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Music and Art at the Ukrainian Institute of America
Posted by Apple Blossom on September 01, 2005 at 19:10:37:
The sense of this solidarity with Poland's eastern neighbors continued when Greenjolly, a Ukrainian band whose songs rallied support for President Viktor Yushchenko's election campaign in December, came on stage.
The audience immediately stood up, starting to clap and join in the singing. Many knew the words.
Nine months after Ukraine's Orange Revolution and a quarter of a century after Solidarity helped change the map of Europe, Belarussians said their time for freedom would soon come.
"Outsiders cannot force change, nor do we want them to do so," Pavlov Pete, a member of N.R.M., said after the concert. "We need their support. But we have to do it ourselves."
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President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power in Belarus since 1994 and who recently changed the constitution so that he can run for election a third time early next year, has done everything possible to squash any independent expressions of opposition, including music."
Letter from Warsaw: Belarussians hoping to rock toward change
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/01/news/letter.php