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#DIAMONDS AND RUST FREE#
For 73 minutes you'll see life on board the good ship Free Trade, where workers from around the world produce vast wealth for their corporate masters whilst earning peanuts themselves (the Namibians earn around $150 a month). Now I see you standing with brown leaves all around and snow in your hair. She recalls giving him a pair of cuff links, and summarizes that memories bring 'diamonds and rust' (time both turns. Diamonds and Rust chords Joan Baez Capo I Em Em/Gb Em 2x Em Em/Gb Em Well Ill be damned. In the song, Baez recounts an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old lover, which sends her a decade back in time to a seedy hotel in Greenwich Village. Though there's clearly social stratification in the Spirit of Namibia, a leaky rustbucket that barely stays afloat, everyone aboard is clearly under the heel of De Beers, who constantly postpone vacations or medical leave. 'Diamonds & Rust' is a 1975 song written and performed by Joan Baez.
The South Africans are well educated and white (and one of them is bluntly racist), the Cubans are low key and friendly, the Israeli is a major league asshole whom everyone hates, and the Namibians are generally treated like dirt. The crew is diverse and fractious: the engineers South African, the captain and cook Cuban, the security officer Israeli, and the deckhands Namibian. The dredger is owned and operated by the De Beers Corporation, the world's largest diamond processing company. As they battle with the failing mechanics of the rusty old ship, the men are drawn into contemplation of their situation and its dubious rewards.This astonishing documentary takes place aboard a diamond dredger anchored off the coast of Namibia. DIAMONDS AND RUST takes us into the raw, daily reality of an international crew, working for a faceless mining giant that controls not just the ship but the surrounding waters, too. This motley crew is itself a telling microcosm: white South Africans spewing racist theories and bad jokes Cubans who write poetry and opine about love an Israeli security manager who manages to make himself hated and Namibian deck hands, who have been colonized off the coast of their own country. It’s a point illustrated to the fullest in this unobtrusive film - which shows the appalling work conditions in the lower bowels of the ship, as well as managerial attitudes to it: “I have never been down there,” says one of the South African superiors. “They make us work as slaves in our own country,” one of the Namibian workers says. The result - which shows fraying tempers, racist attitudes and a deteriorating vessel all treated with corporate indifference - hardly flatters the diamond giant. Everything including Diamonds and Rust, a Gypsy flare and a whole lot of RAZZLE DAZZLE. Released as a single, this track became only. DIAMONDS & RUST an exciting coffee-table book on RD Burman by Brahmanand S Siingh & Gaurav Sharma, is a somewhat unusual and amazing tapestry of anecdotes. The Art Of Class Online antique and collectible sales. Tim Ripper Owens & The Iron Maidens 'Flight of Icarus' Gillmanfest Barquisimetal 2011 Digital Dreams. Judas Priest - Turbo Lover (Official Video) Chords: B. Directors Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz received exclusive permission to film on ‘The Spirit of Namibia’ from the Namibians government, in joint-venture with diamond company De Beers. In this song, Joan Baez is singing to her former lover Bob Dylan, fondly reminiscing about their 1960s affair. Diamonds and Rust - Carlos Zema & Gabriel Guardian (Judas Priest Cover) Request Chords. Our breath comes in white clouds, mingles and hangs in the air. Now were smiling out the window of the crummy hotel over washington square. Moored off the coast of Namibia, southern Africa, where those coveted little gems carpet the ocean floor, the ship’s non-stop mission is muddied by politics and fraught with racial tension. Now I see you standing with brown leaves all around and snow in your hair. ‘The Spirit of Namibia’ is a diamond trawler and it mines around the clock.
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