You, the unfair tyrants…
You the lovers of the darkness…
You the enemies of life…
You've made fun of innocent people's wounds; and your palm covered with their blood
You kept walking while you were deforming the charm of existence and growing seeds of
sadness in their land
Wait, don't let the spring, the clearness of the sky and the shine of the morning light fool
you…
Because the darkness, the thunder rumble and the blowing of the wind are coming toward
you from the horizon
Beware because there is a fire underneath the ash
Who grows thorns will reap wounds
You've taken off heads of people and the flowers of hope; and watered the cure of the
sand with blood and tears until it was drunk
The blood’s river will sweep you away and you will be burned by the fiery storm.
**** Aboul-Qacem Echebbi’s Ela Toghat Al Alaam (“To the Tyrants of the World,”)
~*** From NPR in 2011 (http://www.npr.org/2011/01/30/133354601/Tunisian-Poets-Verses-Inspire-Arab-Protesters)
The performance of poetry is at the heart of the revolutions. It not only allows for messages to be easily transmitted and understood, but provides a sense of community and fearlessness that can be used to transform systems of power.
Elliot Colla 2011(The Poetry of the Revolts; http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/506/the-poetry-of-revolt)
The poetry of ...words the crowd.
Blieker states in 2000
Once one conceptualises ... with such objectifications.
If the people will to live
Providence is destined to favourably respond
And night is destined to fold
And the chains are certain to be broken
And he who has not embraced the love of life
Will evaporate in its atmosphere and disappear
**** Aboul-Qacem Echebbi’s The Will of Life.
Neocosmos 11 [Michael. Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of South Africa, UNISA. “Mass mobilisation, ‘democratic transition’ and ‘transitional violence’ in Africa” Pambazuka News 2011-03-31, Issue 523 http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/72163]
The courage, inventiveness ...the object of thought.
Bilgin, 2005
(Pinar, Asst Prof of International Relations at Bilkent University, Regional Security in the Middle East, pg. 12-5)
The ‘Middle East’ ...part of the world.
Elliot Colla 2011(The Poetry of the Revolts; http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/506/the-poetry-of-revolt)
Anyone who has ... everything in the balance.
UNT Aff
Begin with David Rovics video ‘Tunisia 2011”
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.
UTD Update
Begin with David Rovics video ‘Tunisia 2011”
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 – hisaffective act of self-immolation has been lost in a series of procedural debates, politics disads, and massiveimpact scenarios that concealthe reality of democratic politics – the everyday, transversal struggles that sparked the revolution and caused it to spread across the Middle East and North Africa. Music allows for us to challenge these assumptions and resist structures of domination.
Bleiker explains in2009 [Roland. Aesthetics and World Politics.Pg 65]
Said stresses the need for a ‘common...foreclosed within conventional policy deliberations.
Traditional policy discourse relies on problematic assumptions that compartmentalize knowledge in order to privilege experts and justify oppression. This justifies intervention in the name of protecting democracy and reproduces authoritarianism, creating a cycle of violence.
Neocosmos 11 [Michael. Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of South Africa, UNISA. “Mass mobilisation, ‘democratic transition’ and ‘transitional violence’ in Africa” Pambazuka News 2011-03-31, Issue 523 http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/72163]
The courage, inventiveness and organisation of the... can become and remain the object of thought.
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.”
The performance of the 1ac is an example of transversal resistance, which uses everyday acts such as the experience of music to exploit the cracks in the discourses that justify domination in order to open up space for alternative ways of thinking and being.
Bleiker continues from 2000
Various practices of resistance, ranging ...escape aspects of discursive domination.