18/05/2009
British, Belgian and Greek doctors, nurses and aid workers will go on hunger strike tomorrow over the Egyptian Authorities’ refusal to allow entry into Gaza.
After constant attempts aid workers, doctors and nurses, have been refused entry in to the Gaza strip by the Egyptian authorities. Some doctors have been waiting for forty days. Out of utter desperation and witnessing the treatment of Palestinians by the Egyptian authorities, aid workers and activists have been left with no choice except to go into hunger strike and stay at the Rafah crossing until they are allowed through into Gaza.
Although the Egyptian authorities had said the border was open for two days the fact is that non-Palestinians were not allowed to enter, even though some were Palestinian but held different nationalities.
Contact Dr Omar Mangoush
Tel: 0020193764783
Assed Baig
0020178126819
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Monday, 18 May 2009
British student activist Assed Baig is ok for now...
Assed texted. He's ok. He's not held separately from the rest of group anymore. The group includes Brits, Belgians and at least 1 Italian.
More on mine and hossams twitter.
http://twitter.com/solomonsmfield or arabawy
Will email more once known.
Other International activists are camping out in Rafah and will start a hungerstrike till Egyptian authorities allow them entry to Gaza
More on mine and hossams twitter.
http://twitter.com/solomonsmfield or arabawy
Will email more once known.
Other International activists are camping out in Rafah and will start a hungerstrike till Egyptian authorities allow them entry to Gaza
Friday, 15 May 2009
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
London Met University in occupation-photos and blog here
http://www.thelondonmetcrisis.blogspot.com/
This is the fight back that Wes Streeting and the NUS leadership are too scared to take. I wonder what they are making out of this million pound swindle?
Well done to London Met in the face of adversity.
solidarity from SOAS
Desperate recruiting tactics from the HM Forces
HMForces’ Top 11 Reasons to Date a Soldier
Queen's Guard, Buckingham Palace
- HMForces Staff
A woman will always feel secure with a soldier around them. Find out why a soldier leads the charge for a woman’s heart!
1) They always wear the right protection
2) They can fire hundreds of rounds before getting tired
3) They nearly always follow orders from their superiors
4) They know how to wash, iron and mend their own clothes
5) Keeping fit gives them real staying power – and the muscles to match!
6) They’re not afraid of deep insertion ops
7) Impeccable marksmanship
8) They don’t get lost in the dark
9) Always ready for action
10) They like it rough and tough
11) The uniform!
Don't believe me? See it HERE
Protest tmrw against Israel's racist foreign minister
STOP THE WAR COALITION
NEWSLETTER
No. 1095 12 May 2009
Email office@stopwar.org.uk
Tel: 020 7801 2768
Twitter: http://twitter.com/STWuk
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN, ISRAEL'S OPENLY RACIST FOREIGN MINISTER, IS COMING TO LONDON
to meet the British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband and the Shadow Foreign
Secretary, William Hague, as part of his bid to strengthen ties between Europe
and Israel.
PROTEST AGAINST ISRAEL'S RACIST FOREIGN MINISTER
WEDNESDAY 13 MAY 10.30AM - 12.00 NOON
FOREIGN OFFICE, WHITEHALL, LONDON
Protest called by Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Jews
for Justice for Palestinians, British Muslim Initiative, CND, Palestinian Forum
in Britain.
JOIN US to show our disgust at the government's willingness to meet with
Israeli warmongers. During Israel's bombing and invasion of Gaza, Avigdor
Lieberman threatened action 'just like the United States did with the Japanese
in World War II', when the US used nuclear bombs to obliterate two cities.
He has called for the execution of elected Arab members of Israel's parliament
if they have any contact with Hamas, and threatened the expulsion of
Palestinian citizens of Israel. In February this year he said: "If you want
peace, you must prepare for war."
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON LIEBERMAN: http://bit.ly/2UH2QX
SATURDAY 16 MAY IN LONDON:
WHY WE WILL REMEMBER GAZA: http://bit.ly/10TBS6
FOLLOW STOP THE WAR ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/stwuk
Sunday, 10 May 2009
Clare's going to Cairo
Yey, me and friends will be in Cairo for a few weeks from the 13th May.
To my non-SOAS friends-wanna meet for a coffee?
SOAS students: i am doing some podcasts for SOAS BLE site and I would like to meet with SOAS students to talk about life at SOAS and in London for new students.
Let me know if you want to meet up to help with this...
BUT, to all of you-let me know if there is anything interesting going on that I would like...events, parties etc etc!!
And also if there's anything you want from London-but i will not be bringing any strange packages that your friend packed!
Hope to see you soon.
Anti-BP not anti-BM
Protest outside the British Museum against BP.
Which, of course, given that I am doing my fieldwork on the British Museum I could not possibly comment on. Boohoo
Although Booooo and BOO to BP-these protestors were pretty scary.
Saturday, 9 May 2009
Event this Wednesday. What happened to postmodernism and what replaced it?
Title: What happened to postmodernism and what replaced it?
ALL welcome
Venue: KLT, SOAS main building.
Date: Wed 13 May
Time: 1pm
Speaker: Johnathon Maunder
Listen to the MP3 of the meeting from Marxism 2009 HERE.
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Can Spivak speak? Radical philosophy conference this Saturday
Power to the People?
Saturday 9 May 2009, 10.00am–6.00pm
Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1
‘Power to the people!’ was once a revolutionary slogan, but reference to government by the people and for the people has long been an empty cliché of the post-revolutionary status quo. Numerous alternatives have been proposed: the proletariat, the workers, the masses, the soviets, the the nation, the community, the multitude, the commons... And now? How might we assess the different conceptions of political change embodied in these often conflicting ideas? What is the political and philosophical significance of ‘the people’ and related terms today?
Programme
9.30–10.00 Registration
10.00–10.15 Introduction (Peter Hallward, RP)
10.15–11.30 The General Will (chair: Peter Hallward, RP)
'The General Will on the Street: Parisian Activism, Sovereignty and Power, 1789–93'
David Andress (Portsmouth)
'How Do the People Make Themselves Heard?’
Sophie Wahnich (CNRS, Paris)
11.45–1.00 Class, Commons & Multitude (chair: Esther Leslie, RP)
‘Can We (Still) Break the Vicious Circle of Domination?'
Daniel Bensaïd (University of Paris-VIII)
'Crisis, Tragedies and the Commons'
Massimo De Angelis (University of East London)
1.00–2.00
Lunch break
2.00–3.15
Urban Collectivities (chair: David Cunningham, RP)
'Urban Intersections and the Politics of Anticipation'
AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths)
‘Reflections on the Post-Political City: Reclaiming the Polis?’
Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester)
3.45–5.00 Population & Biopolitics (chair: Stuart Elden, Durham)
'Biopolitics, Diasporas and (Neo)Liberal Political Economy'
Couze Venn (Nottingham Trent)
'Feminist Strategies Revisited – Sexopolitics, Multitude and Biopolitics'
Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez (Manchester)
5.00–6.00 ‘They, the People’ (chair: Peter Osborne, RP)
Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University, NY)
Tickets £10 students £25 waged
Advance registration from: RP conference, Peter Osborne, School of Arts and Education, Middlesex University, Trent Park campus, Bramley Road, London N14 4YZ.
Cheques payable to ‘Radical Philosophy Ltd’. Inquiries: matt.charles@blueyonder.co.uk
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