Saturday, October 07, 2006

Favela Rising


Favela Rising, originally uploaded by ujima.

Lying very still today feeling each of my 66 years,
determined to rest my body all day.
A pleasure for my mind I've been saving for the right
time is the documentary "Favela Rising". It tells the
story of the AfroReggae movement in Brazil that
changed the reality of a people being destroyed by the
violence connected to the drug culture in their
neighborhood involving the drug gangs and the corrupt
police gangs who supplied them with guns.
The sounds of violence was replaced by the sounds of the
drums and positive words in the 10 year period recorded.

What more can I do now to help to save the children?

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