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Bezig met laden... Van A tot X een verhaal in brieven (2008)door John Berger
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   Natt90 | Jun 28, 2022 |  We should all be glued to this story of the Stansted 15 with not only their fate in the balance, but that of democracy and protest in the Western world. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/02/stansted-15-emma-hughes-jail-fea... In the UK as I write, these people are waiting to be sentenced, having been convicted under anti-terrorism legislation. I think it's obvious what a hardened bunch they are. They are called the Stansted 15. ... The terrorist may be a hardened killer of his fellow man. Or she may be that smiling face in the middle of the front row, wearing a fetching yellow coat and a pink scarf. She may feel that injustice must be protested against. And in the UK right now, the freedom to protest is being dismantled by the politicians. So far the legal system is still on the side of the protesters, but for how long, we may wonder. Around the world politicians are at war with the legal system...or doing dirty deals with it. We knew when we started giving increased powers to 'deal' with terrorism, that people like those photographed would eventually pay a price. This book is about two terrorists. One is in gaol for two life-times. We don't know whether it is for death and destruction or for some simple peaceable act of bravery, such as carried out by these fine young people who were willing to stand in front of a plane. The other, his lover, is on the outside. She writes him letters, the intimacy of which are supposed to make them feel that they are together. She weaves together reports of the small acts of living with the acts of war being carried out against them. We don't know where it is. rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2018/12/12/from-a-to-x-a-story-in-le... (  ) bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 | We should all be glued to this story of the Stansted 15 with not only their fate in the balance, but that of democracy and protest in the Western world. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/02/stansted-15-emma-hughes-jail-fea... In the UK as I write, these people are waiting to be sentenced, having been convicted under anti-terrorism legislation. I think it's obvious what a hardened bunch they are. They are called the Stansted 15. ... The terrorist may be a hardened killer of his fellow man. Or she may be that smiling face in the middle of the front row, wearing a fetching yellow coat and a pink scarf. She may feel that injustice must be protested against. And in the UK right now, the freedom to protest is being dismantled by the politicians. So far the legal system is still on the side of the protesters, but for how long, we may wonder. Around the world politicians are at war with the legal system...or doing dirty deals with it. We knew when we started giving increased powers to 'deal' with terrorism, that people like those photographed would eventually pay a price. This book is about two terrorists. One is in gaol for two life-times. We don't know whether it is for death and destruction or for some simple peaceable act of bravery, such as carried out by these fine young people who were willing to stand in front of a plane. The other, his lover, is on the outside. She writes him letters, the intimacy of which are supposed to make them feel that they are together. She weaves together reports of the small acts of living with the acts of war being carried out against them. We don't know where it is. rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2018/12/12/from-a-to-x-a-story-in-le... ( ) bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 | We should all be glued to this story of the Stansted 15 with not only their fate in the balance, but that of democracy and protest in the Western world. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/02/stansted-15-emma-hughes-jail-fea... In the UK as I write, these people are waiting to be sentenced, having been convicted under anti-terrorism legislation. I think it's obvious what a hardened bunch they are. They are called the Stansted 15. ... The terrorist may be a hardened killer of his fellow man. Or she may be that smiling face in the middle of the front row, wearing a fetching yellow coat and a pink scarf. She may feel that injustice must be protested against. And in the UK right now, the freedom to protest is being dismantled by the politicians. So far the legal system is still on the side of the protesters, but for how long, we may wonder. Around the world politicians are at war with the legal system...or doing dirty deals with it. We knew when we started giving increased powers to 'deal' with terrorism, that people like those photographed would eventually pay a price. This book is about two terrorists. One is in gaol for two life-times. We don't know whether it is for death and destruction or for some simple peaceable act of bravery, such as carried out by these fine young people who were willing to stand in front of a plane. The other, his lover, is on the outside. She writes him letters, the intimacy of which are supposed to make them feel that they are together. She weaves together reports of the small acts of living with the acts of war being carried out against them. We don't know where it is. rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2018/12/12/from-a-to-x-a-story-in-le... ( ) bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |  ) beckydj | Mar 30, 2013 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But Suse is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroaches from outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity - an intimate dance, a shared meal - assume for A'ida a life-affirming significance, acts of resistance against the forces that might otherwise extinguish them." "From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence."--Jacket. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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