Musicians
with Gaza
(October 2009)
Imprisoning an entire people,
including children and the elderly is totally unacceptable. We do not accept
Israeli barbarism.
Bombing a population that is
surrounded by barbed wire constitutes a war crime. We do not accept it.
Starving and persecuting a multitude
of people of all ages, restricting medical care of patients, blocking the
education of children, is totally unacceptable. We do not accept it and we
never will.
We are musicians (from diverse
backgrounds, musical as well as national) who do not accept Israeli crimes.
We have, as musicians,
additional reasons not to accept Israeli policy: music is one, it flows from
one continent to another, it crosses borders and even separation walls; it
brings people together, it diversifies according to cultures, countries,
histories and tastes.
We musicians believe that
there is only one world, from Palestine to Polynesia, via the Caribbean and
Africa, Far East and Europe: we cannot accept walls and barbed wires.
We wish, as musicians, to play
our modest share in the international movement to lift the blockade of Gaza.
We support the
long march to Gaza (December 27th, 2009 – 1° January 2010) and some of us hope to
participate.
We would also like to take
this opportunity to meet musicians from Gaza on the spot and to invite them to
participate in a series of “Galas for Gaza” which we hope to organize in 2010
in our respective countries.
For this reason, we urge all
musicians to participate in this march for Gaza and to join us in raising the
blockade of the Palestinian people and of its musicians.
Gilad Atzmon
(jazzman; London, Great-Britain)
Ministère des
affaires populaires (rap; Lille, France)
François Nicolas (composer; Paris, France);
François
Tusques (pianist-composer of
jazz; Paris, France)
Gaza Freedom March : http://www.gazafreedommarch.org
To
sign this text, to write to francois.nicolas
[at} noos.fr