Word: biafra
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...call KRS-One less “punk” than Jello Biafra is to treat musical genres as purely formal in nature, characterized by instrumentation, song structure and other easily sortable attributes. But such structuralist definitions ignore the unique aesthetic of the artist’s act of creation; their motivation does not intuit such boundaries...
Since 1968, in a Biafra facing extermination and famine, he has revolutionized humanitarian assistance. He went to provide medical attention; he ended up bearing witness, becoming a spokesman for the voiceless. He swore to banish forever the kind of error made by the Red Cross from 1940 to 1944, when it distributed packages but remained silent over the crime of the death camps, where his grandparents perished. He co-founded Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), which was awarded the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, and then Medecins du Monde. These are organizations that break the silence and strip mass assassination...
...individual engagement based on a personal obstinacy. "I ran to Biafra," he has said, "because I was too young for Guernica, Auschwitz, Oradour and Setif." He wants to exorcise the great butcheries of humanity. A man of fire, a warrior of peace, Kouchner invented "the duty of international meddling." He favors intervention--peaceful if possible, military if necessary--to stop massacres and those who commit them. In the name of human rights, he approved the U.S. intervention in Iraq: "The No. 1 weapon of mass destruction is Saddam Hussein," he said. He lost loved ones in the attack against...
...your greatest achievements have come when you have worked together." Its boundaries, drawn by European colonial rulers, encircle some 260 tribes, many of which have been waging war with each other for generations. When the Igbo tribe in the southeast sought independence in 1967 as the state of Biafra, the resulting war, the most deadly in the history of independent West Africa, killed 1 million people...
...development in Santa Monica. "We're really maturing as a party," he says over a portobello-mushroom sandwich. "That means everything from getting bigger to knowing when to wear a suit." Indeed, the fringe party has abandoned its own fringe. Nader is running virtually unopposed. His Green opponents--Jello Biafra, formerly of the punk band Dead Kennedys, and Stephen Gaskin, a pro-marijuana activist--have minuscule support...