lunes 6 de julio de 2009

NO AL GOLPE DE ESTADO EN HONDURAS

viernes 3 de octubre de 2008

Manifesto 001 - STEP OUT OF BABYLON



One Step forward

One step forward, two steps backward
Down inna Babylon
One step forward, two steps backward
Down inna Babylon

One day you are dreadlocks (well dread)
Next day you are ballin (cliche')
Onward, forward, don't step backward
Step out of Babylon
Onward, forward, don't step backward
Step out of Babylon

Are you a commercialized
Grabbing at the cash-backs?
This is a time of decision
Tell me, what is your plan? yeah

Onward, forward, don't step backward
Step out of Babylon
Onward, forward, don't step backward
Step out of Babylon

Straight is the road that
leads to destruction
Ooh yeah
The road to righteousness is narrow
Ah let me tell you say

Indictive feelings enter feeling
The truth is a fact, tell me
Are you a con man, or are
you a dreadlocks, eh?

One step forward, two steps backward
Down inna Babylon
Onward, forward, don't step backward
Step out of Babylon

The road is rough and the hill is steep
Ah let me tell you say
The mountain is high and
the valley is deep
Oh yeah oh yeah

Onward, forward, don't step backward
Step out of Babylon
Onward, forward, don't step backward
Step out of Babylon

One step forward, two steps backward
Down inna Babylon
One step forward, two steps backward
Down inna Babylon

Ah let me tell you say
One step forward, two steps backward
Down in a Babylon
One step forward, two steps backward
Down in a Babylon

Straight is the road that
leads to destruction
Ah hear me when I say
The road to righteousness is narrow
Ooh yeah ooh yeah

Indictive feelings enter feeling
The truth is a fact, tell me
Are you a con man, or are
you a dreadlocks, oh?

Onward, forward, don't step backward
Step out of Babylon
Onward, forward, don't step backward
Step out of Babylon

One step forward, two steps
backward (go deh)
Down in a Babylon
One step forward, two steps
backward (go deh)
Down in a Babylon

Onward, forward, don't step backward
Step out of Babylon


Max Romeo & the Upsetters - One Step forward
(War ina Babylon) 1976

domingo 8 de junio de 2008

H A I T I


... A hungry mob is a angry mob...
... Una masa hambrienta es una masa enfurecida...
.............
Them Belly Full - Natty Dread (1974)
Bob Marley & The Wailers
....

sábado 22 de marzo de 2008

W A R




WAR - Bob Marley & the Wailers

Hasta que la filosofia que sostiene que una raza
es superior y otra inferior,
sea definitiva y totalmente desacreditada y abandonada;
Todo es Guerra. Yo me digo Guerra.

Hasta que no existan ciudadanos de primera
y segunda clase en una nación;
Hasta que el color de la piel de un hombre
no tenga mayor relevancia que el color de sus ojos;
Yo me digo Guerra.

Hasta que los derechos humanos básicos
no sean garantizados a todos por igual,
sin exepcion de razas, Esto es una Guerra.

Hasta ese dia,
el sueño de paz duradera, la ciudadanía mundial
y las leyes de la moralidad internacional
seguirán siendo nada más que una ilusion efímera
para pedir, pero nunca alcanzar...

(Extracto de War 1976. Letra basada en el discurso realizado por Haile Selassie I, Emperador de Ethiopia ante la asamblea general de las Naciones Unidas en 1963)


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Until the philosophy which holds one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war, me say war

That until there is no longer first class
And second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes
Me say war

That until the basic human rights are equally
Guaranteed to all, without regard to race
Dis a war

That until that day
The dream of lasting peace, world citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion
To be pursued, but never attained...

(The lyrics are derived from a speech made by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I before the United Nations General Assembly in 1963)