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85 King Kün's reign to continue as Jesus helps resurrect City's fortunes
Sergio Aguero is heading to Real Madrid this summer… just like he was in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 according to the brown stuff stirring media, but low and behold he's still at the Etihad.
Down but far from out – Sergio wants to stay at City.
The Argentine super-striker says he wants to stay at City for the remaining three years of his contract until 2020.
Pep Guardiola says Aguero is one of the most important members of his squad, and he will get plenty of game time.
City's hierarchy say there is no question of Aguero leaving City in the wake of the arrival of Brazilian wonderkid, Gabriel Jesus.
So that's player, manager and club all saying 'stick', whereas the warped wordsmiths at the aptly named 'red-top' tabloids strive to 'twist' the story.
Staying Power – Pep and Sergio can work together over the next three-and-a-half years to bring glory to City.
It must be hoped that Aguero is indeed staying, as Guardiola assembles an array of attacking talent to rival – maybe even surpass – the best in the business.
The sky's the limit for Aguero, Jesus, Sane, Sterling, De Bruyne, Silva, Iheanacho and who knows who else?
Looks familiar – Sergio celebrates another City goal, this time against Burnley last month.
Sergio is tried, tested and proven in the Premier League – 113 goals in 168 appearances tells you all you need to know, plus a further 41 goals in 66 Champions League, FA and League Cup games.
He's a phenomenon and, in six-and-a-half years with City, he's been a model professional. It'll be his 29th birthday on June 2nd hardly ancient, and still classed among the world's top five strikers. Why on earth would City want to sell him?
At 10 years Aguero's junior, Jesus is undoubtedly City's future.
Jesus the Redeemer – Gabriel is the face of City's future, but his goals could help land silverware in the present. Artwork courtesy of Stiz of RBNR sponsors BlueRoom.
Three goals and two assists in three starts would even suggest the £27m steal from Palmeiras is already City's 'present', but it'd be foolhardy to place too much on such young shoulders so soon.
Despite having no option other than to praise the brilliant young Brazilian's start in English football, it's worth noting the early signs of media mischief making and insidious scrutiny of Jesus' time in Manchester.
Jesus just in time – Gabriel celebrates scoring against Swansea with City legend Zaba.
Apparently Jesus getting a taxi back to his hotel from the hairdressers on a rainy Mancunian Monday is headline news for some 'sleazy rags' who observed he '…took a cab rather than walk on water like his namesake.'
How pathetic.
But the award for the most 'persecuted' City player goes to another burgeoning talent, Raheem Sterling.
Up Yours – Raheem celebrates his FA Cup goal at the Palace with a message for his detractors.
The knives are out from the Scouse ass-kissing media like never before – even worse than the hounding of Super/Mad Mario Balotelli back in the day.
At just 22 years old, Sterling is already a veteran of media sniping and, latterly, outrageous officiating.
Having been denied a stonewall penalty against Spurs by Andre Marriner, and a certain spot kick against Everton by Clattenburg, referee Mike Dean really had it in for Sterling against Swansea.
Stonewall Sterling penalty – Raheem is denied a nailed on penalty appeal after being fouled by Spurs' Kyle Walker.
City's Number 7 went down in the 18-yard area in a collision with Swans keeper Fabianski – it was potentially a penalty – but Sterling didn't even appeal, and yet Dean booked him for diving.
The arrogance of Dean and his craving for the spotlight was breathtaking – quite incredible. He's undoubtedly one of the most self-obsessed and reviled members of Professional Game Match Officials Ltd (PGMOL) – the commercial 'association' for so-called 'elite' referees and their sidekick assistants.
Persecuted – Referee Mike Dean books Raheem for God knows what against Swansea!
Oh, and on that topic, congratulations to Andre Marriner for landing the EFL Cup Final gig on February 26th.
His masterclass impersonations of a blind man when not seeing the Aguero-Reid 'elbowing' incident from 10 yards last August, compounded by 'missing' Kyle Walker's blatant push on Sterling against Spurs in January, must've earned him great admiration from all at PGMOL and the FA.
Blind, bent or maybe even both – just asking? Ref Andre Marriner has been rewarded with the EFL Cup Final after abysmal displays when officiating City matches.
It's become increasingly clear that Pep's City are generally taking on more than 11 opponents at any given time this season.
To rally against Spurs after the debacle at Everton, only to be blatantly cheated inside 60 seconds when what would've/should've been 3-1 to City became 2-2, was a travesty.
One can only lament the events of December 3rd when Altrincham's most famous Manchester United fan, Anthony Taylor, aided and abetted Chelsea's 3-1 win at the Etihad.
The letter 'A' is for abysmal, abject, Altrincham and Anthony – all four apply to referee Taylor, after the Manchester United fan's handling of City against Chelsea in December.
City were also culpable with missed chances aplenty, but that one game represents a six point swing.
How different it would be if Chelsea's lead were down to just four points, not 10, especially with City fortified by the arrival of Jesus and the return of Vincent Kompany.
Captain Kompany's on-field presence could galvanise City's season.
It's difficult to envisage Chelsea dropping sufficient points for City to bridge the gap, but it's easy to see City winning at Stamford Bridge and gaining a modicum of revenge.
City's keeper on the day the title was, to all intent and purposes lost, was the much maligned Claudio Bravo, since replaced by a resurgent Willy Caballero.
Bravo and out? City's Chilean goalkeeper has had an unhappy stay at the Etihad since his move from Barcelona in August.
It's a stark illustration of the changing fortunes of footballers.
This time last year Willy was ostracized by many City fans, who feared Caballero's inclusion in Manuel Pellegrini's starting XI for the League Cup Final would cost City the match.
Hero Caballero – Willy proved all the doubters wrong with a trio of stunning Wembley penalty saves as City won the League Cup last February.
How wrong could they have been, as Willy emerged the hero in the penalty shootout!
Whether Bravo will get the chance to resurrect his City career remains to be seen, but with City's next three games encompassing the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League, the Chilean could well be back in the firing line this month.
One man enjoying a wholly unexpected new lease of life is Yaya Toure.
On song Yaya – Toure fires home a glorious free kick down at the Palace.
Sidelined by off-field issues relating to fitness levels and the utterances of his repugnant representative, Yaya has 'put up' and his agent Dimitri Seluk has 'shut up' since mid-November.
What was once unthinkable could now well happen this summer – the Ivorian colossus could earn a contract extension under Pep.
Spot on – Yaya has never missed a penalty in City colours – long may it continue.
It speaks volumes for Guardiola's man-management qualities that Yaya is back in the fold and keen to impress.
David Silva has praised Pep in recent days saying: "After all the years I've been in the game and with all my experience, I've really learned a lot in 4 or 5 months with him. He truly is an exceptional coach."
El Mago David Silva has been full of praise for Pep, describing him as an 'exceptional coach'.
Pep himself has been on a sharp learning curve and will be all the better prepared for the final third of the season and beyond.
The loss of Pep's first signing, Ilkay Gundagon, since mid-December has been a bitter pill to swallow, but the emergence of fellow German Leroy Sane, really gets the juices flowing.
Leroy Sane is beginning to show why City paid £37m for him last summer and why Pep rates him so highly.
A top three finish, progression to the quarter finals or further in the Champions League and the prospect of lifting the FA Cup, would be a more than acceptable return, on what was always going to be a challenging first year for Guardiola in England.
If Pep is now having the major say in City's transfer dealings, as opposed to City's Director of Football, Txiki Begiristain, then the summer window should be the catalyst to transform City's title and Champions League aspirations into reality.
On song against the Swans but definitely not Gabriel Jesus' swansong, as he opens his goals account at the Etihad.
A root and branch reshaping of City's squad should see Pep saying adios to some City 'legends', favourites and players who just can't cut it, namely Zabaleta, Hart, Nasri, Clichy, Kolarov, Sagna, Navas, Mangala, Caballero, Fernando, Delph, Bravo and Bony.
As well as spending big on a pacy new defence, a commanding goalkeeper, a defensive midfielder and possibly another top notch striker, City could also be welcoming back the young talents of loanees Patrick Roberts, Marlos Moreno, Oleksander Zinchenko, Manu Garcia and Pablo Maffeo…and then there's the emotive topic of promoting emerging CFA graduates Aleix Garcia, Tosin Adarabioyo, Brahim Diaz and Angus Gunn.
Back and set to stay a bit longer – Yaya could yet earn himself a contract extension at City, something that was unthinkable a couple of months ago.
But even if City were to finish trophy-less in 2017, the perverse reality would be that the club has progressed under Pep, in readiness for years to come.
There's speculation that Guardiola is keen to go well beyond his initial three-year contract, such is his determination to confound his critics, establish City as a European football power and leave an enduring legacy. It's great to hear.
Together – Pep and Sergio can help take City to new peaks in the next three years.
What would be even more harmonious to supporters, is confirmation of Sergio staying to help his manager and team mates amass medals and trophies like never before in the history of Manchester City.
By David Walker
This edition of Read But Never Red is dedicated to Philip Entwistle – a gentleman, a true Blue and a man I'm privileged to call my friend.
Last Sunday's 2-1 win over Swansea seems destined to be Phil's last match at the Etihad as his battle with serious health issues continue.
Tears were shed, hands shaken and embraces shared on an emotional day, culminating in the ecstasy of a last minute winner from Gabriel Jesus – a fitting finale – and a goal that will live long in the memory for reasons both good and bad, happy and sad.
Lifelong City fan Mark McCarthy is hosting an evening with former City and England striker David White on February 25th, to promote the release of David's powerful new autobiography 'Shades of Blue'…and Read But Never Red will have a personally signed copy of David's book to give away to one lucky RBNR reader.
Shades of Blue by David White – Read But Never Red has a signed copy of 'Whitey's' new book to give away.
All you have to do is tell us what year was David White born? Send your answers via the Comments section at www.readbutneverred.com or via our Facebook page or on Twitter @ReadButNeverRed using #ShadesOfBlue and the year in question.
The winner will be contacted via social media and the signed copy of the book dispatched after February 25th.
David White will be fielding questions and giving answers at a Q&A evening and book signing at 7pm at Newport Pagnall Town Football & Social Club, The Pavilion, Willen, Newport Pagnall, MK16 ODF.
One of City's favourite sons David White will be meeting fans for a Q&A session and book signing in Milton Keynes on February 25th.
Tickets are FREE but limited in number, so please don't delay and contact Mark directly on mmmac@hotmail.co.uk if you wish to attend.
'SHADES OF BLUE' – THE BOOK…
David White was born in Manchester in 1967 with football flowing in his veins. Driven by his football-mad dad, David's prodigious talent was spotted early and he soon signed coveted schoolboy forms for Manchester City, the team that he'd supported since boyhood. A meteoric rise through the club's ranks led to his first-team debut at the age of 18, and he continued to light up Maine Road's right wing for the next eight years. It was a career that would take him to the heights of playing for his country.
But David's performance on the pitch was frequently blighted by a lack of confidence and consistency, traits that baffled his fans and family. Only David knew the real reason behind his struggles. Only David knew who had shot his confidence to pieces. Only David knew that, aged just eleven, he had been sexually abused by his football coach, Barry Bennell.
Shades of Blue tells the story of David's extraordinary life: his passion for football, the drama of his games and his fight to outrun the shadow of that early abuse. Having spent years feeling that he had to conceal his secret in order to protect his father and his football career, it is only now that David has felt able to give a full and honest account of his life – one with a powerful message that aims to repair the damage at the very heart of the sport.
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February 9, 2017 5:52 pm by Roget Solstad Reply
I can still hear Clive Tyldesly shouting "no, he's given it, he's given it!!" on telly later that night. David got a brace that night at MR v. liverpool and I was happy to be there. I really admire DW for coming out with his story and contributing also to help others by doing it.
Roger Solstad, Narvik in northern Norway
February 9, 2017 6:13 pm by David Walker Reply
Thanks Roger - Whitey certainly was one helluva sight to behold in full flight.
February 9, 2017 6:59 pm by richard cooper Reply
Apart from the 3 teams going down and coming up in the Premier League the only places Kun will be going to next season are the same ones as this season !
Bloody well hope so!
February 9, 2017 10:27 pm by Susan Bookbinder Reply
Brilliant as always David - you're a great writer ??
February 9, 2017 10:54 pm by David Walker Reply
Thanks Suzy, as always you're very kind and generous in your comments on my scrawls. If only there were more like you :-)
February 9, 2017 11:15 pm by Philip Entwistle Reply
Cheers David, great piece, as I said to you - you keep writing and I'll keep reading!
Keeping the faith as always.
February 10, 2017 7:29 am by David Walker Reply
I'll certainly do that fella. Hope it was entertaining and the dedication sat well with you - we certainly needed and enjoyed that last minute winner on Sunday didn't we? As per your instructions, I shall KTF ;-) Thanks Philip.
February 10, 2017 9:15 am by Andrew Bradley Reply
1967 great read as always David, keep up the good work. P.s you didn't use your favourite word Pernicious!! ?
February 10, 2017 12:29 pm by David Walker Reply
Thanks Andy - very perplexing that I didn't persevere with pernicious every time I mention the press ;-) Memo to self must try harder. Cheers fella and thanks for entering the competition.
February 10, 2017 9:17 am by Lawrence Murphy Reply
As always spot on apart from bonny ( not)
With any luck Bony may even go this month - on a permanent basis - before the Chinese transfer window closes on Feb 28th. He hasn't exactly been a smash hit at Stoke, or even in the African Cup of Nations. Cheers Blue.
February 10, 2017 11:16 am by Pete lynch Reply
Love it David . 1967 same year as me! Keep up the sterling work ?
Very droll! Competition entry duly noted. Thanks.
February 10, 2017 11:30 am by Bart Reply
Great article Dave, agree wholeheartedly, I hope & pray that there is a wind of change going through our football which will eradicate the corruption & incompetence within the game.# Gilluminati
In terms if the Jesus/Sergio situation I think we should be thrilled to have such wonderful players & I look forward to seeing them forge an unstoppable partnership for years to come. I think that if Pep can strengthen at the back & is able to play a back three then you could see an amazing array of forward players scoring for fun. Bring it on!!
PS don't forget ?
Gilluminati - :-) LOVE IT! We can only imagine how good City are going to be under Pep in the coming seasons, and lest we forget, all is far from lost this season. We really could do with Gill being chucked off these influential bodies at the FA, UEFA and FIFA it's a bloody farce. I truly believe the lid's going to blow off football in the not-too-distant future as corruption and dirty deeds are revealed.
February 24, 2017 2:41 am by Zahar Abdul Rahman Reply
Dont forget that we have Aaron Mooy too..
February 24, 2017 11:17 am by David Walker Reply
Yes, he could yet make the step up to Premier League standard.
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The sport of archery is governed in Britain by Archery GB, which has over 1,200 affiliated clubs and around 45,000 individual members. Archery GB is itself affiliated to the International Archery Federation (FITA) and is a member of the British Olympic Association. At the present time, only target archery with recurve bows takes place at the Olympics.
This is the most popular and most familiar form of the sport, where archers shoot a given number of arrows at targets set at known distances. Various standard 'rounds' exist, using different numbers of arrows at different distances, with special rounds for juniors using shorter distances according to age. A variation is head-to-head matches over a smaller number of arrows. Target shooting can also take place indoors with shorter distances and smaller targets.
Field archery uses a course of targets set out in rough country, often woodland. Distances to the targets are often not marked and are left to the archers to assess using their judgement and experience. Scoring is often based on the number of shots required to hit targets as well as their accuracy.
This is similar to target archery except that the target is laid out on the ground around a marker flag. Archers will typically shoot at longer distances (up to 180 yards for men and 140 yards for women) and will aim to land their arrows as close to the flag as possible, within a series of circular scoring zones.
In this form of the sport, distance is all that counts.
The most frequently used type of bow is the recurve, the modern form of the traditional longbow. The bow limbs have a reverse bend at the end which enables them to generate extra power. Compound bows employ even more technology - they are typically shorter with pulley wheels, cables and telescopic sights. The longbow is still popular with archers who enjoy the skills of traditional bowmanship without sights and arrow rests, which places greater emphasis on the archer's judgement.
Arrows may be wooden, particularly for use with longbows, but most are made from aluminium or carbon, or a mixture of the two. Arrow lengths and weights can be chosen to suit the individual archer.
Archery GB also recognises crossbow archery, which has become a distinctive, specialist discipline with its own rules and objectives.


HAMPTON, Va. (July 29, 2018) — Hampton University professors, along with elected officials, community members and the media, participated in a police active shooter simulation at the Sheraton Norfolk Waterside on Tuesday, July 10, 2018, getting a taste of what police officers experience every day.
The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund is an organization located in Northern Virginia whose goal is to educate the public about police training through an educational police training simulator program where sessions are designed to inform participants on the law, training and practical considerations related to the use of police force. The training simulator features realistic scenarios where participants get to make decisions on what force might be necessary to resolve a situation, and then learn about different outcomes based on those decisions.
Hampton University professors in the Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice are hoping to bring the simulation to campus to share with students, faculty, and staff. "What a great opportunity for our professors to gain knowledge about what police officers go through each day and to share that information with our students," said Hampton University President Dr. William R. Harvey. "The Police are guardians of justice and provide safety for our communities."
The training uses a screen and projector where various real-life situations play out and participants interact with the screen, while holding either a gun or Taser, and have to react and make the best decision possible to the situation that is playing out on the screen.


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Listen to ILYSM podcast on what is a Silent Disco and how has it suddenly taken over Austin City Limits Music Festival this year with shows at the Tito's Vodka tent every day of the fest with a 1,000 of people dancing it out every night.
"Crazy part is there is now music outside of this. It's all in your headphones" – says a party-goer attending Silent Disco party provided by Quiet Events on one of the night at Austin City Limits Music Festival 2017. Watch the whole recap video, to watch more first-time-silent-disco goers reactions.
Silent Disco by Quiet Events on one stage, Red Hot Chili Peppers on another one. Who is going to win?
In depth comparison of the headliners in the article by Austin Chronicle.
HotelsMag.com published a post online about the silent disco trend spreading around the country. Read more about what the whole trend is about, as well as how it is growing in the hospitality industry.
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BBC: Western plastics 'poisoning Indonesian food chain'
The burning of plastic waste in Indonesia, much of which has been sent there by the West, is poisoning the food chain, the BBC has learned.
Environmental group IPEN found, in one East Java village, toxic dioxins in chicken eggs 70 times the level allowed by European safety standards.
Long-term exposure to the chemicals is linked to cancer, damage to the immune system and developmental issues.
EcoWaste Coalition & Greenpeace Press Release: Green Groups Urge the Government to Adopt Two Policy Measures to Protect PH from Becoming a Global Dumpsite
Groups vow to keep up the pressure against dumping of foreign wastes in PH
Quezon City. As the authorities grapple with the repacking of over 5,000 tons of illegal waste cargoes stranded in Misamis Oriental for re-export to South Korea, environmental health and justice groups vow to keep up the pressure to prevent the recurrence of foreign waste dumping via the country's seaports.
NGOs Call on Canada to Ratify the Ban Amendment
Wednesday, 17 July 2019 - 12:00am
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7 NGOs call on Environment Minister McKenna and the Canadian government to support the ratification of the Basel Ban Amendment, which prohibits developed countries like Canada from exporting their hazardous wastes to developing countries. Read the letter to Minister McKenna here.
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Stop acting as the dump site: environmental activists remind Jokowi
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Never again: Trash returned to Canada after 6 years in the Philippines
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SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—Following a threat from Malacañang that Manila would cut diplomatic ties with Ottawa, Canada made good on its promise to repatriate tons of Canadian waste illegally exported to the Philippines about six years ago when a ship that would haul them back arrived on Thursday at Subic Bay Freeport to load the cargo.
Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China in Plastic
The noodles and barbecue arrive within 30 minutes. The containers they come in could be around for hundreds of years thereafter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/china-food-delivery-trash.html
BEIJING — In all likelihood, the enduring physical legacy of China's internet boom will not be the glass-and-steel office complexes or the fancy apartments for tech elites.
It will be the plastic.
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EcoWaste Coalition Slams Botched Mixed Plastic Waste Shipment from Hong Kong
Quezon City, Phiippines
The waste and pollution watch group EcoWaste Coalition today denounced the latest attempt to dump into the Philippines mixed plastic waste this time from Hong Kong, China.
The incident reinforces the call made by the group urging the government to formalize as soon as possible President Rodrigo Duterte's marching orders issued last May 6 banning waste shipments from other countries.
Rotten eggs: e-waste from Europe poisons Ghana's food chain
Toxins from old computers, fridges and other electronic goods are polluting chicken eggs in an area where 80,000 people live.
Some of the most hazardous chemicals on Earth are entering the food chain in Ghana from illegally disposed electronic waste coming from Europe.

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Dave's Fiction Warehouse
In which I bloviate about books, TV, movies, politics and other stuff.
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January 15, 2011 by Dave Knadler
That summer I met a man named Ed McQueen. He drove a '54 Studebaker Commander and smoked Old Gold cigarettes. He wore Tony Llama cowboy boots and Wrangler jeans with an oval belt buckle in silver. He favored snap-button shirts with the sleeves cut off. He liked to play Marty Robbins songs on a Gibson guitar. He had a jailhouse tattoo on his left forearm that said "Lucky One" in black ink. A lot of women were attracted to him; my married aunt being one of them. That summer he killed two people that I know of.
McQueen and I worked on a haying crew for a rancher named Leo Pine. This was up in the Thompson River country, midway between Libby and Kalispell. Middle of nowhere. There were five of us. The job lasted about six weeks, but it occupies a much bigger place in my memory. That's how it is with things lived as a teen-ager. There was a girl, too. Anna Caldwell. For awhile there I thought I was in love with her. But it was a short relationship and the last time I saw her I didn't know it was the last time. Easy to idealize something like that, I guess.
For me, the smell of new-mown hay evokes a lot of images, sometimes opposite emotions. Sometimes I'll smell it driving down a highway and think of stinging sweat and the dust and the hay hooks flashing in the summer heat. Sometimes I'll think of fevered sighs and a lit match in the twilight. Sometimes I'll see the long shadows in the morning, cast by bales the weight of tombstones. And sometimes I'll think of Anna, that scented soap she must have used and the slight taste of tobacco on her lips. Those were the days, all right. Hadn't been for that night at Whispering Pines, it might have been a pretty good summer.
I hadn't seen either Ed McQueen or Anna Caldwell in 43 years. After the Internet came along I'd occasionally try to find some trace of them, but never did. At some point, maybe five or six years ago, I finally figured McQueen was dead. A guy like that, it was fine with me. It never occurred to me that Anna Caldwell might be dead too."
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Barcelona 24.12.2020 - 45 years of the Can Serra objectors, the beginning of the largest civil disobedience movement in Europe
Pol Pareja, Barcelona, December 24, 2020
A group of young men stood before military service on Christmas night in 1975 and with them began a fight that would involve tens of thousands of people over 30 years.
"To all of you, on this Christmas night, we want to send our message of peace even though in doing so we run the risk of being arrested."
The message was signed by a group of young people and was read in several Catalan churches during the Mass of the Rooster on Christmas night 1975. They announced that they refused to do military service and that, in return, they had been involved in a social project for eight months to aid neighbours in the Can Serra neighbourhood, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. They offered literacy work, elderly care and a kindergarten service, among other activities.
The message spread across the country and with it began the largest civil disobedience movement in Europe. After the Can Serra message, objector groups began to flourish throughout Spain and would end up involving more than a million young people for almost 30 years. Many of them preferred to go to prison in exchange for making a claim visible - ending the military service - which spread like an oil stain at the dawn of the Transition.
"Can Serra was capital", recalls Pepe Beúnza, one of the young people who signed the manifesto and the first conscientious objector for political reasons in the country. Beúnza had already gone through several jails then for refusing to serve in the military, but his claim did not have enough impact. "Until that moment we had only taken individual actions and the manifesto changed everything: it turned our claim into something collective and unstoppable."
Beyond the pacifist and antimilitarist motives for opposing the military service, the experience represented, for many, a traumatic moment of youth. Abuses, humiliations and accidents were the routine in a barracks to which twenty-somethings arrived terrified from all corners of the country.
Military service was not just a bad experience: every year hundreds of recruits were killed and maimed in accidents. The injured numbered in the thousands and suicides were common to the point of becoming the leading cause of death. According to a 1985 survey, 20% of those who went to the military interrupted their studies, 15% lost their jobs and 13% their partner.
"Another thing that we managed to change was that conviction that existed in our society that one did not become a man until he passed through the military," adds Martí Olivella, another of Can Serra's objectors.
This is the story about how a Christmas message stirred the consciences of the youth of an entire country and projected a struggle, that of civil disobedience, from which all kinds of subsequent mobilizations have drawn: from anti-globalization activism to 15- M and even for the Catalan independence movement in October 2017.
The years of preparation
There is a French guy named André who to this day is not aware of the influence he has had on conscientious objection in Spain. André lived in an environmental commune in France and travelled to Valencia to learn how to grow rice in the mid-1960s. There, in a bar on Carrer de la Nau, he met a group of bearded university students who used to chat about politics. Among those who listened was Pepe Beúnza, a young student of Agricultural Engineering.
"It is incredible because to this day he does not know that he was the first to speak to us about conscientious objection for political reasons," recalls Beúnza. At that time, the only people who opposed the military were Jehovah's Witnesses, who entered jail because they refused to do military service for religious reasons.
André told them about a community in France called L'Arche, founded by the philosopher and disciple of Gandhi Lanza del Vasto. They were conscientious objectors, environmentalists, and pacifists. They did yoga and grew their own food. "He left us all impressed," says Beúnza. The following summer, 1967, he stands there with a friend and they tell him that in the Pyrenees there is another group of objector hippies doing rural development service as an alternative to military service. "It seemed formidable to me and that's where it all started."
Over the next four years, Beúnza will become Spain's first conscientious objector for political reasons. Before refusing to do the military service, he travels and seeks international support. He learns to do yoga and to play the flute assuming he will spend years behind bars. In January 71, he refused to wear the uniform and entered prison. Months later he is sentenced to 15 months in jail in a martial court. A march on foot from Geneva to Valencia gives an international echo to his case, but at that moment there are few young Spaniards willing to go through prison.
Until 1975 Beúnza will enter and leave the prison on several occasions. He is pardoned in November 71 and he again refuses to do military service. In December of that year he went to the Orriols neighbourhood, in Valencia, and started a civil service as an alternative to the military. He is arrested and returns to jail. He is sent to a disciplinary battalion in the Sahara. In March 1974 he was free again after three years and two months in which he had passed through two cells, ten prisons and the aforementioned battalion. At that time he still has to do the military service.
Beúnza spends the following year giving talks throughout the country explaining his case. More and more people are willing to follow his path. In April 1975 the first group of conscientious objectors was formed with the support of the activist Gonzalo Arias. That summer they retired for three days to the monastery of Montserrat, welcomed by the Benedictine monks, and they have just designed their plan. At that time there were five but many more will come.
The Can Serra neighbourhood
One member of the group, Martí Olivella, has lived for two years in a parish community in the Can Serra neighbourhood, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. There they have helped to create the neighbourhood association and the "house of reconciliation", a parish where activities of all kinds are carried out for the inhabitants of the neighbourhood.
"Can Serra had a very strong neighbourhood movement coordinated with the parish community," recalls Beúnza about that district in the process of reconversion, with more and more houses, fewer fields and still hardly any equipment. "There was a progressive part of the church, especially in Catalonia, whose role was very important for conscientious objection", adds Olivella.
The objectors are going to live together in an apartment in that neighbourhood. They sleep on the floor with a mat and a sleeping bag. Some work to support the others, others are dedicated to preparing the action and looking for ways to finance themselves and all collaborate in the civil service that they have started in the neighbourhood.
They teach their grandparents to read (at that time in Spain there were seven million illiterates), they set up summer camps for the children who roam the streets of the neighbourhood, they held handicraft workshops, they fixed up a neighbourhood store, they started a day-care for the children of working women ...
Despite the fact that they are welcomed in Can Serra, both Beúnza and Olivella acknowledge that many of the neighbours saw them as strange creatures, at a time when much of the left-wing opposition still revered the armed struggle of armies such as the Cuban or South American revolutionaries. "We had the incomprehension of the right and the left," recalls Olivella. "Somehow we felt very alone."
At the same time, they are preparing the communication campaign. Thinking of the moment when they will be taken to jail, they record a short documentary together with a neighbourhood film cooperative and prepare a book of almost thirty pages in which they explain their case and the profiles of each one. When they have been in the neighbourhood for a few months, they set up a second floor where a second group of objectors will go to live, who will take over when the first team is imprisoned.
"Those months were extremely intense," says Beúnza, "the cohesion was very powerful, we were a group that was preparing for the sacrifice because we all knew that we would end up behind bars." Olivella remembers with nostalgia those months when a group of strangers who only had pacifism as a common denominator went to live together in a flat on the outskirts of Barcelona. "What Pepe says is true, it was very intense."
Christmas night 1975
Days before that night, Beúnza and Olivella tour the city on motorcycles, distributing the little booklet they have published to different churches thanks to the knowledge of Olivella, who works in a printing company. The booklet is carefully edited and describes the project, explains what conscientious objection is, summarizes the reasons for opposing military service, and includes a short biography of each of the objectors. The manifesto is titled 'A path to peace'.
Franco has been dead for barely a month and the international context is also favourable: the cold war, the hangover of May 68, the movement against the Vietnam War ... The world is changing, Spain even more so and the objectors know it. "We put together the right group at the right time," sums up Olivella.
The group of objectors spends that night at the mass of the Rooster in Can Serra, where the manifesto is read. The text will be read in different Catalan parishes that have progressive priests. The objectors do not know if they will be arrested that same night, although they will end up returning to their apartment without problems. It will take more than a month for the agents to break into their home at dawn and take them to jail.
"We were not afraid because we had been preparing the moment for a long time," says Beúnza. "You have fear when you hide from something, but we wanted them to stop us so that the claim would have more impact," adds Olivella, who was part of the relief group and did not sign the first manifesto.
Can Serra's objectors are arrested and thrown into jail after the manifesto, but the objective is accomplished. After that Christmas night, alternative civil service projects to the military arise in Malaga, Vic, Madrid, Bilbao ... The Transitional amnesty law will allow Can Serra's objectors to get out of jail, but military service will continue to exist and every time there will be more objectors.
The process will continue for decades. First they will be the objectors until in 1988 a substitute social service to the military is approved. The alternative, however, lasts twice as long as military service. The rebellious movement will then begin, which will bring with it a cultural explosion - publications, music groups - especially strong in Catalonia and the Basque Country. In the early 1990s, it is estimated that two-thirds of the inmates of the Pamplona prison were rebellious youth.
In 2001 compulsory military service was finally eliminated. "Not even in the most optimistic thoughts when I entered prison for the first time did I come to think that in 30 years we would end the military," Beúnza explains about the moment he received the news. It is estimated that from the time the Can Serra objectors published their manifesto until the military was eliminated, there were a million objectors, more than 50,000 rebels and a thousand young people who went through jail.
If you have liberated from the military service you should be grateful to these young people who one Christmas night 45 years ago began a path of no return.
objetores de Can Serra


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Q: Fine-grained permissions on SVN Repository I'm trying to setup a SVN repo for a whole bunch of users.  Different users need to have different levels of access to areas of the repository.  A trivial example might be that frontend engineers need access to the "view" and "controllers" but not "model", while backend engineers need access to the "controllers" and "model" but not "view".
It needs to be one repository, because (as far as I know) that's the only way to ensure that commits touching multiple modules are atomic.
Is there a fine-grained way to control user access to a repository?
Thanks!

A: You can use path-based authorization. You define the Read or Write permissions for each path in a file; permissions are inherited.
For example, using groups ( @groupname ):
# Everyone get read access
[/prj1/trunk]
@backend = R
@frontend = R

#Specific rights
[/prj1/trunk/model]
@backend = RW

[/prj1/trunk/controllers]
@backend = RW
@frontend = RW

[/prj1/trunk/view]
@frontend = RW

You reference this file from svnserve.conf or httpd.conf.  ( For a full description see the reference in the previous answer. )

A: Yes, you can use path-based authorization in SVN, but I would highly discourage it.
For one thing, it has a big impact on performance of your repository when you turn it on. Secondly, just because front-end developers only "need" access to views and controllers, what happens in a feature they're working on requires changes to the model? Either they make the change themselves and commit it with their updates, or they ask a "model" developer to do it and it takes an extra day to organise everything.
As long as you've got code reviews in place, there's really no point for the extra hoops.
Even if you don't have code reviews, commit history will be able to tell who made a change to what part of the code. If you really don't trust you front-end developers not to step on other people's toes without some moderation, then do you really trust them to do anything at all?

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In It for the Long Haul: Friendships on the Long Trails
By Jeff Garmire
Thru-hikers and backpackers share more than the trails; they share a goal and a tight-knit community. Since the purpose of backpacking is simply to enjoy it and complete it, relationships formed on the trail are built on camaraderie more than competition.
Sometimes there is a timeline, but often there isn't. The trail is simple and makes building relationships natural. To me, friendships develop faster and more organically there than any other place in life.
I have always been an introvert. But, when I thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail at 20 years old, I didn't have a problem meeting new people and building friendships. It was as if the commonalities were everywhere. The ease of conversation and connection radiated from the other people hiking the trail. I shared miles and became friends with people of every age, background, and income level. Our common goal of thru-hiking the PCT trumped any differences we may have had in other corners of our lives. I was friends with lawyers, new college graduates, parents, retirees, former Wall Street workers, dirtbag climbers, and just about any other person you could imagine. We could all relate to each other in the moment, and nothing else seemed to matter. We shared the same objective.
The simplicity bred genuine friendship, and it released all the inhibition I commonly have as a shy individual. So, I kept going back to thru-hiking for more, and I kept making friends on the trails.
These were the friendships that could lapse for months or even years and immediately picked up where they left off. It was a particular type of relationship built on core values, shared experiences, and the thirst for adventure—the kinds of friendships that are much harder to come by off the trail.
2011 was before the age of lotteries and quotas. Hikers could get PCT permits at the last minute. The community was small, and the trail angels were well-known. Only a few hundred people started the trail, and only 200 of us reached the finish line. And we were all connected.
The record snow year brought us closer together—appreciation for the intensity of the Sierra and the experience created a bond. Whether we hiked many miles together or none, the adversities of 2011 were shared amongst all. The appreciation for what we hiked through bred new friendships that have withstood the test of time. We had to rely on each other.
We used paper maps and a compass, learning to read contours and orient over the snow-covered trail together. Social media was absent, not yet a part of the thru-hiking community, which only strengthened our in-person relationships. Interpersonal interactions were real, genuine, and unique to the trail. Trail names were all we used, and they were all we needed. We hiked for ourselves and the experience. It was wholesome and disconnected from the "real" world.
"Trail names were all we used, and they were all we needed. We hiked for ourselves and the experience. It was wholesome and disconnected from the "real" world."
Friendships began to form at the start of the Pacific Crest Trail but were not solidified until we prepared for the daunting Sierra Nevada Mountains. After 700 miles, we all waited a week in Kennedy Meadows for the snow to melt. The idle time, lack of cell service and closeness of our tents led to lifelong friendships. Not only were we waiting for the snow to melt, but I had to figure out a pack to take through the mountains. And I needed the help of others to do it.
Forty miles from Kennedy Meadows, my external frame pack broke under the 55 pounds I had loaded it with. I was in desperate need of a solution to continue my hike, and with little else to do in the Gateway to the Sierra, my new friends helped me out. Buddha, Canadoug, Java, Hot Cheese, Chonzy, Little Bug, Squirrel, and Escalator all jumped in to shake down my gear. The weight quickly dropped from over 50 to the low 40s as they rid my pack of spare clothes, heavy bottles, a metal cup, and too many stuff sacks. Buddha found an old backpack in the hiker box and showed me how to sew it with dental floss. As a group, they helped me repack my gear, construct a new backpack, and set me up for success for the next 2,000 miles.
But, the generosity didn't end there. Hot Cheese and Escalator had their old pack, sleeping bag, and tent shipped out to Mammoth Lakes. It would cut my pack weight down into the 30s and be gear I continued to use for years. In return, they asked for nothing. It was kindness, as I had never experienced before. People I had only met weeks before gave me everything they possibly could. It describes the friendships that have been a part of trail life for the last decade.
On a long trail, the complications of the "real" world are gone, and left in its place is a task so simple, defined, and shared amongst a community that it sprouts genuine relationships. As social media, accolades, coverage, and influencers have crept into the thru-hiking scene, it has been more difficult to strip away the excess and get back to the rudimentary goal at hand. However, it still is the most natural place for me to find lasting relationships. It is the place that is focused on the success of the community and not the victory of a single individual.
Jeff Garmire /
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by Arlene Dunn, December 2013
[Editor's note: Arlene prepared this paper as her final semester project for a class she audited at Oberlin College and Conservatory, MHST 290: Introduction to African American Music, taught by Professor Fredara Mareva Hadley.]
Music has been a vital part of African American life from the time the first African was kidnapped, sold, shipped to the New World, and enslaved by European colonists in North America. They brought songs and rhythms with them and created new sounds by integrating those with European musical traditions they heard while in captivity. This music became an integral part of African American culture in their daily lives, as well as their Sunday rituals, from the period of enslavement and into the 21st century.
Songs were a natural part of the enslaved people's Sunday services and many contained coded lyrics reflecting hopes for freedom from enslavement. In the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, these songs were transformed into freedom songs, a vital element of the movement. This paper addresses how those freedom songs impacted the direct action taken to desegregate public accommodations and bring the right to vote to millions of disenfranchised African Americans in the southern states. Particular focus is given to the Freedom Singers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
The paper makes specific links between traditional slave songs and freedom songs, noting how the simple substitution of a word or two transformed a prayer to a rallying cry. An accompanying playlist demonstrates those connections. The paper also contains personal reflections of SNCC leaders, members of the Freedom Singers, and the author, who worked for SNCC in the 1960s.
Album cover from The Freedom Singers 1963 recording We Shall Overcome
After a short-lived Reconstruction period of relative freedom for African Americans following the Civil War, power shifted from Republicans to Democrats in the south and blacks were subjected to "Jim Crow" laws, requiring strict segregation of the races in public accommodation, and systematic disenfranchisement through such tactics as poll taxes and literacy tests. The "Jim Crow" laws were local or state ordinances, but became the law of the land nationally in 1896 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson case that separate accommodations for Negroes were constitutional as long as they were "equal." These laws were only part of the systemic, de facto practices of discrimination in employment, education, housing and virtually every aspect of life for people of color, resulting in severe economic disadvantage, and second-class citizenship status. The "separate but equal" policy remained in effect until the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case in which the Supreme Court reversed Plessy.
This decision created a sense of empowerment throughout the black community, but the change in the law did not result in the end of discrimination nor the often brutal physical treatment of African Americans. The following summer, 1955, Emmitt Till was lynched in Money, Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman. The murderers were acquitted after a five-day trial and only 67 minutes of deliberation by an all-white jury.
Within a few months of that trial, Rosa Parks, a long-time NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) activist, refused to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama when the driver asked her to move to accommodate a white passenger. She was subsequently arrested, and is quoted as saying, "I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype. I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated."1 Parks' demonstrative action galvanized the local black community into action. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted over a year, is considered the onset of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s.
1963 SNCC sit-in at a Toddle House restaurant in Atlanta
Five years later, in February of 1960, four students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter "white's only" section and requested service after purchasing goods at the store. When asked to leave they refused. This action was followed by more than twenty students the next day and lunch counter sit-ins spread throughout the south. In April 1960, many of these students gathered at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina and, with the leadership of Ella Baker, formed SNCC, a group that would become a major force over the next several years. SNCC played a significant role in many key actions – the 1961 Freedom Rides; the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; the Mississippi Freedom Summer, culminating in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's challenge of the Mississippi delegation's credentials to the 1964 Democratic Party's national convention; and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March.
The Role of Freedom Songs in the Mid-20th Century Civil Rights Movement
Music played a critical role in all these burgeoning civil rights campaigns, as early as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. "As a local movement grew in Montgomery, singing became a strong force in unifying people in the struggle."2 Mass meetings for this action and those that followed in the 1960s typically took place in churches, where singing was an essential element of the service.
Many commonly known hymns, spirituals and gospel songs began to take on a new meaning when they were part of a mass meeting. Soon small adaptations were made which gave even sharper focus to traditional words. "We've got the light of freedom, we're gonna let it shine"3
At mass meetings, music was mixed into the program alternating with motivational speeches of civil rights leaders from the local community as well as from organizations such as SNCC, CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) and SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s organization). The music served to motivate people to participate, inspire them to feel a part of something transformative, and create a sense of solidarity not only with their local community but also with a national movement creating "the second American revolution."4 Most importantly, when demonstrators knowingly faced the terrorism of their oppressors, music served to help calm their fears and steel their resolve.
Birmingham (AL) fire department workers turning fire hoses on civil rights demonstrators in 1963
In an interview by composer/scholar William Banfield, Bernice Johnson Reagon, a founding member of The SNCC Freedom Singers, talks of the role of music:
(T)his was definitely the way I saw music working in the Civil Rights movement. There were those times when we were moving in new ways, and going against everything we had been taught that might keep us safe, and as we moved forward, terrified, and possibly facing real physical danger, we used the songs and the singing. It never stopped the bullet or a jailing, or kept you from losing your job or being suspended from school, but music kept you from being paralyzed, it kept you moving.5
Churches were natural places for these mass meetings, as they were the one safe haven for African Americans to gather in the South, a tradition that harks back to the period of enslavement when Sundays were the only day of the week when the enslaved were not under constant scrutiny of the enslavers. Churches were places where blacks felt trust in and connections with all those around them.
Minor adaptations in the words of traditional hymns sung in these churches transformed them into the freedom songs of the civil rights movement. In an interview with John Lewis, chairman of SNCC from 1963-66, Bernice Reagon quotes him:
One of the earliest songs I remember very well that became very popular was "Amen"
Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen
Freedom Freedom Freedom Freedom Freedom
This song represented the coming together, you really felt it – it was like you were part of the crusade, a holy crusade. You felt uplifted and involved in a great battle and a great struggle.6
She continued with her own comments: "A simple change from 'Amen' to 'Freedom' made it a musical statement of the ultimate national goal of the student activists."7
Most of the freedom songs were upbeat and had a call-to-action message, with titles like Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round, We Shall Not be Moved, Woke Up This Morning With My Mind on Freedom and Which Side Are You On? In addition to these songs motivating and inspiring participants, they also played an important external role when they were sung during marches and demonstrations, and even in jail. They reached out to supporters who might not have joined yet, and many of them would be on the picket lines the next day. The songs made a strong statement to the police, the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizen Councils and the people who snarled racial epithets and spat at them that there would be no cowering in this movement. SNCC and other organizations, and particularly local community members who were risking their jobs, homes, even their lives, were declaring that they were serious, they meant business, and they were not going away until their demands were met.
Demonstrators, including Martin Luther King and John Lewis, singing Freedom Songs on the Selma-to-Montgomery March in 1965
We Shall Overcome held a special position in the civil rights movement in general, and in SNCC in particular. Each mass meeting and even each planning meeting ended with everyone singing We Shall Overcome. We all stood, crossed our arms and held hands with the people next to us, creating a bond throughout the room that could not be broken. This song was much more solemn and prayerful with words of hope for the future that all the hard work of the day would pay off someday.
The SNCC Freedom Singers served the movement in another significant way by supporting the organization's fundraising efforts. They toured the nation, playing in front of crowds of supporters where they spread the word, and helped finance SNCC's operations. Accompanying them on these tours were well known activist/entertainers like Nina Simone, Pete Seeger, and Harry Belafonte helping to boost attendance. A group of original Freedom Singers continues to perform, especially at 50th anniversary commemorations of specific events of the 60s.
Musical links to the past
The freedom songs of the civil rights movement draw from a rich historical culture beginning hundreds of years earlier in our nation's history. During the period of enslavement African Americans were allowed to congregate in groups on Sunday, their day of rest. Early on, white ministers taught them the Christian religion of the European colonists. Later they were often allowed to meet alone, so long as what the enslavers heard were recognizable as prayers and hymns. These gatherings became the birthplace of African American church culture, much of which is still alive today. Music played a vital role in that development and spilled over into their secular world as well.
Following the Civil War and emancipation, the African American culture evolved, in part, through the establishment of Black churches and new institutions to educate free black men and women (what are now referred to as Historically Black Colleges and Universities). In both cases music played significant roles in their infrastructure and in the ability to raise funds for their operations. The hymns sung by the enslaved people in their enclaves on Sunday became the hymns they sang in their churches. Many of the freedom songs of the 60s were directly derived from those slave songs, supplemented by hymns and spirituals composed by African Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Members of the Freedom Singers and others were also inspired to compose new songs. This section focuses on the connection between freedom songs and the historical songs of enslavement, with one major exception, We Shall Overcome, which is based on a composed hymn from 1901.
There are many sources for understanding the traditional hymns and spirituals upon which freedom songs are based, including liner notes of recordings, periodicals and research papers. One website, "Sweet Chariot: The Story of Spirituals," with a focus on connections to slave spirituals. states:
The extensive use of spirituals in the struggle for freedom during slavery left a deep imprint in the cultural memory of African Americans and their allies. It is therefore not surprising that during the 1960s and 70s, many of the freedom songs sung by the multi-racial cadre of Civil Rights workers were essentially new versions of old slave spirituals with updated lyrics that expressed the specific needs of the Civil Rights Movement.8
This site also contains illustrative examples of the connections between freedom songs and the slave songs on which they were based. From this list I chose four and added a fifth to create a playlist of five freedom songs paired with the traditional hymns or spirituals that inspired them. The fifth, I'll Overcome Some Day is a gospel hymn composed by Charles Albert Tindley in 1901. It is included because its accompanying freedom song, We Shall Overcome, was the anthem of the civil rights movement.
SNCC Freedom Singers: Chuck Neblett, Bernice Johnson, Cordell Reagon, and Rutha Mae Harris
Specific Song Lineages
Following are links to the ten tracks pairing each historical antecedent with the freedom song that was derived from it.
Examining each of these pairings illuminates how relatively simple changes in lyrics and style transformed traditional prayerful songs into tools of the civil rights movement.
Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Stayed On Jesus is sung by Mississippi Fred McDowell, accompanying himself on the guitar. It sounds so authentic one can imagine it is an enslaved person singing at a Sunday service. The matching freedom song, performed by the original Freedom Singers, replaces "stayed on Jesus" with "set on Freedom." It is sung a capella, has a much faster tempo and is much louder. The slave song has verses beginning "walkin' and talkin with my mind . . . " and "singin' and prayin with my mind . . . " The freedom song also has the "walkin' and talkin'" phrase, while later verses begin with adaptations such as "ain't no harm to keep your mind set on freedom."
Don't Let Nobody Turn You 'Round sung by the Pilgrim Jubilees is performed as an arranged spiritual with a lead singer and a choir, accompanied with several instruments. The freedom song, Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn You 'Round is performed a capella by the Freedom Singers. The slave song's lyrics include "walkin' up the King's highway" which are substituted in the freedom song with "marchin' up to Freedomland." The pace is quicker and the attitude one of fighting and protest. Additional verses in the freedom song include "Ain't gonna let segregation turn me 'round" with other words substituting for segregation, such as "jailhouse," "nervous nellies," "Chief Pritchett," "Mayor Kelly" and "Uncle Tom." Noteworthy in this version is the inclusion of local opponents such as the police chief (Pritchett) and mayor (Kelley) of Albany Georgia, thus inspiring people to face them the next day.
I Shall Not be Moved, performed by "Pops" Staples is paired with We Shall Not Be Moved by the Freedom Singers. The traditional hymn is sung as an arranged spiritual with many instruments, and the freedom song is a capella with strong multi-voice harmony. The words in the main chorus do not change other than changing the first person singular to first person plural:
I (We) shall not, we shall be moved, I (We) shall not we shall be moved, just like a tree standing by the water, I (We) shall not be moved.
Lyrics change in the verses, however. The slave song has ones including "Jesus is my Captain, I shall not be moved" and "I'm on my way to Glory, I shall not be moved," while the freedom song substitutes "we're on our way to victory, we shall not be moved" and "segregation is our enemy, it must be removed."
Neither the title nor the refrain is adapted for the song Oh Freedom, which begins: "Oh Freedom! Oh Freedom! Oh Freedom over me! And before I'll be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave and go home to my Lord and be free." These lyrics suggest that this spiritual was not likely sung during enslavement, but perhaps after emancipation.
The spiritual Oh Freedom probably came into being soon after the end of slavery. Like many African American spirituals, the song has more than one meaning. Not only does it refer to freedom in the world to come after death, as many slave spirituals do, but it celebrates their new freedom in the here and now. In the 1950s and 1960s, the song was commonly sung as part of the Civil Rights Movement.9
On the playlist The Golden Gospel Singers perform the traditional song in an arranged a capella fashion, with a choir background. It contains lines like "no more weepin'" in place of "Oh Freedom!" The freedom song by Sweet Honey in the Rock is from the movie Freedom Song and is part of a mass meeting scene. It is performed a capella, with tambourine. It is more upbeat than the gospel rendition and is similar to a lined hymn with a call/response form. The leader speaks, not sings, the lead verse for each section to make sure those present at the mass meeting know what to sing next. In place of "no more weepin'" are such phrases as "no more beatin'," "no more Jim Crow," and "there'll be singin'."
The final pairing is not based on a slave song but a composed hymn, I Will Overcome, written by Charles Albert Tindley, one of the most prolific African American gospel hymn composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its accompanying freedom song, We Shall Overcome, was sung more often than any other freedom song and permeated American political culture so fully that these words were spoken by President Lyndon Johnson when he introduced the Voting Rights Bill in a televised speech to a joint session of Congress on March 15, 1965.10 The traditional song is performed by the Reverend Gary Davis, accompanied by guitar and a mixed choir. The singing is interspersed with preaching and contains lines such as "by the precious Lord" and "I heard a voice one day" followed by "I Shall Overcome." The Freedom Singers, with Chuck Neblett providing strong bass lines, sing a capella with some well-arranged call/response, and such substituted phrases as "we are not alone . . . today (for someday)" and "black and white together" introducing new verses.
I was a member of SNCC from 1960 to 1966 and worked as a field secretary in Arkansas in 1964-65. During that time I had many opportunities to sing freedom songs and listen to the Freedom Singers perform. The experience was invigorating and helped me appreciate the importance of the work my colleagues and I were doing. These were also joyful times when we would look into each other's eyes, understanding the sacrifices we were making, and believing (or, at least, hoping) that the work we were doing was really making the world a better place for African Americans, and, as a result, for all of us. When we sang We Shall Overcome at the end of every meeting, we would shout out the new verses such as: "We are not afraid," "Black and white together," and "The truth shall make us free," but when it came time to finish the song with one more refrain of "We Shall Overcome" it was a little more solemn and prayerful, knowing that there were many obstacles ahead of us before we achieved our dreams of freedom for all.
Though we have come a long way in the fifty years since the peak of SNCC's activities, the long march to justice is not over. The power of those freedom songs, and the legacy from which they are derived, still resonates. Composers and musicians in various genres – folk, blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll, hip-hop, and contemporary classical – continue to write and play pieces connected with the civil rights movement. In 2012 composer/trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith published a four CD set entitled Ten Freedom Summers,11 which treats this musical legacy in a more abstract but no less effective manner. At a concert I attended at which he played selections from those recordings, he spoke movingly about the work and its meaning:
This music is about the Civil Rights Movement. We call it a movement, because it isn't finished yet. This movement is about Human Rights, for all humans. That's a big mistake that a lot of people make, thinking the movement is just about rights for black folks. But it's about rights for all of us. And we ain't there yet. So I need you all to help me relight that torch.12
Wadada Leo Smith at Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in October 2012
[1] A Pivotal Moment in the Civil Rights Movement, Facing History and Ourselves (www.facinghistory.org)
[2] Guy and Candie Carawan, Liner notes, Sing for Freedom, The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through its Songs
[4] Anthony Lewis, Portrait of a Decade: The Second American Revolution, Random House, 1964
[5]"The Music Kept Us from Being Paralyzed: A Talk with Bernice Johnson Reagon," in Black Notes: Essays of A Musician Writing in a Post-Album Age, William C. Banfield, 2004. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland.
6] Bernice Johnson Reagon, "Let the Church Sing 'Freedom', Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 7, 1987
[8] Sweet Chariot: The Story of the Spirituals. Freedom Songs of the Civil Rights Movement: Slave Spirituals Revived, A multidisciplinary online curriculum by The Spirituals Project at the University of Denver, ©2004 Center for Teaching & Learning
[9] Ballad of America, http://www.balladofamerica.com/music/indexes/songs/ohfreedom/index.htm
[10] History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6336/
[11] Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers, Cunieform Records, ASIN: B007JZFX9C
[12] Wadada Leo Smith, speaking at Kerrytown Concert House, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2012 Edgefest, October 31-November 3, 2012
Books, Periodicals and Liner Notes:
Banfield, William C., Black Notes: Essays of A Musician Writing in a Post-Album Age, Chapter entitled: The Music Kept Us from Being Paralyzed: A Talk with Bernice Johnson Reagon," Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Carawan, Guy and Candie, Liner notes, Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through its Songs, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, ASIN: B000001DHL
Lewis, Anthony, Portrait of a Decade: The Second American Revolution, Random House, 1964
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, "Let the Church Sing 'Freedom'", Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 7, 1987
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning (Graduate Center, CUNY), website of Lyndon B. Johnson's speech to Joint session of Congress, March 15, 1965, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6336/
Facing History and Ourselves (www.facinghistory.org)
Oh Freedom! Website page: http://www.balladofamerica.com/music/indexes/songs/ohfreedom/index.htm
Davis, Rev. Gary, At Home and Church, 1962-67, Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop, ASIN: B0031DRW1S
Freedom Singers, The, We Shall Overcome, Vinyl Masters, ASIN: B00DVAWI2E
Freedom Song, Turner Home Entertainment, 2006, ASIN: B000BNTMBO.
Golden Gospel Singers, The, Capella Praise, Blue Flame, ASIN: B0000JUB974
McDowell, Fred, The Alan Lomax Recordings, Mississippi Records, ASIN: B0055HVDHM
Pilgrim Jubilee Singers, Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around, Malaco Records, B000001KW0
Sing For Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through its Songs, Smithsonian Folkways, ASIN: B000001DHL
Smith, Wadada Leo, Ten Freedom Summers, Cunieform Records, ASIN: B007JZFX9C
Staples, "Pops", Peace To The Neighborhood, Virgin Records America Inc., ASIN: B0000S5883S
Freedom Singers, Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, 2-CD set, Smithsonian Folkways, ASIN: B000001DJT
Lewis, John, March Book I (Graphic Novel form), Top Shelf Productions, 2013
Ransby, Barbara, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture), The University of North Carolina Press, 2005
Zinn, Howard, SNCC: The New Abolitionists, Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 1964


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Developing EOP materials for Pre-service Cabin Crew: A text-driven approach
Fatemeh Taghipour
Ahmad Mohseni
Department of Foreign Languages, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
One prominent criterion to achieve efficient learning and instruction in an educational setting is the appropriate material(s) specifically developed for that particular group of learners, particularly in an English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) context. This study aimed at developing new EOP materials for pre-service cabin crew in an aviation school. To do so, initially the researchers performed the evaluation of the current EOP textbook through a checklist and interviews with 20 English teachers who did not express much satisfaction about it. Consequently, having been convinced about the unsatisfactory results, the researchers developed new materials for this group of learners. The new materials was later implemented on 30 learners as the experimental group as opposed to another 30 as the control group being instructed by the current material. The findings demonstrated significant differences in the experimental group achievement of language proficiency at the end of the course compared to their language proficiency at the beginning of the course. Moreover, the results expressed significant differences between the achievement of control and experimental groups at the end of EOP courses, in favor of the experimental group. The newly developed EOP materials for flight attendants could be widely instructed in the airlines and aviation schools based on the obtained findings.
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Fatemeh Taghipour; Ahmad Mohseni. "Developing EOP materials for Pre-service Cabin Crew: A text-driven approach". International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 9, 34, 2021, 41-68.
Taghipour, F., Mohseni, A. (2021). 'Developing EOP materials for Pre-service Cabin Crew: A text-driven approach', International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 9(34), pp. 41-68.
Taghipour, F., Mohseni, A. Developing EOP materials for Pre-service Cabin Crew: A text-driven approach. International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 2021; 9(34): 41-68.