Call for Musicians to Join the SABC Crisis March

The television industry is staging a protest action against the SABC on 4 June 2009. This is a call to the music industry to express your solidarity and join us. The crisis affects you too...

OUR CONTACT: tvcrisis@gmail.com

This letter is written on behalf of the TVIEC (Television Industry Emergency Coalition) which consists of: IPO (Independent Producers Organization), SASFED (South African Screen Federation), TPA (The Producers Alliance), DFA (Documentary Filmmakers Association), WGSA (Writers Guild of South Africa) as well as the CWU (Creative Workers Union).

HOW TO HELP WITH THE TV CRISIS MARCH

As you all know, the television industry is staging a peaceful protest action against the SABC on 4 June 2009. The response to our call for companies and individuals to join us has been well received and our numbers are growing. Many unions, actors and musicians are on board and we will also be putting out a call to the public to get involved.

OUR CONTACT: tvcrisis@gmail.com

The Road

I'm reading Cormac McArthy's The Road, and it's so good and so sad that I think it's going to kill me.

Otelo Burning

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White Wedding Grosses Out

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NFVF

The Revolution

"With the working people, again it is not so well. Unlucky! For there are twenty to twenty-five millions of them. Whom, however, we lump together into a kind of dim compendious unity, monstrous but dim, far off... 'the masses.' Masses, indeed: and yet, singular to say, if, with an effort of imagination, thou follow them, over broad France, into their clay hovels, into their garrets and hutches, the masses consist all of units. Every unit of whom has his own heart and sorrows; stands covered there with his own skin, and if you prick him he will bleed."

The French Revolution - Thomas Caryle. You can get it at: DailyLit