The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday July 14th, 2022 – Bastille Day
Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated on 14 July each year. The French National Day is the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, a major event of the French Revolution, as well as the Fête de la Fédération that celebrated the unity of the French people on 14 July 1790. Celebrations are held throughout France. One that has been reported as “the oldest and largest military parade in Europe” is held on 14 July on the Champs-Élysées in Paris in front of the President of the Republic, along with other French officials and foreign guests.
Woody Guthrie: This land is my land and I won’t let them take it away by Rene Wadlow
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912-1967) whose birth anniversary we note on 14 July, was the voice of the marginalized, especially those hit by the drought in the west of the U.S.A. during the late 1920s-early 1930s – what has been called the “dust bowl”. (1)
Many lost their farms due to unpaid bank loans, and others moved to the greener pastures of California, where they were not particularly welcomed. However, nearly all were U.S. citizens, and they could not be deported to another country.
Times have changed. Today, there are the homeless who would like to reach the U.S.A. There has been a good deal of media attention given to those at the frontier, including those who have died trying to reach the U.S.A.
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Everything Red for the Queen #poem by Michael Lee Johnson
“Everything is red
in the kingdom of the queen.
Matador hat with barnacles,
witch white hair to the shoulders,
tickling the breast.”
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Terms of Condescension: The Language of Australia’s “Pacific Family” by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
When will this nonsense on familial connection between Australia and the Pacific end? In 2018, Australia’s then Pentecostal Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, drew upon a term that his predecessors had not. On November 8 that year, he announced that Australia’s engagement with the region would be taken to another level, launching a “new chapter in relations with our Pacific family.”
In an address to Asialink prior to attending the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Osaka, Morrison was again found talking about the Indo-Pacific, which “embraces our Pacific family with whom we have special relationships and duties, our close neighbours, our major trading partners, our alliance partners and the world’s fastest growing economies.”
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Screws & Chips #36 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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