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> On 16 Nov 2015, at 20:48, helen varley jamieson <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
>> Den 15 nov 2015 08:06 skrev "AGF poemproducer" <[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]> 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]>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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
>>>>> 
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