Cultural Synergy: June 2015

Thursday, 25 June 2015

Once upon a time in Athens, #13

Andrea Metaxa St., 22.02.2012 (Mural: Blaqk)

Sunday, 21 June 2015

Wish You Were Here: Pink Floyd revisited

Album art by Storm Thorgerson [Surface To Air]

Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here

An alternate take of the title track featuring legendary jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli.

Thursday, 18 June 2015

End austerity now, stop blaming immigrants

[The People's Assembly]

End austerity now
National demonstration, Saturday 20th June | The People's Assembly

With the Tories going it alone in government we know exactly what to expect. More nasty, destructive cuts to the things ordinary people care about- the NHS, the welfare state, education and public services.

The People’s Assembly Against Austerity is calling a major national demonstration on Saturday 20 to send a clear message to the Tory government; we demand an alternative to austerity and to policies that only benefit those at the top.

We'll be assembling the demonstration in the heart of the City of London right on the doorstep of the very people who created the crisis in the first place, and marching to the doorstep of Parliament. We demand that the bankers and elite should pay for the crisis and not the majority who had nothing to do with it.

Immigrants not to blame

Anti-racism & anti-fascism bloc on June 20 demo

Calling all anti-racist campaigners.

As the new government gets set to push through ever harsher austerity policies, we need to be united in our response.

Whilst people suffer under public services cuts, poverty-wages, attacks on workers' rights, rising homelessness, the dismantling of the health service and the welfare state, the government tries the old divide and rule trick of blaming immigrants.

Enough of this racism and xenophobia - we know who is to blame!

Every major party remains committed to austerity so the Peoples Assembly Against Austerity is calling a major national demonstration & festival just weeks after the election to send a clear message to the new government; we demand an alternative to austerity and to policies that only benefit those at the top.

Monday, 15 June 2015

A farewell to never-ending smiles

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Riverside
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I could be foreign forever
To your otherland
I could be foreign forevermore
To your promiseland
One life was great
But another
No, I don’t want to live on the edge
I won’t follow you
I found my own
I will stay

I could be foreign forever
To your hastenland
I could be foreign forevermore
To your neverland
One little brick then another
And I will build that wall anyway
You can find me there
Rested and calm
Without mask
This is where I will stay

Look around where we are
Who we are
What we always want
Twenty four
Seven
Three sixty five
Sometimes little more
I was chasing your shadow
Not knowing
I’d become your slave

I could be foreign forever
To your otherland
I could be foreign forevermore
To your promiseland
One life was great
But another
No, I don’t want to live on the edge
I won’t follow you
I found my own
I will stay
I could stay forevermore

I've said a farewell
To never-ending smiles
I did not look good in red
From my place I can finally see
How much of this shade I called myself
Was me
And what was left behind