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Welcome, brothers! ((hug)) Welcome, sisters! ((hug))
It's Blog Blast for Peace Day in the blogosphere.
Bloggers from all over the world are sending their desire for peace into the universe today. Join us by visiting the hundreds of bloggers taking part in this beautiful event.
Just CLICK on Blog Blast for Peace and you will discover
a world where hope reigns,
hands reach across the globe in friendship
and voices rise in glorious harmony.
At the main site, you'll find a Complete Alphabetical List of Participants in the left-hand sidebar - click on the 'plus' sign and this will open up to links to every post taking part in the Blog Blast.
For my Peace Globe today I'm featuring a band who epitomizes my own philosophy regarding world peace.
If you're busy playing music, dancing, singing and celebrating life, there is no room for aggression, destruction and suffering.
As this band likes to sing: Party! Party! Party! Party! Party! Party! After party!
Gogol Bordello is a band made of members from all around the world:
Ukraine
Russia
Ethiopia
Ecuador
Israel
United States
United Kingdom
They come from a wide assortment of ethnic and religious backgrounds, including Eastern European, Gypsy or Romani, African, Indigenous people of the Americas and Asian.
There are men and women.
Their ages range from 30 years old to 54.
If you watch the clip, you'll catch the infectious delirium of joy this group exudes. The crowd is jumping!
Lead singer Eugene Hutz sings in a mixture of English, Ukrainian and Gypsy/Romani. Here are the lyrics from the song that I offer to the Blog Blast today:
Mishto means "Good"
Sha bu'et kruto blya! Sha bu'et kruto! means "This is gonna kick ass!"
T´aven saste taj baxtale means "You should be healthy and lucky"
Is this what we really need?
What if this is my only chance?
What if this is my holy war?
What if this is my stupid dance?
What the f#%k you waiting for?
Let's go!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Blog Blast for Peace - Dona Nobis Pacem 3 - Grant Us Peace - Scroll down for Thursday Thirteen
Posted by Julia Phillips Smith at 8:06 PM
Labels: Blogblast for Peace, Eliot Ferguson, Elizabeth Chi-Wei Sun, Eugene Hutz, Gogol Bordello, Gypsy, Mimi Lenox, Oren Kaplan, Pamela Racine, Pedro Erazo, Sergey Ryabtsev, Thomas Gobena, Yuri Lemeshev
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35 comments:
I need to catch up. Thanks for this delightful, helpful, wonderful post.
I like your flag better than mine.
I'll come back and watch the movie clip. It's 4:30am and I'm in bed with my laptop and don't want to wake anybody up ;)
Your Globe is outstanding! Well done my dear!
Peace, Julia.
"A world where hope reigns"... well said! That is our world today.
Hug back! PEACE!
People from different backgrounds, languages, cultures coming together and having a party. Two thumbs WAY up!
Peace to you...
What a fun way to call for peace, I love it.
I'll have to wathc that when I'm not at work! Peace to you on this day.
Thank you for participating in the BlogBlast For Peace!
A great Peace Globe and I love the music...
VinnyBond
Great post and a lovely Peace Globe Julia! :)
Awesome! Peace to you and yours.
I've listened to a lot of music today... this is my favorite. They have so much energy.
One voice. One heart. One prayer. Peace xo
Hi Julia -
so glad I dropped by on a wordcount break today, rather than yesterday when I would kick myself!
I presumed upon your generosity and borrowed the peace globe image and a paragraph of explanatory text to post on my blog.
peace on earth, indeed
What an unusual bunch, Julia! Thanks for sharing! Happy blogblast for peace day! :)
Wow! Great video and such energy!
Peace to you and yours!
Great post for Blog Blast for Peace 2009! Glad I found your blog.
It looks like you captured what real peace is about. Music is the means to communcate peace.
Peac and love,
Pam
"If you're busy playing music, dancing, singing and celebrating life, there is no room for aggression, destruction and suffering."
Yes!
I enjoyed your fun peace globe and the rock-every-cell-in-my-body energy of the international band. Thank you!
That was a new one for me :o) Thank you!
Peace and love to you from Ohio,
I.
That's a great video. Peace to you and yours.
That's a wonderfully creative peace globe! I had to re-use last year's ... didn't get to make a new one.
That's so true if we are making music and dancing we won't have time for hatred and aggression and destruction and all those horrid things.
Peace to you and yours.
Lovely peace post ;-)
I believe that peace is a choice and begins within … radiating outwards to others! Here's wishing YOU peace in each moment. I'm participating on all 4 of my blogs ... just because ;-)
Hugs and blessings,
Happily Retired Gal
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength." St Francis de Sales
Thank you for stopping by my site and commenting on my peace globe.you have a great globe as well.i enjoyed watching the video.
What a great peace globe and post. I enjoyed the band so much too. Peace to you and yours, Carver
Wonderful peace post and the globe is very cool.
Peace,
Mark
What a great contribution and a wonderful globe!
Thanks for visiting mine too :-)
Beautiful globe! And that is some lively music on that video! I had not heard of this group. Thanks for sharing.
Peace!
Fabulous post and I love your globe. Pace.
What a gorgeous peace globe! And yes, "hope reigns" -- in the words of the delightful Howard Zinn, "“The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
Peace to you and yours, my friend. :)
Hey Julia, thank you for your comments, and I really liked your globe. Peace be with you!
☮ peace ☮
Great post and beautiful peace globe, just wonderful.
Love and Blessings,
AngelBaby
Julia,
Your globe and post = inspiring!
I can feel the energy still thumping through the blogosphere almost a full week later! Thank you for introducing us to these musicians and inviting us to your peace party. I love it!
You are #1568 in the Official Peace Globe Gallery at blogblastforpeace.com
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