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December 21st 2012

Rape victim from the Congo.

Since 1996, hundreds of thousands of Congolese women and girls have been raped. It is a war tactic. They rape the women to break them and thus break the communities.

via “Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering the Truth”

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Posted at 1:35am and tagged with: drc, war, rape, this is not the whole story but yes,.

theblacksophisticate:

Rape victim from the Congo.
Since 1996, hundreds of thousands of Congolese women and girls have been raped. It is a war tactic. They rape the women to break them and thus break the communities.
via “Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering the Truth”
(via knowledgeequalsblackpower)

always reblog

October 29th 2012

Reblogged from browngirlbigdreams|6,601 notes

myampgoesto11:

Pedro Reyes: Imagine

Imagine is a set of 50 musical instruments fabricated out of destroyed weapons – revolvers, shot-guns, machine-guns, etc. This work is a progression of Palas por Pistolas (2008), where 1527 weapons were melted and made into the same number of shovels to plant 1527 trees. In April this year I got a call from the government who had learned about Palas por Pistolas, they told me a public destruction of weapons was to take place in Ciudad Juarez and asked me if I was interested in keeping the metal, which would otherwise have been buried as usual. I accepted the material but I wanted to do something new this time. 6700 weapons, cut into parts and rendered useless, were given to me and I set out to make them into instruments.

A group of 6 musicians worked for 2 weeks shoulder-to-shoulder turning these agents of death into instruments of life. The task was challenging but they succeeded in extracting sounds, from percussion to wind and string. It’s difficult to explain but the transformation was more than physical. It’s important to consider that many lives were taken with these weapons; as if a sort of exorcism was taking place the music expelled the demons they held, as well as being a requiem for lives lost.

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Posted at 4:32pm and tagged with: musical instruments, war, guns, art, sculpture,.

June 13th 2012

I been having some weird thoughts lately. about space and time. Where and when you are define who you are. You don’t believe me? It’s cool, I like to deny it too, but I am here in a quiet suburb, using technology, with food in the fridge, a car I drive, a degree I went into debt for, but my life, this material life, contained in this space is a thousand times better than those who are running away from the war in East of Congo.

I can easily imagine their fear, their loss, their hunger, thirst, confusion and strong belief that God and the entire world has forsaken them because I used to be one of them. 12 years ago, and yet it feels like yesterday.

Time: there’s a 10 hours difference between where I live and Congo, everything I do is 10 hours late to them. It takes 3 days to get there and a couple of grands.

BUT as much as I want to say that I share their pain and suffering, I know I can’t. Even if I was to go there, I wouldn’t be any different than these NGO workers, who bring a drop to an empty bucket and return to their comfy homes after awhile to tell their brave tales in the midst of misery.

I know I have changed. This space and time in America have changed me. It’s not just material comfort, it’s also the fact that I can talk about 5 to 10 years plan. I love it. I hate it.

I have come to the realization that yes all I want is to bring a drop in the bucket. I don’t care if that drop is enough or all that’s needed, but I believe that one drop is all it takes sometimes. I know myself to be cursed with idealism, so I cure myself with news from around the world and despite whatever is going on, one life saved is worth a 3 day trip and a couple of grands.

Posted at 3:42am and tagged with: idealism, DRC, Congo, War, personal, random, Just thinking out loud, reality, hope,.

December 31st 2011

Reblogged from storyofalioness|4,947 notes

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toholdtheworldinmyhands:

Today 12/27 marks the memory of the massacre of almost 1400 children, and elderly men and women in Gaza in 2008. Just like the world insists on remembering 9/11, what happened to Gaza must never be forgotten. Share this in memory of all those innocent humans who were killed.

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Congo, Palestine, Cambodge, Rio.. Shit, even the US..