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BRUSSELS (EJP) — European Jewish Congress President, Moshe Kantor, has warned against the rising number of neo-Nazis in Europe. Speaking at a special commemoration organized Monday evening in the European Parliament’s Yehudi Menuhin Hall on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Kantor said: “There are more neo-Nazis than Jews today in Europe.” Kantor, who lost half of his family in the Shoah or Holocaust in Ukraine, deplored the “trivialization” of the neo-Nazi phenomenon and warned that “lessons of history have not been learned.” “We should not allow things to be repeated,” he added, in the presence of the president of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Poettering…
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A Short History of the Car Bomb — September is a dangerous month in New York city. The horror of our times started on September 20, 1920 when an Italian anarchist called Mario Buda packed a horse and cart with a hundred pounds of dynamite and drove it down Wall Street. At mid-day a massive explosion killed more than thirty and maimed many more. It was the first act of public terror using a wheeled vehicle. With the help of author Mike Davis, Tony MacGregor investigates a century of car bombing. The feature traces the story of how various individuals and groups have used the ‘informal’ weapon of war over the past century. [Radio National, 2pm, Saturday, February 2, 2008]
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‘AWAKENING FROM HISTORY?’ INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND — A radio documentary produced by Colm McNaughton about intergenerational trauma in the North of Ireland will be broadcast on Radio National as part of the Radio Eye segment on Saturday, February 16, at 2pm and is to be repeated on Wednesday, February 20, at 1pm. Dr. McNaughton will also be making a presentation about intergenerational trauma in an Irish Studies seminar which will be held at Newman College, Swanston Street, Melbourne University at 6pm on Tuesday, February 19. For more information ring 0432 504 531.
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The GalGael Peoples of Scotland (Alastair McIntosh, 1997) : How do we overcome that anomie of which Durkheim wrote a century ago – that sense of placelessness, emptiness, rootlessness and meaninglessness which colonisation and the neo-colonialism of advanced industrial society has bequested? This question is daily forced in the face of Europe’s poor. And it has emerged in Scotland at the cutting edge of action for social and ecological justice. At its heart is the nature of identity and belonging in communities that are no longer tribal and pre-industrial, but multi-ethnic and postmodern.
- Child go break off from the herd
go beyond the lowlands
leave the valley of shed antlers
the elders are sick
it is your time now
