ana, if you have time it would be great to hear how the women in black encounter goes. great that you are able to attend :)
On 15/11/15 5:25 50AM, Ana Valdés wrote: > > The encounter starts today check www.womeninblack.org > <http://www.womeninblack.org> > > Den 15 nov 2015 08:06 skrev "AGF poemproducer" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > 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] >> <mailto:[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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- helen varley jamieson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.upstage.org.nz /We have a situation!/ Rio de Janeiro - JOIN US ONLINE on 7 November 2015 <http://www.wehaveasituation.net/?page_id=1222> /Unaussprechnbarlich/, München, November-Dezember 2015 <http://unaussprechbarlich.tumblr.com/>
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