Various interesting links relating to the recent looting & riots. Here is a list to links of interesting articles and videos relating to the recent riots, I found some these links elsewhere & some I have read & seen already, but worth visiting if one wants an overall context...
wishing all well. marc =====================:engage> The Salford riots and the greed of the disenfranchised: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/10/salford-riots-greed-disenfranchised An eyewitness perspective on the riots in Salford and Manchester: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/08/483314.html #riotcleanup or #riotwhitewash?: http://universityforstrategicoptimism.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/riotcleanup-or-riotwhitewash/ #Riotcleanup: a physiognomy of an old fascism restored: http://thethirdestate.net/2011/08/riotcleanup-a-physiognomy-of-an-old-fascism-restored/ London rioters resent media image of hooded teen thug: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/10/us-britain-riots-hackney-idUSTRE77946F20110810 An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part one): http://socialismandorbarbarism.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-letter-to-those-who-condemn.html Eyes Wide Open in London: http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/08/10/eyes-wide-open-in-london/ Riot Thoughts: http://willwiles.blogspot.com/2011/08/riot-thoughts.html A FITWatchers view of the riots: http://www.fitwatch.org.uk/2011/08/10/a-fitwatchers-view-of-the-riots/ Recreational looting in perspective: http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2011/08/09/14135 Riots: The left must respond, by James O'Nions : http://www.redpepper.org.uk/riots-the-left-must-respond/ The Riots: A grim mirror image of neoliberal Britain, by Tom Fox: http://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-riots-a-grim-mirror-image-of-neoliberal-britain/ Criminality and Rewards - Max von Sudo: http://libcom.org/library/criminality-rewards-max-von-sudo Britain and its Rabble: http://aspleasesme.blogspot.com/2011/08/britain-and-its-rabble.html Violence at the Edge: Tottenham, Athens, Paris: http://www.criticallegalthinking.com/?p=4142 >From Self-Mutilation to Self-Organisation: http://nomadicutopianism.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/158/ North London Solidarity Federation's Response to the London Riots: http://solfed.org.uk/?q=north-london-solfeds-response-to-the-london-riots The London Riots: On Consumerism Coming Home to Roost, by Zygmunt Bauman: http://tinyurl.com/3b4y9g9 There is a Context to London's Riots which Cannot be Ignored. Cif piece in Guardian by Nina Power: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/08/context-london-riots 'Panic on the Streets of London', blogpost by Laurie Penny: http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-london.html 'AA+ for the Rioters?' blogpost by The Free Association: http://freelyassociating.org/2011/08/aa-for-the-rioters/ Statement by Arts Against the Cut: http://artsagainstcuts.wordpress.com/ 'A Message to a Country on Fire', statements by London Anti-Cuts Space: http://anticutsspace.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/a-message-to-a-country-on-fire/ 'London riots: the underclass lashes out': http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8630533/Riots-the-underclass-lashes-out.html 'Five Quick Points on The Riots', by Kenan Malik: http://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/five-quick-points-about-the-riots/ 'Don't Moralise, Don't Judge, Don't Take Pictures - It's Time for the Riots to get radical, Daniel Harvey: http://thecommune.co.uk/2011/08/09/don%E2%80%99t-moralise-don%E2%80%99t-judge-don%E2%80%99t-take-pictures-%E2%80%93-it%E2%80%99s-time-for-the-riot-to-get-radical/ Tottenham: Neoliberal Riots and the Possibility of Politics, by William Wall: http://www.criticallegalthinking.com/?p=4151 London Riot Pt 2, Arts Against the Cuts: http://artsagainstcuts.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/london-riot-pt-2/ Report from members of The Commune about rioting in Hackney: http://thecommune.co.uk/2011/08/09/london-riots-quick-report-from-hackney/ Also: Badiou article about the 'Banlieue riots' in France (2005). Worth a read now: http://infinitethought.cinestatic.com/index.php/site/index/badious_lorganisation_politique_on_the_french_situation/ Riots: The left must respond http://www.redpepper.org.uk/riots-the-left-must-respond/ Darcus Howe on the BBC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJgILxGK0o Interesting interview from the London Streets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmo8DG1gno4&feature=player_embedded Interview with Tottenham local the morning of Sunday 7th August: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CJQHWwEpwAY "Truly extraordinary speech by Fearless and Brave Lady to Hackney London rioters:": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SHKhvVjLIc&feature=youtu.be Darcus Howe and Richard Seymour on Democracy Now: Wednesday, August 10, 2011: http://www.democracynow.org/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
