Friday, March 11, 2011

MOROCCO - "The only file that is democratic tolls on the highway"

This sounds like a battle cry. Or Marsupilami. "And yet it does not mean anything," laughs Reda Allali, singer Casablanca Hoba Hoba Spirit. Training, born in 1998, is known for his vitriolic texts, punctuated with music mixing rock, reggae and rap. Its niche: the country's ills. Illiteracy, sleeping masses, terrorism, unemployment and corruption, everything is scrutinized.

The red line? "There are three, is the national motto: God, King and Country," said Reda Allali, his eternal cap on his head. The group has never been censored, but it was reported that some sentences did not like. Two of its members were arrested for Satanism in 2003 because they played or listened to metal.

In 2009, however, Hoba Hoba Spirit received a check for 250,000 dirhams [22,171 EUR] Palace. Not enough to silence them. "I support the protesters 100%. The Moroccan people need a project: you do not vote for a highway or a hospital and can not ask people to vote if, ultimately, political parties do represent nothing.

We will come to a constitutional monarchy. " Corruption, especially because the despair of the singer. "This is not a malfunction of the system is the system. It is present everywhere and zap all the values, starting with the work. Some guys pay to get on TV, others to avoid the plate .

The only file that is the country's democratic tolls on the highway. "For Reda Allali, events Tunisian, Libyan and Egyptian are all 11. In Morocco, the march of February 20, blew taboos, awakened the conscience . 'It is easy to forget what the state owes us when belongs to the middle class and that we can offer a private school to their children or afford care in a clinic.

Even I do, because education is a public calamity. But it's still a national humiliation of knowing that trained young people are willing to risk their lives to pick strawberries in Spain, for lack of opportunities here, "he says, relighting a cigarette. He has spent two decades in Norway .

Revenue in the country four years ago, Nour-Eddine Lakhmari never tires of traveling the old Casablanca, detailing each facade Art Deco look and lamenting their state of disrepair. There he is currently shooting his next film, Zero, a tale of antihero. Here he had filmed the previous Casanegra, hailed by critics in Morocco and abroad.

A portrait unvarnished and uncompromising in his country today. "We must assume There is nothing to hide. When I put my camera, I show the misery, violence, sex or unemployment. These are things that exist everywhere. Moroccans are conservative. Many told me: 'It is well, your film, but Chuma [shame] show why people masturbate? " This is not the state that sets the limits, society, religion, even if this film would not be released ten years ago.

"For the filmmaker, all part of the individual. And it deserves . Starting with the responsibility for change. "It's good to attack the regime, to manifest, but the revolution must start at home. What's the point of demanding freedoms in the street if, upon returning, I break my sister's mouth because she wants to go out in a miniskirt? "Questions the director, his eyes tired from the nights of filming.

Nour-Eddine Lakhmari believes it has a role to play in changing attitudes, he sees salvation in culture. The Moroccan, he repeats the urge, must be called into question. "We were inculcated the idea that the father knows best. By extension, the father is the teacher or the king of sacred figures can not make any mistakes.

We must have the courage to say 'I love you, my father, but I do not agree with you. " That's what at this moment the young protesters. "It gets at the Centre for Social, economic and managerial skills he heads planted on the heights of Rabat. But Driss Ksikes is also - especially - a writer and author theater.

The inventor of a concept: Dabateatr citizen. Each month, the news is an excuse to show. "The idea is to restore the theater as a place of public controversy. There is no censorship or censorship and no one is spared. A restriction, we do not specifically include people and we're not puppets.

The News is just a base for exploring human nature. " Thus, the Moroccan prisons director said that "those who simply want rights to go abroad", and Driss Ksikes imagines a scene where people are queuing to get a stamp certifying them to humans. Former journalist, writer, 43, believes it has much more freedom as an artist.

And is necessary for writers participating in public debate. "Much has been said that Moroccans were not ripe for democracy. What is happening now is a scathing response to that. People are not in the 'emerging', as in Libya, but says 'stop' . It reminds me of Egyptian protests in 2008.

There is here a real attachment to the king, but also a citizen vigilance which calls for a constitutional monarchy. " Careful observer of Moroccan society, the playwright predicted that "if the plan does not take advantage of this window to reform, then the elections of 2012 will be bloody.

People really need a more just and equitable."

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