This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page she says of the Sud region that it is “her favourite place in the world” Clara Luciani has more than once drawn her inspiration from her roots Take a little tour of the places in the Sud region which have marked her life and music where she spent the first years of her childhood At the time she lived in an old fisherman’s house just next to the Ferrières Beach and the Baussengue canal When she thinks about the town where she was born and which is nicknamed “the Venice of Provence” the singer remembers her walks along the Saint-Sébastien canal or the Etang de Berre her primary school years at the Ecole Primaire Jean Jaurès she moved with her family to Septèmes-les-Vallons those years at the college in Bouc-Bel-Air conjure up a more difficult period but one which was to become an inspiration for her future songs she came back to sing at the top of her voice at the Théâtre des Salins de Martigues for her first time in front of the local public and the people who saw her grow up Even though her songs are mostly autobiographical Clara Luciani doesn’t explicitly mention the Sud region in her lyrics the young singer wanted to find a name which would pay homage to her Provencal origin and it was while she was contemplating the Montagne Sainte-Victoire from the Aix-en-Provence train station that she got the idea of giving its name as the title of her album A year after the release of Sainte-Victoire she was given an award at the Victoires de la Musique in the “Révélation scène” category in 2019 and in the “Artiste féminine” category in 2020 After having inspired Cézanne and Clara Luciani will the Sainte-Victoire cast its spell on you too Several walks and hikes are there to explore this little mountain but you’ll have the entire satisfaction of an incredible view over the Pays d’Aix To shoot the clip of one of her flagship songs entitled “Le reste” from her second album “Cœur” written during the pandemic Clara Luciani and her team chose the streets of Sanary-sur-Mer The video clip is a sun-kissed ode to the South: You can see her walking along the town’s shopping streets dancing in Jean-Georges’ hair salon (he actually exists) wandering along the wharves of the little harbour on market day dancing in front of the Art Nouveau facade of the ABC cinema… and ending her day on the Portissol beach a spot in which is really picturesque and where it’s easy to swim sunbathe on the fine sand or just have a drink If you want to know more about Clara Luciani we recommend the documentary “Ça commence comme ça” which follows the singer over more than 2 years from the recording of her second album during her concert at l’Accor Arena to her awards in the Victoires de la Musique Clara Luciani even lent her voice to the documentary “Il était une fois Marseille” in which she embodies the Mediterranean city which tells its own story plans to invest Euro6.2m in 2021 in upgrading its integrated La Malle cement plant in Bouc-Bel-Air The La Provence newspaper has reported that the plans include a Euro4.5m modernisation of the flue gas desulphurisation system of the plant’s Line 2 using equipment ordered from Italy-based Boldrocchi The company said that it plans to maintain similar investment levels in the plant in 2022 and 2023 The plant had reportedly received complaints about sulphurous smells in the local area The producer attributed this to the high sulphur content in its clay It said that it is altering supply arrangement to include clay from its L'Estaque Ain quarries in its clinker mix in order to reduce sulphur content by 20% You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker activists will act with even more fearlessness and creativity: cutting off hoarders’ water supplies squatting the swimming pools of the ultra-rich and the air-conditioned offices of their insurers banging saucepans outside pool manufacturers offices building beaver dams to revive our rivers and their banks This kind of activist communique follows two years of unseasonable drought across France. As of 30 June 42 of France’s 96 mainland départements (administrative divisions) contain at least one area with water restrictions meaning water usage is restricted to priority functions: health while others set up a ZAD (autonomous zone) in the area citing the winter drought as their motivation The most contentious of these groups is Les Soulèvements de La Terre which is currently waging 100 days of action against “water hoarders” across the country the French state is cracking down on so-called eco-terrorism – and hard Earth Uprising’s aim is to “take ecologism back to the land” spokesperson Basile explains to Novara Media it can feel like something that’s very far away,” he says blockading Monsanto sites and attacking megabasins – large man-made reservoirs which store water for agricultural use filled by pumping water from the water table in the winter months “After Sainte-Soline, there were several people whose lives were hanging in the balance,” Basile continues “It proves that the state is ready to kill to defend these construction sites.”  Defenders of the megabasins argue that these reservoirs allow farmers to maintain the production of cereals and seeds even during droughts. However, many experts disagree Francois, an activist who has been involved with anti-megabasin group Bassines Non Merci as well as Earth Uprising, argues that megabasins are inefficient because water that would have been protected underground evaporates off the surface of the basin in the sun “It’s completely crazy,” he tells Novara Media Basile adds: “The megabasins are typical of maladaptation to climate change They are an infrastructure which permits the hoarding by a tiny agricultural capitalist section of society of water which is a common good that belongs to all.” Earth Uprising doesn’t use the word sabotage to describe its militant action. In French jurisprudence sabotage denotes an attack on infrastructure that’s vital to the “fundamental interests of the nation” “A cement production site or a megabasin is the opposite – it’s private infrastructure which puts the possibility of a living future on the earth in peril.” Instead adds that this term is also a reference to the actions of the ecological movement in the US against the industries building weapons for the Vietnam War and later the Gulf War “There was the idea among ecological activists to join their environmental struggle with their anti-war struggle as they recognised that war pollutes,” he says whose name has become a byword for trouble within the French security apparatus On 21 June, the government formally ordered the dissolution of Earth Uprising under counter-terrorism legislation. In the decree the state argued the group “provokes acts of violence against persons and property” Cachard argues that the government has appealed to terrorism legislation because it’s afraid of what’s to come “I read reports from a police bureau that suggested the growing power of the ecological movement is a cause of worry for the authorities,” he tells Novara Media According to terrorism researcher Dr Samuel Henkin the conflation of criminal activities undertaken by climate activists – “sabotage destruction of property” – with terrorist violence is “extremely dangerous” He explains that while climate activists may act outside the law they generally lack the “terrorism-justifying ideology” that might put them on the pathway to violent extremism But the public reaction to the decree, however, is cause for hope. Though sometimes in tension, as in the case of the proposed Lyon-Turin train line, much of France’s parliamentary left (Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV), La France Insoumise MPs and even some Parti Socialiste figures) has denounced the decree against Earth Uprising both Cachard and Francois argue that the movement’s genius lies in allowing its cause to be taken up by mainstream politics and the media while retaining its radical core “It’s hard to criminalise Jean-Luc Mélenchon,” Francois notes Earth Uprising has so far resisted dissolution. Since the decree, hundreds of protests have been organised under the group’s name, while on 9 July, several unions and activist groups in Rennes declared – Spartacus-like – that they too were the Earth Uprising It seems that as long as France suffers water shortages climate activists will respond with action – and Olly Haynes is a freelance journalist covering politics Our supporters keep us entirely free to access We don’t have any ad partnerships or sponsored content We are always working to improve this website for our users. To do this we use usage data facilitated by cookies and external services. For more information read our Privacy Policy and then fester some more while caked in bad makeup and a false nose Repeatedly denounced by Nina Simone’s daughter black public intellectuals like Ta-Nehisi Coates and the public at large (via multiple petitions) there have been few films so viciously attacked before their release as Cynthia Mort’s long-delayed Nina this abysmal piece of shit deserves everything that’s coming to it and more Not only does Nina reproduce the colorism Simone suffered (and spoke out against) during her lifetime through the casting of Saldana but also inverts the abusive relationship with her husband Andrew Stroud and casts the lasting psychic scars from their time together as quirky diva behavior to be smirked at when Simone first met and employed former psych nurse Clifton Henderson (a shameful David Oyelowo) as her assistant this Lifetime-movie-with-training-wheels offers brief glimpses of her 60s and 70s fame with brief appearances from Lorraine Hansberry and Richard Pryor and politics that characterized this chaotic period of her life would’ve been too complicated to depict; instead we’re treated to a scene of Andrew dragging Nina back into their house after she’d learned of MLK’s assassination (The action is also interrupted with a recreation of an interview with French TV from the early 70s where Saldana attempts to approximate Simone’s Euro-inflected accent… which just comes off like a bad SNL sketch.) Aside from asking us to believe that Saldana—again in makeup that is laughably bad—is an out-of-shape 62-year-old who prefers booze to solid food Mort’s film contains very little imagination or action Nina loafs around her threadbare mansion in Bouc-Bel-Air and turns down gigs Clifton—who must’ve been a formidable and complicated gay man—is reduced to a semi-mute rolling his eyes as Nina smashes champagne bottles against walls when she doesn’t get her way In one of the most egregious instances of the film’s attempts at humor falling flat Clifton tries to get Nina to get back into shape by going for a walk up a hill while twisting her torso; when he pushes her to try It’s a scene straight out of an episode of Real Housewives it’s civil rights/musical icon Nina Simone made to appear trashy-glam foolish Click here for the event Click here for the event Click here for the event Click here for the event Click here for the event Agos was founded in 1996 by Hrant Dink and a group of his friends in order to report the problems of the Armenians of Turkey to the public It is the first newspaper in the Republican period to be published in Turkish and Armenian Agos's editorial policy focuses on issues such as democratization the protection and development of pluralism in Turkey As a newspaper that has emerged from within the Armenian community of Turkey Agos aims to further open its pages to the issues of Turkey and the world As independent journalism and freedom of expression face increasing restriction in Turkey Agos also acts as an independent platform for debate oscillating between dignified deflections of personal questions and arias of indignation about the prejudices aesthetic deafness and philistinism of the music business She was an act to be handled like hot coals or priceless china she emitted an aura of fearful expectation that made one uncertain that one simply might not be good enough for her The build-up before she came on stage was part of the process of reminding the public that it was in the presence of genius MCs would list her string of honorary academic titles She might be briefly seen hovering in the wings people crowding to the front to pay homage sometimes with bands too routine to match her soaring talent It was as if she were absorbing the feel of the audience weighing up its suitability for the deeper truths she could unveil and the whiplash tones of her voice would sharpen her baleful stares and brooding presence even softening into something like contentment A nightclub was the best setting to hear her in - when she was regularly at Ronnie Scott's London club during the 1980s she rarely seemed so much at home - but the situation didn't square with her stature later on she confirmed that she had arrived on that pedestal where her essence had very nearly been refined to a mere presence in the building Like all the century's great American singers Simone embodied a struggle between the optimism of a culture being born Frank Sinatra symbolised a collision between street-sharp machismo and the aftermath of broken dreams; Ella Fitzgerald a tension between a child's exhilaration and an adult's sense of past and future; Betty Carter a narrow bridge between sensuality and irony Simone's music was about love and respect - and their opposites She often seemed to be considering these matters afresh in the course of a performance and to be con fronting the pleasure and distress of life so close to the edge of a parapet that an audience hung on her every move uncertain as to whether or not she would fall off blazing dignity that resembled those of no other singer-pianist in the business and her mother wanted her to be the world's greatest classical pianist - the first black one She often declared she would have preferred it believing that the seriousness of her intent would have been better recognised and her vulnerability to the machinations of the popular entertainment industry reduced Though she was closely identified with the civil rights movement in the 1960s - for such anthems as Mississippi Goddam (a Carolina radio station smashed the promotional copies and returned them when it was released) and Young she resisted portrayal as a campaigning black artist only She would declare that she felt as powerfully drawn to the oppositional elements of European culture too particularly to the prophetic works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill was one of the most spine-chilling features of Simone concerts in the 1970s and 1980s she replied: "Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was The decision was how to make the best use of it." but considered her singing to be secondary until obliged by nightclub owners to sing or lose the gig She had played blues and gospel from the age of three but whose sense of form and proportion she considered as significant an influence as the blues Simone went to the Juilliard School of Music in New York in 1950 but had discovered how tough it would be for a black performer to make headway in the classical world and begun working as a singer-pianist in the Midtown Bar and Grill in Atlantic City Her first recording session for the Bethlehem label came three years later a hit with the Gershwin's I Loves You Porgy but she took on the racial issue as the civil rights movement swelled She felt that black politics accounted for circumstances she had partially understood since childhood - the different worlds when she had crossed the tracks to visit her white piano teacher that while love songs had been her principal inspiration the one that could bring her people together to secure their rights Mississippi Goddam was an enraged reaction to the deaths of four children in the bombing of a Sunday school in Birmingham Simone grew increasingly absorbed with African-American history and a longstanding interest in Africa began culminating in a close association with Liberia in the 1970s and 1980s she performed in Lagos with the pianist Randy Weston and writers Langston Hughes and James Baldwin among others Simone began to regularly play Carnegie Hall where she quickly became more popular than in her homeland "I stopped singing love songs and started singing protest songs because protest songs were needed," she said "You can be a complete politician through music I have become more militant because the time is right." But she continued to perform and record a wide range of material a fearsome measure of how hypnotic Simone could be and a string of albums for Philips and RCA followed The 1970s began with another divorce - from second husband Andy Stroud who had also been her manager - and she became involved with Barbados politican (and later) prime minister Earl Barrow Her version of the Beatles Here Comes The Sun and a series of collisions with authorities began in 1978 with her arrest for withholding taxes The great series of Ronnie Scott performances began in 1984 Simone's growing affection for France resulted in her moving to Bouc-Bel-Air She was fined for leaving the scene of a car accident given a suspended eight-month jail term for firing a scattergun in the direction of two noisy teenagers in the pool of the villa next to hers A psychological evaluation ordered by the court found that she had been "incapable of evaluating the consequences of her act"; her lawyer described her state of mind as "fragile and depressed." But Simone's battles with record companies continued a San Francisco court granted her ownership of 52 original recordings following an action against a New Jersey music group for non-payment of royalties This was a success in a campaign against exploitation of artists' rights she had been conducting for years Simone's public utterances became more unpredictable She was quoted as disliking comparisons made between her and Billie Holiday because Holiday was a drug addict; comparison with Maria Callas would have been more appropriate She continued to perform extensively through 1997 became involved in the Ivory Coast's Afromusiques project receiving the honorary title of ambassador of the Ivory Coast when it was featured in a commercial for Chanel No 5 Simone often behaved as if her muse and her music were hard-won prizes But something in the course of a performance would usually awaken her it happened when she sang I Loves You Porgy after which a sinister eagerness began to tinge the music She spat out My Way with a new ferocity over a racing hand-drum pulse one of her most spine-tingling interpretations She then progressed to the front of the stage "Since you're all standing," she said "I'd like you to join me in singing We Shall Overcome." 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