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LYRICS:
Hey little girl, what do you do?
Your daddy’s away. Not coming back
Mommy’s crying. Fistula colliding.
You close your eyes. A rabbit disguise...
DVD’s and MP3’s, LCD’s and bigger screens. More and more we fill our needs
controlled by overmarketing...
DVD’s and MP3’s, LCD’s and bigger screens. More and more we fill our needs
controlled by overmarketing...
It’s gonna be harder now,
trying to make up somehow.
You could’ve been anything.
We should’ve seen this coming.
While we can take everything,
leave you on suffering.
Nobody knows how it goes
coltan in our mobile phones...
And every time, we’re spoiled you die.
Hey
little boy, just play with your toys.
Don’t look around keep your eyes on the ground cause I don’t want you to see how
the army machine gun kills your parents...
DVD’s and MP3’s, LCD’s and bigger screens. More and more we fill our needs
controlled by overmarketing...
DVD’s and MP3’s, LCD’s and bigger screens. More and more we fill our needs
controlled by overmarketing...
It’s gonna be harder now,
trying to make up somehow.
You could’ve been anything.
We should’ve seen this coming.
While we can take everything,
leave you on suffering.
Nobody knows how it goes
coltan in our mobile phones... |
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FISTULA - Official music video
In modern
day Congo:
"Girls as young as 8 and women as old as 73 sat on small wire cots
wrapped in gray blankets donated by UNICEF. All had been raped and were
undergoing counselling for trauma. Some said they considered killing
themselves after surviving multiple rapes. Some had puddles of urine
under their seats because of their condition...."
Vaginal fistula means rips
in the vaginal wall where rape tore out chunks of flesh separating the
bladder and rectum from the vagina. In Congo gang rape is often a
primary weapon of the several rebel forces and even recommended by their
commanders . Sometimes gang raping just isn't enough and they use broken
bottles, branches or bayonets too. There has been an estimated 600 000
rapes in Congo. The rebels are kept in power by only one thing,
pillaging of the country's mineral resources such as coltan, cobalt,
tantalite etc. and smuggling them to the global suppliers in order to
get guns. Congo has the greatest single resource of coltan in the world.
The suppliers sell the minerals to the global electronic industry which
uses them in computers, game consoles, digital cameras, cell phones,
TV’s and other electronic devices.
At same time in modern
welfare state:
"A man
buys his fifth mobile phone in two years, not knowing that the minerals
used for his phone components might have caused dozens of gang rapes and
fistulas in the rivalries between the Congolese rebel forces for the
control of etc. coltan mines...."
The
biggest mobile phone corporations have recently advised their suppliers
to avoid coltan from Congo. The mineral supply chain is however so
complex and long that the corporations won't dare to say that their
components wouldn't contain any coltan from Congo.
"They
smuggle it from there so haphazardly and all anyhow so that in the end
no one can tell that their component doesn't have a single chip that
origins from Congo"- said the chief of environmental communications of
Nokia about 3 years ago.
But
already the mobile industries have changed the construction of mobile
phones so that there’s usually just a single chip in a mobile that’s
been made of coltan due to the pressure from the consumers…
SPEAK UP
YOUR MIND AND DEMAND THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE MANUFACTURERS FOR BLOOD-FREE
COMPONENTS! And if try to say it’s impossible, settle for your old
electronic devices or buy recycled ones…!
LINKS AND
SOURCES:
(in
English:)
http://www.msmagazine.com/spring2005/congo.asp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14059-2003Oct24?language=printer
http://www.pulitzercenter.org/openitem.cfm?id=276
http://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/drcongo.htm
http://www.gesi.org/files/ffi_coltan-report_en.pdf
http://www.endfistula.org/
VIDEOS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cYdjInNsqk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX16MhfsLAI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UN44Lj4KwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UN44Lj4KwY
(in Finnish:)
LINKKEJÄ JA LÄHTEITÄ SUOMEKSI:
http://www.kepa.fi/kumppani/arkisto/2006_10/5334
http://www.vastuuviikko.fi/filebank/7-vastuuviikko.pdf
http://www.vastuuviikko.fi/suomi/mika_on_vastuuviikko/index.php?id=686
http://www.kepa.fi/kumppani/arkisto/2004_5/3724 |