Trascrizione in caratteri latini del testo ebraico, di Riccardo Venturi
Romanized Hebrew version by Riccardo Venturi
19 settembre 2005 / September 19, 2005
Si noti come Davide Giromini, alla fisa, nel brano abbia inserito una citazione musicale del tutto inaspettata: si tratta della sigla del cartone animato Lady Oscar...
Versione svedese di Riccardo Venturi
Swedish version by Riccardo Venturi
Svensk översättning av Riccardo Venturi
18 settembre 2005 / September 18, 2005
18. September 2005
Spero che possa fare piacere questa segnalazione...
Il file in formato mp3 della canzone di Pete Seeger, interpretata dall'immortale Joan Baez, è liberamente scaricabile al
seguente sito.
Si tratta (ed è cosa molto importante) di una performance della Baez registrata lo scorso agosto (22 agosto 2005) a Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas, USA, ovvero vicino al ranch del più fetente tra i guerrafondai, Mr. Bush!
È lì che Cindy Sheehan, madre di uno dei tanti soldati statunitensi caduti in Iraq, sta tenendo in scacco l'uomo più potente (e fetente!) della terra...
You have to admire her tenacity: Joan Baez gave her heart and soul to peace activism during the Vietnam War, and even when the U.S. government is dumb enough to get us involved in yet another quagmire, she is still dedicated to spreading peace through song. Joan said before she performed for us tonight, "I didn't need an invitation... (Continues)
An extraordinary and sad document in our AWS collection: the lyrics of שיר לשלום (Shir Lashalom, "A Song For Peace"), by Yankale Rotblit. This is the famous song, composed in 1969, that the Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin had sung on the great peace demonstration of November 4, 1995, in Tel Aviv. A few minutes later he was shot dead by a fanatic right-wing extremist, Yigal Amir, who buried this way the peace process for at least a decade. The sheet of paper with the printed lyrics of the song was found in the in the inner pocket of Rabin's jacket, perforated by the deadly bullet and drenched in his blood.
"3000 some poems disguised as people on an almost too perfect day, should be more than pawns in some asshole's passion play. So now it's your job and it's my job to make it that way, to make sure they didn't die in vain" (Ani Di Franco)
September 11, 2005: We still believe that it's our job, and your job, to build a world without terrorism. without coups d'etat, without wars.
Romanized Hebrew version by Riccardo Venturi
19 settembre 2005 / September 19, 2005