CHICK COREA - call from the Gaza ghetto !
John Lewis | 10.08.2010 21:29 | Flotilla to Gaza | Culture | Globalisation | Palestine
CHICK COREA
Dear Mr. Corea, we are deafened by the sounds of crying children around us. Some have lost their mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers in the last genocidal war the Apartheid state of Israel launched against Palestinians in Gaza, and others have lost a part of their bodies. But, we can assure you that all of them have lost something they never had… a childhood!
Dear Mr. Corea, if you decide to play in Israel, please remember us, remember the screaming, crying children of Palestine, the voices of the 434 children killed during the 22-day attacks that sometimes linger in the silence of our dark nights. Remember those who cannot read, study and attend school and university as a result of Israel’s medieval siege. Remember those farmers who are shot by trigger-happy Israeli soldiers as they harvest their crops on their land. Do you know that most of the people in your audience will have served or are serving in the Israeli army?
Mr. Corea, we call upon your free soul that has been adding magnificent art for decades into this disenchanted world of ours, to join those courageous people of conscience like Elvis Costello, Gil Scott-Heron, the Pixies, Carlos Santana and Devendra Banhart in boycotting Israel until it complies with international law, and until justice and accountability are reached just as the global BDS movement made way for the collapse of apartheid in South Africa.
Anti-Apartheid heroes Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Ronnie Kasrils have all described Israel’s control and 60 year collective punishment of the Palestinians as: Apartheid – a brutal, colonial system based on racial discrimination. We ask you now to stand on the right side of history, to respond to our call from the Gaza ghetto to not turn your back on us.
Mr. Corea, if you will play in Israel, then we will be a short distance away from where you are playing. Perhaps the sound of the deadly silent, cautious nights of ours will send your tunes over to besieged Gaza. But, your beautiful tunes will break our wrenching hearts and not sway our souls.
Besieged Gaza,
Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel “PSCABI” ........ Tadamon - August 9th, 2010
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Picture: CHICK COREA - DOUBLE BILL AT THE BARBICAN, LONDON, JULY 6, 2004 - (One of the most graceful and melodic keyboard players of our time: Mr. Chick Corea.) First Set: TouchstoneChick Corea - piano, Jorge Pardo - sax/flute, Carles Bonavent - bass, Tom Brechtlein - drums, Rubem Dantas - percussion – Touchstone 21'00"– Alan Corday 8'59"– Tbc 9'33"Second Set: Chick Corea Akoustic Band, Chick Corea - piano, John Patitucci - bass, Dave Weckl - drums – Humpty Dump...
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John Lewis