The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday December 12th, 2022
What I would say if I could. Protest symbols in China by Rene Wadlow
An empty white page held high has become the symbol of protest in the manifestations currently spreading to different parts of China. Just as the cry “Women-Life- Liberty “, women cutting their long hair in public, and the burning of the mandatory veil have become the symbols of protest in Iran, so the empty white page is the outward manifestation of a long frustration of the inability to express ideas that are not those of the Communist Party of China and its leader Xi Jinping.
As James Connolly, a leader of the 1916 Dublin, Ireland Easter uprising wrote ” No revolutionary movement is complete without its political expression. If such a movement has caught hold of the imagination of the masses, they will seek a vent in song for the aspirations, the fears and the hopes, the loves and the hatreds engendered by the struggle. Until the movement is marked by the joyous, defiant singing of revolutionary songs, it lacks one of the most distinctive marks of a popular revolutionary movement.”
The Iranian chant”Women-Life-Liberty” constantly repeated could be considered as a revolutionary song. In China, some of the protesters sing L’Internationale, the model of the revolutionary song. Gene Sharp, a theorist of nonviolent political change now often called “Political Defiance” said that such types of protest such as music are so unorthodox that the police do not know what to do. This type of activity enables resistance to continue when larger bases for resistance have been neutralized, controlled, or destroyed.
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Heart & Soul #poem by Nikos Laios
“Because we love,
Because we need love,
To feel true moments
Of beautiful passion,
To transcend our
Fear of death.”
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Fika bonding! #50 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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