Tuesday, 3 July 2012
US officials pursue Julian Assange
The evidence that the US is pursuing to have Wikileaks founder Julian
Assange extradited to America is becoming more obvious. Assange still
awaits in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for political asylum to South
America, but while he remains trapped, democratic Senator Dianne
Feinstein has issued a statement to an Australian newspaper demanding
that the whistleblower be prosecuted. Trevor Timm, an activist for the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, joins us with more on the hunt for
Assange
Never Knew That Department
Never knew that Radiohead had to amend Creep's writing credits to include the writers of this song...
So far, Anderson Cooper coming out does not appear to have threatened the sanctity of traditional newscasts.
Is There a Right Way to Come Out?
The Institute of Continuing Education
HERE
Keith and I have already remarked on how many of the same gigs we were at back in the day and I used to have a lot of these flyers etc used to advertise TG gigs too...
Monday, 2 July 2012
Moving Borders (The Politics of Dirt)
Who can move? Who can speak? Who can act
politically? The struggles of refugees and migrants have problematized
conventional answers to these questions in a profound manner. Their
struggles have demonstrated that, despite the considerable risks and
dangers, new political subjects are being formed within securitized
sites and border zones. Struggles by refugees and migrants around issues
of detention, deportation, regularization and freedom of movement have
debunked some of the most cherished assumptions about political
subjectivity. While refugees, irregular migrants and the undocumented
have long been associated with victimhood, helplessness and dependency,
recent theorizations of citizenship challenge these assumptions, showing
how migrants negotiate, contest and evade borders and, in doing so,
constitute themselves as political subjects. These studies represent a
shift in how we conceptualize citizenship, from a formal status to an
enactment of political subjectivity through unexpected, unfamiliar and
irregular acts. They also enable an appreciation of what a growing and
fascinating literature calls ‘noncitizen citizenships’.1
Some commentators, especially those
working from the ‘autonomous migration’ perspective, have posited that
there is something primary – or, better, uncontrollable, indefinable,
uncapturable – about human movement, with borders and their various
apparatuses of control coming only afterwards.2 We
typically think of migrants confronting borders. Less often do we
consider the ways in which borders are also always following migrants,
being forced to adapt to the inventiveness of human mobility. For the
migrant is not the only mobile agent at the border. The border, too,
moves. While there has been some very interesting work on the
proliferation of mobile borders in their virtual forms (e.g. biometrics
and dataveillance),3 there is comparatively
little analysis of the movement of borders in material terms. When I
speak of the moving border, I mean exactly that: the movement of the
territory – the dirt, the soil – that constitutes the border. In this
context, smuggling takes on new and quite literal terms. It is not only
people and goods, licit or illicit, that are being smuggled across the
border; it is the border itself...
Policing England's Riots
Police officers from across the country describe their experience of tackling last year's riots. Eight police forces allowed the Guardian and London School of Economics unprecedented access to officers deployed on the front line during the disturbances as they battled to regain control of towns and cities across the country.
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Reading the Riots: reflections on interviewing police officers
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