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Nariz de cera

anotações e apontamentos que dizem tudo - de, por e para mim - por si mesmos.

anotações e apontamentos que dizem tudo - de, por e para mim - por si mesmos.

Nariz de cera

02
Ago23

visto interesse(s) nacional/(ais)

Cecília

Dos cerca de 40 mil trabalhadores nas limpezas industriais, mais de metade não são portugueses. O STAD fala em cerca de 25 mil trabalhadores estrangeiros, ou cujos pais não nasceram em Portugal.[...]

A mão de obra estrangeira começa a aparecer quando os salários baixam para o mínimo possível. «Ganhava-se muito bem na limpeza. Nos anos 90, o setor da limpeza era onde mais se ganhava. Eu, por exemplo, cheguei a ganhar acima do salário mínimo cerca de 150 euros. Nos anos 90 era muito dinheiro. Depois, quando o salário começou a baixar, com ordenado mínimo, com direitos a serem reduzidos, claro que deixou de haver tanta oferta. Onde é que eles foram buscar? A quem precisava mesmo»

 

Rita Pereira Carvalho – As Invisíveis, Histórias sobre o trabalho de limpeza (2022)

Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Rita Pereira Carvalho (2022)

 

 

18
Abr23

sem norte

Cecília

Quero falar-vos de uma criança

Que sofreu e ainda sofre

Com a devastação da guerra

E ninguém quer saber.

Uma criança cujos direitos são usurpados,

Cujos dias são contados,

Que passa a vida como uma pena.

Dizem que assinámos um acordo de paz,

Mas por amor de Deus,

De que paz falam vocês?

(...)

Sonhos destruídos,

Ambições quebradas.

Uma criança que sonha dormir sobre uma almofada

E estudar.

Tudo se desmoronou

Mas a nossa vontade continua forte

Porque acreditamos

Que haverá um amanhã melhor

E que a paz vai chegar.

(...)

Excertos do "Poema para a Paz" escrito por Muzdalifa, 17 anos, Sudão

(UNICEF)

 

https://gilmaraunesp.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/o-sudao-e-um-retrato-da-africa/

 

28
Mar23

Some of us are wise / Every other person over wise / Organize

Cecília

Veste a bata, vai buscar o carrinho a transbordar de detergentes, panos e esfregonas e segue o seu caminho. Tem três horas para limpar corredores, elevadores e escadas de um edifício com três andares. [...] O que se segue pode parcer simples em palavras, mas torna-se cansativo na prática: das seis às nove faz limpezas, das dez às 19 horas trabalha num call center e à terça-feira e quinta-feira, meia hora depois de terminar o atendimento a clientes de uma empresa, já está a tomar conta de uma criança, trabalho que se prolonga até às dez e meia da noite. Pelo meio, tem então uma hora entre as limpezas e o call center, uma hora de almoço, 15 minutos de descanso entre chamadas e meia hora entre o call center e o babysitting.[...] Resta dizer que, no meio de todos estes trabalhos, Ana Isabel ainda conseguiu montar o seu negócio de venda online de quiches, com sabores são-tomenses, brasileiros e portugueses.

E tudo isto, a começar nas limpezas e a terminar nas crianças, para quê? Ana Isabel só quer juntar dinheiro para conseguir pagar outro mestrado. 

 

Rita Pereira Carvalho  – As Invisíveis, Histórias sobre o trabalho de limpeza (2022)

Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Rita Pereira Carvalho (2022)

 

 

13
Fev23

ganhos verdadeiros (or giving it all way)

Cecília

"Your father made very good investments," Bernie said.

She asked, "What did he invest in? I know he was an investment banker, but what did he invest in that made all this money? My God, Bernie, that's a lot of money."

"South Africa", Bernie said, glancing at some sheets of paper in from of him. "Way back [...]

"South Africa?" Suzanne asked. "Are you saying back when there was apartheid he was investing over tehre?" Bernie nodded, and she said, "But he didn't, Bernie. I asked him - when Mandela got released from prison - I asked my father if he had invested in South Africa and he said, 'No, Suzanne,' He told me that."

Bernie put the papers back into a folder.

"I'm giving it all way. Every penny. I don't want it." Suzanne sat back. "My God," she said.

Bernie said, "Do with it whatever you like."

 

Elizabeth Strout – Olive, Again (2019)
Penguin Random House UK (2019)

 

 

30
Nov22

ver para descrer, como em São Tomé

Cecília

[...] ficaram assim pouco informados, o que quer dizer: ficaram aptos a desenvolver uma intriga. 

 

Agustina Bessa-Luís – Fanny Owen (1979)

Colecção Mil Folhas / Bibliotex SL / M.E.D.I.A.S.A.T. e Promoway Portugal Ltda (2002)

 

 

19
Out22

volta pra tua Terra mas tu nasceste na Amadora

Cecília

Só agora me apercebo do papel importante desempenhado pelas calças; de nada serve possuir uma cabeça inteligente se as calças estiverem coçadas.

 

Virginia Woolf – As Ondas (1931)

Colecção Mil Folhas / Bibliotex SL / M.E.D.I.A.S.A.T. e Promoway Portugal Ltda (2002)

 

 

“É Preciso Aprender a Dizer q Somos Áfrika”

Berço da Humanidade

Osmarino Anselmo

🌍✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻

13
Set22

the queen is dead, salute the entire truth

Cecília

From Kenya and Nigeria to South Africa and Uganda, Queen Elizabeth's death met with an outpouring of official condolences, mourning and memories of her frequent visits to Africa during her seven decades on the throne.

 

But the British monarch's passing also revived a sensitive debate over Africa's colonial past.

[...]

many Africans reflected more on the tragedies from colonial times, including events that occurred in the first decade of her rule.

Kenya gained independence from Britain in 1963, after an eight-year-long rebellion that left at least 10,000 people dead.

Britain agreed in 2013 to compensate over 5,000 Kenyans who had suffered abuse during the Mau Mau revolt, in a deal worth nearly 20 million pounds ($23 million).


"The Queen leaves a mixed legacy of the brutal suppression of Kenyans in their own country and mutually beneficial relations," The Daily Nation, Kenya's biggest newspaper, wrote in a weekend editorial.

Elizabeth was visiting Kenya in 1952 when her father died and she became queen.

"What followed was a bloody chapter in Kenya’s history, with atrocities committed against a people whose only sin was to demand independence."

"While the ties with Britain have been useful, it is difficult to forget those atrocities."

[...]

As part of recent restorations for the past, Nigeria and neighbouring Benin have seen the return from Britain and France of the first of thousands of artefacts plundered during colonial times.

Nigeria's so-called Benin Bronzes -- 16th to 18th century metal plaques and sculptures -- were looted from the palace of the ancient Benin Kingdom and ended up in museums across the US and Europe.


Nigeria's Buhari said the country's history "will never be complete without a chapter on Queen Elizabeth II".

While some praised her role leading up to Nigeria's independence, others pointed out she was head of state when Britain supported Nigerian army during the country's civil war.

More than one million people died between 1967-1970, mostly from starvation and disease, during the conflict after ethnic Igbo officers declared independence in the southeast.

"If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government sponsored genocide...you can keep wishing upon a star," Nigerian-born US-based professor Uju Anya said, in a Twitter reference to the Biafra war that triggered fierce debate on social media.

Similar mixed reactions were expressed in South Africa, where President Cyril Ramaphosa called her an "extraordinary" figure.

But the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters or EFF movement was more dismissive, recalling decades of apartheid, in which Britain, the former coloniser, was often passive.

"We do not mourn the death of Elizabeth, because to us her death is a reminder of a very tragic period in this country and Africa's history," EFF said in a statement.

 

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220912-queen-s-death-ignites-debate-over-africa-s-colonial-past

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28
Abr22

supresas boas

Cecília

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.

if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.

if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.

don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.

when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.

there is no other way.

and there never was.

 

Charles Bukowski  - "so you want to be a writer?"

 

 

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