From sri3000 at yahoo.com Wed Nov 5 18:47:30 2008 From: sri3000 at yahoo.com (Alexander Krone) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:47:30 -0800 (PST) Subject: m2m in slootervaart Message-ID: <383776.19733.qm@web52202.mail.re2.yahoo.com> hello, I haven't met all of you yet, so i'll introduce myself: my name is alexander, i study art in amsterdam and i live in the ruysdaels straat squat where m2m has meetings. I would like to make a cooperative event with the radio in slootervart, where i have my atelier since some years. the neighborhood has a lot of people from other countries, especially turkey and morocco. I think that it would be really great if the radio would come to slootervart for a night to make a radio show there. My plan is to combine with screening an artist movie about immigration on lampedusa in italy, and to invite people from the neighborhood to come and participate. also I want to invte the artists, and we could have a talk about topics like how states treat migrants and about how it is used for politics etc.. I would like to talk with you about it, and I hope you will be having a meeting in ruysdaels straat tomorrow. I have been meaning to go to the blue house but I am very busy with my school and havent had time recently, but ill see you there eventually. alexander ? Get your new Email address! Grab the Email name you've always wanted before someone else does! http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/sg/ From jo at xs4all.nl Sun Nov 16 14:19:51 2008 From: jo at xs4all.nl (jo van der spek) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:19:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [M2M Radio] Look with us! [pressing matters] Message-ID: <11757.213.84.151.84.1226841591.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> [Yo!, sorry, I could not avoid doubles...] In het Nederlands is deze informatie te lezen op http://www.vertrokkegezichten.net More audio at http://m2m.streamtime.org LOOK WITH US! What happened since the commemoration of the Schiphol Fire, on Oct. 26th? Miloud Fritass is in detention. We have succeeded to postpone his extradition to Morocco by mobilizing as survivors and supporting artists and activists. Lawyers did their bit, a member of Parliament has had the guts to ask critical questions. And the judge forbade extradition on medical grounds. Our brother is under heavy stress, on top of the post-traumatic stress disorder that dominates his mind ever since the fire. On Wednesday morning the Rotterdam Court will meet in public session to decide whether or not he has the right to recover his mental health in Holland before being deported. A strong delegation will be on the public bench to meet and greet him. And give him a piece of our Monument. That is on Wednesday the 19th of November at 9 a.m. Wilhelminaplein 100, 3072 AK Rotterdam. The monument that we have mounted on Sunday the 26th of October has been placed illegally according to the Mayor of the Haarlemmermeer. And he has ordered us to remove it by tomorrow, Monday 17th. When we comply, he offered to find a new location on his territory. If we don?t he said that the he will do it himself and send us the bill. At the moment we are negotiating in order to keep communicating with all people concerned and to maintain the spirit and soul of our struggle, to make a life again as survivors of the Schiphol Fire and for recognition and justice of migrants rights in general. We propose to temporarily deconstruct the monument: - the eleven wooden pillars stay where they are - the painting on canvas has been taken off the fence and stored inside the prison complex, according to some of the guards - the aluminium tree can travel too, but we must decide where to - the three living trees (Tilia Cordata), the indigenous ritual community tree, will be offered to the community of Haarlemmermeer This proposal will be presented on Monday morning to the Mayor after consulting with as many people as we can. A team consisting of close advisors picked by Jo will finalize the letter this Sunday evening. They are Emilie, Jeanne, Sakho, Saleh, Jos and Chris Keulemans. So please contact us as soon as possible to give us your opinion! On Monday we hope to reach an agreement with the Mayor on a good way to deal with the situation, based on the shared sense of the need to create a permanent monument and a joint commemoration next year. We have reached a mutual understanding of each others position in a meeting with the mayor last Friday. However, there was no direct representation of the survivors in this meeting. That is why we are consulting survivors and artists and activists by phone and E-mail and will discuss the outcome in the assemblee of the survivors on Tuesday evening in Rotterdam. That is on the evening before the court session on Fritass. We hope to be able convince the Mayor and his advisors that a process of democratic decision making that has evolved in the last three years, requires peace of mind and a minimum of time to reach a satisfactory outcome. In the live program of M2M Radio last Friday we talked a lot about Fritass and about the news brought by NOVA on TV: new technical research on the footage of the security cameras strongly indicates that the fire did NOT start in the cell of Ahmed Isa, who has been convicted to three years in prison. The fire started in the technical installation outside the cells, which is exactly what many survivors have testified on many occasions for the last three years. This new piece of truth is a relief and a liberation for the survivors and may well lead to a reopening of the investigation by the Security Board and by the Prosecutors of the Ministry of Justice as well. The lawyer Nico Steijnen who is pressing criminal charges of cruel and inhuman treatment against the then responsible ministers Donner and Verdonk, has demanded the immediate dismissal of all charges against Ahmed Isa. And to stop torturing Fritass and all other survivors by withholding evidence, justice and proper medical care. The European Court of Justice is now considering admitting the request to deal with this case after receiving the documents last month. We regret the turmoil all this causes for the survivors. We are confident that we can deal with this, like we have so far tried to deal with everything since the fire. If living is moving, than a living monument can be moving too. We are here To make a life again Together as one We are everywhere. -- Jo van der Spek, radio journalist & media maker current project: M2M Radio, migrant to migrant http://m2m.streamtime.org From jo at xs4all.nl Fri Nov 21 16:08:02 2008 From: jo at xs4all.nl (jo van der spek) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:08:02 +0100 Subject: Unmounting the tree Message-ID: <4926CED2.1090208@xs4all.nl> [english below] Het verslag van het ontmantelen van het monument is te zien op http://www.vertrokkengezichten.net/index.php?option=com_mjfrontpage&Itemid=1 En in het Engels op http://m2m.streamtime.org/index.php/2008/unmounting-the-monument/ En vanavond live op M2M Radio Klikken in de rechter kolom op de website! We have two reports on the unmounting of the monument at Schiphol Oost at: http://www.vertrokkengezichten.net/index.php?option=com_mjfrontpage&Itemid=1 (in Dutch) And in English at: http://m2m.streamtime.org/index.php/2008/unmounting-the-monument/ And this Friday evening from 7 p.m. live at M2M Radio. Click in the right column of the website! ciao Jo M2M Radio