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Gumboots, an African dance group that performs resistance dances, helped rouse the crowd out of its silence with slaps, periodic “ohs,” high kicks and stomping—all in their uniform black rain boots...
...notorious methods of the country's military dictatorship. But their lives changed horribly, they say, after two oil companies, the U.S. giant Unocal and its French partner Total, began exploiting natural-gas deposits offshore. The gas discovery prompted construction of a $1.2 billion pipeline through hundreds of miles of rain forest to an electrical plant in neighboring Thailand. At that point, villagers contend, the government began to view them as another kind of natural resource to be exploited. Burmese troops were brought in to provide security and build infrastructure for the project. Overnight, claim the villagers, soldiers forced them...
...notorious methods of the country's military dictatorship. But their lives changed horribly, they say, after two oil companies, the U.S. giant Unocal and its French partner Total, began exploiting natural-gas deposits offshore. The gas discovery prompted construction of a $1.2 billion pipeline through hundreds of miles of rain forest to an electrical plant in neighboring Thailand. At that point, villagers contend, the government began to view them as another kind of natural resource to be exploited. Burmese troops were brought in to provide security and build infrastructure for the project. Overnight, claim the villagers, soldiers forced them...
Indeed, their claims of worldwide supremacy, while exaggerated and overconfident, aren’t entirely unfounded. British Sea Power truly do offer something unique. Standing up at TT’s, playing their rain-soaked, brooding anthems with conviction and strength, they almost sound transcendent, channeling pop music’s potential for enlightenment and depth in ways that other bands do not even attempt...
...Trampled grass+last night’s rain...