Saturday UK Protest: Gil Scott-Heron: Don’t Play apartheid Israel!

Protest: Gil Scott-Heron: Don’t Play apartheid Israel!


Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010
Time: 6:15pm - 8:30pm
Location: outside Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London

Meet at 6.15pm outside Royal Festival Hall, London (to protest as people go into the concert that starts at 7.30pm) Bring banners. placards, flags, drums, etc

Gil Scott Heron was part of the United Artists Against Apartheid in the early 80’s. He sang against Apartheid and against artists playing at Sun City (he’s the fellow in sunglasses,...

next marxism in culture seminar: joshua clover

[Am very excited about this! See Owen’s recent review of Joshua’s book]

‘Marxism in Culture’ seminar, Friday 30 April, Wolfson Room, Institute for Historical Research, Senate House, London at 5.30.

No End & No Beginning: Pop, Periodization, Problems c. 1989

Joshua Clover (University of California, Davis)

LAZY FRIDAY - I Wanna Live Like Cameron’s People

Another Lazy Friday treat. Maybe it’s me, but doesn’t this sketch remind you of Call Me Dave? "Like, totally!"

bidisha on tokenism

Painfully true Guerilla Girls poster.

Bidisha has written an excellent piece on tokenism that avoids the usual merely factual approach in favour of an angrier kind of analysis (to be read alongside Laurie’s equally excellent recent piece on why men get congratulated for saying feminist things that women have been saying forever here).

Bidisha writes:

‘No modern woman wants to find herself alone on a station platform, counting a poster. It’s sad. But it’s all part of my investigation into cultural femicide...

paper at middlesex: update

CRMEP Research Seminar

Steven Melville’s presentation on Nancy and Hegel will now take place on May 20 instead of May 27. Steven Melville is Professor of the History of Art at Ohio State University. He has published widely on contemporary art as well as on issues in contemporary theory and historiography.

The seminar will begin at 17:00, in the Saloon, on the ground floor of the Mansion Building at Middlesex University, Trent Park Campus, Bramley Road, London N14 4YZ.

CRMEP research seminars are open to...

Tory treasure pt2: Bust bankers sponsor Tories to make you pay for their crisis..

The collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered the biggest financial crisis in living memory forcing the British government to spend £200 billion in loans, buyouts and quantitative easing.

The largest corporate collapse in human history was made worse for employees of all ranks in the UK as the bank withdraw billions through our country’s porous financial borders.

Now cuts to public services more severe than under Tory Margaret Thatcher are promised by all three leading parties in the general election - which...

Judge Goldstone to call SA Chief Rabbi a liar?

This is funny, funny coincidental rather than funny funny. No sooner had I got the homophobic email denouncing the rabbis that congratulated Goldstone than I got one pointing to Judge Goldstone’s letter to the South African newspaper, Business Day, suggesting that South Africa’s Chief Rabbi, Warren Goldstein, is no fan of the commandment about not bearing false witness.

It looks to me like Judge Goldstone is saying that South Africa’s Chief Rabbi has lied about the latter’s approach to the saga of Judge...

Luna17 recommends…

1. Finsbury Health Centre: Lubetkin’s legacy (Owen Hatherley at Counterfire)

2. Breaking the electoral mould may not have a happy ending (Seumas Milne at Comment is Free)

3. In Defence of No Platform (Harpymarx)

4. The lefties: who’s got mojo? (Jim Jepps)

5. In praise of penpushers (The Third Estate)

6. Full interview with Ken MacLeod (Penny Red)

7. Volcanic ash and neoliberal chaos (Neil Faulkner at Counterfire)

8. Let them eat junk (Links)

9. ‘A perspective that is unashamedly and explicitly anti-capitalist’ ...

Rabbis’ credentials questioned

I just got an email about the previous post about the rabbis that praised and congratulated Goldstone:

What a comical relief to read your posting by phoney rabbis lauding the renegade Goldstone. Several are lesbians and homosexuals, 3 do not believe in Judaism and all are ignorant of the Talmud.

You should write to these oddballs and ask them if they could supplicate the Neturei Karta rabbis to endorse their tosh.

I thought zionists were pretending to be gay friendly these days. And since when was believing...

Mazel tov to Goldstone from lots of rabbis

Just seen this on Mondoweiss. A remarkable open letter - I think it’s open - from quite a few rabbis to Judge Goldstone to wish him mazel tov on his grandson’s bar mitzvah and to praise his report on Israel’s slaughter of 1,400 or so people in Gaza in Operation Cast Lead, 2008/9:

Dear Judge Goldstone,
As rabbis from diverse traditions and locations, we want to extend our warmest mazel tov to you as an elder in our community upon the bar mitzvah of your grandson. Bar and Bat Mitzvah is a call to conscience,...

education event at sussex

ON THE CURRENT SITUATION
IN (HIGHER)EDUCATION

This is the first in a weekly series of discussion organised by the what-is-education
working group. We aim to foster critical reflection and public discussion across the university community on the university as a place of life and work - its realities, difficulties, and potentials. Email what-is-education@gmail.com for more information or to get involved. A public meeting to discuss the current and future pressures
on education - financial, cultural and...

After the general election: democracy and British politics

See HERE for more on Mutiny’s Democracy on Trial on 12 May.

Recommended reading on the implications of a hung parliament for the left: The election - hung together or hung separately?

Andy Worthington Discusses “Guantánamo Habeas Week” with Peter B. Collins

On Tuesday I was delighted to talk once more to Peter B. Collins, the independent progressive radio host whose podcasts, uninterrupted by ad breaks, provide a great opportunity to discuss serious issues without interruption. The interview is available here. I met Peter on my trip to the US last November to promote the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself), and it’s always great to talk to him. This time round, we dealt mainly with my...

3000 Days in Guantánamo: Shaker Aamer Protest at 10 Downing Street, Saturday April 24, 2010

At 12 noon on Saturday April 24, 2010, the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign is holding a protest opposite 10 Downing Street to mark a sad occasion — 3000 days since British resident Shaker Aamer, who was cleared for release from Guantánamo in 2007, first arrived at the prison. Speakers include: author and journalist Victoria Brittain; Andy Worthington, journalist, author of The Guantánamo Files and co-director of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”; Yvonne Ridley, patron of Cageprisoners; Martin...

Cunt cups: Why can’t we find the words for a woman’s “wowo”?

Feminists have bombarded a website for Moon Cups which requests words for a woman’s "Fru Fru" - placing cunt at number two in the chart with 1,295 entries at the time of posting.

The current leader is the Australian Moot with 3,842 entries with more clinical term vagina only has 328 votes placing it seventh. Blogger Auraliser has lambasted the advertising campaign Love Your Vagina for being too squeemish.

She states: "The way that mooncups work involves a very real engagement with your body. You fold and...