MEMBER BLOG TAG: fascism
| Monday, May 3, 2010 5:06PM | | | | Javier Cercas/Amanda Vaill | Tags: Fascism, Spanish Civil War, novels, justice, truth, lies, Javier Cercas, Amanda Vaill, Eduardo Lago
| | | I came to this session because of my interest in the Spanish Civil War. This was my father's war; when the brigadistas had their reunion in Spain a few years ago, I attended this moving event with members of my family.
Javier Cercas read from his book SOLDIERS OF SALAMIS a passage in which the a republican fighter escapes the Fascists, and a Fascist soldier who discovers him does not turn him in. Cercas read in Spanish; the passage was then read in English by Amanda Vaill.
She started her interview by asking him how he began writing novels, but this soon led to an interesting discussion of how his main character, often named Javier, is like him and not like him. Cercas... | | | | | | | Monday, September 29, 2008 10:20PM | | | | ARROYO SWORD MIGHTIER THAN THE PEN | Tags: Philippines, censorship, media repression, state terrorism, fascism, authoritarianism
| | | U.S-ARROYO REGIME TERRORIZES MEDIA AND ARTISTS IN THE PHILIPPINES
by E. SAN JUAN, Jr.
Philippines Cultural Studies Center
Patronized by the war-mongering Bush administration, the corrupt militarist Arroyo regime in the Philippines continues its systematic repression of journalists, writers and media personnel to preserve its brutal oppression of millions of workers, peasants, women, and professionals. Ten percent of 90 million Filipinos are forced to work abroad as domestics or contracted labor. Despite over a thousand extra-judicial murders and abductions of dissenters and activists, popular resistance remains strong and resolute. This dialectic will persist, given the profound class and sectoral contradictions dominating what William Blum calls the United States' "oldest colony" (Killing Hope, 2004) a neocolonial... | | | | | |
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