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Arnold Dreyblatt - For Ukraine

from WHNZ​:​74​:​WAR by Various Artists

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I am Arnold Dreyblatt

an American composer and artist speaking to you from Berlin

I speak to you

I speak to all who are in the internationally recognized territory of Ukraine

of all Nationalities, Religions, Speakers of all languages, to those of all Political and Sexual orientations

to all the homeless, the weak, the defenseless, those on the run, but also those who invade, those seek to destroy

in the name of my own great grandparents who were driven out of what is now the western Ukraine in an earlier time

and those of my family who remained and were murdered in an earlier time

I speak to this contaminated historical landscape I speak because I must speak

I speak because we all must speak

even when our voices seem to be useless

even if we are safe and far from this death and destruction and because we will never have the correct words

we must speak

to demand the end of a senseless murderous war —

our words cannot succeed

our songs, the sounds we make seem helpless

in 1940 as war was raging in Europe, Walter Benjamin wrote:

"The state of emergency in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
We must attain to a conception of history which is in keeping with this insight."

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from WHNZ​:​74​:​WAR, released April 6, 2022

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