In a piece for De Morgen (saturday july 4) Douglas de Conick writes about the five pirates from Somalia who are on trial now in Holland for trying to hijack the freighter Samanyolu. Willem-Jan Ausma is the laywer of the youngest one, Yusuf Ahmed (24). Yusuf is now in jail at Alphen aan de Rijn and they talk through an interpreter. He is so happy! When Willem told him he would try to bring the nine years sentence to four he asked why? He enjoys himself tremendously in jail. He gets food, can do sports and wants to learn Dutch and bring over his family asap. Willem- Jan relates how Yusuf was fishing for lobster only a few years ago, making enough money to support his family. Then the European and Asian trawlers came, got all the fish and wrecked the bottom of the ocean with their huge nets. No more fish, no more work. You know, the laywer says, I know these stories from the papers but when you hear a guy like that tell it it becomes a different story. And after the fish was gone, other ships came. They dumped chemicals and waste. And now Yusuf is in jail in a place that has profited for all that destruction and is feeling happy.
Are you ready? Ai Weiwei says: I am ready
“Watch out! Have you prepared yourself?”
Ai Weiwei: “I am ready. Or, perhaps I should say that there is nothing to prepare, no way to prepare myself. A person–this is all of me–is something that can be received by others. I offer up all of myself. When the time comes when it is necessary, I will not hesitate, I won’t be ambiguous about it. If there is anything that I am reluctant to leave behind it is the wondrous miracle that life has brought me. And that miracles are that every one of us is the same, that people are equal in this game, as well as the fantasies that come along with playing it, and our freedom. I regard every kind of intimidation, from any kind of ‘authority or power’ [sic - the character is for quanli as in 'rights', but from the context this appears to be a typo, perhaps?], as a threat to human dignity, rationality and reason–a threat to the very possibility of opposition. I will learn to face and confront this.”
From Monica Narula, through Patrice on Brico.
from p2presearch
From: Eugen Leitl Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:29 AM Subject: [tt] [p2p-research] Possible prize for RepRap
The Foresight Institute seems to be offering a prize for RepRap. Perhaps the P2P meme finally infecting the futurist and transhumanist
communities….
Steering Committee Vacancies: Special call for Europeans
The World Carfree Network is still looking for new Steering Committee (SC) representatives.
The SC provides overall vision and strategic planning, in cooperation with the InternationalCoordination Centre, member organisations and individual members.
There can be 7-13 volunteer SC members, serving for a two-year period.
Nominations are being accepted until the end of the summer period.
Hey Mr. Jim!
That is how we saw him in Gent, July 2007. He scared us to death, moving to the mike like that. But he played and played well. The band kept glancing at him, wondering if he would hold. He did. Brother Johnny! Caught a plane and he got on it.
ratatata
and some old wolves hit the road again looking for a new, for a new un dos tres!
Shaman’s meeting
Vanessa says: “Well in regards to earlier bricolab conversation about a meeting of shaman’s - Here in Pasto Colombia, there is such an encounter starting this weekend – Over 50 shamans from south america coming together to discuss natural medecine and organise public ceremonies, dances, music etc… This encounter organized by local goverment of Pasto.”
