The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday August 24th, 2022
Simone Weil : Roots in the Ideal by Rene Wadlow
Simone Weil, who died on 24 August 1943, was one of those warning voices writing a memo in London for General Charles DeGaulle’s Free French on the problems that would face France after the victory over Nazi occupation. Her memo concerning the need for humanity, non-violence, and equity was published after the War as Enracinement in French and The Need for Roots in English. The memo, too philosophical for people who were primarily concerned with the upcoming D-Day and the need to coordinate the different resistance movements within France, had little impact.
No one in the Free French leadership was sure where Simone Weil fit into the different groups which had assembled in London. The Free French officials had quickly rejected her request to be sent back to France to partake in armed resistance or in helping the wounded. Simone Weil had had a short experience with armed combat as part of an anarchist brigade in Spain in the Civil War against Franco, but her poor eyesight and very fragile health had quickly put an end to her armed participation. She returned from Spain convinced of the need for non-violent action, influenced by her philosophical interest in Indian thought and the efforts of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Black Lines #poem by David Barger
“White mountainous clouds reflect
Orange magma colored sky
As the sun dips below fading tree lines.
Miracle like rays of light
Shine through the tree arranged branches –
Pinpoint upon swing rocking by slight breeze.
Beyond wooden swing set”
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Ephemera #067 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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