One song, one video
Oct. 30th, 2017 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexhttp://www.npr.org/event/music/560785111/amanda-palmers-powerful-new-song-and-video-on-the-global-refugee-crisis
Go here, watch this. But you might want tissues within reach.
This is Amanda Palmer's song and video in memory of Aylan (whose name might actually have been Alan) Kurdi, the refugee child whose drowned body washed up on a beach and was photographed there in 2015. Briefly that photo became the face of the ongoing refugee crisis that, as we close out 2017, has not diminished. Indeed, it has become worse both because of worsening conflicts in Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Libya, etc. and because our government has joined ranks with other nationalists and isolationists who shut out these refugees, turn their backs on the needs of our brothers and sisters, and worsen the suffering of people who need to escape.
Palmer's style remains what it is - I'm still not a huge fan of that style - but it's head-on addressing both the crisis and the appalling responses to it.
Go here, watch this. But you might want tissues within reach.
This is Amanda Palmer's song and video in memory of Aylan (whose name might actually have been Alan) Kurdi, the refugee child whose drowned body washed up on a beach and was photographed there in 2015. Briefly that photo became the face of the ongoing refugee crisis that, as we close out 2017, has not diminished. Indeed, it has become worse both because of worsening conflicts in Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Libya, etc. and because our government has joined ranks with other nationalists and isolationists who shut out these refugees, turn their backs on the needs of our brothers and sisters, and worsen the suffering of people who need to escape.
Palmer's style remains what it is - I'm still not a huge fan of that style - but it's head-on addressing both the crisis and the appalling responses to it.
