welcome (to zone yellow)

by jebni on December 30, 2005

[ tags: liberalism, policing, race, racism, tolerance ]

atomising the “ghettos”

by jebni on December 23, 2005

In Britain: The police also told the researchers they wanted the Home Office to stop putting large numbers of asylum seekers in the same street or small area as it affected their ability to carry out deportations of those whose (…)

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citizenship/recognition/legibility/decision

by jebni on December 19, 2005

Latest in a series of thinkings-aloud… Okay, so I mentioned the literal and symbolic logic of recognition in this part of my Blogtalk paper (which sounds increasingly incoherent each time I reread it), recalling the unusually traumatic difficulty we had (…)

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gangstas!

by jebni on December 19, 2005

I’ve had requests for downloadable versions of these and other graphics, but I’ve realised that the printable files are currently huuuuge and unoptimised, so this will take some time. Sorry! [ tags: australia, cronulla, gangs, nationalism, race, racialisation, racism ]

ah, progress

by jebni on December 17, 2005

[ tags: australia, nationalism, race, racism ]

mystique

by jebni on December 15, 2005

When I’m feeling down, I don’t listen to Malcolm X speeches or whatever to make me feel better — I draw my inspiration from the X-Men’s encounters with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. In this snippet from X2, Nightcrawler and (…)

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public terror

by jebni on December 14, 2005

For a while now, I’ve been curious about terms that leverage the word “public”, like “the public”, or “the public sphere”, etc. An excellent opportunity: “our” public broadcaster informs me tonight that yesterday in Maroubra, “Lebanese gangs terrorised the public”. (…)

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angry angry angry

by jebni on December 12, 2005

[ tags: australia, cronulla, riot, riots, race, racism ]

the scouring of the shire

by jebni on December 12, 2005

Nazi, Nazi, Nazi — oi, oi, oi! This country makes me want to cry: “This Sunday every fucking Aussie in the Shire get down to north Cronulla to help support Leb and wog bashing day. Bring your mates down and (…)

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so hott right now

by jebni on December 8, 2005

Oh, forgot to post about the Suburban Sista Soundz community music gig we put on at the Metro. It was the public culmination of a couple of years of ICE‘s urban music programmes, and it fucking went OFF! (More photos (…)

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