From: Freya (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2006 - 10:07:24 PST
--- Mitsu Hadeishi <email suppressed> wrote:
> I might repeat that the boycott as stated was not
> supposed to be of
> artists (though the fact that anyone on this list
I know, I mention that in the first line of my post
and I changed the subject heading too! ;)
love
Freya
> On Dec 4, 2006, at 12:21 PM, Freya wrote:
>
> > I know it's really far from the thread we were
> > originally on, but I'm interested in this idea of
> > boycotting artists.
> >
> > The question I have to ask is, would anybody
> notice?
> > :)
> >
> > Someone told me a story of how some artist friends
> of
> > theirs went on a strike for a whole year! Suffice
> to
> > say the government didn't collapse! ;)
> >
> > Heres another question, if there was a total
> boycott
> > or ban on Experimental film, would anybody really
> > notice???!
> >
> > Apart from my lovely friends on this list of
> course!
> > ;)
> >
> > love
> >
> > Freya
> >
> > --- saul ostrow <email suppressed> wrote:
> >
> >> I wish that someone would call a boycott against
> >> artists from the
> >> States -- it would show our gov't and our
> audiences
> >> that business
> >> (culture) can not go on as usual when as policy
> our
> >> government
> >> continues to openly engage in, support and is
> >> complicit in crimes
> >> against humanity. Yes a boycott against US artist
> >> (in the broadest
> >> sense) is a good idea
> >> Saul
> >> On Dec 4, 2006, at 8:41 AM, Yoel Meranda wrote:
> >>
> >>> A "cultural boycott" sounds ridiculous to me.
> >>>
> >>> Who are you trying to punish? Israeli artists?
> >>>
> >>> How would the Americans feel if the world
> >> boycotted all their art
> >>> because of their country's policies. So ban all
> >> American art, with no
> >>> discrimination, whether it is universal, whether
> >> it preaches humanism,
> >>> respect towards the other, or criticizes its
> >> government?
> >>>
> >>> How is this going to help your cause? Punish the
> >> artists who are
> >>> usually the ones who fight most against the
> >> oppression, the
> >>> xenophobia, the wars?
> >>>
> >>> So US artists should be boycotted? Sudanese
> >> artists should be
> >>> boycotted? Afghan artists should have been
> >> boycotted during Taliban?
> >>> China, who tortures thousands of people, should
> be
> >> boycotted? Russia,
> >>> too? Or do you think Israel is the only country
> in
> >> the world who has
> >>> crimes against humanity?
> >>>
> >>> This is ridiculous...
> >>>
> >>> How is it that the artists and scientists (of
> all
> >> people) choose to
> >>> boycott artist and scientists (of all people).
> >>>
> >>> Multicultural dialogue is the only solution...
> if
> >> there is any...
> >>>
> >>> Amos Gitai is one of my favorite filmmakers
> alive,
> >> his films are very
> >>> critical of the Israeli government's policies
> and
> >> he tries to
> >>> understand the narrative of both sides,
> especially
> >> the Palestinians.
> >>> But according to some, the world should hear no
> >> more of what he has to
> >>> say...
> >>>
> >>> Arbitary "borders" should have no influence on
> who
> >> we choose to read,
> >>> listen, watch...
> >>>
> >>> yoel
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
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