Now you know
(June Jordan - Roy Brown)
palestinians in Beirut,
but I didn’t know and nobody told me
and what could I do or say,
anyway?
They said you shot their London ambassador
and when that was not true
they said “so what?”.
They said you shelled
their northern villages
and when UN forces reported
“that was not true”,
because your side of the cease-fire was holding,
they said “so what?”.
They said they simply wanted to carve
a twenty five mile buffer zone,
and then they ravaged your water supplies,
your electricity,
your hospitals,
your schools,
your highways and byways
all the way north to Beirut.
They blew up your homes
and demolished the grocery stores
and blocked the Red Cross
and took away
doctors to jail,
and they cluster bombed
girls and boys,
whose bodies
swelled purple and black
into twice
their original size.
They said something about “never again”
and then they made close to one million
human beings homeless
in less than three weeks
and they killed or maimed
40,000 of your men
and your women
and your children.
They said they were victims.
They said you were Arabs.
They called your
apartments and gardens
guerrilla strongholds.
Then they told you to leave,
didn’t you read
the leaflets that they dropped
from their hotshot fighter jets?
They told you to go.
Yes, I did know it was the money
I earned as a poet that paid
for the bombs
and the planes
and the tanks
that they used to
massacre your family.
El poema original se titula “Apologies to all the people in Lebanon”
Ayer falleció en el Hospital Josep Trueta de Girona el gestor cultural y poeta italiano Sergio Secondiano Sacchi (Milán, 1948), una de las mentes más brillantes y creativas vinculadas al histórico Club Tenco, institución fundamental en la defensa y promoción de la canción de autor.
El cantautor catalán Joan Manuel Serrat recibirá la máxima distinción académica de la UNCUYO en marzo, en una visita de tres días que incluirá un concierto homenaje con la Orquesta Sinfónica y un encuentro abierto con el público. La resolución destaca su compromiso con la libertad, la diversidad cultural y los derechos humanos.
La cantautora siciliana Carmen Consoli cantó ayer 22 de febrero en Paral·lel 62 de Barcelona dentro del Festival BarnaSants, en un concierto de doble estreno: la presentación en Barcelona de su nuevo disco Amuri Luci (Amor Luz) y su memorable encuentro en el escenario con la Orquestra de Músiques d’Arrel de Catalunya (OMAC).
El cantautor valenciano Raimon presenta Aquest jo que jo soc (Este yo que yo soy), una extensa biografía escrita por Miquel Alberola que recorre su trayectoria vital y artística desde la infancia en Xàtiva hasta su despedida de los escenarios en 2017. El volumen propone una mirada amplia y matizada sobre una figura esencial de la canción de autor europea.
Ha fallecido en Roma, durante la madrugada de hoy, Marta Contreras Laporte, actriz, cantante, directora teatral, animadora cultural y autora musical chilena, figura relevante de la Nueva Canción Chilena y de la vida artística de Valparaíso.