Saturday, 24 March 2012

For telling the truth. #FreeBrad MT @kgosztola Fmr. US diplomat John Bolton calls for execution of Bradley Manning http://yfrog.com/2dry0oz

Do we really want to hear the truth from our friends?

Nothing Really Mattress!!!

(Celebrities desperate to get the Walthamstow look)
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Gregory Corso: Poet of the Streets

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Joe Strummer & Mark Stewart (Rock On Records 1978)

Mark Stewart Of The Pop Group's 13 Favourite Albums

"I think it's important to engage with reality across every kind of social platform," states Mark Stewart as he prepares to discuss his favourite 13 albums with The Quietus. "We have to really fight for some kind of say in the future. I'm thinking like a crusader. I'm sorry to go on about it but it only takes good people to do nothing for evil to prevail. It's time that people rolled up their sleeves and really had a go again. Everybody needs to be on it!"
To listen to Mark Stewart - a near breathless ball of enthusiasm, concepts and philosophies - isn't to be reminded of a time when pop, politics and culture regularly coalesced to create the kind of heady brew that changed lives and altered perception; it's to be made aware of how little today's pop and rock music engages with the realities of the outside world.
As singer of The Pop Group, Stewart and his Bristolian cohorts melded punk, reggae, huge slabs of funk and the kaleidoscopic energy of free jazz with a political awareness and consciousness that defined the battle lines of the early 1980s. Unleashing provocative statements in the form of 7" single 'We Are All Prostitutes' and second album For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?, The Pop Group inspired subsequent generations of bands and led Nick Cave – then frontman of the equally influential The Birthday Party – to state, "Mark Stewart changed everything."
His subsequent work has seen him team up with a variety of names including On-U Sound, Massive Attack and Tricky as well as releasing a steady stream of albums under his own name. His latest album, The Politics Of Envy, sees Stewart teaming up with a veritable list of rebels, thinkers and influential figures including former P.I.L. guitarist Keith Levene, Crass' Eve Libertine, The Raincoats' Gina Birch, film maker Kenneth Anger and production wizard Lee 'Scratch' Perry amongst many others. Beat driven and seething with a righteous anger, this is troubled music for troubled times...
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(Thanx Rob!)

...and just woke up to confirmation that my signed deluxe version of the new album has been shipped. That's a good start to the day!!!

Destination Sound - From Dub Till Dubstep

Playlist:
Intro: Hardcore Music - Breakage
Rain All Night (Skrewface Remix) - Don Carlos
Number 1 Sound (Tes La Rok Remix) - Kion and Murda feat. Junior Murvin
The Battles of Electric - Earlyworm
Skankin - Symbiz
Ghost Town Remix - The Specials
Who Cares? - Symbiz
Electrosub VIP - Document One
TCBUD - Symbiz
It Was A Shark - Radiokillaz
Fucking Cunt - Whiskertwister
Murderer - Spooky
Ganja Smuggeling - Brown & Gammon
Late Night Blues - Don Carlos
Ain`t No Sunshine - Bam Bam Dealers

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TGEU's Trans Murder Monitoring project: Press Release, 23 March 2012

Again alarming figures: Transgender Europe's Trans Murder Monitoring project reveals more than 800 reported murders of trans people in the last four years

The March 2012 update reveals a total of 816 reported killings of trans people in 55 countries worldwide from January 1st 2008 to December 31st 2011. The update shows an exponential increase in reported killings of trans people over the last four years. In 2008, 141 cases were reported, in 2009 213 cases, in 2010 214 cases, and in 2011 a shocking number of 248. These are mainly the reported cases that could be found through Internet research and cooperation with trans organizations and activists. In most countries, data on murdered trans people are not systematically produced and it is impossible to estimate the numbers of unreported cases.

The reasons for this increase might be manifold. Every year, TGEU's TVT research team has improved its monitoring methods, started new collaborations with organizations that contributed their data, and received information from activists from many parts of the world. Also, the increase in the visibility of trans people and of trans issues in public discourse may have led to a better reporting of cases. However, the data also show also that there is no decrease, that the shocking amount of violence against trans people still poses a major problem and threat to trans people in many countries. The again alarming figures demonstrate once more that there is an urgent need to react to the violence against trans people and to seek mechanisms to protect trans people. Some international trans activists even started to introduce the term 'transcide' to reflect the continuously elevated level of deadly violence against trans people on a global scale.

Cases have been reported from all major World Regions (Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Europe, North America, and Oceania), evoking an evermore gruesome picture, especially given the very partial knowledge we are able to gain in many places.

Most reported cases were from Central and South America, which amount to 643 cases in 21 countries and account for roughly 80 % of the globally reported murders of trans people since January 2008. In this region, there has been the strongest increase in reports (2008: 94, 2009: 165, 2010: 180, and 2011: 204).

The new result update moreover reveals that in the last 4 years, 59 killings of trans people have been reported in Asia (2008: 12, 2009: 14, 2010: 16, 2011: 17), 53 killings have been reported in North America (2008: 18, 2009: 13, 2010: 8, 2011: 14), 53 in Europe (2008: 13, 2009: 19, 2010: 9, 2011: 12), 4 in Oceania (2008: 3, 2009: 1) as well as 4 in Africa (2008: 1, 2009: 2. 2011: 1).