[NetBehaviour] bodies of evidence, and the long reach

helen varley jamieson helen at creative-catalyst.com
Tue Nov 17 23:17:11 CET 2015


that's the one! i think the teatowel was produced by CND (can't find
that on the web tho ... )

On 17/11/15 1:45 59PM, dave miller wrote:
> I agree - brilliant quote - I think this is it:
>
> http://izquotes.com/quote/66959
>
> On 17 November 2015 at 12:40, Ana Valdés <agora158 at gmail.com
> <mailto:agora158 at 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
>     <helen at creative-catalyst.com <mailto:helen at 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.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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>>>>>         helen varley jamieson
>>>>>         helen at creative-catalyst.com
>>>>>         <mailto:helen at creative-catalyst.com>
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