Archive for the “journal” category
disaster takes care of everything
by jebni on August 14, 2006
Our Hong Kong comrades certainly don’t fuck around — after Lena showed “From Beirut… to those who love us” at her recent talk, Terry from the 8A Social Movement Resource Centre and Videopower immediately went and subtitled it in Chinese. (…)
heavy
by jebni on August 14, 2006
Everything’s still a blur. We’re staying in Hong Kong for another three weeks to tie up some loose ends and hopefully unwind a bit. This means that we’ve just moved house for the fourth time in just over three months. (…)
breakout
by jebni on August 3, 2006
After having a bit of cry looking at Beirut Letters (thanks Ange), Lena and I have gone all Bay Area on your asses — we’re sitting in Starbucks with our PowerBooks open, writing collaboratively in real time with SubEthaEdit about (…)
close to “home”, so far away
by jebni on August 2, 2006
Strange to be here now, in a place where in the past few months (at least before the bombing started) hardly anyone even knew where Lebanon was. One uncle still unaccounted for. Cousin S actually saw bombs drop from IDF (…)
fucking awesome
by jebni on July 20, 2006
It’s almost been two years since Josh died. I’m not going to be in Sydney for the memorial thingy, but this is something that I wrote to be read out in my absence: I didn’t know Josh as well as (…)
panic
by jebni on July 17, 2006
The only way I can respond to the events unfolding in Lebanon is to join the worry and panic of my own extended family and friends. Yes, “other” people have their own “days the world changed”, but they’re more like (…)
city of shadow(cat)s
by jebni on July 14, 2006
Had the most awesome day yesterday — we had lunch with Maggie and Hoi Chiu, who live in Kowloon City. Hoi Chiu grew up in the the Kowloon Walled City — Hong Kong’s unpoliced “dead zone” outside British sovereignty, the (…)
democracy, parties, zombies
by jebni on July 14, 2006
Oops, I forgot to upload photos of the 1 July pro-democracy rally here in Hong Kong. It seemed that the only political tendency not on display was the Chinese Communist Party, whose loyalists held their own rally earlier in the (…)
in the post-colonies
by jebni on July 5, 2006
Hong Kong = sheltered workshop for white people.
extra-ordinary feeling
by jebni on June 28, 2006
Oh yeah, about that Videopower screening. There were two sessions: a set of shorts about the anti-WTO actions in December 2005, and their fabulous documentary about the Lee Tung St residents’ action campaign against their eviction by the Urban Renewal (…)