yes it is completely twisted; if half that amount was invested in things that actually helped people have better lives, instead of killing them, it would make such a big positive difference.
my grandmother had a teatowel on her wall (from the 1970s) that read something like "it will be a great day when schools have all the money they need and the air force has a cake stall to raise money for a new plane" ... sadly that day is still a long long way off :( On 17/11/15 12:32 57PM, Ana Valdés wrote: > I don't believe that sadly (a lack of resources of course) but I am > going to write some texts in English Swedish and Spanish the languages > I know. > Btw it's funny because something we discussed yesterday was the > horrible expansion of NATO and the pledge of all alliance members to > earmark two pro cent of the countries budget for military expenses 7 > trillion dollars going to drones to satellite surveillance to borders > control to fences to weapons. Only the joint manoeuvres NATO countries > did recently at the Mediterranean costed 400 million dollars. > Imagine that money invested in civilian infrastructure in Africa or > India in schools food or training for young ppl. > Something who struck me today when I was writing about this meeting > was the double standards we have to judge things: how many ppl has > been killed randomly by drones attendants to weddings in Yemen and > Pakistan recently the hospital where Medecins sans frontieres was > working etc etcetera > But we mourn the Paris victims killed as randomly... > I guess that's the wrecked logic of ISIS they kill us as collateral > damage we kill them as randomly... > Ana > > Skickat från min iPhone > > 17 nov 2015 kl. 15:07 skrev Gretta Louw <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > >> Thanks so much for the update Ana, sounds like such an important >> event. Is there going to be any video documentation of the meeting >> released, do you know? Or other written documentation? >> >> >> >>> On 16 Nov 2015, at 19:19, Ana Valdés <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Today we had a long hearing with women from Iraq Afghanistan >>> Palestine India Sri Lanka Armenia and many other countries. Congo >>> was specially strong since we are all a bit complice in their wars >>> they are the world first provider of coltan and tantalum minerals >>> needed to make drones and computers and mobile phones. >>> Two English women Sue Finch and Liz Khan, members of women in black >>> UK and active against NATO delivered a powerful speech about NATO >>> selling itself as the saviour of the civilized world. >>> Write more tomorrow nice to share with you >>> Ana >>> They had very powerful statements about rape as wartool displaced >>> ppl in millions >>> >>> Den 16 nov 2015 17:18 skrev "helen varley jamieson" >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>: >>> >>> 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] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> -- >>> helen varley jamieson >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://www.creative-catalyst.com <http://www.creative-catalyst.com/> >>> http://www.upstage.org.nz <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/> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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