“Digger’s Song “ calls upon the poor to rise up against tyranny and reclaim the land. (Original lyrics Gerard Winstanley (1649)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGUgSbRICJI&list=RDpGUgSbRICJI&start_radio=1
Citizens of the world / 'Citizen Shanty' (2017) CC response to Tory PM Theresa May's blithe and uncaring one-nation worldview, and sadly is more relevant than ever.
(The tune is based on an old shanty called 'Roll the Old Chariot Along'.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erbwl_fQTeA&list=RDErbwl_fQTeA&start_radio=1&rv=PozqxwAG5BE
(July 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRHZwb7HCY8
Before we call it a Genocide - Commoner’s Choir music PDF https://www.commonerschoir.com/resources/Call%20it%20a%20Genocide%20%28July%2025%29.pdf
#Commoners #FromTheRiverToTheSea #Gaza #Genocide #Palestine #PalestineAction
Altra Donzella — Another young woman — Grevembroch 3-113
This painting depicts a young woman, probably from the early 1700s, selling flowers on the streets.
She wears an unusual assortment of dresses, which might be handed-down or second-hand clothes, and the tall clogs often used by Venetian women, the calcagnette.
#Commoners #histodons #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/translation/altra-donzella-another-young-woman-grevembroch-3-113/
Facchini — Labourers — Grevembroch 3-120
Theriac was considered a kind of wonder medicine, and an antidote for most poisons. It required over sixty ingredients, and it was one of the prime products of the many pharmacies in Venice in the 1600s and 1700s.
Due to issues with fraud — and the importance of the industry to the Venetian economy — the Magistrato alla Sanità obliged the spezier and the pharmacists to display the ingredients for theriac in the street in front of the shop for several days each year.
Day labourers were hired to grind the ingredients into a fine powder, working in the open in front of the pharmacy.
This watercolour depicts such a worker, pounding the ingredients of theriac in a giant mortar.
#Commoners #histodons #Theriac #Venezia #Venice
Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/translation/facchini-labourers-grevembroch-3-120/
Trouble At Mill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM_XqBKycRM
In 2016, Theresa May said at the Conservative Party Conference, "If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere."
In response, philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah argued the case for the #cosmopolitans, for those who know how important it is to look beyond our tight-fitting borders.
Peter Riley
History Walks in Venice