Ana, this sounds so very good! happy to read this! do u have a link, more info?
> On 13 Nov 2015, at 23:06, Ana Valdés <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Johannes and all it feels almost eery and weird read your message in the > lobby of Dubai airport on my way to Bangalore in India where I am going to > participate in a gathering of Women in Black an international network of > women committed to peace and dialogue and against all kind of war and > occupation. > We denounced the invasion of Irak, Libia and Irak as illegal as much we > denounced Saddam Husseins annexion of Kuwait and the war between Iran and > Irak. We are going to be around 100 women from Cynthia Cocknurn old timer > activist in Greenham Common and professor in peace and conflict to Rebecca > Jonsson one of the most outspoken critics of Natos expansion. > We are going to have Israeli women fighting the occupation and Palestine > fighting their own male models we are going to have Armenian women protesting > the war in Nagorno Karabaj and Tjetenien mothers of soldiers. > From Colombia and Mexico and Argentina we are going to connect with women > searching their missing relatives mostly courtesy of the US supported right > wing militia. > Cheers > Ana > > Den 13 nov 2015 18:21 skrev "Johannes Birringer" > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > Some of you probably remember that last winter Alan Sondheim and I moderated > an online discussion on ISIS and terror & performance, > (empyre list), and some of it may have spilled over here or you were of > course aware of the worsening of the situation in Syria and Iraq. > The discussion, I think, also of course also hit closer to home when we > ponder what terror means to us, or how we think it and what our > histories and political affiliations or stands are, or have been. > > I remember after the debate last November, Alan and I tried to find a > publisher to see whether the raw, emotional, intense yet diversely positioned > and often poetic articulations of the participants > could be published, but we had no luck. Earlier this year I tried to write > again about terror, ISIS, masks, and also confront what may be my own > phantasms or prejudices towards militant Islam and also towards > Western states and their necropolitics, and I grappled to understand a > little bit better what state formation might mean for those fighting on the > ground in the middle east. > > Driving on the motorway today, listening to BBC2, i was baffled when a > fundraiser for "Children in Need" was interrupted by the DJ who brought news > from US killing, by drone, of presumably > one of the men on the videos released by ISIS, the presumed "Jihadi John"; > the person assumed to be this man pulverized by the drone rocket (including > all those in the car). Strangely, I then had to listen > to the british prime minister praising the US commando strike and also saying > - referring to the Islamic State as an “evil terrorist death cult" – that "Mr > Emwazi is a barbaric murderer. This "will be a strike at the heart of ISIL, > and it will demonstrate to those who would do Britain, our people and our > allies harm we have a long reach, we have unwavering determination and we > never forget about our citizens.” > > After returning to Children in Need, then the radio host comes back with a > brief interview with a fellow worker and friend of one of the kidnapped > victims of ISIS, who argued that he would have prefered the british > government to help when they could've sought to press for the hostage's > release, as other countries had done; that the prime minister's hypocrisy is > repulsive, and that he also would "have prefered Mr Emwazi to have been > brought to justice." > I was relieved to hear a worker bring up this idea of justice, and the > political processes of negotiations that may precede drone strikes. In any > case, I was feeling sick when all this surfaced on the radio. I wonder how > this > played out in the US or in the Middle East, in Raqqa, or other towns in the > region. (A commentator on the radio, and there always are 'experts' to be > found quickly, it seems, claimed to be a professor at the "Institute of > Radicalization > & Political Violence," Kings College, and thought the strike was great, and > the drones are wonderful as their permanent presence over the heads of > peoples there instills fear) > > Johannes > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > <http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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