Best Of Sampsonia Way Daily Posts 2011
by Sampsonia Way / December 26, 2011 / No comments
The following selection compiles 2011′s must-read Daily Posts in Sampsonia Way. Here you’ll read the first-hand experiences of musicians, writers, bloggers, filmmakers and journalists that are struggling to speak their minds. Great readings for the holidays. Click on an image to go to its original article.
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Gioconda Belli / Nicaraguan Writer
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Gioconda-Belli.jpg"Speaking truth to power is what we writers have to do because history has taught us that however long it takes, people sooner or later, listen and act." Read the interview
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Leena Manimekalai / Indian Filmaker
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Leena.jpg"Censorship is an insult to a thriving society and it feels like it’s mutilating my organs. It ceases my being. Religion, State, Caste, Culture, Gender, Language, and every other institution are monstrous agents of censorship." Read the interview
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Ricardo Gonzalez / Cuban Writer
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Ricardo-Gonzalez-20101.jpg"Under the name Hombres Sin Rostro [Men with No Faces], my collection of poems, short and secret, escaped the prison in a cigarette box." Read the letter
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Javier Sicilia / Mexican Poet
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Javier-Sicilia-Mexican-Poet.jpg“The brutal murder of my son Juan Francisco joins so many young men and women who likewise have been murdered throughout the country, not only because of the war launched by President Calderon’s government against organized crime, but also because of the rotting heart that has seized the unjustly named political class and the criminal class...” Read the letter
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Yoani Sanchez / Cuban Blogger
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Yoani-Sanchez-Cuban-Blogger.jpg“One of the personal costs I have paid for writing my vignettes of reality has been this: I’m not able to leave my country.” Read the article
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Liao Yiwu / Chinese Writer
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Liao-Yiwu.jpg“The police told me that if I publish more of my work abroad, it won’t be easy- [they said] if you do it again, you will be disappeared for quite a while, you’ll get put away for as long as Liu Xiaobo.” Read the article
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Allaa Abdel Fattah / Egyptian Blogger
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SujeethG / Tamil Rapper
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/SujeethG19.jpg“I don’t think anyone can escape politics, not someone from my generation or background. So when I realized my talent for rapping, I wanted to make an impact on the Tamil-speaking people who number about 80 million worldwide.” Read the interview
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Salome / Iranian Rapper
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Salome.jpg“So I can perform, but I cannot have an official concert with my posters outside and tickets. I can perform among my friends at parties, at events that don’t need permission from the government.” Read the interview
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Israel Centeno / Venezuelan writer
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/centeno.jpg“We, as Venezuelans, have a long history of impunity, and while the judicial system does nothing, recidivism grows shameless and exponentially.” Read the interview
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Raymund Villanueva / Filipino Writer
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Raymund-Villanueva.jpg“The Philippines has been described as the most dangerous country for journalists. Under the 15-month-old government five journalists have been killed.” Read the interview
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Mesfin Negash / Ethiopian Journalist
http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Mesfin-Negash.jpg“We hear how Gaddafi was a dictator, how Mugabe is a dictator. The Ethiopian regime, in some instances, is worse than them!” Read the interview
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