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The birth of modern Bowie: Pansexual lust, glam theatrics and brilliant songs.
— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone Magazine

Les prises de position publiques de Bowie sont rares dans la vie politique ou publique, celle-ci est donc à remarquer.
Bowie vient en effet d'effectuer un don de 10 000$ au Jena 6 Legal Defense Fund .

Qu'en est il de cette affaire?
En septembre 2006, six jeunes étudiants noirs ont été accusés de tentative de meurtre pour avoir blessé légèrement un étudiant blanc. L’inculpation des «Jena Six», comme on les appelle, suivait une série d’incidents dans cette petite ville de Louisiane (3000 habitants, dont environ 10% de Noirs). Dans un des incidents, des étudiants blancs avaient attaché des cordes de pendus à un arbre situé dans la partie de la cour d’école tacitement réservée aux Blancs. Quelque temps auparavant, quatre étudiants noirs avaient tenté de s’asseoir à l’ombre de l’arbre des Blancs.

Le communiqué officiel :
IGN: David Bowie Supports Jena 6

David Bowie Supports Jena 6
Rock icon donate $10,000 to the defendent's legal fund.
by IGN Music

September 18, 2007 - The high profile Jena 6 case taking place in Jena, Louisiana, just got a little hotter.

Musical icon David Bowie has reportedly donated $10,000 to the Jena 6 Legal Defense Fund. The case, involves
the prosecution of Mychal Bell, 17, Robert Bailey Jr., Theo Shaw, Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis, and an unnamed minor for their role in an altercation with a classmate following a series of racial incidents in the town of 3,000 after three nooses were hung in a tree at the local high school.

"There is clearly a separate and unequal judicial process going on in the town of Jena," Bowie said. "A donation to the Jena 6 Legal Defense Fund is my small gesture indicating my belief that a wrongful charge and sentence should be prevented."

Presently, the NAACP, in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Southern University Law Center, has provided some additional legal support and resources to the defendants' attorneys.

"We are gratified that rock star David Bowie was moved to donate to the NAACP's Jena campaign," said NAACP National Board of Directors Chairman Julian Bond. "Mr. Bowie shares our outrage. We hope others will join him."

Bowie s'est expliqué sur Bnet sur cette "intervention" rare.
sailor
09/19/07 08:43 AM

I didn't think I'd have to explain this but...

The reason I this donation and went public about it is that this case is getting very little coverage in the media. It only raised its profile a tiny bit after thurdays march was arranged. this is a test case for civil rights.

sailor

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