The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday October 1st, 2022 – International Day of Older Persons
The overall umbrella theme for the United Nations International Day of Older Persons in 2022 is “Resilience of Older Persons in a Changing World.” This theme will be celebrated by the NGO Committees on Ageing in New York, Geneva and Vienna – each with a unique and complementary approach to the overall theme. See below for more information.
Books & art, the last stand to authoritarianism? by Thanos Kalamidas
The Greek dictators during their regime that lasted seven years (1967-1974), ban the sale and owning of over 200 books including Jaroslav Hašek’s “The Good Soldier Švejk”, all Bertolt Brecht’s and Anton Chekhov’s work. Works considered classics and monumental for human history. “The Good Soldier Švejk” was forbidden due to its anti-war message, Bertolt Brecht was socialist and Anton Chekhov Russian. Ethnicity was enough for the dictators to forbidden a book and make reading them punishable.
On 10 May 1933, the students burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of “un-German” books in the square at the State Opera, Berlin, thereby presaging an era of uncompromising state censorship. In many other university towns, nationalist students marched in torch lit parades against the “un-German” spirit. All books from authors with Marxist or Pacifist affiliations, literature with liberal, democratic tendencies and attitudes, like the works of H. G. Wells, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann and of course… all Jewish writers.
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Torment Of The Night #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“In the corridors
And the hallways
They whisper,
On the boulevards
And city streets
They walk alone
In the silence of
The night.”
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Manish’s Zodiac Signs Predictions for October 2022 #horoscope by Manish Kumar Arora
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #022 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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