Re: [microsound] [Fwd: [AfroFuturism] Arundhati Roy: Confronting Empire] [OT]

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Hi!

Can we yack about music on this list, instead of posting our empty headed
ramblings like the one below?

on 2/2/03 12:33 PM, dbuchwald at dagmar.buchwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> "When George Bush says "you're either with us, or you are with the
> terrorists" we can say "No thank you." We can let him know that the
> people of the world do not need to choose between a Malevolent Mickey
> Mouse and the Mad Mullahs.
> 
> Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to
> it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our
> music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our
> sheer relentlessness - and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories
> that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe.
> The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are
> selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their
> weapons, their notion of inevitability.
> 
> Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we
> need them.
> 
> Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I
> can hear her breathing."
> 
> Here is the whole article as posted by Paul D. Miller/DJ SpooKy in the
> afrofuturism mailing list.  Might be of interest to some people in this list,
> too:
> 
> 
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