http://nestug.blog.com.mt A left oriented blog by Nestu G Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:40:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught.  I have a two-year-old son.  You know what he hates?  Naps!  ~Dennis Leary   One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our ... http://nestug.blog.com.mt/2009/02/25/quotations-about-racism/   The Modena City Ramblers were formed in 1991, a casual musical group that came together to entertain friends and family playing Irish folk music. Meeting up to jam more and more often, the Ramblers began to write their own tunes, inspired by popular Celtic-influenced bands like the Pogues and the ... http://nestug.blog.com.mt/2009/02/24/modena-city-ramblers/ The Cuban Five are five Cuban men who are in U.S. prison, serving four life sentences and 75 years collectively, after being wrongly convicted in U.S. federal court in Miami, on June 8, 2001. They are Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González. The Five were falsely accused ... http://nestug.blog.com.mt/2008/12/10/the-miami-five/ (born Jan. 23, 1891, Ales, Sardinia—died April 27, 1937, Rome, Italy) Italian intellectual and politician. After entering the University of Turin, he joined the Italian Socialist Party in 1914. In 1921 he left the Socialists to found the Italian Communist Party ( Democratic Party of the Left), and he spent ... http://nestug.blog.com.mt/2008/12/08/antonio-gramsci/ From Time magazine, Friday 2nd. March, 1962. Bells v. Ballots Malta is a special landmark in Christian history, and the Roman Catholic hierarchy has always played a weighty role in the island's affairs (present population: 330,000, of whom 98% are Catholic). But in recent times, as last week's elections again demonstrated, the ... http://nestug.blog.com.mt/2008/12/05/when-it-was-a-sin-to-vote-labour/ Zamba al "Che" [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MeAyC7Z4G8[/youtube]    Dio e Berlusconi [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkNXTFJVhU4[/youtube]   Give peace a chance [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk[/youtube]   La Taranta di Centro Destra [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N2lIOj8a4I[/youtube]  Abbiamo delle belle buone lingue [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCQHsJie8Mc[/youtube]   The Internationale [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk69e1Vcmvg[/youtube] Bandiera Rossa [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhkNHQShbTs[/youtube] http://nestug.blog.com.mt/2008/12/05/more-songs/ Kien wieħed li għax il-ħabs qatt ma mar Kien jaħsbu lukanda five star Iżda meta Kordin Spiċċa ħuħ għal sitt snin Beda jgħid li bħall-ħabs ma hawnx agħar. _________________________________ Kien hemm Għarbi miexi fi-triq Ma martu viċin Wied Għammieq Għadda razzista Nisrani u faxxista U qabad jagħtihom bis-sieq. __________________________ Kien hemm wiehed kunjomu Axisa Li għax darba tagħtu għatisa Mar jiġri l-isptar U hemm żball ... http://nestug.blog.com.mt/2008/12/05/17/ After graduating from the University of Bologna law school, Matteotti entered law practice and joined the Italian Socialist Party. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1919 and reelected in 1921 and 1924, by which time he had become secretary general of his party. In the meantime, Mussolini, ... http://nestug.blog.com.mt/2008/12/03/giacomo-matteotti/ Joan Baez was born in Staten Island, New York. Her father was a physicist, born in Mexico, and her mother of Scottish and English descent. She grew up in New York and California, and when her father took a faculty position in Massachusetts, she attended Boston University and began to ... http://nestug.blog.com.mt/2008/12/03/joan-baez/ Woody Guthrie is the original folk hero. It was Guthrie who, in the Thirties and Forties, transformed the folk ballad into a vehicle for social protest and observation. In so doing, he paved the way for Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and a host of other folk and rock songwriters who ... http://nestug.blog.com.mt/2008/12/03/woody-guthrie/