I just received this – I think it should be shared. Dear Friends Happy new year from all at the Justice4Jean campaign. Just a quick note to let you know some very exciting news. The family of Jean Charles de Menezes will be unveiling a permanent memorial to Jean Charles at Stockwell tube station at 9am on … Continue reading Menezes memorial unveiling on 7 January 2010
You can read the verdict and see the press conference by the family campaign on the website at the end of this press release: Press statement from the family: Friday, 12 December 2008 Press statement by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, the campaign and their lawyers Birnberg Peirce following the jury’s verdict “Today … Continue reading Jean Charles de Menezes
This certainly is not cricket, but if you can be at the oval … (note the new use they have found for the side screens). Over three years after Jean’s brutal death, we need to remind the state of the extent of public disgust about the conduct of the police and the consistently failures to … Continue reading From The Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign
Here is a taster (links not imported) from Lenin’s Tomb… It really is worth going to visit to follow the linkings: “From the second Menezes was murdered, the police have pulled every means to protect themselves. They have lied about the circumstances of the shooting, they lied about who knew what and when, they lied … Continue reading No Justice for Menezes
A dump post for bits cut from a manuscript. So yes, I will not be talking about Bababababadiouuuuu. But leave it here in case I need to retrieve it from the hungry mouse: that atrocities here and there and the perpetual state of war cannot be swallowed whole means we need not agree with the … Continue reading This is what a revolution looks like – ahem, slash and burn editing – killing your darlings with the delete button
The film “Zero Dark Thirty”, directed by Katherine Bigilow, written by Mark Boal, was careful to doctor any non-sponsored ads from the side of (some of) the buses shown – number 10, not number 30 – in the recreation of the July 7 2005 London bombings. This first image of the erased cola ad is … Continue reading Coincidence Theory – side of the bus yet again – tradecraft
In Arizona today, as I write, a large motorcyclist rally is being staged outside a mosque where two attackers of an earlier Texas ‘cartoon contest’ to draw the Prophet Mohammed are alleged to have ‘associates’ who need to be ‘warned’. The attackers in Texas were killed (fair warning!), and the justification of the Texas cartoon … Continue reading Cartoon politics
The book version of a commentary on various things Fun^da^mental (plus stuff on the Kumars at No. 42, Jean Charles de Menezes, Forest Gate, and the general mayhem of war-on-terror culture) is now out in a volume edited by Ian Peddie. Some of this material first appeared in various places across this blog, and was my inaugural lecture. … Continue reading Pantomime Paranoia in London, or, ‘Look Out, He’s Behind You’
Dragnets of London (for Raul). John Hutnyk I was on my way home on the number 436 to Lewisham recently when a woman did something I thought was both impressive and unusual – she spoke out against the delay caused by the 20 police who had boarded our bus. She scolded them for wasting her … Continue reading Dragnets of London
I will be attending this important bit of theatre: THIS MUCH IS TRUE By Paul Unwin and Sarah Beck On 22 July 2005 Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by the Metropolitan Police at Stockwell tube station. It was a defining moment in London’s history yet too many questions are left unanswered. Award-winning writer … Continue reading This Much is True
Greetings from London . It is sunny, and no doubt life is good, but today is the anniversary of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes – the Brazilian man killed by Police with a Dum Dum bullet to the head – 9 bullets – on the tube at Stockwell three years ago – killed … Continue reading Justice for Jean Charles
Terrorists: you ignore them for ages, then a whole bunch come along at once. Or so it seems, as the everyday profiling of Muslims as threatening others reconfigures how we all move about the city. An old fashioned racism based on looks, surface and skin has risen to unquestioned prominence at the very time when … Continue reading Spectacular Transports
A talk at Nottingham University Politics department last night gave me a chance to elaborate my worries over new media anthropology in South Asia, pantomime terror and the hanging channel – following on from the talks I’ve given about the Mohammed Afzal case and the DIY Cookbook video from Fund^da^mental. The notes below presume you … Continue reading Terrorvisionaries (part two)
Poppies seem to spring up on people’s lapels earlier each year, and on younger lapels than ever before. Walking through London Bridge tube station last night I saw them on teenagers, and then later that evening caught a few minutes of an inane interview of Girls Aloud (a pop band apparently) on the BBC and … Continue reading Poppies
So I am posting these pics to Ellen, but they can also rest here for a while. Bird and Rabbit went to Japan. To Nagoya in fact. They came with me to give a talk at Nagoya City University – the talk was about Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian lad murdered by police on … Continue reading Nagoya-Bird&Rabbit-4-Tim Stelfox-Griffen
The conference theme (TCS 25th anniversary meet at Todai U Tokyo) has set loose a plague whose epidemiology can only be described as the onset of a ‘digital Adorno’ virus (I adapt this from Anthony King – I see Adorno referenced but not read, glossed via secondary readings, named but ignored, as ever it always … Continue reading Ubiquitous Media
Diary entry: Yesterday on a bus trip through New Cross I witnessed police officers explain, in escalating tones, that the demand to know why the bus was being delayed was misplaced because officers were ‘assaulted every day by people without tickets’. This seems perverse and twisted. Travelling in a uniformed strength-in-numbers group of twenty, some … Continue reading Tickets Please
I am always suspicious of travellers’ tales, especially those I’ve heard (or told) before. They get refined and streamlined, they come to resemble one’s own version of the Lonely Planet guidebook. Jacques Derrida knew this, commenting on travel narrative – he identifies two ‘risks’ of travelogues in the possible meanings of the terms we use: … Continue reading Mind The Gap
NO SHOOT TO KILL CAMPAIGN PLEASE READ AND SUPPORT THE STATEMENT BELOW Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by armed police inside Stockwell Tube station on 22 July. His execution brought world-wide attention to a shoot to kill policy that the Prime Minster and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner say is here to stay. We say … Continue reading NO SHOOT TO KILL CAMPAIGN
UNITED FAMILES & FRIENDS CAMAPIGN DEATHS IN CUSTODY FAMILIES TO MARCH ON DOWNING STREETLondon Saturday 29th October 2005.Assemble 1pm at Trafalgar Square for a march and demonstration to Downing Street The United Families & Friends Campaign – the national coalition of death in custody family campaigns – today announced its seventh annual remembrance procession. The … Continue reading DEATHS IN CUSTODY
INJUSTICE If you are in London, this is important. A film made by friends with work from Goldsmiths students and comrades… Shoot to Kill does not make the tubes safer. Police who kill must be prosecuted. No Deaths inCustody… ———- Forwarded message ———- Press Release: 1/9/05 No Embargo POLICE CUSTODY DEATH FAMILIES DEMAND END OF … Continue reading POLICE CUSTODY DEATH FAMILIES DEMAND END OF SHOOT TO KILL POLICY
