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• Thursday 21 May 2009

  kettle the met

  I’m a bad blogger. Set up a blog, drop a link in the wrong place somewhere, take the site down in a tearing hurry, go away for a couple of weeks before you can do the repairs and then get home and find the internet connection’s died…
  Oh well.
  I’m back. This demo is where I’ll [...]

  posted by red at 11:23 pm in civil liberties, resistance | 5 comments

• Saturday 2 May 2009

  may day protests

  This is France. The BBC has a slideshow of May Day protests around the world, mainly focused on the economic crisis. The police look the same everywhere…
  Diam’s offers a take on France here – one that’s multiracial and anti-Sarko. If you want a rough translation drop me a line. But your French may be better [...]

  posted by red at 1:58 am in capitalism, class, resistance | 1 comment

• Tuesday 21 April 2009

  who built the city?

  A comment on the Brecht poem in this post reminded me about thoughts that sometimes cross my mind when I’m wandering around London looking at the buildings. Like in the City, where there are many big old buildings and some impressive new ones too.
  They were built by slaves.
  I don’t mean that the people who put [...]

  posted by red at 12:43 am in capitalism, class, racism | 3 comments

• Friday 17 April 2009

  it starts when you’re always afraid

  First, a word from the late, great Miriam Makeba.

  You can get it here.
  Yeah, sometimes there’s something you want to say, but it turns out someone else has already said it. Here’s a letter in the Guardian newspaper that spells out what’s been on my mind. I’ve dropped a couple of links in.
  On [...]

  posted by red at 4:44 pm in civil liberties | 1 comment

• Sunday 2 March 2008

  testing for pix

  posted by red at 6:11 pm in anti-war | comment