WORK, REST & PAY by MARTIN BROADHURST - PERSPECTIVES ON ISRAEL &

THE PALESTINIANS by RUTH STRANGE & ANDY DILKS - ROBIN TOAL SAVES
THE NET - HELEN McSWEENEYEXPLORES EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION- PETER
DAVIES RANTS ABOUT DIABLO CODY - DEREK & THE DEIRDRES - SPENCER
AUSTINS T.I.N MAN- CALIDOSCOPIOCARNIVAL DRUMMING- JIM KIRKHAM
TALKS ABOUT REVOLUTION - GLOBAL SOUNDS REVIEW& MUCH MORE...
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Front Cover - Concept by Dawn Fury, Layout by Andy Dilks
Pg 2 - Work, Rest &Pay - By Martin Broadhurst
Pg 4 - Total Information Netork Thesis - By Spencer
Pg 6 - Israeli Perspective - By Anonymous
Pg 8 - Israeli Propaganda and the Destruction of Gaza - By Andy Dilks
Pg 12 - Donations fromFebruary City-Zen going to Sharon in Gaza - By Ruth Strange
Pg 14 - Caledoscopio: Carnival Drumming Group - By Beth De Lange
Pg 16 - Save the Net - By Robin Toal
Pg 18 - Global Sounds Review- By Chris Barker
Pg 19 - Talking About Revolution - By James Kirkham
Pg 22 - Rant Against Diablo Cody - By Peter Davies
Pg 26 - Emotional Expression Exploration - By Helen McSweeney
Pg 30 - The Deirdres Interview- By Dale McKillop
Pg 36 - Shout Outs
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City-Zen presents City-Zine an idea for anyone who thinks that
uncensored, open and democratic forms of media are worth
contributing to.
City-Zine is a bi-monthly black and white zine written &
designed by city-zens of Derby and beyond.Whether it's reviews,
articles, cartoons, poems, quotes, images, comments, photograpy,
news, diary dates, advice, events, drawings, stories, absolutely
anything you want!
Submit any any work, no more than 2000 words or x3 pages of A5 (preferably black &
white) by email to city-zen@riseup.net or by text to 07766108853. If you would like to
design any work submitted please let us know via: city-zen@riseup.net. All
submissions shall be included on a first come first serve basis with any outstanding
submissions being carried over to the following edition of City-Zine.
The zine shall be available from City-Zen events, The Big Blue
Coffee Company, SoundBites, Bar One, Boo, Creative Blocks events and
anywhere else that is willing to distribute it for a 1.00.Each copy costs 70p to
print and 30p shall go towards the City-Zen monthly fundraising events
ongoing expenses and equipment fund. To find out more email us at
city-zen@riseup.net or check the facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/cs7qpa
By working freely as an open democratic collective we can inject
our society with empowering alternatives to the exploitation, lies, ideology, spin and
spam spun out by the corporate-owned media and the elite few they serve.
Knowledge is power yet truth is freedom so whatever your subjectivities lets share!
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network would be an advantage to the general public. The network would
encompass the entire united kingdom, and provide a resource tool for everyone.
It would include mass electronic voting system, a publicly policed and self
managed cctv network, and large scale, free to use, video conferencing
public communications system. In order to research this through simulation
certain properties of such an optical bre network must be understood. Once
understood, the project can be advanced by:
Exploring the viability and desirability of such an optical bre network,
Researching into all variables to create a operational framework,
Using the framework to produce the most accurate simulation possible, to
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A greater understanding of the current capabilities via a literature review,
A social group interaction to understand requirements and desires of possible
end users,
Interviews with experts and academics to understand the limitations of current
and future technologies and knowledge of current networks already in place.
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research, enabling the creation of a simulation that will produce models of
possible ways in which to construct the network, with the intention of producing
the most efcient and robust network possible, whilst incorporating all
previous requirements.
Producing the necessary theoretical underpinning (equations and algorithms) that
will automatically generate a simulated network, aiming to produce an end model
which accounts for greatest connectivity, fastest transmission rates, paths of
least resistance to construct and cost effective construction for real
world implementation.
Incorporate all said variables into the framework in order to construct a simulation
which will generate multiple models of the network depending on customizable
inputs. Producing multiple models will help determine which of the models would
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Written by Spencer Austin
Layout by Chris Redshaw
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SOME FACTS ABOUT CURRENT THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE WORLD
THAT SADLY NOBODY HEARS OR TALKS ABOUT.since 1996 more then 450,000
people have been brutality murdered in genocide in Dar Porsince 1976 more then
70,000 people have been brutality murdered in Sri Lankasince 1994 millions have
been slaughtered in Republic of Congoand so on, in the Philippines, Nepal, Myanmar
... Read more and more.
IF WE LOOK JUST since 2005 1000's of Israelis, children, women and men have
been brutally murdered by Palestinian terror, by suicide bombers in buses, teenager
night clubs, restaurants, and many more public places. Other people have been killed
by Palestinians who come to Israel every day to work by being ran over by buses,
tractors, cars have been shot at, Israeli's have been murdered with axes by their
Palestinian colleagues, food in restaurants has been intentionally poisoned by a
Palestinian chef. One of my fathers Palestinian colleagues (my father is a bus driver)
put a bomb in the drivers cab of a bus which luckily was discovered before it exploded.
These are just several examples out of many terror attacks.
Below is an email to a friend in Copenhagen
Israel have nothing to gain in Gaza besides stopping the terror and rockets that are
coming out from there into Israel the fact is that we completely withdrew from the Gaza
strip and evacuated all the Jewish settlements, transferred Jewish families from their
homes to make the Gaza strip in total Palestinian control.
The Palestinian people that elected Hammas (terror organization that calls for the
elimination of Israel ) so the situation is that we are not in Gaza!
Every other nation would take advantage from here to develop and take care to build
better lives. All the passage to Israel was open but instead, the Hammas and other
terror groups used them to make terrorist attack against Israel and our soldiers
that were letting them in. In addition to that they did a terror attack in an army base in
Israel murdering 2 soldiers and kidnapped another soldier called Gilad Shalit who is
still in captive by them. In addition to that Hammas kept firing rockets into Israel
and spending all their money on weapons and explosives smuggling through tunnels
from Egypt instead of helping their people. And by the way opened a mass murder
against the Fattah Palestinians and Christian Palestinians -where was all the world
then or is it o.k. when Palestinians killing Palestinians??
we (Israel) tried every diplomatic means to put a stop for the shooting into Israel. We
even had a ceasefire for six months, Hammas used this to arm and broke the cease-
fire by firing more rockets into Israel we even kept our part and didnt return fire.
When the ceasefire ended we warned Hammas through Egypt that they have to stop
firing because we have to protect our citizens, they ignored from the warnings.
So after eight years of trying different methods we attempted to put a stop to Hammas
terror against Israel via military response.
The reason that it is so important to me to explain the situation from our side to
especially u is because u are an intelligent person that i respect and i want u to think
if Copenhagen had rockets fired at it for 8 years, , deliberately aiming for everyone
more then 8000 rockets sent from terrorists that want to see all Danish people dead
what would u expect from your government? Take a minute to a imagine living like
that..
For the proportion- don't believe everything that the media feeding u.
By the Israeli count from all deaths in the Palestinian side there is 150 civilians, i know
that is still 150 too much and nobody and i mean nobody in Israel wants to see any
An Israeli perspective - Anonymous
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innocent person even slightly wounded. Our army is doing what ever it can more than
any army to avoid that to happen. Unfortunately Hammas has no value for life what so
ever and they are using their own civilians as human shields including children and
women. Just look in youtube at Palestinian media watch and see what Hammas teach
Palestinian children.
Another thing about the "disproportion" Israel is the only country in this world that in a
middle of a war is doing everyday a 3 hours humanitarian cease fire to send to the
civilians tons of food and medication. In this 3 hours the Hammas were still firing rock-
ets into Israel and the Hammas militants are stealing a lot of these supplies from their
people. If u want comparisons for disproportion so just see compare the nato forces
bombing Dresden just after the Germans surrendered they destroyed the city com-
pletely and killed more then 35,000 civilians in a week!!!
That's as a revenge on the German bombs on London, and the same neto bombed
Yugoslavia & killed 150 solders and 500 civilians! that's disproportion. The war in Iraq
more then 24,000 civilians were killed. So why is the world carried away to boycott
Israel and to scream mass murder and crimes against humanity (whilst the other side
is doing real crimes against humanity and deliberately breaking every international law
possible)
Is it because the world really cares for the Palestinians? It cant be simply this because
nobody says anything about Hamas training it's kids to become martyrs.
Nobody does anything when children's T.V programs are teaching hatred (this is even
done on their own version of the Mickey mouse show).
Nobody says anything when Hammas is publicly executing Palestinian people that are
suspected of being gay, or men and women that are suspected of adultery or just sus-
pected of cooperating with Israel are being murdered for show in the middle of the
city..(they are coming for refuge in Israel)
So nobody in this world really cares of Palestinians , but when Israel is there so its an
easy target. all the evil in this world is aimed to put in one country the Jewish state the
easiest target.
More then 150 anti-Semitic attacks have happened in different parts of the world
against Jewish people in their own countries (countries of origin) all over the world.
Why does the media not talk about that?? Because unfortunately there is still hatred for
Jewish people and after all this history, the countries of the world want to justify all the
persecution against Jews so they try to make us appear to be doing the same.
That's why the media and the people are taking in without checking if its true every
false information without looking if its true or not. Every creation in a journalist or
Palestinian propaganda becomes a facts in ur minds. But not in reality.
But reality doesn't matter anymore to anyone when its a Jewish country that fight in the
front the fight of the free world against terror.
Final facts are:
That Israel did more than half a million phone calls to advise people and send leaflets
to warn before any attack. Israel had intelligence that all the Hammas leaders are hid-
ing in the hospital basement and we didnt do nothing about it.. Hammas boobitraped
schools and was shooting from them. Even after the cease fire Hammas didn't stop
sending rockets in the cities close to Gaza. I'll finish by inviting all of u to visit Israel
and enjoy from other aspects of it because it has much more to offer than
what u see in the news..Saturday February 14th - Playing with power 'Understanding
the System' Workshop Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London. Prior Booking
Necessary www.turning-the-tide.org
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Israeli Propaganda and the Destruction of Gaza
Operation Cast lead: "They should wipe them all out."
When Israel launched its latest assault against the people of Gaza on December 27th, Operation
Cast Lead was accompanied by the predictable slew of propaganda from the Israeli government
dutifully regurgitated by the mainstream media. With public opinion increasingly against the
continual aggression of Israel, particularly since the indiscriminate bombing of Lebanon in the
summer of 2006, this time the PR campaign was planned well in advance, and included a vast
recruitment drive for bloggers to trawl "anti-Zionist" chatrooms and cheerlead for the offensive
on Gaza, echoing similar efforts by the Pentagon and Centcom to fabricate pro-war sentiments
over the US invasion of Iraq.
The dissemination of propaganda is often synonymous with the peddling of lies, and true to form
Israel's announcements concerning the recent assault offer a model example. Initially, the official
justification for launching Operation Cast Lead was the firing of rockets into Israel by Hamas,
whom they claim broke the ceasefire which had been established in July. In fact, it was Israel
who broke the ceasefire when they carried out an incursion into Gaza in November killing 6
people, a violation which provoked the pretext the Israelis were looking for. Accompanied by the
"Hamas terrorists!" mantra which has become a stalwart of hard right Israeli discourse since
Hamas came to power in free and fair elections in 2006, this was repeated ad nauseum in the
press, as Phase One of the assault saw a series of devastating airstrikes sweep over Gaza. The
first strike was timed to coincide with the end of the school day, in order to maximize the impact
on the Palestinian people - in a matter of minutes 200 were dead and 700 injured, the majority
of whom were civilians.
As the attacks intensified, women and children increasingly made up the number of dead. Dr.
Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza said, "This is an all-out war against the civilian
Palestinian population." John Holmes, the U.N. humanitarian chief, described a "humanitarian
crisis". Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who's father was chief operations officer of the Irgun
terrorist organisation, responsible for the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in
1946, responded by stating that there was no crisis thanks to Israeli "benevolence". This
"benevolence" manifested itself in the shelling of the UN Fakhura school in Jabaliya refugee
camp. Lie number one came soon after when the army claimed that Hamas fighters had been
firing mortars from near the entrance, which they claimed to prove with aerial photography. But
this was a falsification: the photograph was more than a year old. Then the claim transmogrified
into "our soldiers were shot at from inside the school" until the army had to admit to UN person-
nel that this was also a lie: there were no Hamas fighters at the school. By this time, the TV
reporters were busy repeating the lies, and by the time the Israeli admission was forthcoming
the lie had been sold to the public.
During Phase Two, ground troops were deployed into Gaza. Shortly after, reports of the use of
white phosphorous - an illegal munition banned under the Geneva Conventions - began to
emerge. At first, Israel denied its use, but then footage emerged showing it raining down on
Gaza City. So again the story changed; the Israelis were using white phosphorous, but only as a
smokescreen to provide cover for advancing troops and not against a civilian population. The
problem with this was that the evidence indicated that it was being used indiscriminately against
one of the most densely populated places on earth; on refugee camps, residential streets and a
UN compound. Additional reports concerning the use of illegal and experimental weapons
continued to emerge in the aftermath of the attacks, including Dense Inert Metal Explosive
(Dime) bombs, experimental weapons that generate micro-shrapnel that burns and destroys
everything within a four-metre radius. Dr. Erik Fosse, a Norwegian surgeon, commented: "We
suspect they used Dime weapons because we saw cases of huge amputations or flesh torn off
the lower parts of the body. The pressure wave [from a Dime device] moves from the ground
upwards and that's why the majority of patients have huge injuries to the lower part of the body
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and abdomen... The problem is that most of the patients I saw were children. If they [the
Israelis] are trying to be accurate, it seems obvious these weapons were aimed at children."
Even after the conflict was drawn to a shaky truce to allow for uninterrupted media coverage of
Obama's inauguration, the lies continued. In a desperate and entirely predictable effort to mini-
mize the number of civilian casualties and maximize the number of so-called militants killed (to
invoke legalese they're actually the armed forces of a democratically-elected government), the
Israelis managed to undermine their own propaganda with bad mathematics. The IDF claimed it
had killed 500 Hamas militiamen; and at the same time they also asserted that 75% of those
killed were militiamen. Yet 500 divided by the 1350 total deaths equals 37%, meaning that, by
their own admission, at least 63% of those killed were civilians. Human rights groups in Gaza
estimated the number of fighters killed to be under 100.
Israel's repeated claims to the effect that it doesn't target civilians was once again undermined
by clear evidence of attacks on civilian targets during its offensive against Gaza - schools,
mosques, thousands of houses and municipal buildings were razed to the ground by Israeli
bombs. But to those who pay attention, not only is this disparity between their claims and the
facts on the ground nothing new, it's also another proven lie inconsistent with the historical
record. Former Israeli Chief of Staff Mordechai Gur stated, "For 30 years, from the War of
Independence until today, we have been fighting against a population that lives in villages and
cities," a statement to which Israeli military analyst Zeev Schiff commented, "the importance of
Gur's remarks is the admission that the Israeli Army has always struck civilian populations,
purposely and consciously...the Army, he said, has never distinguished civilian [from military]
targets... [but] purposely attacked civilian targets..." In Gaza, the targeting of civilians had
already been given religious approval. Former chief Sephardic rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu had
written to Prime Minister Olmert, informing him that all civilians in Gaza are collectively guilty for
rocket attacks, so that there is "absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing
of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket
launchings." The dead women and children lying in Gaza's morgues attest to this ideological
imperative.
Gaza: "We're putting them on a diet."
One of Israel's most effective propaganda coups came in 2005, when Ariel Sharon - the war
criminal largely responsible for the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camp massacre in 1982 -
announced the removal of illegal settlers from the Gaza Strip. Wailing, distraught settlers filled
the TV screens; but nothing was mentioned of the Israeli government's plan to relocate them in
the West Bank, as part of a program of rapid expansion of illegal settlements in conjunction with
the political and economic isolation of the Palestinians in Gaza. Approximately 7000 settlers were
removed from Gaza - in the same year, the settler population in the West Bank increased by
over 14,000. As Israel continued to annex more and more land in the West Bank, using the
settlements and the "Security Wall" to achieve this end, the aftermath of the Gazan
"disengagement" presented an increasingly bleak outlook for the Palestinians. Israeli academic
Uri Davis announced somewhat prophetically in July of 2005: "We believe that one primary,
unstated motive for the determination of the government of the State of Israel to get the Jewish
settlers of the Qatif settlement block out of the Gaza Strip may be to keep them out of harm's
way when the Israeli government and military possibly trigger an intensified mass attack on the
approximately one and a half million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom about half are 1948
Palestine refugees."
Israel may well have marketed the disengagement as a move towards peace, but to those
paying attention the words of former adviser to Sharon, Dov Weisglass, were not forgotten. He
highlighted the gulf between Israel's PR and its real intentions when he stated, "The disengage-
ment is actually formaldehyde. It supplies the amount of formaldehyde so that there will not be
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a political process with the Palestinians." Despite the withdrawal of the settlers, every aspect of
Palestinian life in Gaza remained under the control of the Israelis. Unable to trade with their
neighbours and isolated from the West Bank (where the process of land theft cut off communi-
ties into discontiguous Bantustans, creating a situation in which, in the words of former Israeli
army Chief of Staff Raphael Eitan, "all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry
around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle") the Palestinians in Gaza became increasingly
impoverished and traumatized under the oppression of the ongoing military occupation.
The election victory of Hamas in 2006 - a political party unwilling to kowtow to the demands of
the US and Israel - made a bad situation much worse, and a failed CIA-orchestrated putsch
exacerbated the war of attrition against the Palestinians as much as it consolidated Hamas's level
of authority. Israeli officials declared their intention to put the Palestinians on a "diet" and imme-
diately tightened the blockade, suspending imports and exports (while forcing the Palestinians to
purchase Israeli goods), and reducing the supply of food, medicine and electricity to a trickle,
sometimes cutting it off altogether. In the words of the UN Relief and Works Agency, "Gaza
became the first territory to be
intentionally reduced to a state of
abject destitution, with the knowledge,
acquiescence and some would say
encouragement of the international
community."
As the Israeli Defense Forces conducted
an increasing number of incursions and
targeted assassinations in Gaza, Hamas
responded with Qassam rockets. A
period of uneasy ceasefires and viola-
tions ensued, strengthening the hardlin-
ers in Tel Aviv and prompting further
collective punishment on the people of
Gaza, to which Amnesty International
stated, ""This action appears calculated
to make an already dire humanitarian
situation worse, one in which the most vulnerable - the sick, the elderly, women and children -
will bear the brunt, not the men of violence who carry out attacks against Israel." But calls for
Israel to cease its violations of international law were once again ignored, and by early 2008 talk
in the Knesset - Israel's legislative branch of government - turned once again to direct military
action against Gaza. "The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range,
[the Palestinians] will bring upon themselves a bigger shoah," warned Deputy Defense Minister
Matan Vilnai. The word "shoah", translated literally as "disaster", is used in Israel to refer to the
Holocaust.
True to Vilnai's words and after six months of careful planning, Operation Cast Lead was
unleashed on Gaza, destroying innocent lives along with the infrastructure essential for the
formation of a viable, independent Palestinian state. Beneath all the lies and propaganda, the
crushing of Palestinian aspirations for self-determination and their rights to statehood emerge as
the real goal of the Israeli government.
Andy Dilks
"If I was an Arab leader I would never make
terms with Israel. That is natural: we have
taken their country. Sure, God promised it
to us, but what does that matter to them?
Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel,
it's true, but two thousand years ago, and
what is that to them? There has been anti-
Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but
was that their fault? They only see one
thing: we have come here and stolen their
country. Why should they accept that?"
David Ben-Gurion, 1st Prime Minister of Israel
FIND OUT MORE:
www.informationclearinghouse.info
www.counterpunch.org
www.normanfinkelstein.com
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Communicating ideas is how humans control one
another but it is also essential for cooperation.
How can I believe in an idea so abstract as free speech?
It may entail the freedom for someone to hurt another or
to persecute. It may entail the freedom to inspire creative
resistance or to build communities based on compassion.
The freedom to conspire for a better future comes from
inside and requires no declarations or charters. Id like
free speech from the grip of media oligarchy and give it
back so that we can be free to dream our own dreams.
Text in by Demo Matt
Illustration by Andy Mold
The City-Zen open collective have taken up the suggestion to forward donations
(after minimal running costs) from the February City-Zen to a woman I know who is
living and working voluntarily in Gaza. You may have read in a previous City-Zine
an article on the Free Gaza Movement, who since August have been managing to
enter besieged Gaza by sea. I'd been looking after my friend Sharon's canal boat in
Long Eaton while she was away taking part in this mission, and because of this have
been learning more and more about the situation in Palestine.
Sharon writes a blog from Gaza (http://talestotell.wordpress.com) where you can read her first
hand accounts of what has been going on, including experiences of working to support medics in
the last month, struggling to keep up, while under fire themselves when collecting the dead and
injured, and even while working in the hospital. She also requests donations, as she spent all her
savings taking part in the Free Gaza mission, and anything offered she will split 50:50 to keep her
and those around her going. It was felt it would be good for the next City-Zen to donate somehow
to help the situation in Gaza, and that this was a very direct way where a relatively small donation
would have a more tangible impact.
With the particularly horrific events in Gaza
since late December at the hands of the Israeli
Defence Force, there has been a lot more dis-
cussion and learning going on, increasing our
understanding of a complicated situation.
There have also been various demonstrations,
and now the beginnings of setting up a
'Palestine Solidarity Campaign' in Derby,
which will concentrate on further increasing
understanding in Derby, as well as probably
linking up with a community in Palestine, and
encouraging action to try and improve the sit-
uation, such as campaigning for the UK to stop
arming Israel, and for boycotts and sanctions
as used in the campaign to end apartheid in
South Africa.
My personal comments are currently that while
I strongly oppose rockets being fired into Israel
from Gaza, nothing can justify the not only
unsophisticated and disproportionate, but cal-
culatedly brutal 'response' by the Israeli
Defence Force. I say 'response' because I
believe this story that we have been told is
skewed.* When the intense Israeli air strikes
began in December they also launched a care-
fully planned PR campaign to try to get world
opinion on their side, by claiming that Hamas
was to blame that they were terrorists firing
rockets on a peaceful nation and that Israel
had the right to defend itself. We weren't fed
much information on the bloody history of the
creation of Israel in Palestine, the ongoing
destruction of Palestinian society and building
of Israeli settlements inside what was proposed
to remain as Palestine, how and why Hamas
Donations from February City-Zen going to Sharon in Gaza
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evolved and rose to elected government, or the punishing Israeli siege of Gaza since 2005 which
has increased deprivation and pressure and fermented resistance.
With over 1300 Palestinians killed in just 3 weeks, many more horrifically injured (amputations
etc), and an estimated 5000+ houses destroyed as well as public buildings and infrastructure, this
has been a reckless and brutal attack on a whole population by a well equipped and powerful
army. It seems there is a widespread feeling in Israel of a need to attack in order to defend itself,
at any expense, while denying the need to address the historical and ongoing reasons for
Palestinian resistance in order to achieve real security.
What you don't hear much of is the opposition from within Israel, for example the increasing
number of Israeli 'refuseniks', people who refuse to join Israel's war such as Yitchak Ben
Mocha who had an article in the Guardian on January 17th, concluding with "it's not a war of
defencein the long term, we are creating more terror. You can't separate the war in Gaza from
the fact that the Palestinian nation is under occupation for more than 40 years. I'm not justifying
Hamas firing rockets but we Israelis should first look at what we are doing".
In the interests of being constructive
and forward-looking, I think it is
important to focus on building on the
many efforts there are towards a just
peace, from both Palestine and Israel
as well as internationally, to go beyond
being angry about the wrongs,
transforming frustration into action. I am especially heartened by the Israeli organisations who
are bold enough to stand out and speak out, such as B'Tselem, (www.btselem.org), the Israeli
organisation for human rights in the Occupied Territories, and ICAHD, the Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions, (see www.icahd.org for more info, in particular the article 'Israel in
Gaza: A Critical Reframing'*)
If you want to be kept in touch about the Derby Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, please email
palestinesupportgroup@live.co.uk. We could organise a benefit gig in Derby. We can answer the
call for boycotts from 180 Palestinian organisations and the 'Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods'
see www.bigcampaign.org. We can support Palestinian farmers by buying olive oil imported by
Zaytoun www.zaytoun.org available at Sound Bites. We are not powerless, but justice and peace
are not givens, they need to be built and maintained.
*extract from ICHAD:
Israeli PR:
Israel had no choice but to attack in response to the barrage of 8,500 Hamas rockets fired from Gaza
into Israel over the past eight years that have killed 20 Israeli civilians.
Critical Reframing:
In the past three years alone Israel together with the US, Europe and Japan imposed an inhumane
siege of Gaza while conducting a campaign of targeted assassinations and attacks throughout the cease-
fire that left 1,700 Palestinians dead. Hamas' barrage did not exist in a vacuum. This war is no
"response:" it is merely a more deadly round of the tit-for-tat arising out of a political vacuum. The rock-
et firings could have been avoided had there been a genuine political horizon. To present the "barrage"
as an independent event disassociated from wider Israeli policies that led to them is disingenuous.
"it's not a war of defencein the long term, we
are creating more terror. You can't separate the
war in Gaza from the fact that the Palestinian
nation is under occupation for more than 40
years. I'm not justifying Hamas firing rockets
but we Israelis should first look at what we are
doing"
Ruth Strange
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New Carnival Drumming Group launches in Derby
Beth De Lange
On 7th February 2009 a new carnival drum-
ming group will meet for the first time in
Derby. The group will meet at Derbyshire
House, Sherwin Street, Derby from 10am to 12
noon. It will cost 5 full price and 3 con-
cession.
The group has been set up by Kaleidoscope
Community Music* (KCM) and has been made
possible by a grant from Awards for All
National Lottery funding. Derby has not
had a Brazilian style carnival drumming
group before.
Beth de Lange, director of KCM said This
is really exciting! I am looking forward to
giving people the chance to have a go at
drumming even if they have never drummed
before. The group will also be a fun way to
meet new people and have a laugh.
The group is open for anyone to attend,
including people who have had no drumming
experience and more experienced drummers.
There will be opportunities for more
experienced drummers to learn to lead the
group.
The group will try out different venues at
the beginning partly so that we can make
sure we dont upset our neighbours we will
make a lot of noise! We also want to
include as many people as we can from
different communities. Our first venue will be
the Derbyshire WI headquarters on Sherwin
Street throughout February. During March
and April we will meet at Derby West
Indian community Association and during
May at St Benedicts School, Robert Ludlum
Theatre.
Drumming is good for you!
It keeps your mind active and can be physi-
cally demanding. It brings people from
different communities together, is great fun
and puts a smile on your face.
The group will learn to play Afro-Brazilian
street carnival rhythms, like those played at
Notting Hill Carnival, UK and Rio
Carnival, Brazil. We are aiming for the
group to be ready to perform at Derby
Caribbean Carnival in July 09.
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~ Contact ~
Beth de Lange Director, Kaleidoscope Community Music:
01332 345 508
07837 671 988
www.kaleidoscope-music.org.uk/drumming.htm
Kaleidoscope Community Music formed in 2002.
We run a weekly community choir called Kaleidoscope Community
Choir, and run a series of whole day singing
workshops called Derby_Sings.
Our main aims are:
To enable more people in Derby to participate in music
To broaden the range of music opportunities available to
people in Derby/Derbyshire, including a range of
culturally diverse styles.
To increase numbers of people attending music groups in
Derby/ Derbyshire.
To develop networks to help publicise and develop new
music projects.
To develop community cohesion through music
activities
~16~
SAVE THE NET by Robin Toal
Net neutrality is the principle of equality for all users of the Internet in that the
broadband signal is freeof any restrictions and every website receives the same speed and
quality. It is the founding rule thatpreserves the open, free and democratic basis
of online activity.
We expect to be able to access acorporate site just as easily as a local
blog. We expect to be able to stream video, send email and purchase
products when we choose, and from whomever we choose.
Current laws ensure that telecommunications companies, who own the
physical infrastructure, cannot interfere with the signal by limiting, blocking
up or altering the speed of content based on destination, source or ownership. This con-
cept has allowed the web to become the greatest source of information humankind has
ever possessed, and more importantly this information is available to all
indiscriminately.
It can be easy to dismiss the web as a mass of porn and useless information, but
this would be a gross injustice. Consider the cost of the Encyclopedia Britannica that
currently sells for 995, yet is available to rich and poor alike, for free, online. Google Book
Search aims to eventually place every book online and available to every person in the
world at no cost. These are two powerful examples, but only two of hundreds of thousands
of tools that can teach and inspire.
Simply, the internet has the power to educate the world on a shoestring budget.
The One Laptop per Child project illustrates the power of technology to transform educa-
tion, particularly in impoverished regions. The size of a textbook and as light as a lunch-
box, the XO laptop can be charged by virtually anything, and can be read under direct s
unlight for people who attend school outdoors. It is as robust as any computer ever devel-
oped and possesses advanced wireless technology that can provide access to education
without the need for expensive infr structure and resources. Education can be brought to
the 2 billion children currently without at a fraction of the cost of traditional schooling,
costing around 150, the XO laptop has already been purchased by 32 different countries
for over 650,000 children.
Technology is on the cusp of revolutionising education in some of the poorest countries in
the world, countries who previously did not have the resources to offer education to their
children. We must protect the foundations of the Internet for ourselves, and for the people
who it could impact most. If the web is to be used to educate the poor, it cannot become
politicized, distorted and controlled by the elite, as it will if access can be restricted.
Capitalism cannot survive without a workforce in servitude to produce cheap goods for us
to endlessly consume, education allows an escape from this oppression. There is no desire
from the super-rich to liberate the poor, they have the means, but live vicariously from the
poverty that fuels their lifestyle. Poverty could be ended if there was a desire amongst the
super-rich to do so, the IMF estimates that 30bn a year would feed, house, educate and
provide health care for those in need, which is significantly less than was offered by the
Labour government to prop up an insolvent, catastrophically managed bank (Northern
Rock).
Make no mistake, net neutrality is under threat around the world, and it could prove to be a
pivotal point in our history. Telecommunications companies, who are subsidiarys of much
larger corporations owned by a select few, want to make websites pay for access to the
broadband cables and reap a profit. The capitalisation of the Internet will tear the soul
from the web and re-establish the absolute dominance of the corporate mass media over
all information.
The rise of the blogger stems from the failure of the corporate media to maintain its tradi-
tional role of watchdog over government and business, and people have turned to inde-
pendent reports in frustration. Citizen journalists uncovered Abu Ghraib in Iraq and point-
ed out glaring errors in NASAs climate recordings when traditional media sat on the
information until it was forced into the open. They have enjoyed the freedom from adver-
tisers and owners interests, are not edited, and are free to write about topics like the cre-
ation of money, which newspapers wouldn't dare to print.
Digital media has seen independent music and film thrive like never before, the Arctic
Monkeys and films like Loose Change are a case in point. If the big boys can buy up the
net, we will again be dictated to by
massive conglomerates with gargantuan
conflicts of interest.
Do not believe that it could not happen.
Access to the radio waves were once
available to all with local stations and enthusiasts abundant, now the barriers to entry are
immoral and punitive, with huge sums needed for licensing and bandwidth. Australia is
pushing through legislation that will ban access to certain websites, like in China, with no
access or oversight to amend the watch list. Whilst wireless networks in St. Pancreas sta-
tion in London already restrict access to many political websites without recourse. The
Internet is the greatest threat to the
corporate media, with newspaper sales plummeting they are losing their voice, and they
will do whatever they can to strip the net of its democratic grounding.
Once money dictates access, success can be bought and controlled. Gone will be innova-
tive start ups like Google and eBay who had a level playing field to establish themselves, it
will be Tesco versus the independent greengrocer once more.
The Internet is the last bastion of the peoples voice, of
free enterprise, and we cannot allow it to be stripped
from us. We are the gatekeepers once again and this
may be our last chance. We have allowed every other
form of media to be replaced by yellow journalism and
mindless celebrity culture; we cannot allow it to happen
to the net.
~17~
Those who expect to reap the blessings
of freedom must, like men, undergo the
fatigue of supporting it
Thomas Paine
~18~
Welcome to the 2009 Global Sounds review.
Aiming to bring you some new music and a few uncovered gems that I
have recently discovered.
Firstly, we have an excellent compilation from Canadas Public Transit
Recordings. Released late in 2008, this compilation provides an
overview of some of the labels highlights, including tracks from
Moonstarr, Karma & Lotus and Voice.
The label bounces between Nu Jazz, Broken Beats and real Hip Hop.
They have consistently released cutting edge music for the last 10
years and have endeavoured to maintain future music that will still
be innovative in another 10 years.
Moonstarr is back with a vengeance. After a long minute making
beats for other artists like Voice, LAL, Daedelus, DJ Kentaro, Zero
DB and scoring music for film, Moonstarr poured his energies into
his latest album, Instrumentals Forever, his second full-length re-
lease on Public Transit Recordings. To say this is a highly anticipated
record is an understatement, given the worldwide rounds and critical
acclaim that followed his bossabreakbeat and synth-infused debut
album Dupont earlier this century.
You can also download the track Break It Down for free at
[http://tinyurl.com/9b36ul]
PTRs compilation Next Stop is available as a free download at
[http://tinyurl.com/4jxbjx]
Check it out while its still available!
Next, one of the highlights and most eagerly anticipated album
for 2008 was Matthew Herberts second outing with his Big Band
There's Me And There's You and follows on nicely from the 2003
Goodbye Swingtime.
For those unfamiliar with Matthew Herbert, he is an artist musician,
producer and remixer, often experimenting with sampling techniques
that would result in the incorporation of the sounds of everyday ob-
jects into his work. It is worth checking out Herberts manifesto
[http://www.matthewherbert.com/pccom.php], here he sets out
guidelines for the production and usage of samples within his
work. Herbert also champions the musical form as vehicle for po-
litical commentary stating that the medium is a very powerful tool
for political action. Indeed, the album cover itself is presented as
petition for music to be used as a political force and not merely
the soundtrack to over-consumption. Halleluah!
Expect cinematic jazz blended with strange samples and a sincere two
fingers at the man.
Another new release set to storm through every Nu Jazz club is the
first solo outing from Kinny, Idle Forest Of Chit Chat. Having re-
cently worked in collaboration with Espen Horne (see also Bobby
Hughes Combination/Experience), Kinny is now firmly seated in the
Tru Thoughts camp. The album brings together Kinnys sublime
voice with other Tru Thoughts artists such as Nostalgia 77, Quan-
tic, Diesler and TM Juke. Just ahead of the album you can catch
the new double a-side single Enough Said // Desire, featuring
production from Quantic and Nostalgia 77, respectively.
Idle Forest Of Chit Chat is released on the 16th February 2009 on CD and download from Tru Thoughts.
Enough Said // Desire is out now.
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email: globalsounds@graffiti.net
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Rant against Diablo Cody
Peter Davies
Diablo Codys ridiculous blog:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=301249153
Diablo Codys utterly ridiculous blog rant inspired me to write my own, she obviously wont
ever read it, but never mind. Ill start by saying that I well and truly hated Juno. It was the
most irritating, self consciously quirky pile of cringe worthy horseshit Ive seen in a while.
It also had some of the worst dialogue Ive ever heard.
Although when I first saw it I thought it was a fairly unremarkable and incredibly average
film. But the more I thought about it the more I hated every single element of it. Heres a
hilarious parody script of Juno, which sums up its many, many flaws:
http://www.the-editing-room.com/juno.html
The film contained the immortal line of dialogue delivered by Ellen Page, Silencio old
man, Im fo shizzle up the spout. Because thats how all us young people talk these days
isnt it? That line of dialogue basically sums up the whole film; a truly lame attempt to
depict young people, written by someone who is clearly out of touch with reality. Fo shiz-
zle up the spout is now Oscar winning dialogue, penned by Diablo Cody herself.
Until recently I had no real feelings towards her as a person, I hated Juno, but I didnt
really know or care about Diablo Cody. And now shes unveiled an attack on all the haters
of Juno.
She opens with:
Since I last blogged at you, life has brought wackness and dopeness in equal measure.
Wackness and dopeness. Already I hate her.
I am not Charlie Kaufman or Sofia Coppola
(much as I supplicate at their Cannes-weary
feet.) I'm not Paul Thomas Anderson.
So basically not someone with talent?
I'm not even Paul W.S. Anderson. I am
middle-class trash from the Midwest. I'm a
competent nonfiction writer
Dont flatter yourself.
an admittedly green screenwriter, and a product of Hollywood, USA. I am "Diablo Cody"
and if you're not a fan, go rent Prospero's Books again and leave me the fuck alone.
~23~
Wow, shes got attitude. Dont slag her off or she might write a blog about it.
I may have won 19 awards that you don't feel I earned, but it's neither original nor relevant
to slag on Juno. Really. And you're not some bold, singular voice of dissent, You are exactly
like everyone else in your zeitgeisty-demo-lifestyle pod.
I dont think people do hate Juno because theyre trying to be cool or following a
zeitgeist, maybe they hate it because its absolute shite. Being original and relevant
has nothing to do with this. Its their opinion of your work, which theyre entitled to express.
You are even like me.
No, we have no similarities
whatsoever, apart from both
being human beings.
I'm sorry that while you were shooting your failed opus at Tisch, I was jamming toxic
silicon toys up my ass for money.
I love this line. Its basically saying I dont need no education; Im from the streets! My
work comes from the ghetto of life! You must be a great writer if youve worked in the sex
industry! Why dont you do us all a favour and jam a toxic needle into your eye? No-one
gives a shit that you used to be a prostitute.
I get why you're bitter. I took exactly one film class in college and-- with the curious excep-
tion of the Douglas Sirk unitit bored the shit out of me. I also once got busted for loudly
crinkling a bag of Jujubes (sweets) during a classroom screening of Vivre Sa Vie.
Yeah! Im a rebel! Whilst you were all watching art house films I was busy doing something
lowbrow like eating sweets!
Theres nothing more annoying than people who eat loudly during films.
I don't deserve to be here. We've established that. But I'm here. Five million 12-year-olds
think I'm Buck Henry. Accept it.
Well theyre hardly the most difficult market to please, now are they? But I will accept it,
and one day I hope five million 12-years old think Im Buck Henry, whatever that means.
(Incidentally, if you were me for one day you'd crumble like fucking Stilton. I am better at
this than you. You're not strong enough,
Film_Fan78. Trust me.)
If I were you Id throw myself off a cliff.
I'm sorry to all those violent, semi-literate fanboys who hate me for befriending their
heroes. I can't help it if your favorite writer, actor, director, or talk show host likes me.
Maybe you would too, if we actually met.
Definitely not. I will hate you forever.
Why dont you do us all a favour and jam a
toxic needle into your eye? No-one gives a
shit that you used to be a prostitute.
Theres nothing more annoying than
people who eat loudly during films.
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I know my name is fake and that it annoys you. What, do you hate Queen Latifah and Rip
Torn, too? Writers and entertainers have been using pseudonyms for years. Chances are,
you're spewing bile under an assumed screen name yourself. I'm sorry if you think I'm like
some inked-up quasi-Suicide Girl derby cunt from 2002, but I like my fake name. It's
engraved on an Oscar. Yours isn't.
Oscars dont mean anything. Titanic, Lord of the Rings, Braveheart, Crash, Chicago and
Shakespeare in Love all won Oscars. So well done, youre in the same league as that shit.
Listen: I've been telling stories my whole life. Even when I was a phone sex operator, I was
the Mark Twain of extemporaneous jerk-off fiction. I took every perspiring creep on a
fucking journey. I don't know how to do anything else.
Oh god. Shes so sad. She really thinks were all really impressed that she worked in the sex
industry. She thinks it makes her dangerous and edgy. No-one cares. If she was so
good at being a phone sex operator, maybe she shouldve stuck to that profession instead
of writing clichd quirky bollocks.
I'm going to make more movies and shows. I doubt they'll all be good, but that's the
nature of this life
I doubt any of them will be good.
This is the last I have to say on the subject, unless I'm provoked by a journalist in which
case I'll gladly reload. With relish, as Betty Rizzo might say. That said, I'm a 30-year-old
woman with a dwindling interest in blog culture, and I don't have time to address this
bullshit every time one of my projects comes out. I'm in love, I just bought a house, and my
boss made E.T. I kind of have to focus on reality.
ET is shit. Spielberg is shit. And you are shit. I hope your house burns down with you in it.
Hes obviously going to employ you; hes the biggest cheesemonger in the universe.
So in summary: I hate Diablo Cody. Fo shizzle up the spout!
Haiku for Obama...
You promise us change
Yet represent Wall Street crooks;
I guess were all fucked
Andy Dilks
By Jarrad Annable, 16
~25~
"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore
order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that
there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that
threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to
deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When
presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the
guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government."
Clerk - By Jermz
Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991
~26~
In a fast society emotions become extinct.
A thinking mind cannot feel.
Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.If there are
no gaps, there is no emotion
(Unknown, http://www.1stpm.org/articles/emotion.html)
What are Emotions?
Emotions are a complex and fascinating range of feelings, thoughts and behaviors experienced by our minds
and bodies. Our basic emotions include, but are not limited to- love, grief, fear, anger and joy. Each emotion
has characteristic feelings and bodily expressions e.g. Grief = low mood, lethargic, crying. Emotions are subjective;
each individuals emotions arise under different conditions and are felt and expressed in unique ways that feel
appropriate to that individual due to their experiences, personal relationships and the society they have grown
up in.
The Functions of Emotional Expression
Healthy exploration and expression of our emotions is extremely important, this process is used to fuel and
maintain many important functions in our mind, body and lives, these include:
Survival - Emotions can be seen as a sophisticated internal guidance system. Our emotions alert us when our
natural needs are not being met (e.g. we feel fear when our need for safety is being jeopardised)
Decision Making - Our emotions are a valuable source of information. What we feel about choices can help us
decide what is best for us and therefore what decisions to make.
Communication and Intimacy - Verbal and non-verbal emotional expression between people can provide
information about how we feel about each other. It can help us to decide who to trust and love and can help
us gain honest and caring relationships in which we feel safe and supported.
Boundary Setting Emotions can help us to learn and express what we do and dont feel comfortable with, this
helps us to set boundaries for ourselves which will help us protect our physical and mental health.
Self-Acceptance- Our emotions are vital for us to learn about and understand our own needs, desires and limi-
tations. Understanding and working on ourselves can lead to self-acceptance.
Health Emotions also affect our health. Dealing with the emotions as they arise maintaining our immune sys-
tem, blood pressure and general physical health.
Emotional Expression in our Society
Whilst the importance of healthy emotional expression and exploration is evident from the list above they are
still not thoroughly supported by our society. A lot of us have grown up learning that emotional expression and
exploration is against the norms of our culture and that whilst it is correct to feel positive emotions such as hap-
piness, joy and love, it is bad to feel negative emotions such as grief, jealousy, anger and guilt, when in fact, the
latter are just as natural and usually more important for our learning and growth.
Often care-givers punish children for instinctually crying, moaning or getting angry when their innate needs are
not being met, instead of comforting them, listening to them, providing for them or helping them to understand
the pain of needs which are not able to be met. At school, the strict routine and rules of the classroom and the
dominance of praise for intellectual capacity again enforces that childrens emotions go unexplored and unex-
pressed. And this continues into adulthood, where the dominance of 9-5, physical or intellectual jobs leaves little
room for us to think about, feel, explore and express ourselves fully.
We live in a culture in which denial of our emotions has become normal and even a necessity if we are to keep
Emotional Expression & Exploration
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up such a fast-paced lifestyle. Exploration and expression of our emotions has become commonly seen as point-
less, time-wasting or done only by those who are weak, have been through trauma, are burnt-out or who
have mental health problems. This means that a lot of us not only get into the habit of being unable to
acknowledge what we are feeling, but worse, we begin to gradually suppress what we do feel as it arises.
Doing so means that by the time we are adults, we become outwardly poised, calm individuals, seemingly in
control of our thoughts and surroundings but with a torrent of unexplored, unresolved and unexpressed emo-
tions held up by a mental dam.
The Problem with Unexpressed Emotions
Not expressing, or actively suppressing our emotions can, at the very least, cause mental discomfort. Eventually,
however, this denial of our basic feelings may cause bigger problems
It takes a lot of effort and physical energy to suppress emotions, the more emotions which are being suppressed
the more stress the body is under. This stress can cause many health conditions -tiredness, interrupted sleep,
poor appetite, migraines, irritable bowel, high blood pressure, poor immune system etc. Some research has
shown that more serious conditions such as heart problems and cancer can also be linked to emotional stress
and/or suppressed emotions.
Not expressing our emotions can also affect our social relationships negatively, if we cannot accurately experi-
ence and express our feelings we may be unable to appropriately judge or respond to people and situations,
this may reduce rapport and communication between individuals. In extreme cases emotional suppression may
mean that many emotions accumulate inside and then erupt in anger or violence and this may mean the indi-
vidual unfortunately sabotages their own relationships.
It is now thought that 1/3 of people in our country will at some point in their lives experience a mental health
condition, and whilst there are many different types of mental health disorder and various causal factors, not
exploring or expressing emotions can increase the chances. If a person has been through a lot of stressful situa-
tions and they have been unable to express and process their emotions fully then their brain finds ways of cop-
ing which are beneficial in the short-term but more problematic if the coping mechanism persists after the stress-
ful situation has ended. For example, in depression the brain protects the individual from trauma by limiting
what the person feels, the person may become low, unresponsive and lethargic which poses a problem when it
comes to work and socialising.
Expressing and Exploring our Emotions
To feel healthy and happy and to get the most out of our relationships it is important to learn to explore and
express our back-log of suppressed emotions and the new ones as they arise. Below are some ideas which may
help, although learning for yourself what you find most affective is an important part of your own emotional
growth.
Relax, Review and Reflect
Try to take some time out each week to relax -have a soothing bath, lie down with soothing music on. During
these times review the week so far and think about how it has made you feel and why. If there are any past
situations that are on your mind think about why they may be on your mind and what feelings are left unre-
solved from them. Think in general about how you do or dont deal with your emotions and what you may
need to do to improve that process.
Communicate, Express and Release
Some people prefer to release emotions on their own because of the way society has taught us that emotional
expression is private, weak or negative, but if you can find a friend, lover, family member or professional who is
kind, caring and trustable to communicate your emotions with it can be very rewarding. Releasing emotions
on your own can be frustrating because it can be difficult to provide yourself with warmth, comfort or positive
new ideas if you are feeling negative and without this it is difficult to thoroughly understand what has arisen
and move forwards.
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When releasing emotions it is best to do it in a way that feels right for you crying into a pillow, punching a
punch bag, screaming in an empty field (extremely therapeutic!). One thing I will say though is that whilst free-
dom of expression is extremely important so is your health and your community, so if you feel the urge to be
violent to yourself or others or destructive to property then try to think again. Think about how it will affect
others, how it may affect your relationships, and how you will feel about your actions when you are feeling
better. This doesnt mean you have to keep destructive emotions in, just try to find a similar but less harmful
alternatives i.e. Punching a punch bag instead of harming others or yourself.
Be Creative
Expressing emotions in a creative way can be extremely therapeutic. This is a great alternative to causing
harm or destruction. You may want to write down your feelings in their raw form, or turn them into poetry or
music, or you may want to draw, paint or sculpt using your feelings as the creative force. The amazing thing
about using the creative arts as a vehicle of expression is that it is not only a very thorough way of getting your
emotions out but you can end up feeling extremely proud of the raw and interesting pieces of art that are pro-
duced as a result. You do not need to be good at art or writing, all you need is to find some paper and pens
and let rip imagine all at once that -The paper is the root of your problems, The bane of your existence, And
the object to take your problems out on!... See what happens, you may be nicely surprised!
Avoid Excess Stress
It may seem fairly obvious that to feel more in control of your emotions and your life that you need to avoid
and reduce excess stress, but how many of us actually do it? It is really worth trying! Try to leave your work
at work when you come home. Try to surround yourself with people and things that you love and get away
from situations that are continually causing you stress and/or pain. Try not to overload your schedule, or fill
your week with too many situations in which you have people or places that are difficult to face. Try not to
obsess about problems, this does not mean you have to pretend to be happy when you feel stressed, but try to
focus on the positive things in your life too.
Bibliography
~ http://www.helpguide.org/mental/mental_emotional_health.htm
~ http://www.roadtowellbeing.ca/expression.html
~ http://eqi.org/emotions.htm
~ http://www.emotionalprocessing.org.uk/
~ http://earthmatrix.net/healinganddealing/
~ http://soulcurrymagazine.com/sc/what-are-emotions.html
~ http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/healthy/mental/782.html
~ http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/EmotionManagement/id/21403
~ http://www.1stpm.org/articles/emotion.html
Helen McSweeney
Creativity in Mind
Would you like to try your hand at some art activities? Are you interested in using your creative
ideas in one of these many fun and safe drop in art workshops at Quad?Derbyshire Mind in
partnership with Quad are offering drop in sessions aimed at people who have experience of
mental and emotional distress. So come along because creativity is good for your mental health!
The workshops will run for 12 weeks from the 25th Feb. Activities offered are textiles, sound
mixing, collage and computer games making. Each session is independent of the others so you
can come to as many or as few as you like.If you would like any further information please
contact Clive Wheeler on 01332 285427, cwheeler@derbyquad.co.uk or
Steph Carter at Derbyshire mind Rosehill Club on 01332 772300,
steph.carter@derbyshiremind.org.uk or look out for one of our flyers!
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headed realization, based on five thousand
years of experience, that we cannot entrust the
management of our lives to kings, priests,
politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
- Edward Abbey
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An interview with.......
//{The Deirdres}
Who started the band?
Louise: Me and Gemma
Russell: Didnt get good until I
joined though!
How long have you been
together?
Fairy: Our frst gig was Halloween
2006
Louise: About a year and a half
Who are your musical
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Sophie: Moldy Peaches
Gemma: Chas and Dave
Louise and Fairy: Flaming Lips!!
What do you think of Micheal
Aspel?
Louise: Hes reet handsome!
Sophie: Hes a pillar to society!
Louise: Were going to ask him to
be in our music video.
Fairy: Hell probably just get his
agent to tell us NO
With Amy missing, I managed to speak to Louise, Gemma, Russell, Sophie,
Fairy and Keir on a nice evening on a blanket in their front garden accompanied
by small furry animals.
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Where was the best gig youve
ever played?
All: NORW$Y!!! (at the Hulen
in Bergen apparently the oldest
venue in Northern Europe.) They
learned how to say "I like you" in
Norwegian but I cant spell it!
My mate Paul thinks youre
rubbish, what would you say to
him?
Sophie: Paul Schmaul
Louise: Hes inside out!
Fairy: Isnt Paul a girls name?
Why are you called The
Deirdres?
Louise: Because we (her and
Gemma) were in a discount
shop and we saw some glasses
that looked like Deirdres from
Coronation Street. All of our middle
names are Deirdre! (They had
them changed by deed poll.)
Russell: The Deirdres are
economical!
Who is the best glockenspiel
player in the band?
Russell: Me.
Louise: He rocks out with his glock
out
Fairy: He glocks our world!
What do you think of the Derby
music scene?
Keir: Its spiffng!
Russell: Were really excited about
the new venue.
Keir: Our favourite venue was the
Silk Mill (this I believe to be a joke).
Do you get more done now that
you all live together?
All: NO!
Russell: We get less done!
Keir: We just ignore each other.
How many Deirdres does it take
to change a lightbulb?
Sophie: Seven!
Gemma: One because Keirs the
only one that does it.
Have you ever gone to bed with a
knife? (Thanks for that question
Woody)
Sophie: Me and Gemma woke up
with a cheesecake once! It had
been there for about a week!
Most embarrassing moment at a
gig?
Fairy: Just Louise I think.
Keir: Fairys jokes!
Russell: Nothing
What did you have for breakfast
on this day 3 years ago?
Louise: Fish fngers, but now Im a
vegetarian!
Sophie: Toast!
Gemma: No idea.
Keir: A Barracuda melt I think
(theyve got really good memories,
especially Keir.)
Favourite Derby bands?
Louise: Seas of Mirth and the Park
Bench!
Sophie: My Cycle and a Crisp. (My
Psychoanalyst)
What pets have you?
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And with that, they all threw their hats into the air and freworks went off behind
the house. It was ever so exciting!
Keep an eye out for their next gig which will include the following instruments
in no particular order; drums, guitars, frog, glockenspiels, angel melody horn,
keyboards, drum machines, trumpets, clarinets, futes, harmonica, bells, jinglies
and a harp, plus some tuneful singing!
Louise: Doctor/Judith Chalmers the
guinea pig.
Sophie: Oscar Archimedes Corne-
lius the rabbit
Gemma: Jelly Bean the guinea pig
R.I.P
Any recordings planned?
Louise: Weve got a single com-
ing out, one song is called Milk is
Politics
(The single has now been released
on snowy white vinyl. <ou can
purchase it through Cherryade
Records)
Would you all like to play a gig
with Astroboy Can Save the
Planet?
All: Yes! Woo hoo
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Article by Dale McKillop
Designed by Amy Gurer
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'"That government is best which
governs not at all;" and when men are
prepared for it, that will be the kind of
government that they will have.'
Henry David Thoreau
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By Rich Ingram, 16
Freedom
of speech is disguised as hum
an right but in reality its a
m
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shariah law
m
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A
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Illustration by Andy Mold
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Martin, Robin & Sophie for contributing to the City-Zine meeting. Big up to
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Saturday February 14th - Playing with power 'Understanding the System' Workshop
Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London. Prior Booking Necessary www.turning-the-
tide.org
Saturday 21st February - City Zen: Express - Create - Educate - Act
@ The West End Community Centre, Mackworth Road (Next to Britannia Mill)
All proceeds after costs go towards Free Gaza movement
Saturday 21st February - Subism Live ... 3 City Tour
@ The Blessington Carraige - 8.30pm til late
Subism Live... is a night of live art from illustration to graffiti.
Saturday 21st February - Babyfood Hip-Hop night
@ The Olde Bell Inn, 9pm - late
Saturday 28th February - 6 Billion Ways:
A day of speakers, music, workshops and discussions on the global economic and environ-
mental crises. Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London
www.wdm.org.uk
Saturday 23 February - The Accidental Death of an Anarchist
@ Auditorium One at Markeaton Steet Campus. Derby University. - 7pm
Dario Fo's 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist' is a sharp, zany and hilarious political satire on
police corruption - and is a modern theatreclassic.
23rd February - 8th March - Fairtrade Fortnight
Saturday 28th February - Derby Public Art Day
An open invitation to street artists to act autonomously to decorate their streets
Tue 3rd March - a speaker from Palestine hosted by Zaytoun
@ St James Centre on Malcolm St in Normanton, 6.30-8.30pm.
Saturday 7th March - A Night at Boo!
@ Boo sustainable and ethical gift shop, Sadler Gate, 7pm - late
"tea, cake, creativity and community!"
Saturday 28th March - Earth Hour WWF
Tuesday 31st March - Chixy & Halfords end of March piss up!!!
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