Attac! Another World is Possible
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- %Attac!
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- UWE 156 CD
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- www.attac.org
Here’s an album that embodies contradiction. Indeed, Another World wears it in the form of a bar-coded atlas – right on its very handsome sleeve.
Nothing could be worthier or more radical than anti-globalization collective Attac – an impressively organized group that has taken full advantage of internet communications to promote its ideas. It’s just a pity that the content doesn’t match the intentions. Which is not to say Another World is a dummy. Its sleeve includes an integral 60-page booklet containing essays by fellow travellers like Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky and McDonald’s trashing farmer José Bové. Its 15 tracks are pretty good, too: Asian Dub Foundation and Zebda’s ‘Police on My Back’; Moby’s ‘Afterlife’ and Nitin Sawhney’s ‘Falling (at Jazz Dub)’. Some of them will be familiar; from their original releases or from the plethora of compilation albums circulating the world. Massive Attack’s ‘Karmacoma’ has probably now appeared on so many collections one could host a game of snap.
Of course this isn’t Attac’s problem, per se: they can only work with what they’re given. But is what they’re given governed by the management and record companies whose interest lies in restricted release? Compilations are a cheap way of revenue-raising. It doesn’t take much imagination – look at the Help! album used to raise funds for the Warchild charity – to get unreleased tracks, out-takes or one-offs. Now that would be truly radical.
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Voices from the margins:
Multimedia: video, podcasts, and more.
- Poetry Slam in Zimbabwe
- The House of Hunger poetry slam held in Zimbabwe in 2006, and organised by the Pamberi Trust, showcased young artists performing inspirational work on issues from corporate power to child soldiers. The video features four of the poets.
Published by Pambazuka News.
- Iranian women speak out
- 3 March 2007, London. Women's rights activists marched through the English capital last week to celebrate International Women's Day with a protest against the misogyny of the Islamic regime in Iran and the threat of invasion by the US. Hear the voices of Iranian feminists Azar and Leila Parnian and the sounds of the demonstration as it passed through the heart of the city. Click here to learn more about the campaign.
Produced by Heidi Bachram.
- Raised Voices audio:
- Benny from West Papua on Corporate Power
- Vinayan from India on agriculture
