By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 22--
Friday night a
dozen floors
of the UN's
headquarters
were blacked
out so a music
video by DJ
David Guetta
could be
projected.
It urged
viewer to
tweet what the
world needs
more of. We
say: #Accountability
for #Haiti
#cholera,
#SriLanka,
#Minova
rapes by #DRC
Army.
We'll see.
Before
the screening
there was an
extended photo
op in front of
the Dag
Hammarskjold
Library. Guetta
was there,
solo (here)
and with the UN's
Valerie Amos
(here) and
then Ban
Ki-moon (UN
sure to
publicize.)
Other bold
face names, at
least to some,
came through;
sometimes the
photographers
whispered, who
is that?
Outside
looking up at
the UN
building, some
found the
video too
short, the
music not loud
enough. You
can't please
all the people
all the time.
The statement
by Valerie
Amos in the UN
Press Briefing
Room that this
would help
victims of
Typhoon Haiyan
in the
Philippines
will be a
measure. But
where will the
UN report?
Back on
November 12,
Inner City
Press first
reported that
D.J. David
Guetta was in
the house, the
Glass House of
the UN,
wearing a hard
hat and orange
construction
vest as the UN
Capital Master
Plan showed
him around. Tweeted
photo here.
At the
time, Inner
City Press
asked what
Guetta was
doing in the
UN. He's here
to help, was
the answer.
They
built a white
tent and set
up the lights;
those leaving
the UN on
Thursday night
-- including UN Peacekeeping deputy Edmond Mulet
-- were
diverted to
leave another
way, to make
way for the
tent and
lights.
Previously,
Beyonce
premiered a
video in the
now-closed
General
Assembly hall.
(Her entourage
demanded the
deletion of
photographs,
which the Free UN Coalition for Access
protested.)
Ali G,
UNauthorized,
filmed in the
Security
Council, with
a tour guide
who later
moonlighted as
Albania's
information
minister.
When the UN
brings in, or
allows in, pop
figures one is
left wondering
for example:
do they know
the UN brought
cholera to
Haiti and now
refuses to
even accept
court papers
about it?
Linkin Park,
it seems,
didn't. Will
David Guetta?
Would, for
example, New
York-based DJ
Tim Sweeney of
Beats in
Space? Who
should DJ at
the UN?
On
Friday
morning, the
lights were
covered with
sheet plastic
amid drizzle.
Inner City
Press tweeted
photo here.
Is it on, rain
or shine? The
UN's Media
Alert lists a
"red carpet"
at 7:30 pm....
The carpet was
black, and the
screening
didn't happen
until 8:10 pm.
Beyond that,
we'll see.
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