LIBYA: Race, Empire, and the Invention of Humanitarian Emergency [Video]

Produced and uploaded by Maximilian Forte

"Based on my latest book, Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War On Libya and Africa (Baraka Books, Montreal, 2012), and nearly two years of extensive documentary research, this film places the 2011 US/NATO war in Libya in a more meaningful context than that of a war to “protect civilians” driven by the urgent need to “save Benghazi”. Instead it counters such notions with the actual destruction of Sirte, and the consistent and determined persecution of black Libyans and African migrant workers by the armed opposition, supported by NATO, as it sought to violently overthrow Muammar Gaddafi and the Jamahariyah. This film takes us through some of the stock justifications for the war, focusing on protecting civilians, the responsibility to protect (R2P), and “genocide prevention,” and examines the racial biases and political prejudice that underpinned them. The role of Western human rights organizations, as well as misinformation spread through “social media” with the intent of fostering fear of rampaging black people, are especially scrutinized.

My recommendation is to watch this video on Vimeo itself, and it is of a quality sufficient for it to be view properly on the full screen setting. Many thanks for viewing." SOURCE

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A Note From The Gull

Thank you, Maximilian Forte, for this sobering account of Libya's "liberation".  The conviction that I take away from this is that citizens of a country must always strive for unity against those times when inevitably the wolves circling the borders will be admitted by the wolves within. This united front would be like some of those ancient ruins which continue to amaze us to this day, where the stone blocks even without mortar were set together so perfectly that not even a blade can penetrate the joints. 

This video also commemorates the first anniversary of the brutal assassination of Muammar Gaddafi.

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so. 

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare

Stay Up, Zimbabwe! [Song]

Uploaded by bencultSTAY UP, ZIMBABWE!
By Brother Valentino

Woe be unto Rhodesia! Woe be unto South Africa!
You pushing my back against the wall, I calling the tribes of Hannibal
I-man decide to put on his boots and march to defend his roots.

Chorus:
Say I...
Calling them Ju-Ju [Woh ya yaye!]
Calling them Zulu [Woh ya yaye!]
Shouting Ashanti [Woh ya yaye!]
Calling Watusi [Woh ya yaye!]
In South Africa and Rhodesia [Woh ya yaye!]
Blood go run like water [Woh ya yaye!]
Prepare my brother [Woh ya yaye!]
For the bloody river [Woh ya yaye!]
Just remember, brother [Woh ya yaye!]
Blood thicker than water [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe! [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe! [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe! [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe! [Woh ya yaye!]

I know this fight won't be so easy but you got to get rid of the enemy
If you don't get rid of the enemy, the enemy shall get rid of thee
My people, you see we have no choice, so Africans hear my voice. Ey!

Chorus:
Say I...
Calling them Zulu [Woh ya yaye!]
Calling them Ju-Ju [Woh ya yaye!]
Shouting Ashanti [Woh ya yaye!]
Calling Watusi [Woh ya yaye!]
In South Africa and Rhodesia [Woh ya yaye!]
Blood go run like water [Woh ya yaye!]
Prepare my brother [Woh ya yaye!]
For the bloody river [Woh ya yaye!]
Just remember, brother [Woh ya yaye!]
Blood thicker than water [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe [Woh ya yaye!]

I hear the talk that America supporting white South Africa
But if we have to work voodoo, my people shout in Uhuru
Sound the drums and summon the witch doctors
To deal with them weird characters. Ey!

Chorus:
Calling them Ju-Ju [Woh ya yaye!]
Calling them Zulu [Woh ya yaye!]
Shouting Ashanti [Woh ya yaye!]
Calling Watusi [Woh ya yaye!]
In South Africa and Rhodesia [Woh ya yaye!]
Blood go run like water [Woh ya yaye!]
Prepare my brother [Woh ya yaye!]
For the bloody river [Woh ya yaye!]
Just remember, brother [Woh ya yaye!]
Blood thicker than water [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe! [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe! [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe! [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe! [Woh ya yaye!]

I pay homage to Steve Biko and the children who died in Soweto
To the freedom fighters, I declare, "Africans' affair is my affair."
Ian Smith and Botha had to go, the revolution say so.

Chorus:
Say I...
Calling them Zulu [Woh ya yaye!]
Calling them Ju-Ju [Woh ya yaye!]
Shouting Ashanti [Woh ya yaye!]
Calling Watusi [Woh ya yaye!]
In South Africa and Rhodesia [Woh ya yaye!]
Blood go run like water [Woh ya yaye!]
Prepare my brother [Woh ya yaye!]
For the bloody river [Woh ya yaye!]
Just remember, brother [Woh ya yaye!]
Blood thicker than water [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe! [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe! [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe! [Woh ya yaye!]
Stay up, Zimbabwe! [Woh ya yaye!]

Source: The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance!

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"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare