The Re-imagined‧重組想像的

    - In memory of STARSHIP BAND in our teens 

/ Sabina Sun

We built the city on rock and roll

They did Indian belly dance in a lovely French salon

Talking about revolution in different tone

Promoting ideas and concepts, pretending radical

To be, or not to be? The question is,

Well, Yes or no

We built the city and try to promote with classical cello

They played Bach’s temperament in-between major C and L

Carrying my auntie’s passion and her portable piano at café Brazil

Whispering multicultural channel in 88 notes,

Modernist or Traditional? The choice of "either or" is,

Oh no, almost mission impossible

Finally, we built the city on Metropolitan jazz with local aboriginals

Rocking the young blue teens and making their street bands roll

Kicking off the hybrid rhythm of Bossa Nova with maiden Lisa Ono

All the strangers coming to meet at home town, We, the people,

Local or global? Frankly, the labeling is,

Well, essential but also reversible

The light of hope led us into a long and dark basement

Of history, we started to become smarter

Start to see living ghosts groaning and bleeding, still

Desperately Crying for a minimum of justice,

Still, we hear

Their deep pain vibrating upon our hearts, Beating still

Then we struggled to walk out of this dark room,

With both optimistic and pessimistic mood

Try to grasp the Sun, a minimum of hope,

But still, we can see their souls dancing and singing

Right in front of us

With the sad ballad of unbearable memories, Standing still

Shall we prepare a good dinner for them? Shall we

Just to humbly express a minimum of gratitude

For the light of wisdom they’ve ever showed us

The essential reflxivity for the reversible future

Before the desirable victory, hanging still

Before the unbearable dark is coming again

/Sabina Sun

When a cat being nurtured as a cow in the family

Flower blossoms in the garden and nutritious milk comes

Naturally, beautiful songs accompany the miracle of Formosa.

When it grows into a tiger, arbitrarily and brutally,

The Pacific Ocean will be dismantled, floating with the ice

Of war threat, consciously or unconsciously,

When the media machine activates a hating engine, intentionally,

Like a beast among people, the violence of lining color accelerates,

Anger in history speeds up, inevitably, between us,

Whatever traumatic will be, they said, will be

The mosaic world will be burning, silently but angrily,

Bottom line of individual freedom melts away, immediately,

Water of peace vapors into air, eventually, and it will be,

The termination of multicultural Channel, the end of friendly world.

▲ 近年來的台灣同志遊行幾乎已經可以說是最美麗的隊伍了。照片來自中央社。

九十年代初期，歐美的學術界幾乎都被一個很大的字眼概括掃蕩，那就是：全球化（globalization）。大部分關於全球化的書寫都在企圖捕捉和描述這個新興資本主義的擴張與轉型之蛛絲馬跡。但很少有真正深入的分析，來幫助我們理解在巨大的結構性轉變與大多數人們「當下的」存在狀態之間的關聯。最常被提及的論述便是將全球化當成全新的經濟現象，而沒有針對這個大轉變進行歷史性的以及社會文化各層面的解釋。

徵件主題：以新移民家庭、新移民之子、新移民與社區關係為題或與此主題相關之生活中感人之事情為主。

徵件截止：10/12/ 2007

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詳情請見：http://www.sisterhood.org.tw/imagestory2007/imagestory2007_02.htm

▼ 關心近來緬甸情勢的同學，這個座談會是一個可以深入瞭解的機會。有空務必出席。

時間：2007年10月7日（日）2:00-5:00pm

地點：台灣師範大學國際會議廳（綜合大樓五樓）

主持人： 李明璁（台灣大學社會學系助理教授）

與談人：楊聰榮（中央大學客家社會與文化研究所助理教授）李澤成 （New idea!新觀念緬華資訊網創辦人）楊仲青（留台緬甸同學會會長）林芳如（交通大學社會與文化研究所碩士班研究生）

賴樹盛（TOPS台北海外和平服務團駐泰領隊）（正極力邀請中，若與談人無法參加將由本會代為宣讀發言稿以及介紹美索鎮相關資訊）

相信大家近日已從新聞媒體得知緬甸軍政府正以暴力手段鎮壓示威民眾的不幸消息。根據相關報導，星期三與星期四兩日(9/27--9/28)鎮暴警察以及武裝軍隊在仰光無情射殺赤腳遊行的僧侶及支持民眾。緬甸軍政府對於國有資源的壟斷與專制手法，使得九月起便開始有僧侶及民眾因高價燃油上街示威，並透過網際網路尋求國際輿論支持。

當然對於緬甸國內政治的複雜狀況，我們還有待努力，以期能有更多瞭解。然而，此次軍政府以武力鎮壓的是手無寸鐵、赤足遊行的示威者，或者更確切來說，只是表達意見的遊行者。

血腥的射殺正殘忍的發生，請大家能上網支持連署，停止武力鎮壓。

在此並附上一個專門報導緬甸及東南亞狀況的新聞網站，此網站為一些流亡的緬甸異議人士負責運作，希望以此提供一個些許不同觀點的媒體窗口。

連署網站：
http://www.avaaz.org/ct/stand_with_burma/

The Irrawaddy News:
http://www.irrawaddy.org/

此信歡迎大家轉寄。