(Thanx Roxy!)
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Occupy Protests At San Quentin and Other US Prisons
US hikers Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer took part in demonstrations outside San Quentin prison in California. Photograph: Beck Diefenbach/Reuters
Occupy demonstrators participated in a nationwide day of action to protest against the US prison system on Monday, with demonstrations carried out at over a dozen sites across the country, including prisons in California, Chicago, Denver and New York.
The call to protest was issued by activists with the Occupy Oakland movement and was co-ordinated to coincide with waves of prison hunger strikes that began at California's Pelican Bay prison in July. Demonstrators denounced the use of restrictive isolation units as infringement upon fundamental human rights. The hunger strikes followed a US supreme court ruling in May which stated that overcrowding in the California prison system had led to "needless suffering and death." The court ordered the state to reduce its overall prison population from 140,000 to 110,000, which still well-exceeds the state's maximum prison capacity.
Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer – the American hikers who were held for over a year by Iranian authorities – took part in demonstrations outside San Quentin prison in Marin County, California. Addressing the crowd, Shourd described the psychological impact of solitary confinement, saying her 14 and a half months without human contact drove her to beat the walls of her cell until her knuckles bled. Shourd noted that Nelson Mandella described the two weeks he spent in solitary confinement as the most dehumanising experience he had ever been through.
"In Iran the first thing they do is put you in solitary," Fattal added.
Bauer said "a prisoner's greatest fear is being forgotten." He described how hunger strikes became the hikers' own "greatest weapon" in pushing their captors to heed their demands. According to Bauer, however, the most influential force for changing their quality of life while being held in Iran was the result of pressure applied by those outside the prison. It was for that fact, Bauer argued, that "this movement, this Cccupy movement, needs to permeate the prisons."
Occupy supporters are calling for a fundamental change in the US prison system, which today houses one quarter of the planet's prisoners; more than 2.4 million people. As of 2005, roughly one quarter of those held in US prisons or jails had been convicted on a drug charge. Activists point out that in the past three decades the nation's prison population has increased by more than 500%, with minorities comprising 60% of those incarcerated. The number of women locked up between 1997 and 2007 increased by 832%.
Demonstrators are broadly calling for the abolition of inhumane prison conditions, and the elimination of policies such as capital punishment, life sentences without the possibility of parole and so-called "three strikes, you're out" laws.
Some demonstrators were also demanding changes in their own specific states. Activists in Columbus, Ohio, for example, highlighted the fact that their state is second only to Texas in rates of capital punishment and planned to deliver letters to several elected officials, including governor John Kasich.
Ben Turk, an activist with Red Bird Prison abolition, noted that rising prices in prison commissaries have also been an issue with many Ohio prisoners. According to Turk, prices at the commissaries where prisoners purchase food and other amenities have risen, while the amount of money prisoners are able to make have largely remained the same.
"We work with prisoners and ask them what their grievances are," Turk said. "A lot of them talk about how commissary prices have been continually rising for the last couple of decades, while state pay remains the same."
At least 20 prisoners at Ohio State Penitentiary chose to fast for the day in solidarity with Monday's action.
In Washington DC, demonstrators protested new prisoner visitation policies that will include the installation teleconference TV screens in place of glass partition.
In New York City, Mercedes Smith, a Brooklyn mother, took the streets along with roughly 250 others who marched from the Lincoln Correctional Facility through Harlem. Smith said she and her 21 year-old son had both been personally impacted by the criminal justice system. Smith said her son had been stopped and searched by the police throughout his life and is now incarcerated.
Smith carried a sign that read "End the War On Drugs". She said that people who were addicted to drugs had a "sickness" that was "not a reason to put them in prison."
"This war is costing more money. All the money that they using to keep this war going on, they could open up more centers, more programmes to help people," Smith told the Guardian.
Occupy demonstrators participated in a nationwide day of action to protest against the US prison system on Monday, with demonstrations carried out at over a dozen sites across the country, including prisons in California, Chicago, Denver and New York.
The call to protest was issued by activists with the Occupy Oakland movement and was co-ordinated to coincide with waves of prison hunger strikes that began at California's Pelican Bay prison in July. Demonstrators denounced the use of restrictive isolation units as infringement upon fundamental human rights. The hunger strikes followed a US supreme court ruling in May which stated that overcrowding in the California prison system had led to "needless suffering and death." The court ordered the state to reduce its overall prison population from 140,000 to 110,000, which still well-exceeds the state's maximum prison capacity.
Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer – the American hikers who were held for over a year by Iranian authorities – took part in demonstrations outside San Quentin prison in Marin County, California. Addressing the crowd, Shourd described the psychological impact of solitary confinement, saying her 14 and a half months without human contact drove her to beat the walls of her cell until her knuckles bled. Shourd noted that Nelson Mandella described the two weeks he spent in solitary confinement as the most dehumanising experience he had ever been through.
"In Iran the first thing they do is put you in solitary," Fattal added.
Bauer said "a prisoner's greatest fear is being forgotten." He described how hunger strikes became the hikers' own "greatest weapon" in pushing their captors to heed their demands. According to Bauer, however, the most influential force for changing their quality of life while being held in Iran was the result of pressure applied by those outside the prison. It was for that fact, Bauer argued, that "this movement, this Cccupy movement, needs to permeate the prisons."
Occupy supporters are calling for a fundamental change in the US prison system, which today houses one quarter of the planet's prisoners; more than 2.4 million people. As of 2005, roughly one quarter of those held in US prisons or jails had been convicted on a drug charge. Activists point out that in the past three decades the nation's prison population has increased by more than 500%, with minorities comprising 60% of those incarcerated. The number of women locked up between 1997 and 2007 increased by 832%.
Demonstrators are broadly calling for the abolition of inhumane prison conditions, and the elimination of policies such as capital punishment, life sentences without the possibility of parole and so-called "three strikes, you're out" laws.
Some demonstrators were also demanding changes in their own specific states. Activists in Columbus, Ohio, for example, highlighted the fact that their state is second only to Texas in rates of capital punishment and planned to deliver letters to several elected officials, including governor John Kasich.
Ben Turk, an activist with Red Bird Prison abolition, noted that rising prices in prison commissaries have also been an issue with many Ohio prisoners. According to Turk, prices at the commissaries where prisoners purchase food and other amenities have risen, while the amount of money prisoners are able to make have largely remained the same.
"We work with prisoners and ask them what their grievances are," Turk said. "A lot of them talk about how commissary prices have been continually rising for the last couple of decades, while state pay remains the same."
At least 20 prisoners at Ohio State Penitentiary chose to fast for the day in solidarity with Monday's action.
In Washington DC, demonstrators protested new prisoner visitation policies that will include the installation teleconference TV screens in place of glass partition.
In New York City, Mercedes Smith, a Brooklyn mother, took the streets along with roughly 250 others who marched from the Lincoln Correctional Facility through Harlem. Smith said she and her 21 year-old son had both been personally impacted by the criminal justice system. Smith said her son had been stopped and searched by the police throughout his life and is now incarcerated.
Smith carried a sign that read "End the War On Drugs". She said that people who were addicted to drugs had a "sickness" that was "not a reason to put them in prison."
"This war is costing more money. All the money that they using to keep this war going on, they could open up more centers, more programmes to help people," Smith told the Guardian.
Severed Heads - Rock Arena (ABC TV - 4/10/1986)
Petrol
A Million Angels
Bless This House
Big Blue Is Back
Harold & Cindy Hospital
Propellor
Halo
Severed Heads
(For Audiozobe)
(Thanx SJX!)
so odd, to be ashamed of meeting PM today. MT @Davewwest: five attendees of no10 #nhs summit left via front door, rest left by secret tunnel
Monday, 20 February 2012
Flou - Shed Mix
1. STP : the fall (Subsolo)
2. Shed : flat axe (Ostgut Ton)
3. Taho : energy fields - Shed’s ride disturbance mix (Delsin)
4. Shed : boom room (Ostgut Ton)
5. Wax : 30003 A (Wax)
6. Shed : another wedged chicken (Ostgut Ton)
7. Shed : selection one (Soloaction)
8. Wax : 40004 A (Wax)
9. Head High : it’s a love thing – piano invasion (H2 Recordings)
10. Equalized : 3 A (Equalized)
11. Equalized : 4 B (Equalized)
12. Shed : hidden (Soloaction)
13. Wax : 10001 B (Wax)
14. Shed : selection two (Soloaction)
15. Shed : well done 033472 edit (Soloaction)
16. Wax : 10001 A (Wax)
17. Shed : egotism (Soloaction)
18. Wax : 40004 B (Wax)
19. WK7 : higher power - hardcore PCK mix (Power House)
20. Shed : red planet express (Soloaction)
21. Shed : kinky dudes (Soloaction)
22. Wax : 30003 B (Wax)
23. Shed : digin in the dirt (Styrax Leaves)
24. Shed : stars (Soloaction)
25. Shed : balance (Soloaction)
26. Shed : that beats everything! (Ostgut Ton)
27. Shed : atmo - action (Ostgut Ton)
28. Shed : opulence 11 (Soloaction)
29. Shed : sweep dreams (Ostgut Ton)
30. Shed : well done 030 edit (Soloaction)
31. Equalized : 2 A (Equalized)
32. Deuce : guttering (Ostgut Ton)
33. Substance : relish - Shed remix (Scion Versions)
34. Deuce : cue ed (Ostgut Ton)
35. Equalized : 3 B (Equalized)
36. Shed : opulence 22 (Soloaction)
37. Shed : unvisible (Soloaction)
38. Wax : 20002 A (Wax)
39. Planetary Assault Systems : hold it - Deuce remix (Ostgut Ton)
40. Shed : guile (Delsin)
41. Shed : smooth kicks (Soloaction)
42. D-Bridge : ZX 81 - Shed remix (Fat City Recordings)
43. Shed : push the button (Soloaction)
44. Shed : solitude straight (Soloaction)
45. WK7 : the avalanche (Power House)
46. Equalized : 4 A (Equalized)
47. WK7 : higher power (Power House)
48. Equalized : 1 A (Equalized)
49. Radio Slave : tantakatan - the drunken Shed mix (Rekids)
50. Steve Lawler : kalimba - Shed turtle shield mix (R & S Records)
51. Shed : my R-Class (Ostgut Ton)
52. Shed : 728 (Delsin)
53. Shed : with bag and baggage (Monkeytown Records)
54. Shed : TK001 (Styrax Leaves)
55. Shed : stale (Delsin)
56. Equalized : 2 B (Equalized)
2. Shed : flat axe (Ostgut Ton)
3. Taho : energy fields - Shed’s ride disturbance mix (Delsin)
4. Shed : boom room (Ostgut Ton)
5. Wax : 30003 A (Wax)
6. Shed : another wedged chicken (Ostgut Ton)
7. Shed : selection one (Soloaction)
8. Wax : 40004 A (Wax)
9. Head High : it’s a love thing – piano invasion (H2 Recordings)
10. Equalized : 3 A (Equalized)
11. Equalized : 4 B (Equalized)
12. Shed : hidden (Soloaction)
13. Wax : 10001 B (Wax)
14. Shed : selection two (Soloaction)
15. Shed : well done 033472 edit (Soloaction)
16. Wax : 10001 A (Wax)
17. Shed : egotism (Soloaction)
18. Wax : 40004 B (Wax)
19. WK7 : higher power - hardcore PCK mix (Power House)
20. Shed : red planet express (Soloaction)
21. Shed : kinky dudes (Soloaction)
22. Wax : 30003 B (Wax)
23. Shed : digin in the dirt (Styrax Leaves)
24. Shed : stars (Soloaction)
25. Shed : balance (Soloaction)
26. Shed : that beats everything! (Ostgut Ton)
27. Shed : atmo - action (Ostgut Ton)
28. Shed : opulence 11 (Soloaction)
29. Shed : sweep dreams (Ostgut Ton)
30. Shed : well done 030 edit (Soloaction)
31. Equalized : 2 A (Equalized)
32. Deuce : guttering (Ostgut Ton)
33. Substance : relish - Shed remix (Scion Versions)
34. Deuce : cue ed (Ostgut Ton)
35. Equalized : 3 B (Equalized)
36. Shed : opulence 22 (Soloaction)
37. Shed : unvisible (Soloaction)
38. Wax : 20002 A (Wax)
39. Planetary Assault Systems : hold it - Deuce remix (Ostgut Ton)
40. Shed : guile (Delsin)
41. Shed : smooth kicks (Soloaction)
42. D-Bridge : ZX 81 - Shed remix (Fat City Recordings)
43. Shed : push the button (Soloaction)
44. Shed : solitude straight (Soloaction)
45. WK7 : the avalanche (Power House)
46. Equalized : 4 A (Equalized)
47. WK7 : higher power (Power House)
48. Equalized : 1 A (Equalized)
49. Radio Slave : tantakatan - the drunken Shed mix (Rekids)
50. Steve Lawler : kalimba - Shed turtle shield mix (R & S Records)
51. Shed : my R-Class (Ostgut Ton)
52. Shed : 728 (Delsin)
53. Shed : with bag and baggage (Monkeytown Records)
54. Shed : TK001 (Styrax Leaves)
55. Shed : stale (Delsin)
56. Equalized : 2 B (Equalized)
First Listen: Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun
Toward the Low Sun, out Feb. 28, is Dirty Three's first album in seven years — Ellis has been working with Nick Cave and Turner has put out some marvelous solo work, while White made a brilliant 2007 record with Nina Nastasia, among other projects — and it sounds more haunting and haunted than many of its predecessors. Right off the top, "Furnace Skies" forgoes the soaring beauty of Dirty Three's ballads in favor of a kind of low, foreboding, vaguely ugly rumble. From there, Toward the Low Sun works for its moments of cathartic beauty instead of letting them come easily in each track. But when they do arrive, as in the gorgeous pairing of "The Pier" and "Rain Song," they hit harder for the troubled-sounding textures that surround them. Ellis and Turner each lend a bit of piano work, in "Ashen Snow" and elsewhere, and it only adds to the moody beauty throughout.
Any band playing wordless music with such emotion is bound to find its thematic intentions open to interpretation, but each Dirty Three song title expresses a tiny universe of context — "Sometimes I Forget You've Gone," "You Greet Her Ghost" — to help chart an inevitably nonlinear course. But that's what Dirty Three's music is all about: functioning as the moody, conflicted soundtrack for a storm-swept journey where getting lost is part of the plan.
Stephen Thompson @'npr'
Listen To 'Toward The Low Sun' In Its Entirety
Shed (René Pawlowitz) Wax Treatment Podcasts
Wax Treatment Podcast #003 - Shed
18.10.09 - Tracklist:- 01. Cornel Campbell: Natural Fact - Attack Gold 015
- 02. Earl Sixteen: Gold Of Sheba - Merge 10-04
- 03. Elemental: Talk - Runtime LP 001
- 04. Aardvarck: A1 - Bloom 03
- 05. Neil Landstrumm: 6 At Le Mans - Planet µ 246
- 06. Kryptic Minds: 768 - Tectonic 032
- 07. Hyetal: Pixel Rainbow Sequence (Peverelist Remix) - RDCTN 003
- 08. Zomby: Godzilla - Ramp Recordings 022
- 09. Joy Orbison: Hyph Mngo - Hotflush HFT 009
- 10. 2562 - Flashback - Tectonic 034
- 11. ID: Nine Tree Hill - Mata-Syn 005
- 12. RSD: Green Hill - Punch Drunk 012
- 13. Distance: V (Pinch Remix) - Chestplate 007
- 14. F & Headhunter: Dedale - Transistor 001
Wax Treatment Podcast #030 - Shed
23.01.2012 - Tracklist:- 01. Ras G: Discipline09-1 - Leaving 004
- 02. Tokimonsta: Line To Dot - Ramp 030
- 03. Flying Lotus: Tea Leaf Dancers - Warp 228
- 04. Ras G: Discipline09-2 - Leaving 004
- 05. Dro Carey: Velvet Mouth - Ramp 047
- 06. Anstam: Say My Name - 50Weapons LP04
- 07. Aphex Twin: Flim - Warp 094
- 08. Martyn: I Saw You At Tule Lake - Brainfeeder 025
- 09. Objekt: Porcupine - Hessle Audio 019
- 10. Roly Porter: Hessra - Subtext LP 002
- 11. Stay+: Dandelion - Ramp 053
- 12. Skeptical: Another World - Exit LP 005
- 13. Shed: Sonar Intro
- 14. Shed: RQ170 - 50Weapons 047
- 15. Shed: DREFX120
- 16. GonjaSufi: Nikels And Dimes - Warp LP 223
- 17. King Midas Sound: Lost (Lost (Flying Lotus Rework) - Hyperdub CD 009
Bradley L. Garrett : Urban Explorers - Quests for Myth, Mystery and Meaning
This video is a 30-minute introduction to the practice of urban exploration. Constructed as a video article for the journal Geography Compass, the article uses footage from the author's own explorations in California, Las Vegas and London to visually depict a theoretical unpacking of the practice by 5 academic geographers.
You can find the article that goes with the video at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00389.x/abstract
You can find the article that goes with the video at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00389.x/abstract
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