chimurenga

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Location Montréal, Canada
Introduction following the news with trepidation... trying to maintain a sense of wonder and humour in this beautiful world spattered over with ugliness
Interests american indian movement, amy goodman, anarchism, andy goldsworthy, architecture, betty goodwin, black panthers, cabaret voltaire (zurich), cy twombly, felice beato, georg baselitz, george grosz, gerhard richter, hans haacke, international cuisine, james nachtwey, jean-michel basquiat, jim hightower, john heartfield, john thomson, kathe kollwitz, laura kikauka, leon golub, liberation, lois conner, nancy spero, naoya hatakeyama, otto dix, painting, philip guston, photography, susan meiselas, thomas ruff, toussaint l'ouverture, travel, watching and doing, writing, yasuhiro ishimoto
Favorite Movies dawn of the dead, fahrenheit 9/11, land and freedom, manufacturing consent, safe, sans soleil (sunless), sur (the south), the battle of algiers, alanis obomsawin, amos gitai, chris marker, documentaries, juliet stevenson, truly madly deeply, brenda longfellow
Favorite Music badawi, boredoms, brian eno, cabaret voltaire, cocteau twins, d'gary, fela kuti, four tet, holger czukay, hope sandoval, jah wobble, joni mitchell, kandia kouyate, lee "scratch" perry, m83, mahmoud ahmed, muslimgauze, .o. rang, novel 23, patti smith, sub dub, television, the butthole surfers, the clash, the shalabi effect, thomas mapfumo, tim hecker, tom verlaine, van morrison
Favorite Books manufacturing consent, the political economy of human rights, powers and prospects, radical priorities, not in our genes, the clash (barea), travels with my aunt, the spirit and the flesh, aphra behn, arundhati roy, edward herman, flora tristan, frantz fanon, george orwell, graham greene, holly sklar, howard zinn, jorge luis borges, margaret atwood, noam chomsky, robert fisk, ursula le guin, walter benjamin, ward churchill