[NetBehaviour] Finsbury Park attack
Annie Abrahams
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Mon Jun 19 11:32:50 CEST 2017
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Le 19 juin 2017 11:20, "AGF poemproducer" <agf at poemproducer.com> a écrit :
> yes love from Berlin!!!!
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> On 19 Jun 2017, at 11:08, Renee Turner <geuzen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> Thinking of you all in the Finsbury Park community, and London as it goes
> through these trying times.
>
> with warmth,
>
> Renee
>
> On Jun 19, 2017, at 10:51 AM, Steven Ball <steven at steven-ball.net> wrote:
>
> Working at Furtherfield last I spent quite a bit of time in Finsbury Park.
> My impression was of a lively, ethnically and religiously diverse place
> where people and communities rubbed up against each other pretty well. Kind
> of rough around the edges, but that comes with the territory, very
> much like my own 'hood in Deptford, South London.
>
> It's not clear whether the perpetrators were from the area, I suspect not,
> but we'll probably find out sooner or later.
>
> The police are treating it as a terrorist incident, and it's clearly a
> direct attack on a group of Muslims. It's shocking but unfortunately not
> altogether surprising that something like this might happen, given the
> constant drip of Islamophobia in the media, in The Sun, the Daily Mail,
> the Daily Express, by individuals such as Nigel Farage and Katie Hopkins,
> political parties such as UKIP and EDL, a pernicious racism pervades. There
> is also currently a dysfunctional systemic failure at state level to be
> able to cope with even the most basis of governmental functions. It's
> difficult to shake the impression that this country, and London in
> particular, is in some form of terminal meltdown right now.
>
> But communities persist, ties strengthen, and solidarity is forged in such
> emergencies. Furtherfield isn't parachuted in like so many so-called
> socially engaged art projects often are, it is an established and
> integral part of its local community, so I can understand the shock waves
> that this attack must be causing. More strength to you!
>
> Steven x
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 09:21, ruth catlow <ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks for asking Alan.
>
> This attack happened last night at Finsbury Park Mosque which is about 100
> yards from Furtherfield Commons.
>
> Some people drove a van into a group of late night worshippers as they
> left the mosque. One of the attackers was apprehended and held by the group
> until the police arrived.
>
> Last year Park Theatre (local partners of ours) commissioned a playwrite
> to worked directly with the mosque to produce the Hurling Rubble
> <https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/hurling-rubble-at-the-moon-hurling-rubble-at-the-sun>
> plays about how extremist violence grows. We hosted our Superdiversity
> exhibition
> <http://furtherfield.org/programmes/superdiversity-picturing-finsbury-park>
> this spring in which Katherine Stansfeld an artist and cultural geographer
> brought together more than 50 different perspectives of lives lived in the
> area. This area is bold in its expression of difference - its value and its
> difficulties - we love it.
>
> We have yet to hear from our local friends. I'm heading up there now -
> full of sorrow.
>
> ~
> Ruth
>
>
> On 19/06/17 03:44, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
>
>
> Please please share any information anyone might have about this,
> apparently on Seven Sisters Road. This is terrible...
>
> Thank you,
>
> Alan
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