on peace n nonviolence

Dir. Damien O’Donnell

Michael has cerebral
palsy and has spent all his life in residential care. Disowned by his
successful lawyer father, he knows nothing beyond the walls of the Carrigmore
Home for the Disabled and its kind but firm staff of nurses. Until, that is, he
meets new resident Rory, a wise-cracking rebel who will not allow his Duchenne
muscular dystrophy to sap his spirit. Rory and Michael become firm friends and
eventually persuade the authorities to give them a personal living allowance. After
the soul-crushing regime at Carrigmore, their ground-floor flat on a rundown
housing estate is, in Rory’s words, "cripple heaven".

(buagus banget… bikin
sadar kalo mental health (termasuk kemampuan menertawakan diri sendiri) itu
penting buat inner peace)

(Nena)
You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we’ve got
Set them free at the break of dawn
’till one by one they were gone
Back at base, sparks in the software
Flash the message "something’s out there"
Floating in the summer sky
Ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it’s red alert
There’s something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
And focusing it on the sky
The ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine decisions treat
Ninety nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we’ve waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The President is on the line
As Ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine knights of the air
Ride super high-tech jet fighters
Everyone’s a super hero
Everyone’s a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
Ninety nine red balloons go by

As ninety nine red balloons go by
Ninety nine dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It’s all over and I’m standing pretty
In this dust that was a city
If i could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go

In
the Ghetto

As
the snow flies
On
a cold and grey Chicago mornin’  A
poor little baby child is born
In
the ghetto
And
his mama cries
‘Cause
if there’s one thing that she don’t need
It’s
another hungry mouth to feed
In
the ghetto

People,
don’t you understand
The
child needs a helping hand
Or
he’ll grow to be an angry young man some day
Take
a look at you and me,
Are
we too blind to see,
Do
we simply turn our heads
And
look the other way

Well
the world turns
And
a hungry little boy with a runny nose
Plays
in the street as the cold wind blows
In
the ghetto

And
his hunger burns
So
he starts to roam the streets at night
And
he learns how to steal
And
he learns how to fight
In
the ghetto

Then
one night in desperation
A
young man breaks away
He
buys a gun, steals a car,
Tries
to run, but he don’t get far
And
his mama cries

As
a crowd gathers ’round an angry young man
Face
down in the street with a gun in his hand
In
the ghetto

As
her young man dies,
On
a cold and grey Chicago mornin’, Another
little baby child is born
In
the ghetto
And
his mama cries

In
the ghetto
In
the ghetto

Peace
Train

Now,
I’ve been happy lately,
Thinkin’
about the good things to come
And
I believe it could be;
Something
good has begun.

Oh,
I’ve been smilin’ lately,
Dreamin’
about the world as one
And
I believe it could be;
Some
day it’s going to come

‘Cause
out on the edge of darkness,
There
rides a peace train.
Oh,
peace train take this country.
Come
take me home again.

Now,
I’ve been smiling lately,
Thinkin’
about the good things to come
And
I believe it could be;
Something
good has begun.

Oh,
peace train soundin’ louder.
Glide
on the peace train.
Ooh,
ah, ee, ah, ooh, ah.
Come
on, now peace train.

Yes,
peace train holy roller.
Everyone
jump on the peace train.
Ooh,
ah, ee, ah, ooh, ah.
Come
on, now peace train.

Get
your bags together.
Go
bring your good friends too
Because
it’s gettin’ nearer;
It
soon will be with you.

Now,
come and join the livin’.
It’s
not so far from you
And
it’s gettin’ nearer;
Soon
it will all be true.

Oh,
peace train soundin’ louder.
Glide
on the peace train.
Ooh,
ah, ee, ah, ooh, ah.
Come
on, now peace train.
Peace
train.

Now,
I’ve been cryin’ lately,
Thinkin’
about the world as it is.
Why
must we go on hating?
Why
can’t we live in bliss?

‘Cause
out on the edge of darkness,
There
rides a peace train.
Oh,
peace train take this country.
Come
take me home again.

Oh,
peace train soundin’ louder.
Glide
on the peace train.
Ooh,
ah, ee, ah, ooh, ah.
Come
on, now peace train.

Yes,
peace train holy roller.
Everyone
jump on the peace train.
Ooh,
ah, ee, ah, ooh, ah.
Come
on, come on, come on.

Yeah,
come on, peace train.
Yes,
it’s the peace train.
Ooh,
ah, ee, ah, ooh, ah.
Come
on, now peace train.

Peace
train.
Ooh,
ah, ee, ah, ooh, ah.

Where
do the children play?

Well
I think it’s fine, building jumbo planes.
Or
taking a ride on a cosmic train.
Switch
on summer from a slot machine.
Yes,
get what you want to if you want, ’cause you can get anything.

I
know we’ve come a long way,
We’re
changing day to day,
But
tell me, where do the children play?

Well
you roll on roads over fresh green grass.
For
your lorry loads pumping petrol gas.
And
you make them long, and you make them tough.
But
they just go on and on, and it seems that you can’t get off.

Oh,
I know we’ve come a long way,
We’re
changing day to day,
But
tell me, where do the children play?

Well
you’ve cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air.
But
will you keep on building higher
’til
there’s no more room up there?
Will
you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will
you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?

I
know we’ve come a long way,
We’re
changing day to day,
But
tell me, where do the children play?

Power to the People

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Say you want a revolution
We better get on right away
Well you get on your feet
And out on the street

Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

A million workers working for nothing
You better give ’em what they really own
We got to put you down
When we come into town

Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

I gotta ask you comrades and brothers
How do you treat you own woman back home
She got to be herself
So she can free herself

Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Now, now, now, now
Oh well, power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Yeah, power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power
to the people
Power to the people, right on

Working Class Hero

As soon as you’re born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool
Till you’re so fucking crazy you can’t follow their
rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty odd
years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can’t really function you’re so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and tv
And you think you’re so clever and classless and free
But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

There’s room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

Give Peace A Chance

Two, one two three four
Ev’rybody’s talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m.

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

C’mon
Ev’rybody’s talking about Ministers,
Sinisters, Banisters and canisters
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes,
And bye bye, bye byes.

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Let me tell you now
Ev’rybody’s talking about
Revolution, evolution, masturbation,
flagellation, regulation, integrations,
meditations, United Nations,
Congratulations.

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Ev’rybody’s talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary,
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,
Derek
Taylor, Norman Mailer,
Alan
Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,
Hare, Hare Krishna

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Imagine

Imagine there’s no heaven,
It’s easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today…

Imagine there’s no countries,
It isn’t hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace…

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…

You may say I’m a dreamer,
but I’m not the only one,
I hope some day you’ll join us,
And the world will live as one.

Ackerman, Peter and Jack Duvall (2000), A Force
More Powerful, A Century of Nonviolent Conflict. New York: Palgrave.

European Centre for Conflict Prevention (1999), People Building Peace, 35 Inspiring
Stories from Around the World. Utrecht: ECCP.

Fry,
A. Ruth (1939), Victories without
Violence. London: Edgar G. Dunstan & Co.

Heijmans,
Annelies and Nicola Simmonds, eds. (2004), Searching for Peace in Asia Pasific: An Overview of Conflict Prevention and
Peacebuilding. Boulder: Lynne Reinner
Publishers, Inc.

Mathews, Dylan (2001), War Prevention Works, 50
Stories of People Resolving Conflict.  Oxford: Oxford Research Group.

Mekenkamp, Monique, Paul van Tongeren, and Hans van de
Veen, eds. (1999), Searching for Peace in Africa. Utrecht: ECCP.

Sharp, Gene (1973), The Politics of Nonviolent
Action, Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action, Political Jiu-Jitsu at Work. Boston: Porter
Sargent Publisher. 

Van Tongeren, Hans van de Veen, and Juliette
Verhoeven, eds. (2002), Searching for Peace in Europe and Eurasia, An Overview of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.

Thomas Weber and Robert J.
Burrowes (1991: 1)
Nonviolence is “an umbrella
term for describing a range of methods for dealing with conflict which share
the common principle that physical violence, at least against other people, is
not used”. 

Severyn Ten Haut Bruyn
(1979: 14)
“Nonviolent action is a
creative conflict that can be studied from a pragmatic perspective and a
radical perspective”. While the pragmatic
perspective is centred on utilising techniques to win the conflict, the radical
perspective focuses on the “capacity to treat the causes of violence and offer
a direction to human development” (Bruyn 1979: 14-15).

Gene Sharp (1973: 64)
Nonviolent action is about “deny(-ing)
the enemy the human assistance and cooperation which are necessary if he is to
exercise control over the population” It
is one response to the problem of how to act effectively in politics,
especially on how to wield power effectively (Sharp 1973: 64). 

Peter
Ackerman and Christopher Kruegler (1994: 4)
Nonviolent
actions are “methods capable of bringing pressure to bear against the most
ruthless opponents, by mobilizing social, economic, and political power,
without recourse to killing or otherwise causing direct physical injury to the
opponents or their agents”.

Mohandas Karamchad Gandhi
Ahimsa, or the
principle of non-violence, is in man’s nature itself (Merton 1964: 23) and can
be effectively taught only by living it (Gandhi 1966: 5), or in other words,
embracing it as a way of life. The
Gandhian concept of nonviolence is more than merely rejecting violence. It is also about love, seeking for truth,
building positive relationships, and developing just structures – sometimes
involving self-suppression and suffering. The term satyagraha, which in many literatures is simply translated
as nonviolent action, actually means an ongoing and persistent search for truth
and a determination to achieve truth. Here, the exclusion of violence is based on the notion that no one is
capable of knowing the absolute truth (Gandhi, cited in Burrowes 1996:
107-108).

1.   Power is not only
what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

2.   Never go outside
the experience of your people.

When an action is outside the experience of the people, the
result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

3.   Wherever possible
go outside of the experience of the enemy.

Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

4.   Make the enemy
live up to their own book of rules.

You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their
own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

5.   Ridicule is man’s
most potent weapon.

It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it
infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

6.   A good tactic is
one that your people enjoy.

If your people are not having a ball doing it, there is
something very wrong with the tactic.

7.   A tactic that
drags on too long becomes a drag. man can sustain militant interest in any
issue for only a limited time, after which it becomes a ritualistic
commitment…

8.   Keep the pressure
on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period
for your purpose.

9.   The threat is
usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

10.  The major premise
for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant
pressure upon the opposition.

11.  If you push a
negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this
is based on the principle that every positive has its negative…

12.  The price of a
successful attack is a constructive alternative.

You cannot risk being trapped by the enemy in his sudden
agreement with your demand and saying "You’re right–we don’t know what to
do about this issue. Now you tell us."

13.  Pick the target,
freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

(source: Alinsky, Saul (1971), Rules for Radicals. New York: Random House, Inc.)

aka: Life is a Miracle / Hungry Heart / Gladno
Scre / Kad je zivot bio cudo / LaVie est
un Miracle!

Dir. Emir Kusturica

One of the few directors to have won the top awards at
Venice and Cannes, in his latest, life-loving extravaganza Emir Kusturica
revisits his homeland and its recent conflicts, but this time with an
optimistic eye in a tale full of humour and hope. Set in 1991 in Bosnia as the
war begins, Life is a Miracle parallels the politics with family
conflicts when a railway worker’s wife runs off with another man and the sad
Serbian falls in love with a Muslim hostage. Happily, this film focuses more on
carnival than carnage, and Kusturica’s own band, The No Smoking Orchestra,
supplies an exuberant musical soundtrack, hear it at the website. 

(bagus n lucu… bisa belajar banyak tentang stereotype
antara Serbs, Croats, dan Bosniacs… wonderful pictures, crazy scenes, hilarious
music!)

For more information, visit: http://www.lifeisamiracle-themovie.com/
or http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322420/