IT IS ONCE AGAIN TIME TO STAND AGAINST FASCISM! | Podcast
[ Protest Art ] [ No to War! ]
Nama Jafari: It is once again time to stand against fascism!
Recent Russia’s military aggression has created dreadful days for Ukrainian people and the whole world. People are witnessing the invasion of a European country by a great power, for the first time since the second world war. Hundreds from both sides, civilians or military forces, have been killed in the conflicts that we should call the “Putin’s war”. Recent events have faced European leaders with darkest moments since 1945. World leaders need to realise that if they don’t help Ukrainians today against Putin’s fascism, 'tomorrow, war will knock on their own doors’.
Where are artists, writers, and intellectuals standing in this situation? Up to this moment, recording this podcast episode, majority of the artists, writers and left or right-wing intellectuals have failed in the Ukraine crisis. They haven’t done any anti-war activity for the lonely nation of Ukraine. We have to ask, why are you silent?
Do you still think the world is vast?
Do you think if there is a burning home somewhere in this world, it doesn’t concern you? You can sit in your balcony and enjoy your silly Petunias?
Ignorance makes you a partner in crime.
The scary paradox of war against Ukraine is that on one side the existence of a nation is at stake, and on the other side there is an insane tyrant.
If this war proceeds as Putin wishes, it will be the victory of tyranny over a nation’s existence and their right to live and their freedom of choice. And if not, if the Ukrainian people do not surrender, we can expect insane reactions from Putin.
Once there is a bomb hole in a school’s playground, the kids will ask, has the world already forgotten the mistakes of the 21st century?
In this episode we will explore the evil phenomenon of war and its reflection in cinema and music.
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Podcast Nr: 24
IT IS ONCE AGAIN TIME TO STAND AGAINST FASCISM!
Author and Director: Nama Jafari
Narrator: Ada B. Hodgkin
Poetry reading: Ida-Sofie Solberg Stryken
The voice in the Audio mix1: Malin Rojahn Olafsen
The voice in the Audio mix2: Sebastian Thorne
Mix and adjusting the sound: Nama Jafari
In collaboration with Nordic Black Theatre
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