Monday, October 31, 2011

Acorn and Butternut Squash Sformato with Parmesan Cream and Balsamic Glaze

Sformato is a molded dish similar to a souffle, heartier in texture and not as airy. I've seen them made with peas, spinach, fennel, cauliflower, sweet potatoes and carrots just to name a few. It can be served as a first course, a side dish or a light vegetable entree.


Recently I've made both the acorn and butternut squash versions, and I seriously can't tell you which one I liked best, just one taste and you'll be forever hooked! Think about it, intensely flavored squash mixed in with a cheesy creamy goodness that creates a fluffy- like texture and topped off with a sweet balsamic glaze!

Now don't let the ingredients scare you, it's a little on the decadent side but the recipe fills 4 ramekins so do the math, it's not that much. So far I've made this as a side with pork chops and I've eaten it alone just with a salad, a perfect autumn veggie dinner!



Roasting your squash ahead of time makes it all come together really quick. Which ever squash you use cut them in half, scoop out the seeds, drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Roast cut side down on parchment 350F until knife goes through, time varies depending on size of squash. Scoop out the squash and puree in a food processor. Into a bowl place **2 cups of pureed squash** 1 egg** 1/3 cup of grated parmesan or romano cheese** 2 tablespoons of mascarpone cheese** 1/2 cup of half and half** salt and pepper**. Pour the mixture almost to the top of buttered ramekins. Place in a baking pan with water to come about halfway up the sides, cover and bake for 30 minutes in a 350 degree oven, or until the mixture is set and cooked through. Let rest a few moments, unmold and serve. 4 servings


Place your little Italian souffle in a puddle of parmesan cream sauce if you so desire, made by reducing cream ( I used half and half) in a pan and sprinkling in some parmesan cheese. To finish it off drizzle on some balsamic glaze!

Recipe inspired by Chef Tony Priolo


I'm quite sure you're going to thank me for this one!

Buon Appetito!

Ruga dei Oresi


In sestiere san Polo, one of the most buzy streets in Venice.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Caravaggio a Cuba









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Il nome vero di Caravaggio era Michelangelo Merisi.
All'inaugurazione della mostra su Caravaggio erano presenti più di 700 persone.
La mostra si tiene nei locali dell'Ambasciata d'Italia a L'Avana.
Il quadro principe della mostra è il "Narciso".
La

Rain


Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Campo Santa Maria Formosa


You will cross this large campo, one of the largest in Venice, on your way from the Rialto to the Campo San Zanipolo. A nice place, with its little daily market and its colored houses. The church, Santa Maria Formosa, was built in 1492, to the design of architect Mauro Codussi.

Woodstock (1970)

Woodstock (1970)



INFO:
Michael Wadleigh, USA, english, 1970, 184 min.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066580/
http://www.csfd.cz/film/83439-woodstock/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock

(en) The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival.

(cz) Film, který v roce 1970 získal Oscara jako nejlepší dokument, brilantně přibližuje jedinečný masový prožitek dnes již legendárního rockového festivalu a skvělé výkony účinkujících (Cocker, Sly Stone, Ten Years After, The Who a další).

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North Coast Earth First! Historical Retrospective and 2008 Update

North Coast Earth First! Historical Retrospective and 2008 Update



INFO:
USA, english, 2008, 60 min.
http://www.csfd.cz/film/304708-north-coast-earth-first-historical-retrospective-and-2008-update/
http://nceflive.blogspot.com/
http://california.tribe.net/listing/North-Coast-Earth-First-Historical-Retrospective-and-2008-Update/california-us/9af4341c-d215-4cb2-a391-f044ed16119e
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=159838761
www.northcoastearthfirst.org
https://sites.google.com/site/ncefmedia/

(en) North Coast Earth First! 2008 update and historical retrospective.
Aired nationwide, in the U.S., on Free Speech TV, thanks to our friends at "Another Media is Possible," in Atlanta, Georgia.
Some of the website and e-mail addresses are out of date; the new website is https://sites.google.com/site/ncefmedia/, and the current e-mail address is shunka_2004@yahoo.com.
Includes spoken history of the North Coast Earth First! movement, based in Humboldt County, California, and three independently-produced videos.
Enjoy! Earth First!

Watch online:
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Friday, October 28, 2011

Straight


What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
Tennessee Williams

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Napoleone Bonaparte





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Napoleone nasce ad Ajaccio, in Corsica, nel 1769 e il suo destino sembra già ___1___ da quando era un bambino. A soli dieci anni, il piccolo Bonaparte viene ___2___

Dolci Ebraici


A Jewish bakery in Cannaregio. Flour, sugar, eggs, lemon zest, and mainly grated almonds. Appetizing, isn't it?

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Waste Land (2010)

Waste Land (2010)



INFO:
Lucy Walker, Brazil/UK, english/portuguese, 2010, 99 min.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1268204/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Land_(film)
http://www.csfd.cz/film/278097-umeni-odpadu/
http://www.wastelandmovie.com/

(en) An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

(cz) Brazílsky umelec Vik Muniz fotografuje ľudí, ktorí spotrebúvajú nájdené veci, na miestach, kde žijú a pracujú. Jeho seriál Cukrové deti zobrazuje portréty sociálne zanedbaných detí, pracujúcich na karibských plantážach. Uznávaná filmárka Lucy Walker oslovila Muniza, aby s ňou vytvoril nový projekt. Je otázkou, kto bude tentoraz dobrovoľným subjektom pre nový seriál, ktorý sa chce zamerať na nevyužitý odpad...
Pôsobivý dokument, ktorý zaznamenáva Munizovu cestu do Jardim Gramacho, najväčšej skládky odpadu na svete, nachádzajúcej sa na predmestí Rio de Janeira. Umelec spolupracuje s eklektickou skupinou tzv. catadores, čo sú samozvaní zberači odpadových materiálov, a tiež s fotografiami zachytávajúcimi postavy, ktoré recyklujú svoje životy a spoločenský odpad. Filmárka tak získala vynikajúci pohľad na celý proces. Ponúka vzrušujúci dôkaz o premenlivej sile umenia a hodnoty, ktoré majú šancu prejaviť sa v osobnom rozhodnutí.

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Seconds from Disaster - Bhopal Nightmare (2011)

Seconds from Disaster - Bhopal Nightmare (2011)



INFO:
National Geographic, USA, english, 2011
http://simransachdeva.hubpages.com/hub/The-worst-nightmare-for-BHOPAL
http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/nd9ph/seconds-from-disaster-bhopal-nightmare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
http://www.locatetv.com/tv/seconds-from-disaster/7290967

(en) Seconds From Disaster: Bhopal Nightmare
At around midnight on 3rd December 1984 began the worst nightmare for Bhopal. The night of terror and death. A cloud of deadly gases exploded from the pesticide plant that belonged to Union Carbide India, a subsidiary of the US-based Union Carbide Company because of an exothermic reaction due to the entry of water to the tank containing 42 tons of methyl isocyanate releasing large amount of toxic gases into the atmosphere. The gases flooded into the homes of sleeping people of Bhopal, causing great panic as people woke up with a burning sensation in their lungs, suffocation, cough, burning eyes and vomiting, breathlessness, stomach pains and vomiting.

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Build for ever


"Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever."
John Ruskin (1849)

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Il logo della mela






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Il primo logo della Apple è del 1976.
Fu creato da uno dei fondatori dell'azienda.
Il logo, che

Red and white

I was looking for this house because I had a photo of it in a book. It should have been easy, because the photo showed the number - 213. As you can see, they must have re-numbered the houses on Burano at some time.

Giro´s (2010)

Giro´s (2010)



INFO:
Northern Visions, Ireland, english, 2010, 55 min.
http://www.northernvisions.org/index/home.html
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/92595
http://www.warzonecollective.com/?page_id=2
http://www.anarchistblackcat.org/index.php?topic=6195.0

(en) How a disparate group of young people got together in the time of Thatcher
and urged others "don't accept your lot in life". Rediscover the A Centre, Giros, the Belfast Youth  Community Group, Warzine and the strands of the punk movement, which continued throughout the 1980s to build resources and non-sectarian space in Belfast city centre. The experiment lasted 17 years and contributed to building the foundations of the music industry in Northern Ireland.

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Monday, October 24, 2011

Soup, Sandwiches and Dessert

I haven't been cooking much lately, it's been a whirl wind couple of weeks here as I lost a much loved cousin of mine to cancer, but recently I had to pull together a quick lunch for visiting family, fortunately I had all the ingredients to make this Sausage and Chard Soup. A big pot of comforting soup simmering on the stove always hits the spot.

Brown 1/2 lb. of crumbled Italian sausage, ( I used spicy)** Toss in 2 chopped carrots, 1 chopped onion and 1 large minced garlic clove** Add 1 1/2 cans of drained cannelini beans ( reserve half can) and a few cups of chopped swiss chard or kale** Pour in 1 1/2 boxes of chicken stock ( reserve the other half box)** If you have a cheese rind or two, put that in** Season with salt, pepper and a sprig of rosemary** Take the remaining 1/2 can of beans and the rest of the broth and place both in a bowl and if you have an immersion blender or just a regular blender give it a whirl and pour into the pot, this will act like a thickening agent. Cook until veggies are tender, it doesn't take long.



In the meantime I sent the husband out to a nearby deli to pick up some Italian Subs consisting of provolone, salami, capicola, mortadella, tomato, onion and oil all on fresh Italian bread.


Worried that it wasn't enough I quickly made some, Peppers and Eggs. Five or six large peppers seeded and cut into strips then sauteed in olive oil until soft, add in a dozen beaten eggs and lots of grated romano cheese, salt and pepper.


This is a big family favorite, such a humble sandwich that tastes like a million bucks! We've been eating this since we were kids, I always top mine with hot giardinera!


No time to bake? No problem! Just make a quick stop at our favorite Italian Bakery, you can never go wrong with Napoleans, Sfogliatelle, and fresh filled Cannoli's!

For all my local peeps if you haven't already done so please check out The Italian Bakery at 82 E. Lake St. Addison, Il. Always consistant and good!


Have I told you that they make a great cannoli cake? We order them all the time! Cash Only.



But my personal favorite are their cannoli's, crunchy and creamy with every bite! Now all you need to do is put on a big pot of coffee, a match made in heaven!



Recently I was gifted by the Fairy Hobmother just for leaving a comment on my friend Claudia's blog which I'm a regular visitor of anyway, a nice surprise in the midst of a very stressfull week. The nice thing is one of you will receive a gift too just by leaving a comment on this blog post from the nice people of "Appliances Online"who are currently promoting the "Bosch" eco friendly appliance range.

I used my gift card towards a new and shiny pizzelle maker, I see all different flavored pizzelles in my near future here on Proud Italian Cook!

Silent Church


I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday, October 23, 2011

National Geographic - Collapse (2010)

National Geographic - Collapse (2010)
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed



INFO:
National Geographic, USA, english, 2010, 96 min.
http://natgeotv.com/asia/collapse-are-we-next
http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resources/collapsenet-public-access/item/252-national-geographic-special-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%9Ccollapse-based-on-the-book-by-jared-diamond%E2%80%9D-20-september-2010

(en) The National Geographic Channel looks 200 years into the future in Collapse, based on author Jared Diamond's book Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, to examine how current
habits might affect humans' ability to survive. Directed by Noel Dockstader and narrated by Jamie Effros, this documentary examines how relationships among current methods could lead to human extinction.
Shortages of land, water, and energy could potentially propel civilization to collapse choices such as sustainable, local farming and organic practices are highlighted as ways to ensure life on Earth continues.

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Possum Living (1978)

Possum Living (1978)



INFO:
Nancy Schreiber, USA, english, 1978, 28 min., VHSrip
http://www.possumliving.net/about.html

-Buy the Book-

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(en) In the late seventies, at the age of eighteen, and with a seventh grade education, Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living about the five years she and her father lived off the land on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia. Known for its plucky narration and no-nonsense practical advice on how to live frugally while keeping up a middle class facade, at the time of its original publication, Possum Living became an instant classic.

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Che cos'è un tango?






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Il tango è terapeutico in molti aspetti.

Il tango è ballato soltanto da gente di una certa età.

Il

I don't like Mondays

I went to Possagno on a Monday, and it was shut. The next time I went, not on a Monday, I saw a note on the door of the Tempio Canoviano that gave the opening times. Half an hour after the doors should have opened I went to the Canova Museum (not a short walk) to ask why the Tempio was not open. The attendant told me that the times posted were the winter times, but they had not yet come into effect. You can find out all you need to know on-line, so I will say no more, other than don't believe the discovertreviso.com site that says the Tempio is open on Mondays.

Friday, October 21, 2011

Born in Flames (1983)

Born in Flames (1983)



INFO:
Lizzie Borden, USA, english, 1983, 90 min.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085267/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in_Flames
http://www.csfd.cz/film/77222-born-in-flames/filmoteka/

http://filmfanatic.org/reviews/?p=4462


(en) Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, a revolution in which a socialist government gains power, this films presents a dystopia in which the issues of many progressive groups - minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists - are ostensibly dealt with by the government, and yet there are still problems with jobs, with gender issues, with governmental preference and violence. In New York City, in this future time, a group of women decide to organize and mobilize, to take the revolution farther than any man - and many women - ever imagined in their lifetimes.

(sk) Dej sa odohráva 10 rokov po "najpokojnejšej revolúcii v histórii USA", revolúcii, v ktorej socialistická vláda získala moc.
Film ukazuje spočiatku fascinujúcu politickú konštrukciu, premenenú v utópiu a odsúdenú k stroskotaniu, v ktorej sú otázky mnohých progresívnych skupín, menšín, liberálov, organizácií pre práva homosexuálov, feministiek, zdanlivo rozoberané vládou, no stále sú problémy s prácou, rodovou diskrimináciou, vládnymi preferenciami a násilím.
Pri takejto vláde bolo iba otázkou času, kedy sa rasizmus a sexizmus zaslúži o vznik Ženskej armády, koalície revolučných feministiek bojujúcich proti neprávu prostredníctvom alternatívnych médií a propagandy. Keď však mladá černošská lesba, ktorá verejne vyjadrovala podporu Ženskej armáde, zomiera vo väzení, jej súdružky berú do rúk zbrane.

Trailer:
http://youtu.be/IfLzRro1kTk



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Lonely Street


You might be a sweet-toned sure nuff high-class talker,
You might be a stone, stone expert at kissing.
But it don't do too much good to be talking,
Brother, when there ain't no, ain't nobody listening.
And if you are shy, just not much of a talker,
Don't impress the people that you meet.
You might as well be a lonely walker in a lonely town, on a lonely street.
Bill Withers

Ahh L'Olio Nuovo - New Olive Oil Harvest Tuscany





This is one of the perks of living in Tuscany. You not only get to try new olive oil almost immediately after olives are picked but you get a chance to see olive oil made...from Harvest to Hand.

This morning I was extremely fortunate enough to visit my friend's olive mill in Cetona Siena. The Frantoio Fattoria del Biancheto is one of the only olive mills that uses the latest technology to

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Superstizione


Open umbrella? Why not! But outside the house please...

Anger in Athens: Riots at mass Greece protest

Anger in Athens: Riots at mass Greece protest

INFO:
http://athens.indymedia.org/
October 19., 2011

Live Stream from Greece: http://www.livestream.com/stopcarteltvgr

(en) In the streets of Greece, arguably the biggest protest in years is now descending into violence. People are venting their anger against a new package of austerity measures the country is likley to adopt as soon as Thursday.

Watch online:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMVqvVCH600


http://youtu.be/Hny3JC_6K2g


http://youtu.be/UbNgr3fZwfQ


http://youtu.be/GOCfbmdVHjQ


http://youtu.be/T_gjIWknhT8


http://youtu.be/bNLQTDjWDWM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaPz-f-QyQU


Update October 20.
Members of the Communist Party of Greece replaced the Police today, protecting the Parliament from the protesters. Same incidents in other cities too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0eYBUF7MlU














Everyone to the Streets!


OCTOBER 19th: EVERYONE TO THE STREETS!

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Let’s counter-attack.
Let’s intervene in the feast of the union fat-cats
and promote combative features in the demonstration.
OCTOBER 19th: EVERYONE TO THE STREETS!
(en) ‘Against violence, wherever it comes from’: a phrase that we often hear fromAdonis Georgiadis, as much as from someone who belongs to the political left, or a householder who happens to have alleged progressive ideas and occasionally takes to the streets during a strike.
We will refer only slightly to a perception often met in numerous strike demonstrations; to the notion which pretty much says ‘no provocation should take place, no clash, this can damage only us, and the movement will step backward,’ etc.; a perception which can mainly be found in a large part of the reformist sold-out left of the regime.
But in reality this view merely benefits the State. Because as many as the demonstrators may be, if the State sees people in the streets resigning behind a loudspeaker or asking everyone to calm down when cops provoke the crowd, then it knows that these people are self-controlled and cannot cause anyproblem.
A spontaneous massive movement is what scares the State or, in a massive strike, whether this crowd can become uncontrollable, confrontational and disturb the peace, order and safety which they seek as existent and try to impose.
They’re not scared of any pacifist demonstration, any peaceful protest, as massive as it may be; that’s why the State itself praises these events (as it happened i.e. in the strike of May 20th, 2010, which was clearly a peaceful, if not an anti-violent demonstration; back then everyone, the ministers, the Prime Minister Papandreou and others, spoke bullshit to the corporate media praising the demonstrators and saying that each strike should be similar, and such nonsense). They’re really frightened of clashes, disturbance of normality, attacks on state and capitalist targets, because such actions cause them an immediate problem.
Of course we’re not fooled, nor do we live in our own private world. Obviously we don’t believe that if we choose to attack two or three targets in a general strike, the revolution will come. But we do believe that we owe to counter-attack those who wish to control our lives; those who dare to think that we exist just to be their slaves. Against those who devastate and steal our lives from us, against the oppression and barbarity of everyday life in capitalism, against the violence which we suffer daily from the State and the bosses, the least we can do is to counter-attack violently.
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To spoil the plans of those who think that this day will be a simple strike stroll in the city centre; those who will seek a pacifist march.
On October 19th, let’s give a violent response to those who want us to live our entire lives as slaves so that a bunch of people eat with golden spoons and their rotten system survives.
FIRE TO THE STATE AND THE CAPITAL! EVERYONE TO THE STREETS!

(de) Lasst uns zum Gegenangriff übergehen!
Lasst uns eingreifen in das Fest der korrupten Gewerkschaften und kämpferische Ansätze in der Demonstration vorantreiben!
19. OKTOBER: ALLE AUF DIE STRASSEN!!!!!

‚Gegen Gewalt, wo immer sie auch herkommen mag‘ – eine Phrase, die wir oft von Adonis Georgiadis hören, genauso wie von anderen, die der politischen Linken angehören oder Immobilieneigentümer, die als progressiv angesehen werden und gelegentlich im Laufe von Streiks auf die Straße gehen.

Wir werden uns nur entfernt mit einem solchen Verständnis befassen, wie wir es in zahlreichen Streiks erleben können. Mit jenem Verständnis, das mehr oder weniger sagt: „Es sollte keine Provokation stattfinden, keine Auseinandersetzung, die uns schaden und die Bewegung in Misskredit bringen könnte.“ Es ist ein Verständnis, das hauptsächlich in großen Teilen der reformistischen, verräterischen Linken des Regimes zu finden ist.

In Wirklichkeit nützt diese Ansicht dem Staat. So zahlreich die Demonstrierenden auch sein mögen; wenn der Staat die Menschen auf den Straßen sieht wie sie hinter Lausprechern und Megaphonen verstecken und die Masse auffordern, ruhig zu bleiben, wenn die Cops provozieren, dann weiß er, dass diese Menschen alle selbstkontrolliert sind und nicht irgendein Problem bewirken.

Eine spontane, massive Bewegung ist es, was den Staat beängstigt oder, in einem massiven Streik, ob diese Masse unkontrollierbar, konfrontativ wird und den Frieden, die Ordnung und Sicherheit derer stört, die sie existenziell benötigen und sie anderen versuchen aufzuzwingen.

Sie haben keine Angst vor irgendeiner pazifistischen Demonstration, irgendeinem friedlichen Protest so massive r sie auch seien könnten. Deshalb lobt selbst der Staat diese Veranstaltungen (so wie es zum Beispiel be idem Streik am 20. Mai geschehen ist, der eindeutig friedlich war, wenn nicht sogar eine Anti-Gewalt Demonstration. Damals verkündeten alle Minister einschließlich des Premiers Papandreou den Medien den Blödsinn, dass die Demonstrierenden das Recht auf friedlichen Protest haben und jeder Streik so oder so ähnlichen ablaufen sollte.) Sie kriegen erst Angst, wenn Auseinandersetzungen sich ausbreiten, die Normalität gestört wird oder Angriffe auf staatliche und kapitalistische Ziele durchgeführt werden, weil solche Aktionen sie vor ein unmittelbares Problem stellen.

Natürlich lassen wir uns nicht zum Narren halten, auch leben wir nicht in unserer eigenen Privatwelt. Offensichtlich glauben wir nicht daran, dass, sobald wir uns entschließen zwei, drei Angriffe auf einem Generalstreik durchzuführen, die Revolution kommen wird. Aber wir glaube, dass wir jenen einen Gegenangriff schuldig sind, die versuchen unser Leben zu kontrollieren; jene, die es wagen zu denken, dass wir nur existieren, um ihre Sklaven zu sein; gegen jene, die uns zu Grunde richten und uns unsere Leben stehlen; gegen die Unterdrückung und Barbarei des täglichen Lebens im Kapitalismus; gegen die Gewalt, die wir täglich vom Staat und den Bossen erleiden. Das geringste, das wir tun können, ist es, uns zu wehren!!!!

Um die Pläne jener zu vereiteln, die denken, dass dieser Tag ein einfacher Streikspaziergang durch das Stadtzentrum wird; jene, die sich einen pazifistischen Marsch erhoffen.
Lasst uns am 19. Oktober eine stürmische Antwort jenen geben, die wollen, dass wir unser ganzes Leben als Sklaven leben, damit ein Haufen von Menschen mit Goldlöffeln essen wird und ihr verfaultes System überlebt.

FEUER UND FLAMME DEM STAAT UND DEM KAPITAL! ALLE AUF DIE STRASSE!


ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE (2011)

ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE (2011)



INFO:
Adam Curtis, BBC, UK, english, 2011, 3 x 60 min.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/05/all_watched_over_by_machines_o.html
http://www.csfd.cz/film/297714-all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/

(en) All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, is a hallucinatory BBC documentary that hyperwarps across continents and through time to draw shadowy connections between Ayn Rand, Silicon Valley, the “rise of the machines”, anarchism, the financial crisis and the Monica Lewinsky scandal. (Need, I add and much more!?) Incongruous images and a surreal soundtrack give it a Lynchian feel. Not your usual documentary. Evaluated as a whole, it’s madness but delicious madness. Here is the first episode.

(cz) Krátký seriál rekapitulující jedny z největších myšlenkových konceptů a mýtů 20/21. století, velmi informativní, nekompromisní, temné, nesnaží se to naznačovat kudy z toho marasmu ven, ale už jen skopáním finační elity do kuličky, vyvrácením konceptu celosvětového ekologického vybalancovaného systému, prokázáním, že demokratizace se neodehraje skrze net a když, bude trvat jen krátce. To všechno jsou velmi závažné závěry, které si dodnes mnozí neuvědomují.

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Come l'erede di Celletti multa anche il sindaco

Comprensione orale: livello medio-avanzato.Indicare le affermazioni vere.In provincia di Bergamo opera un vigile inflessibile nel fare le multe.Il vigile è entrato in servizio in estate.Prima di lui, le multe erano rilasciate dai carabinieri.Nel mese di agosto, ci sono stati più di 6.000 euro di contestazioni.Il sindaco è stato multato di 28 euro.Il video mostra un brano del film con Alberto

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Black Cat Sabotage Handbook

Black Cat Sabotage Handbook



INFO:
https://blackcatsabotage.wordpress.com/

(en) The Black Cat Sabotage Handbook is a resistance movement artifact that mysteriously appeared in hard copy (thank you, whoever you are!) in the distro area at the 2010 Wild Roots Feral Futures eco-defense & rewilding gathering.

After more than a year and numerous requests, the Dirty Hands Collective decided to release the manual on-line, piece by piece (the manual is 136 pages long so scanning it all at once for release at places like ZineLibrary.info seemed unrealistic, though we had planned to compile the sections as we release them for later uploading in one file).

Then, alas, shortly after getting started scanning and uploading yesterday, and after announcing it on several anarchist websites, someone did our job for us! Many thanks to the commenter on Infoshop News who provided the link to a download of the full manual, apparently uploaded today for our (everyone’s) benefit. We’ve uploaded it here as well in hopes that the download will be faster. Please let us know if you experience any problems. Enjoy!

Black Cat Sabotage

As far as we can tell, it has not existed anywhere else online, yet. As to the history of the document, we can uncover little other than one source that credits its authorship to Avalon, aka William Rogers, the Green Scare arrestee who committed suicide in his cell shortly after arrest. We’d like confirmation of this, one way or the other, and regardless, would like to dedicate this blog to Avalon’s spirit and memory.

(Disclaimer: This blog is for entertainment and historical purposes only. Much of the content of The Black Cat Sabotage Handbook is obsolete and/or outdated.)



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The Shock Doctrine (2009)

The Shock Doctrine (2009)



INFO:
Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom, Naomi Klein, UK, English, 2009, 79 min.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1355640/
http://www.csfd.cz/film/236454-shock-doctrine-the/

(en) An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.

The Shock Doctrine is the latest documentary from acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom, co-directed by Mat Whitecross. Based on Naomi Klein's bestselling book, The Shock Doctrine argues that America's 'free market' policies have come to dominate the world through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

Both the film and the book argue that governments all over the world exploit natural disasters, economic crises and wars to push through radical free market policies. Klein calls this 'disaster capitalism' and in her view, disaster capitalism is as effective as psychiatric shock therapy at wiping our collective memory.

The film concludes that the result is often catastrophic for ordinary people and hugely beneficial to big corporations. The documentary also adds to Klein's thesis - which was written before the recent market turmoil - and includes an analysis of how the financial world got into its current troubled state.

(sk) Dokument natoceny v produkci britskeho verejnopravniho Channelu 4 podle stejnojmene knihy novinarky, aktivistky a intelektualky Naomi Klein. "Šoková doktria" v tomto pripade znamena, ze pokud chce nekdo neco anebo nekoho zmenit, bude se mu to darit snaze, pokud vyuzije okamziku, kdy bude jedinec anebo skupina lidi zmatena, dezorientovana, v soku. Tato technika se da pouzit nejen na jednotlivce, ale i cele narody, ktere jsou po prirodnich, valecnych a jinych katastrofach obzvlastne snadno manipulovatelne a preprogramovatelne. V takovou chvili je mnohem snadnejsi provadet nepopularni ekonomicke zmeny, nebo prijimat zakony potlacujici lidska prava. Mnohe staty a spolecnosti tak dokazou kazdou krizi a valku velmi dobre vyuzit a vydelat na ni. Naomi Klein je tu kriticka vuci Miltonu Friedmanovi a jeho pokracovatelum a teoriim, podle nichz by stat mel prestat plnit mnohe sve socialni funkce (doprava, skolstvi) a nechat je na pospas volnemu trhu, a take vuci jeho vyuzivani prave zminenych ekonomickych sokovych terapii. Autorka knihy nebyla s vyslednou podobou dokumentu prilis spokojena a distancovala se od nej (nikoliv vsak kvuli obsahu, ale zvolene forme - pred manipulativnim hlasem vypravece doplnenym archivnimi ilustracemi a jeji prednaskou by pry dala prednost mozaice rozhovoru s ruznymi lidmi). Kdo chce vedet vic, necht sahne i po knize. Dokument je jeji zjednodusenou a zkracenou verzi.

Friedmanova teze, že jen krize vyvolává skutečnou změnu, je podle Naomi Kleinové ideologickým podkladem neoliberální svaté trojice - privatizace, deregulace a snižování sociálních výdajů - vůči níž se vymezuje také ve filmu natočeném podle její knihy o vzestupu katastrofického kapitalismu.

Trailer:
http://youtu.be/fUBK7O1ANqM



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Cultures of Resistance (2010)

Cultures of Resistance (2010)



INFO:
Iara Lee, USA, english, 2010, 73 min.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1650533/
http://www.csfd.cz/film/303808-cultures-of-resistance/
http://www.culturesofresistance.org/

(en) Does each gesture really make a difference? Can music and dance be weapons of peace? In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, director Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict and, as she saw it, heading for self-destruction. After several years, travelling over five continents, Iara encountered growing numbers of people who committed their lives to promoting change. This is their story. From IRAN, where graffiti and rap became tools in fighting government repression, to BURMA, where monks acting in the tradition of Gandhi take on a dictatorship, moving on to BRAZIL, where musicians reach out to slum kids and transform guns into guitars, and ending in PALESTINIAN refugee camps in LEBANON, where photography, music, and film have given a voice to those rarely heard, CULTURES OF RESISTANCE explores how art and creativity can be ammunition in the battle for peace and justice.
Featuring: Medellín poets for peace, Capoeira masters from Brazil, Niger Delta militants, Iranian graffiti artists, womens movement leaders in Rwanda, Lebanons refugee filmmakers, U.S. political pranksters, indigenous Kayapó activists from the Xingu River, Israeli dissidents, hip-hop artists from Palestine, and many more...

Trailer:
http://youtu.be/nptGxlSFxY4



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Angels of Mercy (2006)

Angels of Mercy (2006)



INFO:
Channel 4, Keith Mann, UK, english, 2006, 19 min.
http://www.csfd.cz/film/304620-angels-of-mercy/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Mann

(en) Documentary about the Animal Liberation Front, including ex-ALF activists Keith Mann and John Curtin.

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