Re: [spectre] (fwd) Sign the Petition: Release Ai Weiwei

2011-04-15 Diskussionsfäden Andreas Broeckmann
heath, thank you for these questions. i will think about them carefully, since i assume that these are the kind of questions that people like myself will have to answer when they get in the hands of the chinese stasi, should the chinese stasi choose to ask me questions about why i supported

Re: [spectre] (fwd) Sign the Petition: Release Ai Weiwei

2011-04-15 Diskussionsfäden marc garrett
Hi Heath all, I remember when you were arrested, and I was one of those who wrote a letter of support to the courts. Ai Weiwei's work, smells of trad-art elitism and top-down, modernist orientated laziness to me. But of course, one cannot judge whether an individual or group are worth

Re: [spectre] (fwd) Sign the Petition: Release Ai Weiwei

2011-04-15 Diskussionsfäden shelly silver
dear all: how much do people truly know about ai weiwei's activism, blog, etc.? http://china.blogs.time.com/2009/08/12/ai-weiwei-held-in-sichuan/ http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/32619/ai-weiwei-undergoes-brain-surgery-after-beating/ he is not just another artist trying to use caviar activism

[spectre] (fwd) Sign the Petition: Release Ai Weiwei

2011-04-14 Diskussionsfäden Andreas Broeckmann
On April 3, internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained at the Beijing airport while en route to Hong Kong, and his papers and computers were seized from his studio compound. Sign now! we need to reach 100,000 signatures!

Re: [spectre] (fwd) Sign the Petition: Release Ai Weiwei

2011-04-14 Diskussionsfäden heath bunting
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Andreas Broeckmann wrote: andreas broeckmann can you explain why you are campaigning for this person ? are you sure he not guilty of tax evasion ? does the fact that this campaign is supported by so many elite organisation not make you question this campaign ? i didn't

Re: [spectre] (fwd) Sign the Petition: Release Ai Weiwei

2011-04-14 Diskussionsfäden John Hopkins
Hallo Heath... this seems a very similar situation to julian assange. instead of the social network supporting a member of the blood rank, we should be supporting social justice and human rights and those that work using such methods Right, but I'd qualify it further -- I'd say people should