From jo at xs4all.nl Fri Feb 13 10:04:38 2009 From: jo at xs4all.nl (jo van der spek) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:04:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: Celebrating 2 years M2M Radio Message-ID: <21854.213.84.151.84.1234515878.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> Celebrating 2 years of M2M Radio, migrant to migrant On the 10th of February 2007 The Blue House roared with a new sound: the sound of a radio being born. We called it Radio Ruisriet, because we liked the association with the sound of weeds and reeds that were whistling here when IJburg wasn?t. There is one zen poet who wrote a few nice lines about Ruisriet, but somehow we never laid our microphone to her lips. Anyway, the new born radio baby was conceived as a tool in the hands of the Schiphol People: the survivors of the Schiphol Fire and their friends, buddies and other supporting activists, artists, reseachers and professionals. The Blue House and the weekly live radio program around the dinner table became a meeting place of all concerned. Here we commemorated the fire and the dead, here we tried to make a life again. We regard the fire as the final proof that it is inhuman to confine people in a detention center, just because you deny their right to be here. The price a society pays for excluding human beings is losing its humanity itself. Humans are not banana?s. That is why we speak not only about the fire. We deal with migrants, with migration, survival, art and metamorphosis in general. The mission of M2M is to make free communication and to look at migration in a different way. Look with us, not at us. M2M is 2 now and on its own feet. M2M is moving and growing like our Moving Tree. We pop up in unexpected places. Because we are everywhere! M2M Radio http://m2m.streamtime From jaromil at dyne.org Wed Feb 18 15:01:33 2009 From: jaromil at dyne.org (jaromil) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:01:33 +0100 Subject: Lampedusa on fire Message-ID: <20090218140132.GA2525@dyne.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 re all, this morning in Lampedusa, the southern island of Europe, a revolt started in the "Centre for identification and expulsion", following the hunger strike of 300 detainees from Tunisia. The detention center hosts more than 800 migrants, mostly from Tunisia. The fire destroyed most of the building and the police had to fight the revolt with extra smoke (teargas), it is yet unknown the number of people harmed. The mayor of the city Bernardino De Rubeis has released a declaration against the Italian government, quoting his own words: "Guilty is the Government which transformed this center in a Lager, the migrants are desperate." The revolt seem to have exploded as 107 Tunisian migrants were to be deported back to their country, proceeding to a first transfer in Roma. source: http://www.repubblica.it/2009/02/sezioni/cronaca/immigrati-4/lampedusa-18feb/lampedusa-18feb.html Another recent news, to let you understand how we South Italians are seen and feel closer to africa, is this news: http://ilsecoloxix.ilsole24ore.com/italia_e_mondo/2009/02/14/1202088531234-manganellata-siciliano-scambiato-nordafricano.shtml reporting a deliberate aggression by police in Sicily to a fisherman and legitimate italian citizen: since his skin is as dark as that of a north african, he has been hit *in the back* by a policeman in the middle of the street, exchanging him for "a migrant escaped from the detention center", without any other reason. The episode is raising various polemics that are well fittin the raising climate of fascism and xenophobia affecting the Italian peninsula especially since the last abusive change of government directed by Berlusconi. ciao - -- jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org GPG: 779F E8B5 47C7 3A89 4112 64D0 7B64 3184 B534 0B5E -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmcFLsACgkQe2QxhLU0C14OyQCg5uUiSni1XiaEoONOvd5bMUa9 x/EAoLjxpO9e++yxzSKETOZxrJxqNYQZ =AXS2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From mbah7890 at yahoo.com Sat Feb 28 19:48:05 2009 From: mbah7890 at yahoo.com (Cee Bah BO) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:48:05 -0000 Subject: Cee Bah sent you a private message on Tagged - please respond Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: