No ultimo domingo, na V Feira do Livro de Sao Gabriel, estava conversando com os escritores Claudio Moreira e Luis Artur Borges Pereira, navegando reminiscencias, quando me referi ao Bar Americando, Galeria Quilombo, grupos Americando, Quatro Cantos, Santo Oficio (do qual fiz parte, junto com Eduardo e Mequinho), Basilio Conceicao, Plinio, Helio, Roseli, Harry Rosa, Thadeu Gomes e tantos outros musicos daquela epoca (primeira metade da decada de 80 em Pelotas) e disse que hoje eu era um ex-musico. Luis me interrompeu e disse que nao existe ex-musico. Prontamente, respondi dizendo que existiam fosseis de musicos dentro de mim....PALEONTOLOGIA DA VIDARafael Cabral CruzNossa vida e uma sucessao de momentos,Alguns intensos, amargos ou felizes,Outros, que nem deixam cicatrizes,Sao como areias carregadas pelos ventos.O tempo passa lento e, inexoravelmente,Vai sedimentando fragmentos de vida...Na turbulencia, dos amores, da lida,Vai tudo soterrando, impavidamente...No entanto, sedimentado em mim,Ha fosseis de momentos sentidos,Imagens de espelhos retorcidos,Enterrados debaixo dos alecrins...As vezes, quando bate a saudade,Escavo estratos de sentimentosNa busca de vividos fragmentosDe momentos que perdi....Descubro, na poeira da idade,Que de fosseis e fragmentos,Somente novos sentimentosMe dizem que vivi! Emocionante recebermos esta carta em solidariedade pela luta pela qualidade da educacao publica! O movimento contra as diretrizes do Banco Mundial pela privatizacao e transformacao da educacao em mercadoria nao e somente dos docentes brasileiros em greve, mas uma luta historica cada vez mais globalizada (o outro lado da globalizacao)!First Statewide Student Union ConferenceSanta Monica, California, United StatesMay 19th, 2012Letter of Solidarity With The Striking Professors of Brazil's Federal Universities On Thursday, May 17th, professors at 34 Federal Universities across Brazil went out on strike in defense of the right to high quality public education. Today in California, students from across all the levels of public higher education are meeting to discuss the formation of a Student Union to give organizational form to our unity in the struggle against the defunding, privatization and re-segregation of our public educational systems. We would like to take this occasion to extend our full solidarity with you, the professors of Brazil, and to tell you that you are not alone in this fight. The attacks on education are being enacted on an international scale. And even here, in one of the countries with the most advanced neo-liberal project for education, we students are organizing resistance. Here in the United States, educators' unions are under constant attack. But as students we see clearly the value of workers' organizations because our professors' working conditions are our learning conditions. And your struggle is also our own! Uma so luta! Signed by individual students, faculty, and staff from the following educational institutions in California: Kindergarten 12th Grade: California State University System: Santa Monica High School California State University - Los Angeles Los Angeles Unified School District San Francisco State University California State Polytechnic University - Pomona California Community College System: San Diego State University Santa Monica College California State University- Northridge Los Angeles City College California State University - Long Beach Pasadena City College California State University - Dominguez Hills City College of San Francisco Berkeley City College University