Posts Tagged ‘conditions’
五月 16, 2017
DELIBERATE DEMOCRACY
everyone wants deliberation
what do workers want
more money
more rights
less accidents
less insecurity
less misery
less discrimination
what do employers
and state agents want
nothing
in comparison
they have everything
only in certain cases
certain uncertain cases
they are very certain
everyone needs deliberation
rather than killing and maiming
each other
china has talked about democracy
very much
at least since 1919
austria too
so let us deliberate
how to give workers
in certain uncertain cases
maybe just a little bit
of deliberation
MW May 2017
From a small conference on Monday, May 15. Law studies and Petition Office representants from China. Vienna University law faculty and East Asian studies professors. Well-meaning reports on labor conflicts and “deliberative democracy”. Meanwhile we’ll have another big election in Austria in October. Last year was just the figurehead president. Could have been a Neo-German alt-right figurehead. It was close. Would have been ok with the foreign minister. Also with the governors of Burgenland and Lower Austria, the provinces around Vienna. They are working with the xenophobe extreme right Freedom party. Or looking forward to that. No, we don’t rally around the republic against neo-fascist and anti-European forces like they do in France. Although we finally tried last year and succeeded. And our president now is a Green independent. Yeah, that’s where my poems come from. China and Asia, Austria and Europe. Taiwan. Czech Republic. And so on. Like The Sun Also Crashes. That was in Vermont, right before the last US mid-term elections.
标签：austria, bargaining, china, conditions, deliberate, deliberation, deliberative, democracy, employers, Europe, history, labour, language, law, memory, money, negotiation, poetry, representation, rights, speech, state, violence, work, workers
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二月 25, 2017
POETRY
poetry
is impo
rtant
truth
is impo
tent
or is it
or are you
MW February 2017
REPORT
every report
every detailed incisive report
kind that makes powerful people squirm
is just as important
as any art
any poem
any church, temple
that makes you pause
think
feel
every report
MW February 2017
标签：art, articles, attention, communication, conditions, custody, 秦晓宇, death, Eleanor Goodman, 郑小琼, 许立志, feelings, film, friends, literature, Maghiel van Crevel, media, migrants, people, poetry, police, politics, power, Qin Xiaoyu, religion, reportage, reporting, review, society, space, suicide, time, women, women workers, work, Xu Lizhi
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十二月 17, 2016
Han Yu
FELL DOWN AND DIED WATCHING THE MOVIES
as a bonus for the workers
at the all men’s dormitory
the mine partitioned the uppermost floor
and set up rooms for visiting spouses
from the opposite roof
you could see any move that went on inside
that was a secret all mine workers knew
one summer
one man fell from the roof
everyone said
he fell down and died watching the movies
Tr. MW, December 2016
标签：conditions, death, dormitory, fall, Han Yu, men, mine, movies, policy, roof, sex, work, 寒玉, 新世纪诗典
发表在 2016, December 2016, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
