[NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach
helen varley jamieson
helen at creative-catalyst.com
Tue Nov 17 13:34:01 CET 2015
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.louw at gmail.com
> <mailto:gretta.elise.louw at 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 <agora158 at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:agora158 at 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"
>>> <helen at creative-catalyst.com <mailto:helen at 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
>>>> <http://www.womeninblack.org/>
>>>>
>>>> Den 15 nov 2015 08:06 skrev "AGF poemproducer"
>>>> <agf at poemproducer.com <mailto:agf at 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 <agora158 at gmail.com
>>>>> <mailto:agora158 at 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.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk
>>>>> <mailto:Johannes.Birringer at 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
>>>>>
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