Dodomenta, Diary from Kassel
test alternative approaches to economy, collectivity, and sustainability through the practice of lumbung. Even if this approach is not visible at first glance, it may be noticeable at the venues and in the programs." <https://booklet.documenta-fifteen.de/en/ueber/lumbung> https://booklet.documenta-fifteen.de/en/ueber/lumbung Harmony and balance are valued higher than conflict and contrast. In a sense, the lumbung collective exposes itself as such: in harmony, open, and embracing. Not so much searching for confrontation but for meeting and exchange. Baking mud cakes according to a Haitian traditional recipe from Kassel earth. Bringing rituals together in niches of the St. Kunigundis ( <https://www.lumbunggallery.theartists.net/artist/atis-rezistans> Atis Rezistans). Feeling your creative compost in the <https://documenta-fifteen.de/en/venues/compost-heap-karlsaue/> Holobiente in Karlsaue Park. So many ways to look around, and to look at yourself. I did have some intercourse with the works, I was absorbed and overwhelmed and warmed and all that. But it did not move, not shake, not anymore. No wonder, when the protagonists had left the space already (I only read the text of their statement the day after). Just as we can blame Documenta for being colonial, we could call lumbung naive. How could they expect the West/Europe to accept without a whisper all collective powers invading the cultural heart of Europe? Lumbung did not come to topple the institute or invade the Volksraum, but confronted with a wall of shame, the lumbung saw itself forced to manifest its resilience and orbital interdependency, by leaving Documenta behind like a fossil. Naive? Or just a new beginning? We are outraged, we are exhausted, but our struggle will continue. "Lumbung Gallery is planned to extend beyond the duration of documenta fifteen as a registered entity of its own. Collectors, public institutions and communities are invited to form their own Lumbungs and participate in the sharing of artworks."<https://www.lumbunggallery.theartists.net/> https://www.lumbunggallery.theartists.net/ Cheers! See you soon! Jo van der Spek (1956) Kassel-Amsterdam Sept. 2022 http://letterver <http://letterverz.nl/> z.nl public work 23 september make it happen: NL53TRIO0338573607 t.n.v. Stichting Migrant 2 Migrant o.v.v. LetterVerZ Jo van der Spek M2M Communicatieadviseur Stichting Migrant 2 Migrant Soendastraat 6 h 1094BG Amsterdam NL Tel. +31(0)651069318 http://schipholbrand.net <http://schipholbrand.net/> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Dodomenta, A Kassel diary
proaches to economy, collectivity, and sustainability through the practice of lumbung. Even if this approach is not visible at first glance, it may be noticeable at the venues and in the programs." <https://booklet.documenta-fifteen.de/en/ueber/lumbung> https://booklet.documenta-fifteen.de/en/ueber/lumbung Harmony and balance are valued higher than conflict and contrast. In a sense, the lumbung collective exposes itself as such: in harmony, open and embracing. Not so much searching for confrontation but for meeting and exchange. Baking mud cakes according to a Haitian tradition recipe from Kassel earth. Bringing rituals together in niches of the St. Kunigundis ( <https://www.lumbunggallery.theartists.net/artist/atis-rezistans> Atis Rezistans). Feeling your creative compost in the <https://documenta-fifteen.de/en/venues/compost-heap-karlsaue/> Holobiente in Karlsaue Park. So many ways to look around, and to look at yourself. I did have some intercourse with the works, I was absorbed and overwhelmed and warmed and all that. But it did not move, not shake, not any more. No wonder, when the protagonists had left the space already (I only read the tekst of their statement the day after). Just as we can blame Documenta for being colonial, we could call lumbung naive. How could they expect the West/Europe to accept without a whisper all collective powers invading the cultural heart of Europe? Lumbung did not come to topple the institute or invade the Volksraum, but confronted with a wall of shame, the lumbung saw itself orced to manifest its resilience and orbital interdependency, by leaving Documenta behind like a fossil. Naive? Or just a new beginning? We are outraged, we are exhausted, but our struggle will continue. "Lumbung Gallery is planned to extend beyond the duration of documenta fifteen as a registered entity of its own. Collectors, public institutions and communities are invited to form their own Lumbungs and participate in the sharing of artworks." https://www.lumbunggallery.theartists.net/ Cheers! See you soon! Jo van der Spek (1956) Kassel-Amsterdam sept. 2022 http://letterver <http://letterverz.nl/> z.nl public work 23rd of september make it happen: NL53TRIO0338573607 t.n.v. Stichting Migrant 2 Migrant o.v.v. LetterVerZ Jo van der Spek M2M Communicatieadviseur Stichting Migrant 2 Migrant http://schipholbrand.net <http://schipholbrand.net/> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: Peter Lamborn WIlson 1945 -2022
Dear Konrad, Geert and Felix. Free Radio Patapoe wants to dedicate a full hour dedicated to the legacy of Peter Lamborn Wilson, a.k.a. Hakim Bey. We plan this for tomorrow evening between 8 and 10 p.m. Amsterdam Time. Radio Patapoe is an Amsterdam underground station. Formerly as a pirate on FM, now only on the internet. Our program, every Thursday night from 8 to 10 discusses political and cultural current events in Amsterdam and the rest of the world in historical perspective. Bart Schut presents, in alternating cohesion with Kimbel Bouwman and Jo van der Spek. We use a chat tool called jitsi. https://jitsipatapoe.ddns.net/psjm I hope you can join us tomorrow evening! Let's Bolo Bolo! Jo van der Spek M2M Communicatieadviseur St.Migrant 2 Migrant Soendastraat 6 h 1094BG Amsterdam NL Tel. +31(0)651069318 http://schipholbrand.net http://letterverz.nl -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: nettime-l-boun...@mail.kein.org Namens Konrad Becker Verzonden: dinsdag 24 mei 2022 17:16 Aan: nettim...@kein.org Onderwerp: Peter Lamborn WIlson 1945 -2022 Peter Lamborn Wilson died in his apartment in Saugerties in upstate New York last night, reportedly from a heart attack. A "Cyberguru" in the nineties he had no email address and wrote his pieces by hand, or an old typewriter. With 70+ books and titles like "Pirate Utopia" he inspired several generations. However, his visceral abhorrence of digital media was softened by his clever use of resources in a digital savvy environment. As the author of "Temporary Autonomous Zone" he was guest at the inauguration of Public Netbase and a regular visitor here in Vienna. Sadly, despite his personal integrity, his fame and colorful queer identity also triggered offending smears and innuendo hard to oppose. In his last months he spoke self-depreciatingly of himself as an old hippy, maybe he was, I just wish there were more of this kind. While many drift into senility in their early forties, he was bright as a button until his last day and had more clever things to say about the electronic media realm than most of the new media experts I ever met. Following up on his contribution to the book "Digital Unconscious - Nervous Systems and Uncanny Predictions!" and with the support of Autonomedia, Felix Stalder and me ventured into a series of deeper inquiries into the fabric of media un/consciousness. There is a general narrowing and flattening of the imagination due to the global spread of consumerism and the increasing abstraction and quantification through which the social world is constructed. PLW work can be understood as an exploration of alternative ways of being in the world that could offer escape routes. We, by way of Jim Flemming and Fred Barney Taylor, conducted the last interview just a few days ago. In his last interviews he liked to talk of the end of the world which he defined as an ongoing process. His lucid analysis what went wrong in the last few thousand years was not defeatist but a call to arms. As he liked to say: Even if you are going to die tomorrow, plant a tree today. The rebellious spirit of PLW and his alter Ego Hakim Bey will be immensely missed. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: Just out: Stuck on the Platform by Geert Lovink
Random is fun.Don't tell 'em in the shelters.Jo van der Spek M2MCommunicatie adviesSoendastraat 6 hs1094BG Amsterdam Oorspronkelijk bericht Van: Geert Lovink Datum: 05-05-2022 12:17 (GMT+01:00) Aan: a moderated mailing list for net criticism Onderwerp: Just out: Stuck on the Platform by Geert Lovink I am proud to present you my new book, published in five languages, starting with English (Valiz) and Spanish (Holobionte Ediciones), followed by German (Transcript Verlag), Italian (Nero) and Turkish (İletişim). The original English edition, published by Valiz (Amsterdam) can be ordered now and found in bookstores. More info here: https://valiz.nl/en/publications/stuck-on-the-platform The global book launch is in Bologna on May 6, 2022, 6pm, via Pietralata 58.The blurb:We’re all trapped. No matter how hard you try to delete apps from your phone, the power of seduction draws you back. Doom scrolling is the new normal of a 24/7 online life. What happens when your home office starts to feel like a call center and you’re too fried to log out of Facebook? We’re addicted to large-scale platforms, unable to return to the frivolous age of decentralized networks. How do we make sense of the rising disaffection with the platform condition? Zoom fatigue, cancel culture, crypto art, NFTs and psychic regression comprise core elements of a general theory of platform culture. Geert Lovink argues that we reclaim the internet on our own terms. Stuck on the Platform is a relapse-resistant story about the Brexit-Trump-Covid period (2019-2021), written for doom scrollers with a passion for platform alternatives, built on a deep understanding of the digital slump.Table of Content:Introduction: Phantoms of the Platform, or the Internet’s Muddy Enlightenment1. The Anatomy of Zoom Fatigue2. Requiem for the Network3. Exhaustion of the Networked Psyche: Exploring Online Hyper-Sensibilities4. Stuck on the Platform: Notes on Online Regression5. Minima Digitalia6. Delete Your Profile, Not People: Comments on Cancel Culture7. Crypto-Art Annotations and other MoneyLab Findings 8. Principles of StacktivismConclusion: Reconfiguring the Techno-SocialFrom the introduction:During the lockdown misère we’ve literally been stuck on the platform. What happens when your home office starts to feel like a call center and you’re too tired to close down Facebook? “How to get rid of your phone? Wrong answers only.” We wanted to use the pandemic to reset and move on. We failed. The comfort of the same old proved too strong. Instead of a radical techno-imagination focused on rolling out alternatives, we got distracted by fake news, cancel culture, and cyber warfare. Condemned to doom scrolling, we suffered through a never-ending barrage of cringy memes, bizarre conspiracy theories, and pandemic stats, including the inevitable flame wars surrounding them. Random is fun.“We admitted we were powerless—that our lives had become unmanageable.” This confession is Step 1 in AA’s 12 steps, and it is here that Stuck on the Platform also begins. As you and I are not able to resolve platform dependency, we remain glued to the same old channels, furious at others about our own inability to change. In this seventh volume of my chronicles, we’re staying with the trouble called the internet, diagnosing our current phase of stagnation while also asking how to get “unstuck” and deplatform the platforms.What happens to the psycho-cultural condition when there’s nowhere to go and users are trapped in too-big-to-fail IT firms? It’s not pretty. While some believe that our persistent resentment, complaints, and anger are merely part of the human condition, totally unrelated to the shape and size of the information ecology, others (like me) are convinced that we have to take the mental poverty of the online billions seriously. We can no longer ignore the depression, anger, and despair, pretending they will be gone overnight after installing another app. Addiction is real, buried deep inside the body. Habits need to be unlearned, awareness needs to spread. All the while Godot just sits there, staring at the screen, waiting in the lobby for some policy change to be announced. Yet nothing ever happens. The resulting fallback and fatalism comes as no surprise. “What do you do when your world starts to fall apart?” Anna Tsing asks at the very beginning of The Mushroom at the End of the World. It seems we have our answer: we stick to the platform.<# distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Google’s algorithm is endangering access to Women on Web’s online abortion service
Venny Ala-Siurua, Executive Director of Women on Web: Google’s algorithm is endangering access to Women on Web’s online abortion service At least three times a year, Women on Web is forced to go through a stressful process that shapes our online strategy and work activities for months afterwards and has the power to paralyze or enhance our online abortion service. This process has nothing to do with the dedication of our staff nor with the number of individuals that we support in accessing safe abortions. Instead, it is an exercise powered by Google. It is called the Google Core Update, which is an update to Google’s algorithm that is rolled out several times a year to improve the quality and relevance of its search engine’s results. The impact of Google Core Updates Women on Web has been operating for over 15 years and our website has been re-evaluated numerous times by Google. However, it wasn’t until May 2020 that we fully grasped the power that these updates have over our service and the viability of our organization. During the May 2020 update, Women on Web lost 80% of its website traffic and as an abortion service that almost exclusively operates online, this update had a devastating impact on our operations. As a result, fewer people have been finding us on the Internet and we’ve seen a sharp decline in help requests to our service. On November 17th 2021, Google’s most recent update started and once again it felt like the rug was pulled out from under us. Right away we started to see a sharp decline in our traffic, while we know very well that the demand for remote services and abortions didn’t decline; individuals needed our service on November 18th as much as they did the day before. The only thing that changed was the algorithm. The thousands of women and pregnant people who access our service every year should be a sufficient testament of our expertise, trustworthiness and authority that should not be debated by the algorithm several times a year. Still, Google has the power to determine whether we operate a relevant service for people needing abortions, even in countries where our telemedicine abortion service remains the only safe and affordable way to end unwanted pregnancies. Google’s algorithm does not represent the needs of women seeking abortions To be clear, we understand why these updates exist and we are not protesting against strategies to ensure that search results correspond to the search intentions of people browsing the Internet. Instead, we are arguing that Google, through these updates, is not improving its search results or delivering relevant content for its users because people looking for safe abortions can no longer find our service. When Google de-ranks our website, the tech giant is not able to offer other more relevant websites on top of its search results simply because they don’t exist. Is the algorithm able to interpret the search intent of someone with an unwanted pregnancy living in a country with no access to abortions? Can the algorithm read the preferences of people looking for not just abortion care, but an online abortion service? We don’t think it can. Women on Web’s online abortion service is unique and reaches some of the most remote regions in the world. The service has provided over 100,000 medical abortion services since 2005 and published over 20 scientific papers on the positive outcomes of the service. Access to our service and safe abortions should not be decided by algorithms and instead a vital service like ours should be protected from these updates. Google needs to become accountable for the damage these updates cause and acknowledge that its algorithms are not neutral. They are built and trained by humans with specific backgrounds, intentions and blind spots. These are people who are disconnected from the global realities of abortion rights and access, and are therefore incapable of making accurate and unbiased decisions for women and pregnant people needing abortion services. Help us counter the Google Core Update Our service is vital and needs to be visible. Please share our website and service within your networks and advocate for holding big tech responsible for protecting online access to essential services. -- Jo van der Spek, M2M Amsterdam# distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Fwd: Who’s *really* backing Boris?
Open Democracy launches down to earth campaign to expose leading Boris Johnson and Hunt. -- * please, don't other me * Jo van der Spek M2M v. Ostadestraat 49 1072SN Amsterdam http://schipholbrand.net Doorgestuurd bericht Van: "Peter Geoghegan, openDemocracy" support...@opendemocracy.net Aan: j...@xs4all.nl Datum: donderdag, 13 juni 2019, 08:44p.m. +02:00 Onderwerp: Who’s *really* backing Boris? >Most of us won’t have a say in who becomes PM, but at the very least we should >know who’s funding them. >Unsubscribe >View in your browser >Dear friend of openDemocracy, >The race to replace Theresa May is on. >Soon we’ll know who’s moving into Number 10. But will we know who’s >bankrolled them? >openDemocracy has just revealed that the two frontrunners, Boris Johnson and >Jeremy Hunt, have received £25,000 each from a prominent climate change >sceptic. >Boris is yet to disclose the donation. >We also know that Lynton Crosby’s controversial PR firm is running a vastly >expensive pro-Boris campaign – but no one will say who’s picking up the bill. >We’ve got tons of leads to chase down on this story, but not much time. Will >you help us keep digging? > >Yes, I'll donate to openDemocracy >openDemocracy exposed the tricks that made a mockery of the 2016 Brexit >referendum – including the law-breaking by Vote Leave, fronted by Boris. >Now we want citizens to have the facts before the next British prime minister >is chosen. >Hunt and Johnson have received over £100,000 in donations – that we know of – >in recent weeks, with more set to pour in before the final ballot. >Millionaire hedge-funders, CEOs, and lobbying firms are among those emptying >their pockets. >Most of us won’t have a say in who becomes PM, but at the very least we >should know who’s funding them. >With your support, we can: >- dig deep on who’s bankrolling all the candidates , so that citizens know >who the next PM is leaving the door of Number 10 open to >- uncover who’s funding the secretive, lavish pro-Boris lobbying operation, >run by Lynton Crosby’s controversial PR firm >- expose the backroom deals and horse-trading going on behind closed doors >Yes, I'll donate to openDemocracy > This isn’t just about Britain, or Boris. It’s vital that any candidate >running for office is transparent about their funding. >Whatever the outcome of the Tory leadership race, fixing the ongoing abuses of >our democracy will need committed, forensic investigation over many years. >Our work gets results: prompting law change, criminal investigations – and >our investigation into Brexit bankroller Aaron Banks just got nominated for >Private Eye’s prestigious Paul Foot journalism prize. >With your regular support, we can strengthen our network of investigative >journalists – tracing dark money flows and holding secretive political >backers to account, both now and for years to come. >Please give what you can today and together we can uncover the truth about >who’s shaping our politics. > >Thank you, > > >Peter Geoghegan , >Investigations Editor, openDemocracyUK >Read more: Revealed: Climate change denier makes big donations to Boris >Johnson and Jeremy Hunt >Click here to change your subscription. Read our privacy notice here . >The Print House >18 Ashwin Street >London , E8 3DL >United Kingdom > # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: apropos "relax dear"
Yes, the fundamental question lurking in any collective is "who cleans the
toilet?".
--
* please, don't other me *
Jo van der Spek M2M
v. Ostadestraat 49
1072SN Amsterdam
http://schipholbrand.net dinsdag, 06 november 2018, 00:19p.m. +01:00 van
Andreas Broeckmann a...@mikro.in-berlin.de :
>friends, i'm an active lurker on this list since 1996; my answer to
>angela's question ("What is Nettime's policy on whether or not it should
>give fascists a platform from which to recruit?") would be that
>"nettime" probably doesn't have a "policy" on anything, other than the
>openness to questions; i'm sure there are people here who can put this
>in a more nuanced theoretical language, but i imagine the list and the
>discourse it supports as "in flux" and as something that takes its shape
>through the things that people write, and through the ways in which they
>respond to each other. - in the given case, the point for me would be
>not to ask what some (general) "policy" might be, but to state clearly
>and concretely that i'm against allowing anything that smacks of fascist
>trolling or recruitment. a statement like this constitutes the quality
>of this list which has, as its "policy", only a certain, vague
>collective spirit which requires critical voices like angela's to
>express their opinion. therefore: i support ted's decision to moderate
>some of the contributions since, given 22 years of trust-building, i
>believe he is acting in the spirit of the list and the discourse it
>serves to constitute.
>(not sure whether this is an answer to julia's question.)
>regards,
>-a
>
>
>Am 05.11.18 um 01:57 schrieb Julia Röder:
> about that
>
>> dear angela,
>> relax dear.
>> it is ok.
>> noone is recruiting anyone here.
>> chill.
>> best,
>> w
>
> so, is that it? silence about this from the whole list except from angela?
> do you all not say anything because you think this is trolling or this
> is normal??
>
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 11:12:54 +1100
> From: Angela Mitropoulos < angela.mitropou...@gmail.com
>>
> To: Nettime < nettim...@kein.org>
> Subject: Re: apropos of nothing
>
> It is a simple and straightforward question that I would like
> answered. It
> makes no inferences about whether recruitment is effective, or even
> deliberate rather than aesthetic. But I'm grateful for the evidence
> you've
> furnished, dear, about the way in which women are told to calm down and
> shut up, no matter the tone they take, so that those who think women and
> black people are less than human and not entitled to take up space
> can keep
> ranting on at length about how everyone other than white guys are
> less than
> human. I mean, I'm grateful that you've illustrated the reason why I
> asked
> this question in the first place. That said, I have no interest in
> debating
> this further.
>
> I simply repeat my question, and would like it answered. Preferably
> in the
> negative. But if in the affirmative, then I would like to suggest that
> Nettime be shuttered because any benefit it had for creating a
> better world
> has long past. The world doesn't need a longform version of Gab, or
> Gab for
> that matter.
>
> Angela
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Re: e-flux: Galleries Against Gaslighting: how can the UK
Hi all, I am excited by this call for solidarity and action from the UK. It bears strong resemblance with similar cases in recent Dutch history. The so-called Bijlmerramp of 1992, an El Al plane crashed on two flats in Amsterdams migrant ghetto. Also here many undocumented migrants were among the 50 victims. It lead the then mayor of Amsterdam to arrange for an amnesty, calling all migrants to present themselves in order to obtain the necessary papers to make a life, finally. The second case I like to bring to your attention is the Schiphol Fire. In 2005 a detention center for undocumented migrants, due to be deported, caught fire killing 11 inmates, while destroying many lives of the survivors. I have the honor of leading a 10-year long campaign to support the victims and raise the point of the inhumanity of detaining unsuspected humans, based on administrative laws. http://schipholbrand.net/en/ Also here the authorities tried everything to make the victims disappear as fast as possible, whether by deporting or by putting them away in remote prisons or reception centers. I do believe that artists and cultural institutions can play an important role in answering these disasters, annex crimes. They have always played an important role at the events that we have staged, at commemorations, court cases and the like. Let me know if I can be of any help to support your call and work together somehow. And let me inform you about the next act: on the 28th of October in Amsterdam, the 11th yearly commemoration. best wishes Jo van der Spek Migrant 2 Migrant Amsterdam > > The above information needs to be put out to as many sources as > possible. But for pressing demands that can be distributed easily and > succinctly, voices of concerned parties are identifying two key areas: > > Immigration amnesty for everyone affected/nobody to be deported. > There are reports that residents may have had applications for full > residency in process and have had their 20 years evidence of British > residency burned in the fire; this must not be used as an opportunity > to deport. > # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
nettime Welcoming the Iraqi invasion of Holland
On the occasion of the action by refugees-on-the-street who started a camp outside the Collective Center at Ter Apel in the north of the Netherlands on the 8th of May, Jo van der Spek of M2M wrote the following column. These migrants are supposed to return voluntarily to their country, because the Dutch government believes that they are not in danger there. However the governemnt in Iraq refuses to take them back if they are forced. So they have nowhere to go to, no right to be here and no way to go there. But they act together for a chance to live and live better than before. Why not? Welcoming the Iraqi Invasion Act Finally it is not the USA that invades The Hague, in order to prevent the application of international justice to American citizens- soldiers. No, it's Iraqi citizen-migrants occupying common ground in the north of the Netherlands in an effort to force a radical change in the application of human justice to migrants that are so far denied acces and basic rights. This act of occupation by a fast growing number of mainly Iraqi refugees-on-the-street is well timed and also well suited to create an uplifting experience amidst the general lethargy that still covers Holland like a blanket of mental smog. Like so many times before in history an external agent, through an unexpected and autonomous action, is now intervening in the Dutch political landscape, at a moment that everyday political life is in a highly unstable state: no government, a parliament trying to gain legitimacy and a queen dying to hand-over sovereignty to her son. The direct cause for this current limbo lies in the response to the economic recession and the European conditions forcing even a rich country like Holland to take extreme measures of austerity. However, the cornerstone of change, the hinge on which the minds and hearts of a significant section of youth and mindful adults may move, is the approach towards migrants and world affairs in general. Poverty is moving in and migrants are dying on the shores of Europe. Soon we will be drifting together if we don't take drastic action. Finally we see the face of globalization reflected in the mirror that Brussels and Ter Apel are holding up for us to see. We see Geert Wilders as just another make-over of Batman, unmasking himself as just another copy cat of Pim Fortuyn, only adding to the pitiful frustration of the merciless masses voting for him, proving once again time for messiah is over. One man will not make the difference. Ask Obama. Finally the Joker hits back. After two exercises last winter led by Somali brothers and sisters camping in the cold outside the deportation complex of Ter Apel, now the weather is fine and time is ripe for the real thing. These poor asylum seekers, strangled by foreign police and immigration service IND, mentally broken by the thousands in administrative detention, suffocated by laws and lawyers, made dependant on charity and church, are finally showing who they really are: human! They can really move! They are not victims but actors! They can be tourists like you and me! So let us not help the occupiers in Ter Apel. Let us not support them, don't give them tents, blankets or telephone credit. Do not bring your redundant laptops, I-pads or even worn-out army boots and leather jackets to their field of honour. No, embrace their exemplary autonomous action, join Ali Aziz and Hadi Abu Sanad like in the 16th century we embraced the House of Orange, invading the Dutch swamps at nearby Heiligerlee.Temperature is rising, parliamentary politics is exhausted, corporate business is selling out to China's communists and Mexican coke dealers. We got to save ourselves. We are here, we the people, we make the difference, we have no borders to cross, we have no cross other than our own indulging in apathy. Let's throw it off and start the summer. Leave your squat and camp out. Send your children abroad after the exams and restore disorder at home. Forget your mortgage, bury your debts and love your neighbour. Let migrants invade this place and help us chase away the ghosts of Rawagade, Srebrenica, the Schiphol Fire and most of all the mist of mental misery hanging over us. Jo van der Spek m2m.streamtime.org # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Help Iraqi resistance in Ter Apel (NL)
On the 8th of May 2012 refugees-on-the-street again started a camp outside the Collective Center at Ter Apel in the north of the Netherlands These migrants are supposed to return voluntarily to their country, because the Dutch government believes that they are not in danger there. However the government in Iraq refuses to take them back if they are forced. So they have nowhere to go to, no right to be here and no way to go there. But they act together for a chance to live and live better than before. Finally it is not the USA that invades The Hague, in order to prevent the application of international justice to American citizens- soldiers. No, it's Iraqi citizen-migrants occupying common ground in the north of the Netherlands in an effort to force a radical change in the application of human justice to migrants that are so far denied acces and basic rights. This act of occupation by a fast growing number of mainly Iraqi refugees-on-the-street is well timed and also well suited to create an uplifting experience amidst the general lethargy that still covers Holland like a blanket of mental smog. Like so many times before in history an external agent, through an unexpected and autonomous action, is now intervening in the Dutch political landscape, at a moment that everyday political life is in a highly unstable state: no government, a parliament trying to gain legitimacy and a queen dying to hand over sovereignty to her son. The direct cause for this current limbo lies in the response to the economic recession and the European conditions forcing even a rich country like Holland to take extreme measures of austerity. However, the cornerstone of change, the hinge on which the minds and hearts of a significant section of youth and mindful adults may move, is the approach towards migrants and world affairs in general. Poverty is moving in and migrants are dying on the shores of Europe. Soon we will be drifting together if we don't take drastic action. We now see the face of globalization reflected in the mirror that Brussels and Ter Apel are holding up for us to see. We see Geert Wilders as just another make-over of Batman, unmasking himself as just another copy cat of Pim Fortuyn, only adding to the pitiful frustration of the merciless masses voting for him, proving once again time for messiah is over. One man will not make the difference. Ask Obama. Finally the Joker hits back. After two exercises last winter led by Somali brothers and sisters camping in the cold outside the deportation complex of Ter Apel, now the weather is fine and time is ripe for the real thing. These poor asylum seekers, strangled by foreign police and immigration service IND, mentally broken by the thousands in administrative detention, suffocated by laws and lawyers, made dependant on charity and church, are finally showing who they really are: human! They can really move! They are not victims but actors! They can be tourists like you and me! So let us not help the occupiers in Ter Apel. Let us not support them, don't give them tents, blankets or telephone credit. Do not bring your redundant laptops, I-pads or even worn-out army boots and leather jackets to their field of honour. No, embrace their exemplary autonomous action, join Ali Aziz and Hadi Abu Sanad like in the 16th century we embraced the House of Orange, invading the Dutch swamps at nearby Heiligerlee. Temperature is rising, parliamentary politics is exhausted, corporate business is selling out to China's communists and Mexican coke dealers. We got to save ourselves. We are here, we the people, we make the difference, we have no borders to cross, we have no cross other than our own indulging in apathy. Let's throw it off and start the summer. Leave your squat and camp out. Send your children abroad after the exams and restore disorder at home. Forget your mortgage, bury your debts and love your neighbour. Let migrants invade this place and help us chase away the ghosts of Rawagade, Srebrenica, the Schiphol Fire and most of all the mist of mental misery hanging over us. Jo van der Spek http://m2m.streamtime.org # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
