Het democratisch systeem van Nederland is merendeels gegrondvest op burgers die door middel van verkiezingen dat wat “hun macht” genoemd wordt afstaan aan volksvertegenwoordigers van allerlei aard. Dat mandaat, dat afstaan van macht, duurt voor de meeste gedelegeerde machtstructuren om en nabij anderhalf duizend dagen, pas daarna kan een burger weer blijk geven van instemming [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Songs and samizdat made the Wall fall: Europe Against the Current September 1989 revisited
Posted in Art & Politics, European politics, Media history, tagged 1975, 1985, alternative publishing, Amsterdam, censorship, Central Europe (different interpretations), counter culture, Czechoslovakia, Europe (diffrent interpretations), Europe Against The Current Foundation, Fall of the Berlin War, International Bookshop Het Fort van Sjakoo, Iron Curtain, paralelní kultura, Plastic People of the Universe (Czech rock group sixties-eighties), Radio Free Europe, rock music in Eastern Europe, samizdat, Stichting Europa Tegen De Stroom, The Budapest Cultural Forum, The Helsinki Accords, underground culture, zweite Kultur DDR on November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In mainstream news papers and television the decade-commemoration-machinery for The Fall Of The Berlin Wall in November 1989 is running at full speed now. So this is the right moment to recall the ‘against the current’ history of those days – just before from 1985 till summer 1989 – when mainstream media and commentators had [...]
Prins Garnaal in Mexico/ The Shrimp Prince in Mexico: sabotage or poetic inspiration by La Chingada?
Posted in Dutch politics, Dutch Royal House: 21st Century View, National propaganda, tagged Colonial history, Jorge Zorreguieta (1928-), La Chingada, Latin American proverbs, Mexican proverbs, Mexico, Octavio Paz, Prins Willem Alexander, Royal Dutch state visit to Mexico November 2009, Sonido Bravo music group on November 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »
When we shout “Viva Mexico Hijos de la Chingada!” we express our desire to live closed off from the outside world, and above all, from the past. In this shout we deny our origins and deny our hybridism. [Octavio Paz "The labyrinth of solitude: and the other Mexico" (first edition published in 1950 as "El [...]
