I agree - brilliant quote - I think this is it: http://izquotes.com/quote/66959
On 17 November 2015 at 12:40, Ana Valdés <agora...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 < > he...@creative-catalyst.com>: > > 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 < <gretta.elise.l...@gmail.com> > gretta.elise.l...@gmail.com>: > > 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 < <agora...@gmail.com> > agora...@gmail.com> 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" < > he...@creative-catalyst.com>: > >> 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" < <a...@poemproducer.com> >> a...@poemproducer.com>: >> >>> 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 < <agora...@gmail.com> >>> agora...@gmail.com> 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" < >>> <johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk>johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk>: >>> >>>> >>>> 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 >>>> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >>>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing >> listNetBehaviour@netbehaviour.orghttp://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> >> -- >> helen varley jamieson >> he...@creative-catalyst.com >> 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/> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing > listNetBehaviour@netbehaviour.orghttp://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > -- > helen varley jamieson > he...@creative-catalyst.com > 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/> > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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