Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
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by artappraiser on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 6:41pm
I just saw a boots-on-the-ground report from Crimea, the demonstrations between pro-revolution Tatars and Russian ethnics, on PBS News Hour. They don't have the videos up yet for today's broadcast, but I recommend it once it is up.
Things were very heated and there was pushing and shoving and some injuries, but overall I thought it was very promising that it stayed to that! Especially since the two groups are not just ethnically different, but religiously, and that the spectre of Russian interference is in the air. I can see this could more easily go totally political than it could go violent right now, especially after hearing some of the views in the crowd. Not that there won't be fistfights in that parliament....
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 7:29pm
I also found the following very heartening as to the country's prospects:
I happened to catch the official city flyer on that yesterday on a Twitter feed at the NYT:
https://twitter.com/ARothNYT/status/438413104511078400/photo/1
I was especially interested as the city of Lviv (alt."Lwów", "Lvov", and "Lemberg") is one I endeavored to learn something about long ago, once I learned it was the first city my grandpa ever visited and it was where he saw electric lights for the first time.
Saying that Lviv is the center of Ukrainian nationalism I think is kind of misleading, what is meant by "nationalism" there. Lviv is multi-culti going back nearly 1,000 years. It was one of those crossroads of the world trading cities, the capital of the kingdom of Galicia. Polish poets have written odes to what they call Lwów. It's more like this: they are proud in Lviv as being a part of the crossroads of worlds, as part of the Ukrainian breadbasket of the world...Yes, they are Ukrainian, which is considered being a cultural mixture and also basically formed of many genetic and cultural feeds.
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 8:09pm
Warning for Emma: maybe more tears in your eyes with this link:
To Go to Lvov, 2002 poem by Adam Zagajewski.
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 8:22pm
I don't tear up much over sentimentality. I guess I am just so used to seeing and reading about how awful everything and everybody is that when people actually do good or honorable, even noble things I am surprised to tears -- and fears that they are a vanishing breed.
by EmmaZahn on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 8:41pm
Here is a very long slide show (pdf) by a Ukrainian at Berkeley explaining what happened with some interesting and some gruesome photos.
It starts with background (includes a cheap shot at Yanucovich's grammar and spelling) then at slide 36 he begins a timeline of events since the initial protest on November 21 captioned:
The next slide shows the protesters being attacked by riot police on November 30. That is followed by a spectacular slide, hopefully not photoshopped, of people turning out in support of the protesters on December 1. Then events continue downhill from there. The situation really did devolve rapidly.
The whole thing is fascinating despite being very long and amateurish.
by EmmaZahn on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 7:39pm
Very good and informative.
by Peter Schwartz on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 8:22pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/26/2014 - 11:02pm