Mitan - Resist the War and Occupation version

Mitan - Resist the War and Occupation version - a collection of video footage shown in the background during the band Mitan performances in benefits for the anarchists against the wall. The footage consists of different grass root actions in Israel and Palestine against the occupation and the war in Lebanon. Included are the black laundry radical queer group demos against the occupation in the gay pride, demos in Tel Aviv against the second war in Lebanon and the joint Palestinian, Israeli and internationals actions against the wall.

WALK THE STRAIGHT LINES
Explanation from CD:
When I came out to my parents, my mother said with tears that she wished for me to be normal only in one thing. As much as those words hurt me in that moment, they strengthened my conviction that I dont give a damn about any aspiration of being or acting normal. I find no interest in walking the straight lines that were marked out for me from birth, especially when they collide with my passions, desires and beliefs. I guess I just find it ridiculous to try and simplify feelings into one direction that is thought to be normal, or good. Forget that lets sing along and celebrate the variety of what we are.

HIDDEN FACADE
Explanation:
Each year millions of animals are being tortured in laboratories of the companies that sell us cosmetics, cleaning and hygiene products. In a capitalist world where everyone is either manufacturers or consumers, those who pay the real price for our consumption, who had to suffer and die for it, have no face or identity. We are blinded by the endless variety of products easily offered to us and we cannot see them or feel for them. Corporations objectify the bodies of animals as well as our own. Like every person has a right on their body, animals' bodies are not ours to mutilate, torture or hurt. A struggle for freedom is not only a personal struggle. Greed, sadism, curiosity, science call it how you want - there is NO excuse for animal abuse.

CONSCIENCE
Explanation:
It is quite common to hear how the Israeli occupation is the most moral occupation in history in comparison to European colonialism. But this is all in appearance. Each century, the mechanics of oppression just get more sophisticated, but the basis remains the same. This can be easily observed even in the short history of the state of Israel. In 1948 it was possible to erase villages like Deir Yassin through massacre and exile people through the barrel of a gun. Today, with the influence of technology on the mass media. The Israeli method of damage control was to reinvent the occupation. In the eighties they used to call it shooting and weeping. Simultaneously committing crimes and abhorring them. But today, when the stories from behind the wall are heard throughout the world, tears arent sufficient anymore to wash out the huge stain of the oppression. Its time for an upgrade. For this you have the ministry of foreign affairs and IDF spokespersons. No more need for weeping and having a bad conscience. Its the opposite, we should be proud. The state achieves the same results of expulsion and population oppression in more humane ways, less visual, without shooting a bullet (like closures and curfews). And if ever they get caught doing something that doesnt look good, there is a whole juridical and public relations system that will support the oppression in all its forms and leave the victims at best with an apology from the military spokesperson. Say sorry and go on. In the end of the day you can go back home and still feel good while watching the news.

MITAN (Translation From Hebrew)
I saw how soldiers
Demolished houses, destroyed lives
And later just laugh

I saw how friends
Got hit by bullets
And how everyone shuts up

Without compassion and without identity
At an early age everyone lost their human reflection
Without responsibility and without a conscience
Everybody is living here on borrowed time

Everybody's busy with a million and one things
And worshiping the same lies
They prefer to be oblivious and disregard
That they are living on other peoples misery

I refuse to take part in it
Exile out of choice
I refuse to collaborate
I want to blow up the bubble

To hit with all my might
Even when there seems to be no hope
I can't keep quiet
And I don't want to wait

I refuse to take part in it
But I don't plan to leave
I refuse to collaborate
I rather sabotage the machine

Explanation:
Mitan - emotional luggage, an explosive device. Most people who are upset with whats going on feel a sense of shame with this country or plain apathy, We just have rage...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Mitan
• anarchopunk
• israeli
• punk
• hardcore
• occupation
• war
• demonstration
• anarchist
• resistance
• israel
• palestine
• anarchists
• against
• the
• wall
• black
• laundry
• queer
• מטען
• כיבוש
• הפגנות

[alarmhtx]

Up the Punks! End the Occupation!

[jschalit21]

Brilliant. I've been watching this since it was first posted. Never gets old.

[ooohry]

Does anyone know if Mitan are still active? either online or musically.

[GoldenTagachi]

i still dont understand what is this?

rock people?

gay people?

lesbian people?

no to war people?

emo freaks people?

lol whatever they are..they dont look like they have a good future unless working in macdonalds is good future for them..?

[Bozydar82]

I love this music. Greetings from Poland