Haha such a great motto! A friend I have said once looking at one derelict school: "We are the first civilization in the world who keep our money in palaces and our children in shacks". Ana
Skickat från min iPhone > 17 nov 2015 kl. 18:04 skrev helen varley jamieson > <[email protected]>: > > 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]>: >> >>> 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]> 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]>: >>>>> 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 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>>>>>> [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] >>>>> http://www.creative-catalyst.com >>>>> http://www.upstage.org.nz >>>>> >>>>> We have a situation! 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