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Centrum im. Profesora Bronisława Geremka – fundacja założona przez rodzinę i przyjaciół tragicznie zmarłego 13 lipca 2008 r. profesora Bronisława Geremka – historyka, jednego z czołowych działaczy "Solidarności", męża stanu i "architekta polskiej wolności". Fundacja prowadzi działalność edukacyjną na rzecz społeczeństwa obywatelskiego w zjednoczonej Europie.

Fundacja organizuje warsztaty dla zdolnej młodzieży z całej Polski, prowadzi programy stypendialne i badawcze, organizuje międzynarodowe konferencje oraz zajmuje się działalnością wydawniczą. Uczestniczy również w wielu programach z instytucjami partnerskimi. Z fundacją współpracuje wielu badaczy i działaczy społecznych z Polski i ze świata.

Prezesem Zarządu Fundacji im. B. Geremka jest Ignacy Niemczycki, a członkami Zarządu Wojciech Białożyt i Magdalena Witwicka. W latach 2008-2019 na czele Zarządu Fundacji stała dr Jolanta Kurska. W latach 2008–2015 funkcję wiceprezesa sprawowała Maria Starzewska oraz Monika Lisiewicz.

Cele i misja

Do głównych celów fundacji należą:
 wspieranie rozwoju edukacji, myśli i kultury politycznej
 działalność na rzecz rozwoju społeczeństwa obywatelskiego
 kształtowanie postaw społecznych poszanowania praw człowieka
 wspieranie dialogu między różnymi środowiskami i narodami
 dokumentacja dorobku profesora oraz promowanie pamięci o nim

Cele te realizowane są poprzez:
 organizację seminariów historycznych dla młodzieży
 prowadzenie warsztatów antydyskryminacyjnych i edukacji globalnej
 inicjowanie i organizację międzynarodowych debat publicznych
 stworzenie platformy wymiany myśli i opinii w środowisku międzynarodowym badaczy, polityków i działaczy społecznych
 realizację projektów badawczych przydatnych dla praktyki życia społecznego
 promowanie bliskich profesorowi Geremkowi idei życia publicznego

Władze
Rada fundacji
 Mirosław Czech
 Jacek Dubois
 Andrzej Friszke
 Marcin Geremek
 Andrzej Klesyk
Jolanta Kurska
 Helena Łuczywo
 Adam Michnik
Tomasz Nowakowski
 Adam Daniel Rotfeld
 Henryk Samsonowicz
 Róża Thun
 Maciej Witucki

W przeszłości w Radzie Fundacji zasiadali również: Mikołaj Dowgielewicz, Karol Modzelewski, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Wiktor Osiatyński.

Zarząd Fundacji:

 Ignacy Niemczycki, prezes Zarządu
 Wojciech Białożyt, członek Zarządu
 Magdalena Witwicka, członkini Zarządu

Działalność

Programy edukacyjne

 Program dla uczniów i nauczycieli "Polska w XX wieku" – ogólnopolskie warsztaty historyczne im. prof. Bronisława Geremka
 Przez Współczesność do Historii – program dla uczniów szkół gimnazjalnych i ponadgimnazjalnych – warsztaty historyczne im. prof. Bronisława Geremka
 Warsztaty na temat praw człowieka i antydyskryminacji dla licealistów
 Seminarium filozoficzne dla uczniów szkół ponadgimnazjalnych z Warszawy i okolic
 Program Szkoła Równego Traktowania
 Interaktywne warsztaty edukacji globalnej "Nasz Świat"
 Eksperymentalne seminarium "Jedność Europy i wielość kultur"
 Olimpiada Solidarności
 Warsztaty "Dekada (nie)ograniczonych możliwości"
 Stypendia im. Bronisława Geremka dla studentów humanistyki
 Warsztaty dla nauczycieli

Konferencje
Coroczne konferencje międzynarodowe dedykowane Bronisławowi Geremkowi organizowane są w celu utrwalenia myśli politycznej prof. Bronisława Geremka i stworzenia stałego forum debaty na najważniejsze tematy dotyczące przyszłości Europy i jej polityki zagranicznej. W konferencjach uczestniczą wybitni intelektualiści, analitycy, przedstawiciele świata polityki, a także uczeni i przyjaciele prof. Geremka.

 2017: The Rule of Law vs. Society and Economy
 2016: The Constant Temptation of Non-Liberal Democracy
 2015: Europe – Russia – Ukraine. Search of a new European Order
 2014: Price of Freedom. Security in the Globalized World
 2013: Arab Revolts – two years after
 2012: China and European Union: New Quality of Relationships
 2011: Russia and the European Union: what unites us, what divides us?
 2010: Europe and the United States in a Changing World

Cykl debat lemkinowskich obejmujący problematykę praw człowieka i polityki międzynarodowej – organizowane są w celu przybliżenia oraz popularyzacji dokonań prof. Rafała Lemkina – polskiego prawnika żydowskiego pochodzenia, autora pojęcia "genocide". Rafał Lemkin jest autorem Konwencji ONZ w sprawie Zapobiegania i Karania Zbrodni Ludobójstwa uchwalonej przez Zgromadzenie Ogólne ONZ w 1948 roku.

 2015: Europa jako źródło cierpień? – skrajna prawica i ksenofobia w Europie Zachodniej
 2014: Wzrost popularności skrajnej prawicy w Europie – przykład Polski i Węgier
 2014: Wzrost popularności skrajnej prawicy w Europie – przykład Ukrainy i Rosji
 2012: Komu jest potrzebna pomoc humanitarna?
 2011: Etyka i odpowiedzialność w działaniach wielkich mocarstw. Przykład tajnych więzień CIA i naruszeń praw człowieka w Federacji Rosyjskiej.
 2011: Co pozostało z prawa do interwencji humanitarnej?
 2011: Pojęcie ludobójstwa we współczesnej polityce międzynarodowej. Przykłady Turcji i Rwandy

Cykl debat językowych jest refleksją nad procesem wielowymiarowego uwikłania języka w nurt współczesnego życia społecznego i politycznego – celem cyklu jest refleksja nad procesem wielowymiarowego uwikłania języka w nurt współczesnego życia społecznego i politycznego.

 2012: Wolność słowa a język nienawiści
 2011: Nowomowa a język poprawności politycznej

Cykl debat europejskich koncentrujących się na zagadnieniach dotyczących przyszłości Europy

 2014: Ukraine as a test for European solidarity? – w Parlamencie Europejskim
 2013: Czy Europa Geremka jest wciąż możliwa?
 2012: Po kryzysie – wokół eseju Alaina Touraine'a
 2011: Jaka Europa po kryzysie
 2011: Kto się boi wielokulturowej Europy?
 2011: Wspólna pamięć europejska – mit czy rzeczywistość?

Cykl debat publicznych dotyczący polskiej prezydencji w Radzie Unii Europejskiej Nowa Dekada, Nowa Europa (projekt zakończony)

 2011 – Budżet Unii Europejskiej w dobie kryzysu
 2010 – Ku Europejskiej Wspólnocie Energetycznej XXI wieku?
 2010 – Czy europejska polityka bezpieczeństwa i obronności jest możliwa?

Debaty publiczne

 2016 – "Dobre Rządy w Europie?" – wspólnie z Ośrodkiem Kultury Francuskiej i Fundacją Współpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej
 2013 – Spotkanie z Anne Applebaum
 2012 – Wykład prof. Jerzego Jedlickiego z okazji obchodów 80. rocznicy urodzin prof. Bronisława Geremka – "Motory i hamulce cywilizacji."
 2012 – "Tajne więzienia CIA – polska zbrodnia stanu?"
 2011 – "13 XII 1981 w oczach Polaków i Francuzów. Nie ma wolności bez Solidarności" – wspólnie z Ośrodkiem Kultury Francuskiej
 2010 – "Weimarska wizji działań Unii Europejskiej na najbliższe pięć lat" – wspólnie z Ministerstwem Spraw Zagranicznych

Wykłady
Cykl "Obywatel, czyli kto?"

 2015 – Dylematy współczesnego obywatelstwa (prof. Jacek Raciborski)

Cykl "(O)cena polskiej transformacji"

 2015 – Wolny Kościół w wolnym państwie (o. Tomasz Dostatni OP)
 2014 – Przemoc i ład (prof. Przemysław Czapliński)
 2014 – Co się wydarzyło naprawdę w 1989 roku? (prof. Jerzy Hausner)
 2014 – Debata inauguracyjna cyklu (Waldemar Kuczyński, Andrzej Leder, David Ost)

Cykl wykładów "Człowiek dialogu"

 2013 – Dialog jako narzędzie polityki międzynarodowej (prof. Adam Daniel Rotfeld)
 2013 – Dialog polityczny w najnowszej historii Polski (prof. Andrzej Friszke)
 2013 – Wykład inauguracyjny (prof. Tadeusz Gadacz)

Cykl wykładów "Człowiek pogranicza"

 2013 – Kultura, tożsamość, los – O doświadczeniach wielokulturowego zakorzenienia (Basil Kerski)
 2012 – Tożsamość polsko-żydowska. Konflikt? Harmonia? Problem? (Piotr Matywiecki)
 2012 – Wykład inauguracyjny (Krzysztof Czyżewski)

Cykl wykładów "Człowiek wykluczenia"

 2012 – Non person (Andrzej Titkow)
 2012 – Wykluczenie społeczne w Polsce niejedno ma imię (prof. Janusz Czapiński)
 2011 – Postawy wobec obcych (prof. Magdalena Środa)
 2011 – Wykład inauguracyjny (prof. Henryk Samsonowicz)

Cykl wykładów "Polska, czyli prowincja?" (2010)

 Wychodzenie z prowincji (prof. Andrzej Mencwel)
 Prowincjonalizm psychologiczny Polaków (Ewa Woydyłło)
 O naturze polskiej wspólnotowości. Przyczynek do tematu polskiego prowincjonalizmu (prof. Marek Ziółkowski)
 Kompleksy i aspiracje prowincji (prof. Jerzy Jedlicki)

Publikacje
 Juan Carlos Vidal (2015). Geremek/Vidal. Rozmowy. Warszawa:
 Bronisław Geremek (2015). Rozmowy polskie 1988-2008. Kraków: Universitas
 Ludwig Melhorn (2015). Europejski duch oporu. Kraków: Universitas
 Bernard Guetta (2014). Jak zostałem Europejczykiem. Kraków: Universitas
 Rob Riemen (2014). Wieczny powrót faszyzmu. Kraków: Universitas
 Rafał Lemkin (2013). Rządy państw Osi w okupowanej Europie. Warszawa: Scholar
 Profesor to nie obelga, Alfabet Bronisława Geremka (2013, red. Jacek Głażewski). Kraków: Universitas
 István Bibó (2013). Eseje polityczne. Kraków: Universitas
 Vaclav Havel (2012). Zmieniać świat. Warszawa: Agora
 Bronisław Geremek (2012). Nasza Europa. Kraków: Universitas
 Vaclav Havel (2011). Siła bezsilnych i inne eseje. Warszawa: Agora
 Bronisław Geremek (2010). Głos w Europie. Kraków: Universitas

Raporty
 (2015) (Nie)łatwe powroty do domu? Funkcjonowanie dzieci i młodzieży powracających z emigracji
 (2014) Z cyklu wykładów geremkowskich wykład prof. Adama Daniela Rotfelda: Europa: wspólne wartości a pamięć historyczna
 (2013) Obok siebie, wzajemne postrzeganie się Polaków i Litwinów
 (2011) Cykl wykładów "Polska, czyli prowincja"

Inne projekty
Projekty Litewskie

Od 2011 roku Fundacja wraz z partnerem ze strony litewskiej – Polsko-Litewskim Forum Współpracy i Dialogu im. Jerzego Giedroycia, którego prezesem jest litewski historyk prof. Alvydas Nikžentaitis – zaangażowała się w działania mające na celu poprawę klimatu w relacjach pomiędzy społeczeństwami obu krajów, budowanie atmosfery porozumienia oraz sprzyjanie dwustronnym projektom badawczym. W ramach projektu prowadzone są badania naukowe oraz organizowane wizyty studyjne, konferencje.

Bezpośrednią przyczyną zaangażowania fundacji w działania na rzecz Litwy były pojawiające się napięcia w stosunkach pomiędzy dwoma krajami oraz niska wzajemna wiedza wśród społeczeństw obu krajów.

(Nie)łatwe powroty do domu? Funkcjonowanie dzieci i młodzieży powracających z emigracji

Projekt realizowany był w 2015 roku przez badaczki z Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego z inicjatywy Fundacji Geremka. Obejmował on przeprowadzenie badań empirycznych poświęconych funkcjonowaniu psychologicznemu i szkolnemu dzieci, które powracają z rodzicami z zagranicy. Na podstawie wyników tych badań powstał raport, który prezentuje szerokie rekomendacje – dla rodziców, szkół i dydaktyków. Znajdują się w nim także rekomendacje systemowe mające ułatwić dzieciom i młodzieży adaptację do nowej sytuacji po powrocie z emigracji. Autorkami raportu są: prof. Halina Grzymała Moszczyńska, Joanna Grzymała-Moszczyńska, Joanna Durlik oraz Paulina Szydłowska. Projektowi patronowało wiele instytucji publicznych w tym m.in. MEN, RPO, Ośrodek Rozwoju Edukacji i Rzecznik Praw Dziecka.

"Rozmawiajmy o uchodźcach"

Projekt realizowany w partnerstwie z Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej i Ogólnopolskim Stowarzyszeniem Kadry Kierowniczej Oświaty w 2016 roku.

Projekt jest odpowiedzią na spadek społecznego poparcia dla przyjmowania uchodźców wśród młodych ludzi, szerzący się strach przed "obcymi", potrzebę dotarcia do społeczeństwa rzetelnymi i dostosowanymi do ich potrzeb informacjami na temat sytuacji uchodźstwa i migracji, potrzebę wsparcia nauczycieli w podejmowaniu rozmów o uchodźcach w szkołach, a także o wartościach i postawach, które są bliskie młodym ludziom, oraz potrzebę budowania wśród młodzieży postaw otwartości i akceptacji różnorodności, które z kolei są warunkiem integracji przybywających do Polski uchodźców.

Ogólnym celem projektu jest ułatwienie szkołom podjęcia wyzwania, jakim jest zmiana negatywnego nastawienia dużej części młodzieży do uchodźców i uchodźczyń oraz przygotowanie młodych obywateli na przyjęcie uchodźców w Polsce. Cel ten realizowany jest poprzez wsparcie nauczycieli w poruszaniu z młodzieżą tematów związanych z uchodźstwem, dotarcie z informacjami o potrzebie podejmowania tego tematu w szkołach do szerokiego grona dyrektorów szkół, oraz przekazanie rzetelnych informacji nt. uchodźstwa młodym ludziom.

Czytelnia
W siedzibie Fundacji mieści się czytelnia naukowa, która jest czynna od poniedziałku do piątku w godzinach 9:00 – 17:00 (po uprzednim umówieniu się). Na księgozbiór składają się prywatne zbiory profesora Geremka, materiały przekazane przez Towarzystwo Opieki Nad Archiwum Instytutu Literackiego i inne publikacje z zakresu historii, politologii i nauk społecznych.

Dostępna dla czytelników część księgozbioru zawiera książki i czasopisma polskie (ok. 2500 tytułów), podobnej objętości zbiór zagraniczny (książki francuskie, włoskie, rosyjskie, angielskie i niemieckie z księgozbioru prof. Geremka). Najciekawszą część stanowi dział mediewistyczny, zawierający wiele unikalnych pozycji. Dużą wartość mają również serie czasopiśmiennicze, na czele z niemal kompletną serią francuskich "Annales", polskimi "Zeszytami Historycznymi", włoskim czasopismem "Micromega" oraz rosyjskim "Srednije wieka". Czytelnia zawiera część paryskiej "Kultury" i książek wydanych w serii Biblioteka Kultury.

Archiwum
Zbiory obejmują archiwalne wywiady prof. Bronisława Geremka, artykuły, audycje radiowe i telewizyjne, niepublikowane teksty, notatki, korespondencję, nagrody, dyplomy oraz prywatny księgozbiór prof. Bronisława Geremka. Kolekcja jest cały czas uzupełniana i katalogowana. W zbiorach Fundacji znajduje się kolekcja Unii Wolności, będąca własnością Partii Demokratycznej-demokraci.pl. Przechowywana jest jako depozyt. Całość zespołu obejmuje materiały z lat 1990-2005. Pierwszą część zasobu stanowią dokumenty Unii Wolności z lat 1994-2005 oraz dokumenty organizacji, których partia była spadkobierczynią: Ruchu Obywatelskiego-Akcji Demokratycznej (1990-1991), Forum Prawicy Demokratycznej (1990-1991), Unii Demokratycznej (1991-1994), Kongresu Liberalno- Demokratycznego (1990-1994) oraz komitetów wyborczych Tadeusza Mazowieckiego z okresu jego kampanii do wyborów prezydenckich roku 1990. Pojedyncze dokumenty należące do zespołu to kopie dokumentów wytworzonych przez inne instytucje, włączone do dokumentacji poszczególnych partii – poprzedniczek UW przez ich kierownictwo i stanowią również świadectwo ich działalności. Informacja o zbiorze

Biblioteka multimedialna
Fundacja prowadzi bibliotekę multimedialną, w której dostępne są nagrania wszystkich konferencji i debat przez nią organizowanych.

Nagroda im. Bronisława Geremka
W 2009 r. Parlament Europejski ufundował Nagrodę im. Bronisława Geremka, która została przyznana po raz pierwszy w 2015 r. przez Fundację Geremka oraz Katedrę Cywilizacji Europejskiej w Kolegium Europejskim w Natolinie.

Kapituła Nagrody obradowała w składzie: Marcin Geremek, prof. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, prof. Andrzej Friszke, prof. Maria Koczerska, prof. Wojciech Kriegseisen oraz prof. Henryk Samsonowicz.

Główną nagrodę w 2015 roku zdobył prof. Mark Lewis z City University of New York za książkę "The Birth of the New Justice: The Internationalization of Crime and Punishment", 1919-1950, wydaną przez Oxford University Press. Nagrodą za wybitną pierwszą publikację w tym samym roku został uhonorowany dr Wojciech Świeboda z Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego za książkę "Innowiercy w opiniach prawnych uczonych polskich w XV w. Poganie, Żydzi, Muzułmanie", wyd. Societas Vistulana.

W 2016 roku kapituła nagrody przyznała główną nagrodę dla profesora Konrada H. Jaruscha za książkę "Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century", opublikowaną przez Princeton University Press.
Kapituła przyznała również nagrodę za wybitną pierwszą książkę dla dokrora Patricka Lantschnera za książkę "The Logic of Political Conflict in Medieval Cities: Italy and the Southern Low Countries, 1370-1440", wydaną przez Oxford University Press.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
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 Biblioteka multimedialna Fundacji

 Kanał youtube Centrum Geremka

Centrum im. Profesora Bronisława Geremka
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According to Luminate, "Bad Habit" logged 42.3 million radio airplay audience impressions in the October 7-13 tracking week, up 4% from a week earlier. The song tallied 20.1 million streams (down 2%) and 2,000 downloads sold (down 27%) in the tracking week.
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In a baffling twist of logic, the intense IRS focus on Humphreys County [in Mississippi] is actually because so many of its taxpayers are poor. More than half of the county's taxpayers claim the earned income tax credit, a program designed to help boost low-income workers out of poverty. As we reported last year, the IRS audits EITC recipients at higher rates than all but the richest Americans, a response to pressure from congressional Republicans to root out incorrect payments of the credit.
The logic is clear, as the final sentence indicates: Republicans in power want to remind you who's in charge, no matter what the cost in dollars or fairness.


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In response to our job post, ObiMama has brought on a team of nine fascinating and inspiring mothers to help us grow with you! With the welcoming of these talented baby wearing ladies, we'll be innovating more ways to get you more content and have more fun with us. Meet the team!
I'm Adriane. I'm 32 and we are a military family with four children currently in Charlottesville, VA. I like to read, explore, craft and bake. I've been a fan since 2011 and came to ObiMama with my second baby. I was looking for something a little quicker/easier than a wrap that both my husband and I would be comfortable in. I tried just about every carrier on the market at the time. I hated them all and my husband just never felt comfortable in any of my beautiful wraps. ObiMama was the perfect combination of everything I loved about wraps and everything he loved about the SSCs.
My name is Melissa. I have a 2 year old son and I am wife to a husband that works 'beyond the wall' up North in Canada (Oh hey, you game of throne fans- I see you)! I spend half the year parenting solo while my husband is away. I balance motherhood while staying true to my artist roots. I'm a freelance illustrator, passionate about babywearing and so thrilled to be a part of the new ObiMama team. My son Ryland is the king of picky and when I finally got my hands on an ObiMama, it was like something clicked for him and we both fell in love hard. I'm excited to share this journey of motherhood, babywearing, and all around geekiness with you, and I can't wait for you to see what we have in store.
I'm Colleen. I am a wife, mother to 5 young children, and WAHM in accounting/finance, living up in Alberta, Canada! ObiMama has drawn all my attention because it truly is an exceptional carrier, helping keep the littles stylishly and comfortably close as needed. The charm, wit, and integrity of the brand has me hooked, and I'm honoured to be part of the Team!
I'm Amanda, mother of 5, living in Texas. I am currently actively wearing my 25 month old. He is a seat popping professional and how I found the obi love. ObiMama allowed me to keep the beautiful wraps I was so accustomed to while allowing me the ease and convenience of a more structured carrier. As my babywearing days die down I hope to continue helping other moms with their journeys, very excited to be apart of team obi and for all the amazing things to come!
My name is Jessica. I'm 28, a mother of 2, and reside in Houston, Texas. I'm a skilled daydreamer. I enjoy art, fashion, and interior decorating. The first time I saw an ObiMama, there was just something about the way it molded to babies perfectly. Almost like they were giving them hugs to let them know they were safe. The lines and symmetry were very appealing: Sleek. Beautiful. A fashion statement. All the while being something so dear to a mother.
I'm Kim, 40 (gulp), and the mom of two boys. We live in Gainesville, FL. I fell in love with ObiMama in 2013 when my eldest and I were learning to babywear. He has a wiggly seat popper, and our Obi saved our babywearing relationship.
My name is Dorothy Joy, often shortened to Dorothy or DJ. I'm 23, married, and a SAHM of two children and two German Shepherds. Our family just left the military and recently moved to Vermont to start our journey as civilians, and work towards our family dream of homesteading. I enjoy languages, literature, and film photography (babywearing being a given), and am currently studying to be a postpartum doula and herbalist. I first stumbled upon ObiMama when I saw the owner of a textile company share her WCMT. I was blown away by the beauty and simplicity of ObiMama's mei tais, and I can't express enough how incredibly excited I am to be a part of this team!
I'm Kristin. I live in Ohio with my hubby and our 3 year old twins and 5 Month old. I'm a SAHM during the week, and a labor, delivery, postpartum nurse some weekends! I stumbled into obi's about 2 years ago with a vice versa Cuervo obi that was the magic sleepy dust that never failed to put my daughter to sleep. They're still holding true for me with my new baby, letting him nap and me be comfortable while wearing him!
I'm Sara, 27, and from Virginia. I have 2 littles with one on the way. I fell in love with Obi shortly after having my first. The attention to detail is unmatched. The perfect combination of ease of use and versatility makes it my go to carrier. I'm beyond excited to be a part of Team Obi.


What to do to land on a creative job? What area should one focus on when applying for a job which is inventive in nature? A recent research by The Creative Group has the right answers for you!
It was found during the research that employers generally prefer applicants with resumes which are presented in a traditional format. Other formats, such as social/online, infographic or video based are less appreciated. Also, while focusing on skills for potential skill tests might be good, but it is not something most of the companies go for. In fact, a very small percentage of employers actually opt for this. Actually, it is the interview which is considered to be the most important thing in a person's application. How an interview goes can easily influence all other side factors. Next to that is the quality and content of the resume. And the thing which is the least bothered out of all these is the previous experience of the candidate.
So, if you are willing to apply for a certain marketing position, make sure you brush up your conversational skills for the dialogue with your potential employer and work hard to build that resume up!


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Matteo Salvini. Twitter
'You block documents, we block streets'
Illegal migrants in Calabria and Puglia in Italy, engaged in protests and blocked the streets as they demanded that they be given "documents" right away.
Published: December 19, 2019, 6:49 am
Former Interior Minister and leader of the League Party, Matteo Salvini tweeted a video of the protests. In the text of his tweet he said "illegal immigrants attack our police with the slogan: 'Documents immediately for all'. But for the left, Italy's priority is to abolish the Security Decrees."
"You block documents, we block the streets!" The illegals also shout: "We have the right to have documents and housing! We have the right to have documents for all immediately! Housing for all!
"This morning, we want documents for all immediately! Documents for all immediately! Documents for all immediately!" they chant.
When asked why they were protesting, one of the migrants replied: "I don't know."
Instead he wanted to know: "Who are you? The journalists replied that they were from a newspaper, but the protester could give no clear answer as to why they were demonstrating about "documents".
IMMIGRATI IN RIVOLTA IN CALABRIA E PUGLIA, SCONTRI CON LA POLIZIA
⚠ IMMIGRATI IN RIVOLTA IN CALABRIA E PUGLIA, SCONTRI CON LA POLIZIA. <VOI BLOCCATE I DOCUMENTI, NOI BLOCCHIAMO LE STRADE>. ROBA DA MATTI!!!#26gennaiovotoLega #portichiusi
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The leader of the League is still in trouble for having blocked 131 migrants aboard the ship Gregoretti, and is being charged with kidnapping. Salvini spoke in Fuori dal Coro, on broadcaster Rete 4: "Today I received a complaint: I am supposedly guilty of the crime of aggravated kidnapping for having deprived 131 immigrants present on the Gregoretti ship of their personal freedom, and risk up to 15 years in prison."
On July 28 this year, the Gregoretti ship with 131 migrants on board they picked up in the middle of the sea, sailed to Italy. Being a military vehicle, the Coast Guard ship headed first to the port of Lampedusa and then to the port of Augusta, with the hope of landing the migrants.
Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli appealed to the EU Member States to take charge of the people on board the ship: "Gregoretti has moored at the port of Augusta, as is normal for a military ship. Now the EU should respond, because the migration issue concerns the whole continent". But nobody answered.
The EU simply turned a deaf ear to Italy while NGOs started ranting against the methods put in place by the then Interior Minister, Salvini. After days of a tug of war, the migrants were taken off the boat.
The attorney's office of Syracuse opened a file on the Gregoretti ship to check the sanitary conditions of the ship and of course those of the people on board. The attorney of Syracuse, Fabio Scavone declared that the sanitary situation was no longer tenable and Salvini was blamed for this.
On September 21, the former Minister of the Interior received a letter delivered at home from the Catania public prosecutor's office.
The Catania ministers' tribunal asked the president of the Senate for authorization to charge Salvini. In short, all the charges against him will be reinstated. "I think it is a shame," said the leader of the League. "A minister who defended the borders of his country could be tried for dealing with the security of his citizens. I would like to know how much this process will cost the community. I am sorry that Italian courts, today so clogged up, have to waste time investigating a minister who did what the Italians asked him to do."
He added: "In a normal country, Carola [Rackete] would be in jail, and with her maneuver, docking in a port that had been expressly forbidden to her, she even risked killing border agents".
Meanwhile, mass rejections of illegal migrants is alleged to have been in violation of international law, reported by Italian daily La Repubblica, which is the accusation contained in a report written by Charles Heller of Forensic Oceanography, based at Goldsmiths, at the University of London.
According to this report, on November 7, 2018, to coordinate the rescue operation of a group of migrants then brought back to Libya by the Panamanian merchant ship Nivin, such transgressions were committed.
According to the substantial report on migrants, Italy and Europe had applied this "model of practice", under Salvini 13 times in the last year. The very serious accusations come from Forensic Oceanography and the Forensic Architecture Agency.
But what is the institution that accuses the Italian government and who is it financed by? The Forensic Architecture Agency, says it "is a research agency, based at Goldsmiths, University of London. We undertake advanced spatial and media surveys on cases of human rights violations, with and on behalf of communities affected by political violence, organizations for human rights, prosecutors, environmental justice groups and media organizations".
The agency uses an open source survey, through which it realizes and constructs figurative and physical models, 3D animations and cartographic platforms. Clearly its research requires quite a lot of money.
The most curious thing about the agency is found, in fact, under "funding": in addition to the European Research Council, we find a series of "liberal" foundations that have a distinct political agenda, undoubtedly contrary to the policies of sovereign nations on immigration and closed ports.
Among these we find the Oak Foundation, the David & Elaine Potter Foundation but, above all, the Open Society Foundation of the financier George Soros, also financier of the American Democratic Party.
Through his "philanthropic" network, Soros floods Italy with money to shape it in its image and likeness, and reveals a very specific project that, beyond the strenuous efforts of the progressives, threatens to undermine Italy's sovereignty.
Between 2017 and 2018, according to the survey published by the Adnkronos agency, there is talk of over eight and a half million dollars paid into the coffers of those institutions that set themselves the goal of creating a "more open and welcoming society". In short: open borders.
The current culture of the illegal migrants that are being run by pro-mass migration NGOs is one of undeserved privilege, and at the expense of the Italian taxpayer. Not only in their countries of origin, but in Italy as well, they are being constantly indoctrinated by globalist NGOs that they have a perfect right to enter the EU illegally and then live off the European taxpayer, even if they have no basis for residence, or any skills to contribute to the Italian economy.
Soros money and its influence is a subtheme of this whole article. It fuels the pro-migration NGOs, the so-called "rescue" ships and operations in the Mediterranean, and those who are now stirring up illegal migrants in demonstrations in Calabria and Puglia. And as this Free West Media article clearly also shows, it also funds an NGO behind the reinstatement of charges against Salvini. There are many hidden hands here, and it is always for the better that they are exposed.
Nigerians terrorize Italian city
PaduaThe Nigerian mafia has been busy in the Italian city of Padua. In less than 24 hours there were two violent episodes in the city center, and as always on via Diego Valeri.
France: 41 percent 'ignore' news
A survey carried out for a newspaper shows a growing distrust of the French towards the media.
Gang rapes: Number of foreign suspects in Germany increasing
BerlinThe proportion of foreign suspects in gang rapes in Germany has increased significantly in the past five years. This is despite the fact that the total number of suspects decreased between 2015 and 2017.
Candidate recruits people of 'Turkish origin' for French municipal elections
Given the extent of the controversy, Mohamed Dine has now deleted his ad, previously posted on his Facebook page.
Charlie Hebdo also defended pedophilia
ParisLike part of the libertarian left at the time, the satirical newspaper supported three pedophile criminals, accused of having abused minors, before they were sentenced in 1977.
Conservative German author's reading cancelled in Dresden
DresdenGerman author Uwe Tellkamp had his reading cancelled. It was not because of a lack of public interest, illness of the organiser or an important participant, or official orders for violations of the fire protection regulations. No, it had to be canceled because the author has a certain opinion.
Pedophile personalities shake up French literary scene
ParisThe French writer Gabriel Matzneff who has been accused by the novelist Vanessa Springora of pedophilia, benefits from low-cost housing in the heart of Paris which was allocated to him in 1994. Some other sordid facts about him and his friends have resurfaced.
AfD sues German domestic spy agency over tracking
BerlinThe AfD intends to take legal action against the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the domestic spy agency.
Dispute over German broadcaster's "environmental pig" song continues
CologneSeveral editors from German public broadcaster WDR have accused director Tom Buhrow of harming the broadcaster with the so-called "environmental pig" affair. On Tuesday there will therefore be an editorial meeting in which Buhrow will also take part.
Cars in flames all over France at the start of the New Year
The car-burnings in France continue. There were burnt cars in Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Limoges, Nantes and other cities.


ValuTherm branded Polyisocyanurate now stocked in Southgate.
In Southern California, we are now improving our distribution partners' flexibility by stocking ValuTherm branded polyiso in our Southgate, CA Mod Bit facility. ValuTherm is JM's discretionary brand of polyiso that provides high thermal insulation value in built-up, mod bit, and single ply membrane systems. Distribution partners will now be able to mix trucks of mod bit with polyiso coming out of Southgate. With no minimum number of pallets, distributors can top-off weight-limited mod-bit trucks with polyiso to fill the truck. This mixed truck program applies to the following SKU's that will be stocked in Southgate.
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Sheen Magazine – R&B Singer/Songwriter Jon B is Back & Better Than Ever!
R&B Singer/Songwriter Jon B is Back & Better Than Ever!
'90s icon, Jon B is here to let you know he's back and better! With a brand new single titled, "Understand," it's proven that he hasn't lost his touch! In this exclusive interview with Sheen Magazine, Jon B discusses his return to the music industry, shares all the details on his new single, and much more!
Tell us about our musical journey to get to where you are today?
Well to wrap it up, Its been 20-something years now. I started in 1995 with Babyface. He gave me my start as a songwriter, producer, and artist. As an artist, he gave me the start with a song called, "Someone to Love" which was a duet between the two of us that he wrote and produced. It allowed me to put my foot in the door as an artist for sure. From there, I put out another song called "Pretty Girl," which was another song written and produced by him. He really helped me get my start as an artist with those two singles because they were very successful and helped put me on the map. At that point, I still had a lot to accomplish in terms of what I wanted and a lot of that came from writing my own music, lyrics, and producing my own songs.
With the next album, "Cool Relax" where I was able to capitalize on that. I wrote all the songs and produced it myself so it was a very much a "coming to my own" type of album.
Ever since then, I'm been continuing the tradition to put music out, I primarily write and produce. I love collaborating with other artists as well!
Do you mind telling us about your new single, "Understand"?
It's exciting to be able to come back after five years of kind of being away. The first song, "Understand" is really a sentiment that I would love to say to my wife but at the same time, it is something I would like to say to the fans as well. The hook is "Even if you think you've seen the best I have, I'm willing to do anything right now to make you understand that you haven't seen nothing yet. I'm going to show you the best is yet to come." At this point in my career, I don't really have anything to prove really other than the fact that I still love what I do and I do it with a passion. I was a young man coming up trying to earn my stripes to be a man but now I am a man. The songs have a different maturity level to them and a different sophistication in production. I like to think that I get better at what I do over time.
What inspired you to get back into the music industry after a break?
I have two beautiful daughters, one is five and one is 11. I also have a beautiful wife so it's about family life and bouncing that between being a rockstar on the weekends (laughs). As much as I can be out, I'm out. We have a booked schedule all-year around so I really don't take a break. It's been beautiful to be consistently touring.
What can your listeners expect to see from Jon B in the future? Are there any upcoming projects you could tell us about?
This new single featuring Donell Jones entitled, "Understand" is something I'm really excited about. This month, we will be releasing the song! The music video was just filmed and the album will be coming shortly after. So yeah, expect a new album and tour. You're up for an experience when you see me live, I have come a long way after all these years, call it a celebration. I love what I do and the fans love the music so it works out both ways, it's a beautiful thing.
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The Swedish No Risk Project
Trumpism and the attack on science
Huge Amounts of Radiation Won't Harm You, Pruitt's EPA Claims
Scott Pruitt, chief of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), isn't just going about destroying environmental safeguards; he has now issued a "guideline" document that states that excessive exposure to radiation is safe for human life. That means he's not only allowing more pollution that can contribute to ill health and degradation of the environment, but he is also putting us at risk when it comes to radiation. According to Bloomberg,
In the event of a dirty bomb or a nuclear meltdown, emergency responders can safely tolerate radiation levels equivalent to thousands of chest X-rays, the Environmental Protection Agency said in new guidelines that ease off on established safety levels…. SNIP
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Corporate influence on Science, government and the military,
Fukushima, Chernobyl and ionizing radiation,
What's warping the faces of monkeys in Uganda?
NOTE: A fish hatchery farm in Queensland Australia is now seeing deformities in their fingerlings. They are surrounded by macadamia plantations where the farmers spray similar chemicals to the ones mentioned below. In Tasmania concerns have been raised about Atrazine, a carcinogen being widely used by the forestry commission and a possible connection with the mysterious facial tumour disease decimating the threatened Tasmanian Devil.
The most disgusting revelation in the article below is the response from Trump's new EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt. Read on… SNIP
Chemical and mould Exposures,
The Science Inquisition in America
From Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
After the Spanish Inquisition arose during the 15th century, it spread across most of Europe. In 1616, the Roman Inquisition judged the Copernican proposition that the Earth moves around the sun "formally heretical" leading to placement of Copernicus's On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres on the Index of Forbidden Books.
Because he expanded Copernican theories, Galileo was tried by the Inquisition in 1633 and found "vehemently suspect of heresy." He was forced to recant and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. Does any of this sound familiar? The Trump White House currently regards as heresy the idea that human activity has an effect on the 60-mile thick blanket of the Earth's atmosphere – or that something can be done about it. As a result, our climate is becoming like the weather – everyone talks about it but nobody does anything about it. SNIP
A Brave New World: A dystopian high-tech future,
Trump orders FDA TV's to be locked on FOX News (A big win for Rupert Murdock)
In what may be a backroom deal between Trump and Rupert Murdock, the head of FOX News, the TV's at the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) research campus are to be locked on the FOX News station.
CBS News has confirmed an email was sent to researchers at the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research responding to apparent efforts to change the channel on internal television screens. The email from "[White Oak] Digital Display" sent on Wednesday, May 3, was sent to inform the researchers of the "reason for the change from CNN to Fox." White Oak is the name of the FDA's campus.
The email goes on to inform employees that the decision came from the Trump administration.
SNIP….
Internet privacy to go under Trump
Published in the Washington Post online
The House just voted to wipe out the FCC's landmark Internet privacy protections
By Brian Fung March 28 at 5:58 PM
The sharply partisan vote led by Republicans is a sweeping rebuke of Internet policies enacted under the Obama administration and marks a pivot toward allowing Internet providers to collect and sell their customers' Web browsing history, location information, health data and other personal details. The measure now heads to the White House, where President Trump is expected to sign it. SNIP
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This is the June archive of the Foreign Word of the Day for the year of 2014.
Focus week: pidgins and creoles.
(idiomatic) A metaphorical representation of a feeling of generosity; literally "generosity trousers".
(obsolete) A vestibule, foyer, anteroom.
(modern) A corridor, hallway, hall.
(by extension) A corridor: a narrow strip of land connecting a state to an area or to the sea.
(humorous, usually sarcastic, slang) cute, lovely; cutesy, suggesting a stereotypical teenage-girl aesthetic.
(historical) A person who spoke Nahuatl and Spanish and could serve as an interpreter.
A person who speaks, studies or translates Nahuatl.
(hence) A person who is weak of will and easily influenced.


In the short stories of Flannery O'Connor, pride – whether in family, intellect, moral fiber, social conscience, atheism or piety – always triggers a fall, and the fall is both terrible and terribly funny.
The woman who wrote that line wrote this one when she was a 9-year-old cartoonist, depicting a young girl being admonished by her mother to hold her head up straight: "I was readin where someone died of holding up their head." In "Flannery," Brad Gooch shows, without needing to argue strenuously for it, the straight thematic arrow that led from childhood through to the end of her short life, at age 39. The pious Roman Catholic child became a severely religious, self-described 13th-century mystic; the girl who decided, at age 12, that she would never grow older was in many ways an ancient child at the time of her death, having been sheltered all her life by family and friends.
Psychiatrists would likely agree, but she had no use for those – nor for liberals, freethinkers or Northerners (unless they shared her faith) – except as fuel for her fiction. As we read Gooch's generously researched biography, though, what emerges is a singular character to whom any experience was a kind of encumbrance. O'Connor lived fully in her own head.
She spent most of her life in Milledgeville, Ga. When she began to write in earnest, she attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop and later Yaddo, a community of artists in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She lived briefly in New York City and was a yearlong guest of Robert and Sally Fitzgerald in Redding, Conn. Life in the North brought her close friends – including the poet Robert Lowell – and a number of devoted admirers. But she remained resolutely alien to her surroundings, and when she was diagnosed with disseminated lupus – a fatal disease at that time – she returned home, where her mother cared for her for the rest of her life.
It was there, in the place where she knew she would die, that she produced some of the most brilliant and disturbing short stories every written, in any country, in any age. What distinguishes her is the clarity of her own vision, which is so peculiar and yet so fierce.
Readers not already familiar with O'Connor's works should secure copies of two books: Gooch's "Flannery" and "The Complete Stories." You could, of course, read the stories without looking at the biography, but if you did the reverse, the facts of her life would not be nearly as engaging. Much of the fascination in reading "Flannery" involves meeting some of the models for her characters: There weren't many, and some were used again and again.
She appeared on TV once, in 1955, to be interviewed before a brief dramatization of one of her stories. When asked how she came to write her first novel, "Wise Blood," she answered, "Well, I thought I had better get to working on a novel, so I got to work and wrote one." Unfazed, the interviewer asked if she'd be willing to explain to the studio audience "what happens" in the story they're about to see.
"No," said Mary Flannery O'Connor, "I certainly would not. I don't think you can paraphrase a story like that. I think there's only one way to tell it and that's the way it is told in the story." Amen.
Jincy Willett is the author of the novel"The Writing Class," which will be publishedin paperback by Picador in June.


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Davide Marchionni
Lo Scompiglio
Davide is a creative professional and a former visual artist; he graduated cum laude from the Brera Academy for Fine Arts in Milan. His artistic career culminated with the inclusion to Aperto '95 section of the Venice Biennial of Art. His work received international attention on press and exhibitions in art galleries and museums. His passion for rock climbing, photography, music and two wheels is the fuel that propels his life. His vision runs fast, caressing on tiny big details. Tailgating a new idea, he jumps over the pond, lands in New York, trips into Photoshop. From working with top fashion photographers (Steven Klein, Mark Seliger) to becoming a departments' director (Capps Digital, BBH and Harper's Bazaar) felt like a moment. However, for the past 14 years, Davide experienced the industry from many perspectives and contexts, granting him a keen understanding of the clients' needs and the knowledge to deliver it. Soft-Sheen Carson, Fructis, Levis, Axe, City of NY are a few of the brands that benefited from that. An innate passion and style to convey a visually compelling and cohesive brand message to the audience, combined with strategic thinking and exquisite taste are some of the characteristics of his approach. The unexpected results, as pointed by many, are what truly fascinated Energy Kitchen, Major League Soccer, NBA, Coty and Crumbs Bake Shop to join the roster of awarded accounts. His incisive positioning, timely executions, team leadership and contribution delivers on a happy outcome. Sighthounds and big motorcycles, the outdoors and British music, On the Road and Zeiss lenses, Tricker's boots and La Sportiva, German literature and American Arts, great food and witty conviviality. And a few wings, are still rocking his world, big time. Everything else is still in the making…
I am a creative professional. The fun of my life? Rock climbing, photography, music and riding my two wheels.
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The best memory of NYC is when I saw for the first time, while landing in Newark, the Twin Towers… It was November 1997.
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Jan 05, 2013 • Last Updated January 5, 2013 • 2 minute read
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Since its introduction at Manitoba Liquor Control Commission stores and several beer vendors in the province last month, they've been encouraged by the way the purchasing public has snapped it up — even at a price slightly higher than that of local products put out by Winnipeg's Half Pints Brewing Co. and Fort Garry Brewing.
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Alcaeus of Mytilene (; , Alkaios ho Mutilēnaios;  –  BC) was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria. He was a contemporary of Sappho, with whom he may have exchanged poems. He was born into the aristocratic governing class of Mytilene, the main city of Lesbos, where he was involved in political disputes and feuds.

Biography

The broad outlines of the poet's life are well known. He was born into the aristocratic, warrior class that dominated Mytilene, the strongest city-state on the island of Lesbos and, by the end of the seventh century BC, the most influential of all the North Aegean Greek cities, with a strong navy and colonies securing its trade-routes in the Hellespont. The city had long been ruled by kings born to the Penthilid clan but, during the poet's life, the Penthilids were a spent force and rival aristocrats and their factions contended with each other for supreme power. Alcaeus and his older brothers were passionately involved in the struggle but experienced little success. Their political adventures can be understood in terms of three tyrants who came and went in succession:
 Melanchrus – he was overthrown sometime between 612 BC and 609 BC by a faction that, in addition to the brothers of Alcaeus, included Pittacus (later renowned as one of the Seven Sages of Greece); Alcaeus at that time was too young to be actively involved;
 Myrsilus – it is not known when he came to power but some verses by Alcaeus (frag. 129) indicate that the poet, his brothers and Pittacus made plans to overthrow him and that Pittacus subsequently betrayed them; Alcaeus and his brothers fled into exile where the poet later wrote a drinking song in celebration of the news of the tyrant's death (frag. 332);
 Pittacus – the dominant political figure of his time, he was voted supreme power by the political assembly of Mytilene and appears to have governed well (590-580 BC), even allowing Alcaeus and his faction to return home in peace.

Sometime before 600 BC, Mytilene fought Athens for control of Sigeion and Alcaeus was old enough to participate in the fighting. According to the historian Herodotus, the poet threw away his shield to make good his escape from the victorious Athenians then celebrated the occasion in a poem that he later sent to his friend, Melanippus. It is thought that Alcaeus travelled widely during his years in exile, including at least one visit to Egypt. His older brother, Antimenidas, appears to have served as a mercenary in the army of Nebuchadnezzar II and probably took part in the conquest of Askelon. Alcaeus wrote verses in celebration of Antimenides' return, including mention of his valour in slaying the larger opponent (frag. 350), and he proudly describes the military hardware that adorned their family home (frag. 357).

Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the 'Messon' (referred to as temenos in frs. 129 and 130), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs. Alcaeus' reference to Sappho in terms more typical of a divinity, as holy/pure, honey-smiling Sappho (fr. 384), may owe its inspiration to her performances at the festival. The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry "reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached" and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art (as in the urn pictured above).

Poetry
The poetic works of Alcaeus were collected into ten books, with elaborate commentaries, by the Alexandrian scholars Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace sometime in the 3rd century BC, and yet his verses today exist only in fragmentary form, varying in size from mere phrases, such as wine, window into a man (fr. 333) to entire groups of verses and stanzas, such as those quoted below (fr. 346). Alexandrian scholars numbered him in their canonic nine (one lyric poet per Muse). Among these, Pindar was held by many ancient critics to be pre-eminent, but some gave precedence to Alcaeus instead. The canonic nine are traditionally divided into two groups, with Alcaeus, Sappho and Anacreon, being 'monodists' or 'solo-singers', with the following characteristics:
 They composed and performed personally for friends and associates on topics of immediate interest to them;
 They wrote in their native dialects (Alcaeus and Sappho in Aeolic dialect, Anacreon in Ionic);
 They preferred quite short, metrically simple stanzas or 'strophes' which they re-used in many poems – hence the 'Alcaic' and 'Sapphic' stanzas, named after the two poets who perfected them or possibly invented them.
The other six of the canonic nine composed verses for public occasions, performed by choruses and professional singers and typically featuring complex metrical arrangements that were never reproduced in other verses. However, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance. Even the private reflections of Alcaeus, ostensibly sung at dinner parties, still retain a public function.

Critics often seek to understand Alcaeus in comparison with Sappho:

The Roman poet, Horace, also compared the two, describing Alcaeus as "more full-throatedly singing" – see Horace's tribute below. Alcaeus himself seems to underscore the difference between his own 'down-to-earth' style and Sappho's more 'celestial' qualities when he describes her almost as a goddess (as cited above), and yet it has been argued that both poets were concerned with a balance between the divine and the profane, each emphasising different elements in that balance.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to "Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs", while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence "in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator"; goes on to add: "but he descended into wantonness and amours, though better fitted for higher things".

Poetic genres
The works of Alcaeus are conventionally grouped according to five genres.
 Political songs: Alcaeus often composed on a political theme, covering the power struggles on Lesbos with the passion and vigour of a partisan, cursing his opponents, rejoicing in their deaths, delivering blood-curdling homilies on the consequences of political inaction and exhorting his comrades to heroic defiance, as in one of his 'ship of state' allegories. Commenting on Alcaeus as a political poet, the scholar Dionysius of Halicarnassus once observed that "if you removed the meter you would find political rhetoric".
 Drinking songs: According to the grammarian Athenaeus, Alcaeus made every occasion an excuse for drinking and he has provided posterity several quotes in proof of it. Alcaeus exhorts his friends to drink in celebration of a tyrant's death, to drink away their sorrows, to drink because life is short and along the lines in vino veritas, to drink through winter storms and to drink through the heat of summer. The latter poem in fact paraphrases verses from Hesiod, re-casting them in Asclepiad meter and Aeolian dialect.
 Hymns: Alcaeus sang about the gods in the spirit of the Homeric hymns, to entertain his companions rather than to glorify the gods and in the same meters that he used for his 'secular' lyrics. There are for example fragments in 'Sapphic' meter praising the Dioscuri, Hermes and the river Hebrus (a river significant in Lesbian mythology since it was down its waters that the head of Orpheus was believed to have floated singing, eventually crossing the sea to Lesbos and ending up in a temple of Apollo, as a symbol of Lesbian supremacy in song). According to Porphyrion, the hymn to Hermes was imitated by Horace in one of his own 'sapphic' odes (C.1.10: Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis).
 Love songs: Almost all Alcaeus' amorous verses, mentioned with disapproval by Quintilian above, have vanished without trace. There is a brief reference to his love poetry in a passage by Cicero. Horace, who often wrote in imitation of Alcaeus, sketches in verse one of the Lesbian poet's favourite subjects – Lycus of the black hair and eyes (C.1.32.11–12: nigris oculis nigroque/crine decorum). It is possible that Alcaeus wrote amorously about Sappho, as indicated in an earlier quote.
 Miscellaneous: Alcaeus wrote on such a wide variety of subjects and themes that contradictions in his character emerge. The grammarian Athenaeus quoted some verses about perfumed ointments to prove just how unwarlike Alcaeus could be and he quoted his description of the armour adorning the walls of his house as proof that he could be unusually warlike for a lyric poet. Other examples of his readiness for both warlike and unwarlike subjects are lyrics celebrating his brother's heroic exploits as a Babylonian mercenary and lyrics sung in a rare meter (Sapphic Ionic in minore) in the voice of a distressed girl, "Wretched me, who share in all ills!" – possibly imitated by Horace in an ode in the same meter (C.3.12: Miserarum est neque amori dare ludum neque dulci). He also wrote Sapphic stanzas on Homeric themes but in un-Homeric style, comparing Helen of Troy unfavourably with Thetis, the mother of Achilles.

A drinking poem (fr. 346)
The following verses demonstrate some key characteristics of the Alcaic style (square brackets indicate uncertainties in the ancient text):

The Greek meter here is relatively simple, comprising the Greater Asclepiad, adroitly used to convey, for example, the rhythm of jostling cups  (). The language of the poem is typically direct and concise and comprises short sentences — the first line is in fact a model of condensed meaning, comprising an exhortation ("Let's drink!"), a rhetorical question ("Why are we waiting for the lamps?") and a justifying statement ("Only an inch of daylight left"). The meaning is clear and uncomplicated, the subject is drawn from personal experience, and there is an absence of poetic ornament, such as simile or metaphor. Like many of his poems (e.g., frs. 38, 326, 338, 347, 350), it begins with a verb (in this case "Let's drink!") and it includes a proverbial expression ("Only an inch of daylight left") though it is possible that he coined it himself.

A hymn (fr. 34)
Alcaeus rarely used metaphor or simile and yet he had a fondness for the allegory of the storm-tossed ship of state. The following fragment of a hymn to Castor and Polydeuces (the Dioscuri) is possibly another example of this though some scholars interpret it instead as a prayer for a safe voyage.

The poem was written in Sapphic stanzas, a verse form popularly associated with his compatriot, Sappho, but in which he too excelled, here paraphrased in English to suggest the same rhythms. There were probably another three stanzas in the original poem but only nine letters of them remain. The 'far-away light' () is a reference to St. Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar; such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry (see Scholars, fragments and sources below). This poem does not begin with a verb but with an adverb (Δευτέ) but still communicates a sense of action. He probably performed his verses at drinking parties for friends and political allies – men for whom loyalty was essential, particularly in such troubled times.

Tributes from other poets

Horace
The Roman poet Horace modelled his own lyrical compositions on those of Alcaeus, rendering the Lesbian poet's verse-forms, including 'Alcaic' and 'Sapphic' stanzas, into concise Latin – an achievement he celebrates in his third book of odes. In his second book, in an ode composed in Alcaic stanzas on the subject of an almost fatal accident he had on his farm, he imagines meeting Alcaeus and Sappho in Hades:

Ovid
Ovid compared Alcaeus to Sappho in Letters of the Heroines, where Sappho is imagined to speak as follows:

Scholars, fragments and sources

The story of Alcaeus is partly the story of the scholars who rescued his work from oblivion. His verses have not come down to us through a manuscript tradition – generations of scribes copying an author's collected works, such as delivered intact into the modern age four entire books of Pindar's odes – but haphazardly, in quotes from ancient scholars and commentators whose own works have chanced to survive, and in the tattered remnants of papyri uncovered from an ancient rubbish pile at Oxyrhynchus and other locations in Egypt: sources that modern scholars have studied and correlated exhaustively, adding little by little to the world's store of poetic fragments.

Ancient scholars quoted Alcaeus in support of various arguments. Thus for example Heraclitus "The Allegorist" quoted fr. 326 and part of fr. 6, about ships in a storm, in his study on Homer's use of allegory. The hymn to Hermes, fr308(b), was quoted by Hephaestion and both he and Libanius, the rhetorician, quoted the first two lines of fr. 350, celebrating the return from Babylon of Alcaeus' brother. The rest of fr. 350 was paraphrased in prose by the historian/geographer Strabo. Many fragments were supplied in quotes by Athenaeus, principally on the subject of wine-drinking, but fr. 333, "wine, window into a man", was quoted much later by the Byzantine grammarian, John Tzetzes.

The first 'modern' publication of Alcaeus' verses appeared in a Greek and Latin edition of fragments collected from the canonic nine lyrical poets by Michael Neander, published at Basle in 1556. This was followed by another edition of the nine poets, collected by Henricus Stephanus and published in Paris in 1560. Fulvius Ursinus compiled a fuller collection of Alcaic fragments, including a commentary, which was published at Antwerp in 1568. The first separate edition of Alcaeus was by Christian David Jani and it was published at Halle in 1780. The next separate edition was by August Matthiae, Leipzig 1827.

Some of the fragments quoted by ancient scholars were able to be integrated by scholars in the nineteenth century. Thus for example two separate quotes by Athenaeus were united by Theodor Bergk to form fr. 362. Three separate sources were combined to form fr. 350, as mentioned above, including a prose paraphrase from Strabo that first needed to be restored to its original meter, a synthesis achieved by the united efforts of Otto Hoffmann, Karl Otfried Müller and Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens. The discovery of the Oxyrhynchus papyri towards the end of the nineteenth century dramatically increased the scope of scholarly research. In fact, eight important fragments have now been compiled from papyri – frs. 9, 38A, 42, 45, 34, 129, 130 and most recently S262. These fragments typically feature lacunae or gaps that scholars fill with 'educated guesses', including for example a "brilliant supplement" by Maurice Bowra in fr. 34, a hymn to the Dioscuri that includes a description of St. Elmo's fire in the ship's rigging. Working with only eight letters (; tr. pró...tr...ntes), Bowra conjured up a phrase that develops the meaning and the euphony of the poem (; tr. próton' ontréchontes), describing luminescence "running along the forestays".

References

Sources
 Sappho et Alcaeus. Fragmenta. Eva-Maria Voigt (ed.). Polak and van Gennep, Amsterdam, 1971.
 Greek Lyric Poetry. D.A. Campbell (ed.). Bristol Classical Press, London, 1982.
 Greek Lyric 1: Sappho and Alcaeus. D. A. Campbell (ed.). Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1982.
 Alcée. Fragments. Gauthier Liberman (ed.). Collection Budé, Paris, 1999.
 Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets. Translated by Willis Barnstone. Schoken Books Inc., New York, 1988.

External links

Poems by Alcaeus – English translations
A. M. Miller, Greek Lyric: – Alcaeus, many fragments
Alcaeus Bilingual Anthology (in Greek and English, side by side)

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