un amore (Una giovane signora)”, about an old squatted house in my neighbourhood. Two years later, in February 2015, I occupied an equally old farmhouse together with some comrades dreaming of a “land and earth without masters”; we called it “I' Rovo”, because the farm, property of Florence city council, had been left in ruin for about fifteen years and was a prey to thorn bushes and drug dealers. We had to plough, clean, clear and rebuild everything. “I' Rovo” is surrounded by a railway and by one of the worst suburbs in the outskirts of Florence. The house has faced a hurricane storm on August 1th, 2015 and has been burnt four times, apparently... (continua)

S.A. Sofroniou, 1962, Teach Yourself Modern Greek, p. 207 (“Key to the Exercises”)

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A punk rock band originating from the island of Corfu in July 1994, formed by: Yorgos (vocals), Dimitris (el guitar), Doros (vocals, bass) and Alexis (vocals, drums); disbanded in 2002. ALT TC took part in a number of projects and issued 4 studio albums: this song is included in the 3d one, Ακόμα ζωντανός (“Still Alive”), released in 1998. “Hail, o Hail, Liberty!” (Χαίρε ω χαίρε λευτεριά) is an iconic verse from the Greek national anthem, the Ύμνος εις την Ελευθερίαν written in 1823 by Zante's poet Dionysios Solomos (1798-1857), first published 1825 in Missolungi including a translation in Italian verses by G. Grassetti and set to music in 1828 by Nikolaos Mantzaros; it was made Greece's national anthem in 1864 by King George I, and also the national anthem of Cyprus in 1966 (the only national anthem shared by two states in identical form). About twenty... (continua)

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"Bentley on Biermann" (1968)

I know it's not particularly inspiring or poetic--; but it shows that a verse that functionally works, at least can be written.

Shame on you, Bernie Taupin, for throwing your original version away, which I'm sure would have been far better than this--;
But at the least, you could have used your condensed version for the advance-release single, while using the full version on the album--;
Just as had already been done with other epic pop or rock songs, such as Don McLean's 1971 "American Pie," and probably Led Zeppelin's 1971 "Stairway To Heaven."

Thank You--.

Mikael Wiehe wrote on his website the following comments about his song Nadja:

Vintern 1993 var Sarajevo belägrat av serbiska trupper. Jag skrev sången när en granat från belägrarnas artilleri hade slagit ner på en lekplats mitt bland de lekande barnen.

Första gången jag sjöng den var i Grieghallen i Bergen på en konsert med Björn Afzelius och Åge Aleksandersen till förmån för ett barnsjukhus i Montenegro.

När jag 1999 sjöng den på Emausrörelsens europakongress i Orleans i Frankrike blev jag jämförd med Leonard Cohen. Ja, musikalisk finns det nog vissa likheter… (Kommentar från "Sånger i tiden", 2001)

In the winter of 1993 Sarajevo was besieged by Serbian troups. I wrote the song when a shell from the besieger's artillery fell down in a play ground among the playing children.

The first time I sang it was in Grieghallen in Bergen at a concert with Björn Afzelius och Åge Aleksandersen... (continua)

Translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray from archive.org

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