posted by Joe | Dec 18, 2005
I’ve been meaning to share with you all with this on-going project done by Luk Haas for years but always forgot mah! Anyway, our friend Luk started this “database” of Asian Punk Rock many years ago, and when he mean “Asian”, it includes all of Asia, meaning not only South Asia, but also Arab countries such as Jordan, Iran etc.
Another thing, when he meant “punk”, it includes everything deemed “punk”, from some dodgy Swastika-wearing chaos punk bands to some very suspect pop bands, etc. Still it’s a great site full of details, much unfinished or uncomplete, but heading there. It’s an enormous undertaking, not an easy job for someone who lives so far away! Luk, thank you!!
Okeh, go here to peruse:
DISCOGRAPHY OF ASIAN PUNK MUSIC
posted by Joe | Dec 12, 2005
posted by Joe | Dec 7, 2005
Advice to Citizens from Suaram
10 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW IF YOU ARE ARRESTED
1. HOW TO DEFINE ARREST? ONLY WHEN…
• The police say “you are under arrest”
• The police handcuff you
• You are prevented from leaving a room, a site etc by the police.
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posted by Joe | Nov 9, 2005
What is the Totality?
by Kevin Tucker
It is the high residues of hazardous and potentially lethal chemicals inside your fat cells. It is you sitting inside and turning on the television or computer on a beautiful day. It is you shopping when you are depressed. It is the feeling you get that something is missing. It is your worries that a fire may destroy all of your possessions and your plans to try and take them with you. It is the thought that tells you to go on a diet. It is the excess fat on your body. It is the headache that won’t go away. It is the bleeding in your intestines from years of pain alleviating drug use. It is the birth defects of your children. It is your killer when you die from a car accident. It is your savior when it attempts to fill your void for you. It is your carpal tunnel syndrome. It is your tumor. It is your expensive coffin and burial clothing. It is the drugs you take when you need an escape. It is the bulldozer that destroyed the woods you might have known so well. It is the towering skyscraper that makes you feel forever tiny and powerless. It is your boss. It is minimum wage, it is maximum wage.
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posted by Joe | Oct 19, 2005
stolen from: MalaysiaKini
A story of corruption and police abuse
A Better Malaysia
Oct 15, 05 1:27pm
What started out as a regular night for a friend, whom I shall call Jack, and I, turned into something ugly. We and two dozen others were detained, handcuffed, jailed, degraded, stripped, extorted and shamed.
This is a story of corruption and police abuse.
It was a drug bust at a famous night club in Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur. An incident that all of us, later proved innocent by hospital chemical tests, will never forget.
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posted by Joe | Oct 13, 2005
ricecooker note: read this and if you interested to know more, download the films here: UBUWEB: Films
from : DEBORD
The other great important libertarian group which came to prominence during the May-June events in France in 1968 were the Situationists. They originated in a small band of avante-garde artists and intellectuals influenced by Dada, Surrealism and Lettrism. The post-war Lettrist International, which sought to fuse poetry and music and transform the urban landscape, was a direct forerunner of the group who founded the magazine Situationiste Internationale in 1957.
At first, they were principally concerned with the “suppression of art”, that is to say, they wished like the Dadaists and the Surrealists before them to supersede the categorization of art and culture as separate activities and to transform them into part of everyday life. Like the Lettrists, they were against work and for complete _divertissement_.
Under capitalism, the creativity of most people had become diverted and stifled, and society had been divided into actors and spectators, producers and consumers. The Situationists therefore wanted a different kind of revolution: they wanted the imagination, not a group of men, to seize power, and poetry and art to be made by all. Enough! they declared. To hell with work, to hell with boredom! Create and construct an eternal festival.
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posted by Joe | Oct 11, 2005
Taiwan’s The Deported’s Andy relayed a very nice report on his Pinoy trip on his blog.
go here: Got Mah Mojo
posted by Joe | Sep 22, 2005
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the New Orleans where he once lived, and the rare glimpse behind The Facade of America - a gimpse provided by the disaster of hurricane Katrina and of the response of George Bush.
Pilger : 13 Sep 2005
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posted by Joe | Sep 14, 2005
Spotlight on optimism
Sugu
Sep 12, 05 1:10pm
from: http://malaysiakini.com/columns/40252
There was a time when public fields saw political rallies during elections even as a communist insurgency raged.
That was when local government polls were taken for granted. Smug and superior, we laughed at the endemic corruption in neighbouring countries.
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posted by Joe | Aug 25, 2005
It’s ‘Bad Food, Bad Life’ for Nestlé’s Workers
“The next time you enter the grocery store to buy a milk or chocolate drink, please remember the plight of the Nestle workers.” This is the appeal of Nestle workers whose case against the giant Swiss-owned food multinational company drags unresolved.
by Dennis Espada Bulatlat
Cabuyao, Laguna – “Good Food, Good Life” is Nestle’s promotional line, designed to entice consumers to taste its products. For its workers, however, who have been on strike since 2001, neither life nor food could be remotely considered good.
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posted by Joe | Aug 20, 2005
from: http://malaysiakini.com/news/39308
Urban woes due to profit emphasis, says prof
Fauwaz Abdul Aziz
Aug 20, 05 1:15pm
Kuala Lumpur is ‘a city in crisis from pollution to poverty’ as a result of many public amenities no longer being seen as social services to be provided by the government but as purely economic commodities to garner profit, an anthropology professor observed today.
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posted by Joe | Jul 17, 2005
posted by Joe | Jul 12, 2005
asal: Ummah OnLine
Sebuah siri diskusi diantara para aktivis pelajar yang agak panjang berjela-jela tapi penuh dengan pelbagai pandangan serta kupasan yang menarik tentang situasi serta warna-warni pergerakkan pelajar yang sememangnya terbatas dinegara kita ini.
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posted by Joe | Mar 4, 2004
Fendi found this article on the net recently. It’s about our old friend, UNCHR worker and French punk daddy Luk Haas.
Read on:
Punk from Myanmar and Thailand, underground rock from Indonesia, Macedonia and Nepal, and countless bands from all the distant places in which it is hard to believe that rock exists - all brought together on one label.
A fantasy? No. It’s all available thanks to Strasbourg, France-based Luk Haas, and his label, Tian An Men 89 Records.
from: The St. Petersburg Times - Russia
punk rocking all over the world
by Sergey Chernov (STAFF WRITER)
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