serendiptuous eclecticism.
I'd like to meet:
Charles E. Hurwitz, alone, in a dark alley, late at night... and the unknown assassin who shot Rupert Murdoch
Movies:
Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Busby Berkeley, Peter Brook, Luis Bunuel,Terry Gilliam, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Akir Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, Gillo Pontecarvo, Peter Weir, Lina Wertmuller
Television:
BBC, Link, Mosaic, Forum, PBS, John Stewart, Book TV, Al-Jazeera Radio: KPFA (Democracy Now, Flashpoints,+), KQED-FM (Forum), NPR,
Books:
John Barth, Philip K. Dick, Robert Fisk, Robert Graves, Arnold Toynbee, Homer, Wilhelm Reich, Julian Jaynes, James Joyce, Antonin Artaud, Shakespeare,Mahmoud Darwish,Richard Wright, Umberto Ecco, Langston Hughes, Mikhail Bulgakov, Dante Alighieri, Bertrand Russell, Jared Diamond, Israel Shahak, Aldous Huxley, Edward Said, George Orwell, Edward Gibbon, Joseph Campbell
Heroes:
John Brown, Emiliano Zapata, Leila Khaled, Matt Turner, Robert Hutchins, Boudicca, Baybars, Angela Davis, William Lloyd Garrision, Buenaventura Durutti, Sojourner Truth, Watt Tyler, Nelson Mandela, Hanna Ashwari, Thomas Paine, Fernand Pelloutier, Judas, Jim Henson, Ho Chi Minh, Errico Malatesta, Fanya Kaplan, Paul Robeson, Charles Darwin, Louise Michel ("la Louve rouge, la Bonne Louise") , Max Holz, Frederick Douglass, The White Rose, Salvador Allende, "all those thousands of unnamed wobblies buried in unmarked graves throughout the west" (Utah Phillips).
Michael collins, wind that shakes the barley tribute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiegjgdZu9g [The Men Behind the Wire is an Irish republican song written and composed by Paddy McGuigan in the aftermath of the imposition of Internment without trial of Irish republicans associated with Sinn Féin, as well as others unconnected with militant republicanism who had been arrested by mistake in Northern Ireland in 1971. Nearly all active republicans seemed to have prior knowledge of the arrests and escaped arrest.Michael Farrell was 27 and a lecturer at Belfast Technical College in August 1971 when internment was introduced in Northern Ireland. He was one of the leaders of the People's Democracy, a left-wing group of young radicals, and also a member of the executive of the Northern Ireland civil Rights Association.He was taken first to an army barracks and later, with other internees, to Crumlin Road prison. At the barracks they were made to run a gauntlet of soldiers with batons, and to run in bare feet over broken glass and rubble. Some were blindfolded, taken up in a moving helicopter which they were told was high in the air, and pushed out. In fact it was only a few feet from the ground.Eleven internees, later to be known as 'the hooded men', were taken to an unknown destination and subjected to sensory deprivation techniques designed to disorient the mind. One, a man in his thirties, had worked with Farrell on a recent election campaign and Farrell knew he had no involvement with any paramilitary group. 'I didn't recognise him when I saw him. He looked like an old, bent man. He never really recovered from it and died a few years later.'Three hundred and forty-two people, the oldest a man of 77, were interned on 9 August, 1971. Farrell was held for four weeks but never questioned about involvement in paramilitary or political activity. He is in no doubt that internment was the turning point of the Troubles in Northern Ireland."Up to that time," he said, "Northern nationalists still believed that civil rights and equality could be achieved by political action and protest within the state. But internment was tantamount to telling them they had no rights. From that moment they began to believe they would only get justice if the Northern Ireland state was destroyed, and the Provisional IRA started to grow into a serious force."
