Begin with David Rovics video ‘Tunisia 2011”
http://youtu.be/6CrV8IUBX54
Quotes during the song:
Pithouse 11 [Richard. “Revolution Comes Like A Thief in the Night” http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/620.1]
Life, ordinary life…of the people.
Most approaches to this years resolution engage the revolutions through state-centric politics that obscure the incredible story of Mohammad Boizzizi – his affective act of self-immolation has been lost in a series of procedural debates, politics disads, and massive impact scenarios that conceal the reality of democratic politics – the everyday, transversal struggles that sparked the revolution and caused it to spread across the Middle East and North Africa. Traditional policy discourse relies on problematic assumptions that compartmentalize knowledge in order to privilege experts and create conflict. Music allows for us to challenge these assumptions and resist structures of domination.
Bleiker 09 [Roland. Aesthetics and World Politics. Pg 65]
Said stresses the … conventional policy deliberations.
Thus, from occupied Wall Street to occupied native North America, from Tunis to our present location in southern Texas, we transversally affirm “Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following: Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen.”
Bleiker explains in 2000
Various practices of …of discursive domination.
