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"... air that laughs..."
Wislawa Szymborska
Literature of Poverty
PovertyNet Home
World Bank Group
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All favela links space and culture
Tio Souza says that living in legitimate—if crumbling (the water system for his apartment block hasn’t worked for twenty years)—housing is an improvement over the favelas: "[In Padre Miguel] we have rights—we are real people."
Favela Faces
the stories behind the faces of four people living in or around the favelas of Rio de Janeiro
One of our most successful and requested tours is the "Favela Rocinha Tour", a 3-hour tour through the largest slum in South America. It is a perfectly safe tour and the community welcomes visitors. Other exciting programs are: hang-gliding from 1500ft cliff, ultralight flights, paragliding, sailing trips, and diving. And for those who might be interested, we also have a voodoo tour.exotic tours, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Favela Rocinha Tourism Workshop
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Favela Chic
with bounce
Barcelona: What I´ve Learned So Far
1.Everyone smokes in Barcelona - the chefs smoke as they deliver food to the front counter, the waiters smoke as they serve the food up onto plates for you, customers light up while they wait in delis, babies puff on cubans in their prams. You wake to the hacking coughs of birds.
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space and culture
purselipsquarejaw
"My soul's in there."
"What?"
She puts the tip of her finger in between the bars of the cage. Arnold pokes at it with his beak. "Inside that little yellow body. When Arnold flutters his wings, my stomach grows unsettled. He contains my essence."
Happy Girls Are Pretty Day!
all week long
17.5.04
Vigna-Marú has a wonderful list of digital library resources
16.5.04
You can do this
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link under the fire star
15.5.04
Happy Girls Are Pretty Day!
Our country is misgoverned largely because of the media.
You can't blame it all on the politicians.
You can't blame it all on the politicians.
"...at the age of twenty-two, Alan was installed by his father as Acting Curator of Folk Songs for the Library of Congress. Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival." My father participated with him because my father was a musicologist and urged trained musicians to learn about "the vernacular." If you lived in the city, the vernacular was jazz. If you lived in the country, it was country music. If you were an ethnic group, be it Spanish or Jewish, it was the music of your personal background, the musical equivalent of the language you spoke. My father urged Alan not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.
My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house."
Happy Birthday Pete Seeger
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